Evening star., 1946-09-04
|Iwiee-a-Day Drills
Planned by Coaches;
500 Boys Turn Out
By GEORGE Huber

High school football coaches here
have little time to prepare for this
years schedule and plan to waste
none of it while shaping their squads
for the championship series opening
September 27. Some even have a
shakedown game listed as early as
the goth and most camps plan twice.
a-day practice until school opens.
Contact work will begin almost
Immediately for candidates who
turned out for the first time yester-
day all over the city, and scrimmages
will begin either late this week or
early the next. Well over 500 hope
ful candidates are on the field now,
with 80 at Eastern, 66 at Central,
81 at Roosevelt, SO at Anacostia, IS
at Western, go at Tech. 80 at Wilson
and 80 at Chamberlain drawing
equipment yesterday to join 80
Coolidge aspirants who started on
Monday.
Eastern, champion for the last two
years and with a 21-game winning
streak to protect, has only three
regulars in the fold under Coach
Dick Mentzer, although several other
lettermen are on hand. He has
both of last years ends, Bill Folay
and Phil Taylor, plus Fullback Jerry
Osborne, a good punter and passer
who may be shifted to left half this
season. Other shifts already con-
templated would move Sal Digiorgi
from left half to quarterback and
Spencer Carrico from tackle to full
back. Ed Smith, sub fullback last
year, may go to right half.
New Coach at Wilson.
Wilson. which lost to Eastern in
the last title game, has a new coach
IN Joe Carlo, who several seasons
ago led the school to its first track
title. He also has three regulars
on hand in Quarterback Matt
Guenther and Tackles John Scha-
bacher and John Leadam. Another
flrst-stringer, Fullback Martin Wei
gand, will arrive later this week. and
Carlo may change him into a half
back. Among the new boys was
one very welcome addition, Pat
O'Neill, star at Gonzaga last year.
Another new coach, Phil Fox, has
taken over the Roosevelt outfit and
already is making plans to remove
the Rough Riders from the high
school football cellar on which they
have had such long lease, Angie
Valos and Bobby Cohen, both backs,
and Harry Lockwood tackle who
goes better than 200 pounds, appear
to be his best prospects.
The third new mentor, Big Ed
Solomon at Tech, has large turn
out OF II returning lettermen, in
Guiding Paul Pometto, Cecil Gray,
Flea Fletcher and Jack Baumbart-
ner in the backfield. Returning
linemen are Bob Brooks, Trix
Trittipoe, Tiny Gable, Enrico De
Leonibus, Albie Thompson and
Bimbo Harrington and Bob Bell.
Jan Jankowski at Central also has
a heavy turnout of letter winners
from 1945, but as Jan points out few
of them were regulars and last year
every boy who stuck out the season
received &C." He has a dozen of
these back. including Center Steve
Manos and Backs Bill Shirley, George
Quinn, Jim johnson and Jim Panor.
Vets Back at Western.
Bob GLASGOW and Norm Wacker,
backs. are among Western veterans
greeted by Coach Fred Mulvey, and
he plans to strengthen the ball toters
by shifting Don Moreland from
guard to the backfield. Bill Bonz,
end; Tom Frazier, tackle, and George
Brownley, center, are other Red
Raider vets.
Anacostia's squad under Coach
zuzu Stewart mostly is light and in
experienced, but he is fortunate in
having one of the city's outstanding
players, End Gene Schroeder, on
hand Will Umholtz, quarterback,
and Frog lizard, another end, are
his other regular returnees.
Chamberlain under Frank Cairo
will not be in the interhigh series
with its first team this year and has
small squad. Cairo expects larger
turnout later from boys who may
enroll there for the vocational train
ing, now that athletics have been in
stalled.