Evening star., 1948-09-02
Southern Conference
"opens Grid Practice
with Large Squads
Dy NE Associatsd Press

The formalities and opening
speeches out Of the way, Southern
Conference football coaches today
knuckle down to the task Of pre-
pairing their grid machines for open
ing contests.
There was already some use Of
the crying towel, and not a little
optimism, too. in various camps.
Carl snavely had his ST candi-
dates at North Carolina, 80 or so
being monogram wearers, In heavy
equipment right away. in prepara-
ton for the opener with Texas Sep
tember Is.
Charley (Choo Choo) Justice, the
headline attracting back. weighed in
at 167 pounds and declared he was
In perfect shape.
Two Drills at Duke.
At Durham, the Duke Blue Devils
began practice with two drills under
Coach Wallace Wade's watchful
eyes. The Blue Devils learned that
Bert Lyle, substitute end from
Tupelo. Miss, would be out for the
season due to head injury suf-
fered while playing baseball during
the past summer.
A squad of 48 was there to greet
Coach D. c. (Peahead Walker
when the Wake Forest Deacons
commenced their activities. Walker
promptly began reviewing T-system
plays he is installing in place of
the single wing he used in his pre-
vious IL seasons here. The Deacons
have % monogram wearers available
for duty this year.
Coach Beattie Feathers, working
with 63 candidates at North Carolina
State in Raleigh, termed the OPEN
ing session there "the best we've had
since I've been at State. # we can
keep up our present spirit we should
be able to get lot accomplished
between now and our seasons opener
with Duke September 25."
40 Candidates At Davidson.
At Davidson Coach Charlie JAM
erson welcomed 40 candidates into
the fold. % wearing varsity letters.
The initial session featured funda-
mentals, wind sprints and condi-
tioning drills.
Furman, in Greenville, S. c., had
Is men out. New Head Coach Red
Smith and his assistants. Bill Young
and George Cafego, worked with 18
returning lettermen there.
William and Mary's Southern
Conference champions received bad
news right away as Rube McCray's
lads begin their drills. Big Jack
Cloud, the all-America candidate
at fullback, pulled up with cold
and was straight away hustled to
the inflrmary for a few days. Fifty
one men were On hand at Williams
burg, Va, for the opening.
w. and L. Coach Optimistic.
Optimism prevailed at Lexington
Va, where Art Pappy) Lewis found
his 43 Washington and Lee candi-
dates in surprising first class con-
dition. "The boys surprised me-
Happy Pappy said.
Across the way. Art (slick, Nor
tons Virginia Military Institute
Keydets showed up strong, with 1e
of them lettermen. Morton laid
down the laws and then had some
passing work. Chucking pigskins
were Bobby Thomson, Joe Veltri
and Jimmy Coley.
The Virginia Tech Gobblers, Sc
strong, met with Bob McNeish at
$50 am. yesterday, and executed
calisthenics and q two-mile run in
the fog Of the early morning at
Blacksburg, Va. The squad donned
full equipment for the afternoon
drill.
The University OF Richmond
Spiders, who open against Ran
|dolph- Macon on September 18, were
60 in number when Coach Karl A.
Dick, Esleeck counted noses. MOD
erately heavy work was begun right
aWay