Evening star., 1943-09-19
Youthful, Light Team,
Start Friday With
Four Contests
By GEORGE HUBER.

ObuuSSuS
BY GEORGE HUBER.
The high school football cham.
pionship series opens Friday witt
the. advance dope labelling Central
Wilson and Western as the particu.
larly tough teams. The genera
situation is that the players Art
lighter, younger and less expert.
enced than the average of recent
years and under those condition.
almost any team could hit a hot
stride.
Numerous good players are or
hand, however, either among those
LETT over from last year or developed
from the candidates who turned out
for the first time early this month
Inereu be many new faces in i'm
portant roles and the series figures
to be q lively one down to the wire
The eight teams this year play each
other once. with the two leading
teams at the end engaging In a
championship contest on Thanks
giving Day.
Fridays games are Coolidge at
Wilson, Anacostia at Central, Tech
at; Western and Eastern at Roose-
welt. Thereafter three games are
listed each week. with the one game
which promises to be outstanding to
be scheduled Saturday afternoon
the others to 60 Friday. It's move
that promises to bring q lot more
interest from the general sports
public to the high schools, especially
as there Is no competition from col
leges this season except the Uni
versity of Maryland.
Central Well Conditioned.
Centrafs defending champions
they've won for two years in q row
have been well conditioned by Coach
Jan Jankowski and his assistant
Jim Munro, and will present fair
y heavy, experienced line ahead OF
a good backfield. There are few let
ter men on the team. but many OF
the hnemen particularly had expert
ence as reserves last year.
JAMS starting backfield likely will
include Grove Bryan, quarterback
Julius Katz and James Donohue
haifbacks, and Tom Sweeney, full
back. Sweeney is the experienced
man Of the outfit, with Katz and
Donohue providing the weight. Dom
ohue Is a youngster who In scrim-
images indicates he may be out
standing as ball carrier. He's fast
and hard to stop.
Wilson, which came along strongly
at the end OF last season, is picking
up right where 1t left OF. There
isn't much in the way of expert
enced material there, with Gordon
ONeil,. guard. as the only letter man,
but Coach Joe Carlo has an en-
thusiastic squad of 60 and many op-
posing coaches frankly are worried
about what Wilson promises to do.
Here, as at Central, conditioning
has been stressed, and the Wilson
boys for the first time may be able
to hold their own when the going
gets tough. The line is fair, with a
pair of 180-pound tackles holding it
together, and Bill Tanney at end
had some playing time on last years
team. Another holdoyer helping the
Tigers is Quarterback Bill Haycock,
= fair passer and good ball handler.
Another fair passer is Russell Keith,
while Stu Brown, one of Wilson's
good basket ball players last winter,
is carrying on in acceptable style in
the tailback slot. g..
Introduces Fancy Plays.
Carlo is introducing a few fancy
plays this year using what is called
the ct system, which is the T
worked behind an unbalanced line.
It affords opportunities for lot Of
power plays as well as for few
tricks, and the housekeeping posi-
bilities are numerous. Joes main
worry now appears to be Wilson's
passing attack Haycock and Keith
aren't hitting the receiver enough
to please the coach, and he is stress
ing air drills in current scrimmage
sessions. ...
Westerns line is its main threat,
with such experienced players as
Tackle Charles Kidwell, Guards
George Conway and Gene Gould, and
Center Bob Tull on the team. Cor
don Alexander, a regular guard last
season, has been shifted to bolster
q weak end. A likely newcomer is
Ray Krouse, tackle
Tina eif,.a fioy, for -, olrn .~L l.
still troubles Coach Fred Mulvey
and he is far from set on even a ten
tative list Of starters in the back
field.
Tech was runnerup to Central for
the title last season, but the Ma
rooms have lot of problems this
time that may prevent them from
being at their best when the series
opens. They can get going later,
however, and figure to be strong
fnishers. Most Of the players woe
fully are inexperienced. Coach Duke
Jacobs is figuring on a starting
eleven that may average no more
than 155 pounds. Another difficulty
islack Of speed, necessity for some
Of the T plays the Maroons will use.
Stan FAINT, halfback, is the only
letter man around, and cut eye has
kept him from scrimmages for a
week. He probably will be ready
Friday. Among the newcomers who
may be big help are Whitley Ems
weller, another halfback, who almost
Is too light to handle a backfield
post, but whose passing is promising
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