Evening star., 1946-01-15
10 Stay
As De Groot's Aide,
Is Dope on Skins
BY LEWIS ATCHISON,
Star Staff Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, Jan. 15.-Regard-
less of what happens to Clark
Shaughnessy at the University of
Pittsburgh where the veteran T
formation professor has been under
fire two seasons because of losing
football teams, he'll serve at least
another season in an advisory ca
pacity to the Redskins. Reports
that he will succeed Dud De Groot
as coach of the Eastern pro champs
are unfounded
Numerous reports concerning De
Groot's future with the Tribe have
been heard here during the Ma
tional Football Leagues meeting,
but if any change is contemplated
both De Groot and President George
Marshall have guarded it well. Both
point out that the coach's contract.
repeatedly at $4,000 per year plus
bonuses, still has three years to run.
Turk Edwards in Line.
If De Groot leaves Washington
for any reason his successor will be
Turk Edwards. Marshall as long
ago as last year said he would fill
any future coaching vacancies with
men from within the clubs own
ranks, Eventually Sammy Baugh
will move onto the staff, although
Marshall thinks the Singer has
three or four more good years of
active play ahead of him.
1t is possible that De Groot will
leave the Redskins before the start
of the l947 campaign. A report was
circulated here that his Kenwood.
Md, home was for sale, but he said
he knew nothing about it although
he would sell for the right price. He
said, however. that he had not
offered his resignation and expected
to fulfill his contract with the club.
Marshall has not seen De Groot
long enough to sit down and have
talk with him since the cham
pionship playoff at Cleveland last
month. The coaches at this meet
ing, whose only interest is in the
draft, had to cool their heels five
days before the owners finally
reached that matter and Marshall
has been fitting around like
nervous butterfly on other league
matters.
Speculation concerning the future
Washington setup has been rife
since repeated stories of Shaugh-
nessy's resignation at Pitt, followed
by rumors of De Groot's resignation.
Pittsburgh finds itself on the hot
spot with Jock Sutherland's return
to the city as coach of the pro
Steelers. The university must field
a winning eleven to vie with its
former coach's popularity or face
a costly grid boxoffce battle.
ShaughneSsy, however, cannot be
fired summarily because he has full
faculty tenure and cannot be dis
missed for falling to place a winning
team on the field. 1t is possible
that Shaughnessy eventually will
move to Washington as sort of
director of athletics for the Skins.
arranging exhibition games, map
ping the strategy and acting in a
general advisory capacity. Marshall
long has toyed with this idea of
placing Shaughnessy in charge of
the clubs general football activities
as the job of arranging the pre-
season schedule, entertainment be-
tween halves and other details has
demanded more and more time.
Puts De GroOt on Hot Spot.
Such move would place De Groot
in a peculiar position, as the friction
between the Tribe higher-ups is no
family secret. De Groot was crit
icized by Marshall for making a pre-
game agreement with the Rams not
to change from football cleats to
basket ball shoes during the cham
pionship game, and they have
clashed frequently over minor diff
ferenceS.
1t was rumored here that De Groot
would affiliate with the Los Angeles
club of the All-America Conference
a rumor that took on added signifi-
canoe when it was reported that
he was going to California this sum-
mer. The coach said, however. he
merely intended reopening his sum-
mer home, which has been closed
two years during gasoline and tire
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