Evening star., 1943-06-21
10-Ti|t Schedule
Sends DC. Club
Around Circuit
Green Boy to Be Met
In Baltimore; Boston
Joins Loop in 1914
BY WALTER McCALLUM,
Star Staff CORRESPONDENT.

Cf11CAIO, June Zl.-Ine wash
ington Redskins will play six home
football games in the Capital this
year in what is described by Presi-
dent George Marshall "as the best
schedule we ever have had"
The Green Bay Packers will be
the only National Football League
team not to show at Griffith Sta
dium under the playing slate to be
approved by the pro football man
ayers today at the final meeting of
their schedule session.
Washington, one of the four teams
remaining in the Eastern Division
of the pro league, will play home
games against the following teams:
New York Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers,
Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh
Steelers, Chicago Cardinals, Chicago
Bears and Detroit Lions. First home
game will be October 3, but the Sc
quence of games has not been an
nounced. Probably New York will
be the first Skin opponent.
Green Bay will appear against the
Redskins in a preseason game at
the Baltimore Municipal Stadium
the afternoon Of September S.
Boston in Loop Next Year.
Eight teams remained in the
league today, following merger of
the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
clubs. Next year, If the league op-
crates, nine teams will play, with
Boston the new entry. Probably
other teams will come in to swell
the league to II, among them a Don
Ameche- team in Los Angeles,
another in Buffalo and possibly one
in Baltimore.
An odd number of teams unbal-
ances the schedule and the pro mo-
gulS have enough franchise appli-
cations before them to pick and
choose, although none will start op-
erations before 1914
In all. Washington will play 13
games, 10 on the league schedule
and three preseason jousts. If they
gain the playoff they'll play IA.
Under the new league schedule
Washington will play home and
nome games with the other three
Eastern clubs, and will play each
Western club once.
Other exhibition games are an
intra- squad clash at San Diego
Calf, for the Shrine Hospital
Fund, on August IS and the college
all-star game at Chicago on August
25. The Skins will leave Washing
ton for San Diego to start practice
around July %. Coach Arthur
tDutch) Bergman plans new often
slve system and wants time to coach
the veterans in the revised plays.
G. L., G. w. Grid Talent Eyed.
Some of the magnates groused De
cause the Redskins had sold season
tickets based on six home games,
New York, it was understood,
squawked because Washington got
six games at home and wanted the
same deal. Due to the various sched-
ule arguments, yesterdays session
lasted Is hours, winding up at 2
o'clock this morning.
Georgetown University and DOS
slbly George Washington will be in
the middle of frenzied attempts by
the professional football folk TO
sign up lads from those schools for
pro football next fall. GEORGETOWN
already has abandoned football for
the duration and George Washing
ton, without coach and athletic
manager, also may abandon the
gridiron sport.
Under ruling put through last
night by the pro magnates they NAV
approach football players in colleges
which have abandoned football dur
ing the war, signing the athletes if
they want to play pro football. Each
case Will be decided on its merits
by commissioner Elmer Layden, but
the lads who play pro football if
any, will not be eligible for further
football in college togs.
Georgetown had better than fair
football team last fall, from which
the Redskins have drafted George
Perplch, John Barrett and Frank
Dornfeld. All are in the service
George Washington had a poor sea-
son.
Packer Game Is Good Deal.
Inc REDSKINS came up with a good
deal when Marshall announced the
world champs will play Green Bav
an exhibition game at Baltimore
September S. The league killed the
rule forbidding exhibition play be-
tween teams which meet twice dur
Ing the regular season. which did
not affect the Baltimore game.
Marshall engineered the deal bv
which Ted Collins and Washington
born Kate Smith of radio fame be-
came owners of a franchise in Bos-
ton, not to become operative until
1914. Technically the new Boston
club may draft players following the
l943 season. Actually the team won't
play until 1914. Vern Llewellyn. for
mer coach of a Long Island pro
team in which Collins was interest
ed, has been mentioned as the Bos-
ton coach.
Other franchise proposals were ta-
bled. among them one to permit
Movie Star Ameche to set up a team
in Los Angeles. Marshall favors this
move and Los Angeles may swing
into action next year to make a
12-club league.
Paige Is Pounded as Grays