Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-09-17
Jacket FoohaNe Lift Lid From Grid Season With nson Here Tonight
eaconS And CooE Open Southern Conference Grid Football Year Tomorrow
Deocons UnveiI
New IT" Attack
At Wake Forest

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At Wake Forest
Richmond, Va, Sept. 17-(AP)
"A faster and much lighter
Wake Forest football team
whisks the covers off its brand
new T-formation attack tomor-
row against George Washington
University in the 1948 Southern
Conference curtan-raiser.
The Deacons and Colonials,
slated to square off at 3 p. ~.
in Wake Forests Groves stad-
ium, will get tie jump by a
few hours on two other confe1-
ence Decentralization and the
University of Richmond-who
play non-circuit foees tomorrow
night.
Davidson is at home to little
Elon college and Richmond
plays host to Randolph-Macon.
The Wildcats and the Spiders
are lopsided favorites.
The principal attraction, of
course, will be the Wake Fol-
eset-George Washington clash, a
battle which counts in the cir
cult standings. The Deacons
flashy new ct" will he pitted
against the Colonians' deceptive
single wing formation.
Up front, Wake Forest and
G. w. will be minus a lot Of
the beef which made las. years
forward walls hard to punch
through but a bit slow afoot.
The massive Deacons, who aver
aged 220 pounds from end to
end in 1947, average ONLY EOS
pounds per man this fall.
George Washington's line aver
age has dipped from 207 pounds
to 1874.
The Deacons won last years
encounter by four touchdowns
but the Colonials, who cajne
back strong toward the close Of
their disastrous 1947 campaign
are counting on turning the ia
bles this time out. They have
a trio of high-grade tailbacks ir
Joe Duell, John Shullenberge1
and Dick Rooster, all Of Whor
can pass with the best and art
considerably deeper in reserve
strength than last falls shallow
outfit.
The Wake Forest offensive i
fixed, with the brilliant Ton
Fetzer to do the passing ant
Bill Gregus, Harry Dowda, ant
Bud Lail to handle the running
chores. Six lettermen and 1o4
reserve anchor the Deacon de
tense.
In preparation for the 1874
lid litter, the Deacons held
session on grid fundamental
yesterday but got away witt
little actual work.
At Davidson, where the Wild
cats prepared for Elon, tn
rough stuff also was sus
pended and candidates were pu
through dummy drills. Davidson
will enter the game minus fou
players-two ends and tW,
backs-who were injured il
earlier practice sessions.
Richmond's Spiders, on tn
other hand, got a harder work
out as Coach Dick Esleeck mad
ready for Saturday nights jous
with Randolph-Macon. Pass de
tense came in for special atten
ton.
The injury jinx smacke
Dukes Blue Devils again. Lates
addition to the list of incapa
citated is Ben Williams, a full
back, who hurt his ankle yes
terday during routine drills.
At College Park, Md, Mary
lands Terps worked to put
shine on their air attack Coac
Jim Tatum apparently has tn
ammunition with which to max
an aerial assault feasible = fou
fine passers in Vice Turyn, Jo
Tucker, Jack TarsaIona an
Stan Levine.
N. C. States Wo'fpaclz too
it relatively easy with signal es
ercises and light drills yestel
day. Coach Beattie Feathers, MOI
, ing that the "B" squad knocl
, ed off the first-stringers in
, scrimmage Wednesday,, decide
his players were ovarw orked.