Evening star., 1947-11-29
|victors Over Central
14-7, 10 Lose Swarm
OF First Stringers
By Bit Fuchs

lCCA AOdCl1 GSu 0O1O1QOl4, WAAOSC
team annexed the public high school
football crown with q lat victory
over Central last night at Griffth
Stadium, Is going to need - pair OF
colored glasses to get anything but
drab view of his teams chances
to repeat their stellar performance
next year.
II lose II players out Of . squad
of 81" Solomon said last night in
the locker room at Tech. II have
only one man left from the first
team-Julius Poms, my left tackle.
And I'll have Bill Werber back, also.
But it looks like we're going to have
to start from scratch"
At this point about two dozen
whooping Tech warriors descended
on Solomon and his backfleld coach,
Woody Smitherman, and drove them
into the showers.
Emerging from the shower room
resembling a man caught In q trop-
ical storm, Solomon went on to say
that Anacostia was the team to Beat
next year.
CentraIs Outlook Better.
There's no question about It," he
said. "I'll just have to look for
some of the boys who haven't shown
anything yet to get going next sea-
son."
Viking Coach Jan Jankowsi was
little more optimistic until he
tIou0bt ~ the sched,r1e
"It's going to be rough" he said.
I'VE meet Tech our first game, then
follow with Anacostia, Coolidge.
Eastern and st. Johns. But at least
we have q good nucleus with which
to start. Well have IS of our squad
Of 20 back, including Left Tackle
Fotis Karousatos, Center Gene
(Moon) Million and Halfbacks
Jimmy Pantos and Ross Keith"
Jan added that he probably will
switch to q straight T next year,
with Pantos at quarterback.
Aerials Aid Attack.
A crowd of 16,328 chilled fans
watched Tech open up its powerful
running attack to score two touch
downs in the third period and over
come the Vikings seven-point lead.
| But the contributing factor to
Techs victory was its aerial assault.
I'VE don't have much OF pass
ing attack" explained Solomon,
but Jan threw up seven-man line
and we couldn't get through. We
had to pass and that forced them
to draw q man back, which enabled
Bob (Bugs) Thompson, Cecil Gray
and Dick (Flea) Fletcher to get
through"
With Werber, Thompson and
Gray doing the flinging the Ma
rooms completed Of 18 aerials
for 155 yards and, although pass
ing didn't account for any Tech
scores, 1t served the purpose for
which 1t was intended.
Central Scores Quickly.
The first period was 81 min
utes old when Central owned a TO
lead. Keith, Pantos, Dale Leathery
and Hal Sponsler alternated lug
ging the leather the second time
the Vikings had the ball and they
drove from their own 48 for the
score. The march included four
first downs and ended with Leath-
cry plunging through from the 2.
Billy Denikos' placekick split the
uprights.
Tech then began It's strategy Of
passing to open up the Viking line.
The entire first half the Trainers
passed at least once on each series
Of downs. and. although they picked
up considerable yardage, 1t was
sporadic and always flzzled out.
In the early minutes of the third
period Gray and Thompson began
running and together carried As
yards to touchdown, Gray plung-
ing over from the 2.
After an exchange of punts Tech
took over on the Central 81, from
where Thompson buzzed down the
right sidelines for the winning
score. Ed Herbert kicked both extra
points.
BY virtue of its victory Tech
evened the long series between the
schools at 20-all. Seven games have
ended in ties.