Evening star., 1947-02-26
Terps and HoYas Kill
All Hope Of Reviiving
Football Rivalry
By Lewis r. Atchison

" you were listening to Jim Glib
bons' program On WMAL the other
night you heard Coach Jim Tatum
Of Maryland pronounce the death
sentence of the Maryland-G George
town football series. Tatum ex-
planned the Terps were trying to
squeeze In games with several pre-
war rivals who had been crowded
off the schedule, that they had
commitments with new teams, and
that II Maryland played any neigh
boring eleven it should be George
Washington, q fellow member of
the Southern Conference.
Rome Schwagel, Georgetown's
graduate manager, wasn't listening
He had tuned in the Lone Ranger
or was counting his box tops and
hadn't given a thought to trying to
revive the Maryland series. He pa
tiently explained that Georgetown
will play no more local rivals on
short-term contracts. If . game
can't be nursed into the "tradi-
tional' class with lot of box Office
appeal he wants no truck with it
and Maryland doesn't want to get
hitched for life to G. U.
Georgetown intends to experiment
with its schedule for the next sew
eral years, Schwagel said and hopes
to come up with a nicely balanced
card Of gate attractions. The school
has home and home agreements
with New York University and Bos-
ton College and Schwagel is work.
ing on q plan to show the Hoyas
in New England at least once year.
If B. c. plays here, for example,
Georgetown would 60 north to play
q team like Holy Cross or Syra-
euse.
Georgetown, too, has intersec-
tional ambitions and in the light Of
them, home grown rivalries might
seem pretty weak stuff for football
fans demanding 100-proof stock
with \ dng in it. If Schwagel's
plans materialize and If Tatum
lassoes the triple-A attractions he
wants for Maryland, the customers
are certain to get the best Of the
deal.
If Postmaster Bob Hannegan gets
involved In any knock-down-drag-
out political brawls he's got good
man on his side in Bill Allen, post
Office public relations director. A
native Virginian, Bill promoted the
Shenandoah Valley A. A. U. box
ing tournament, accepted entries,
handled the publicity, refereed some
Of the bouts, then pulled on the
dueling pillows and won the heavy
weight championship. He served as
q Marine combat correspondent
during the war and had the dis
tinction of being the Corps first
flying correspondent. It's COM
fort to have him around when
trouble starts. Could Hannegan
have known it when he hired him?
Red-headed Pat OLeary, a broth
of lad you'll be seeing at first base
for Dewitt Prep's nine this spring,
passed up a minor league offer and
Is aiming for Georgetown instead.
A 6-foot-1, willowy 20-year-older,
OLeary figures he'd learn more by
playing under Joe Judge than he
could in the sticks, an indication
that he can think on his feet. Pats
biggest stock in trade are a keen
batting eye and a pair of shovel-like
:hands. He starred for the ATC
championship team, which won the
Marianas Islands pennant and played
the CT world champions at Manila.
That Immediately groomed figure
you see lolling around the Redskins
Is Kelly Miller, whose job it is to
keep the football players immacu-
lately groomed on the field. Mon
sieur Miller gained so much expert
ence in his chosen field, in the East
and on the West Coast, not counting
Horses Neck in between, he has
launched himself on a campaign
to give all of Waldorf, Md, that
game, particular Redskin appearance
In other words, his pants pressing
business is open.
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