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Evening star., 1949-11-30
Totum Rates Maryland With His Famous Oklahoma Eleven.
Gains Coaching Success THROUGH Driving Self and Stoff

through 1941 as freshman base
ball and football coach.
He was head football mentor
in 1912 when Snavely entered
the Navy, and Tatum himself
followed the next year. In 1943
he was assistant coach at Iowa
Preflight School. where he ran
into Don Faurot, from whom he
picked up the split-T formation.
Bud Wilkinson, now Oklahoma
coach, also was there. In 1914
Tatum was line coach at Jack
sonvllle Naval Airbase and
head coach the next year. Then
followed his 1916 term at Okla
homa, with Wilkinson as his as
sistant, before coming to Mary
land in 1947.
It may seem odd that a dis
ciple of Snavely. perhaps the
best single-wing man in the
country, would change over to
the new split-T, but Tatum ex-
plains it this way:
1.-The split-T," claims Big
Jim, "is more adaptable to
changing defenses. It's a hard
system to set up a defense for.
And it has the speed to make up
for the little less power it has
than the single wing"
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Irish Have Chance to Be Only
3-7in1e Total Offense Leaders

tfenSe championship, becoming
| the fourth Eastern team to do So
Fordham copped in 1898, Lafayette
| in 1910. and Army in 1945.
In any case, the Irish will finish
among the top seven for the
seventh straight year. They won
in 1943 with a 418-yard average,
were seventh in 1914 with 1852,
seventh in 1945 with 1888, first in
1916 with 441.3, second in 1947
with 308.6, and fifth in 1942 with
1864.
In addition to being the only
three clubs In the Nation over 400
yards per game in the offense
averages, Villanova (6.24). Notre
Dame (6.08), and Oklahoma (6.05)
are the only three which have
ground out yardage at the rate
Of 6 yards per play this year.
While shooting for the total Of
fense title. the Irish will also be
seeking to improve their fourth
place position in the ground-at-
| tack race. An even 300 rushing
yards against the Mustangs will
raise Notre Danes averages above
third-place Villanova's 2936-yard
final figure.
Evening star., 1949-11-30
Dukes Gal Heads Field in Tropical Opener

liable showings in the North, and
pari-mutuel wagering on the nine
race card was expected to hit
$5O0,0O0.
Last seasons opening day crowd
Of 12,079 wagered $461 ,264 on an
eight-race program.
Tropical Park will operate Al
days, closing January Is when
Hialeah Park opens for 40 days.
Gulfstream Park closes the sea-
son with Al days extending to
April 20.
Purse distribution at Tropical
Park will total $659, 900. with q
daily total of $1,000 and a mini
mum of $1,000 on each race.
Racing Director Gerald H
Brady predicted a drop Of about
10 per cent in betting at the Bird
Road plant west of Coral Gables
An Associated Press survey showed
betting was off 10.44 per cent and
attendance down 5.29 per cent last
season in 20 States where thor
oughbred racing was held.
Evening star., 1949-11-30
Gaps Hopeful of Cooling Off
|Rochester's Red-Hot Royals

Bob Davies. top man IN the
visitors point department, will be
shadowed by Chick Reiser and
Player-Coach Bob Feerick. alter
natively. Freddie Scolari will try
to cool off Red Holman, while
Jack Nichols and Chuck Halbert
will take turns watching Arnie
Risen, 6-foot 9-inch center, and
Jack Coleman, 6-foot 7-inch, 230-
pound rookie from Louisville Uni
versity.
The Royals won IS out of so
games last season to take the
Western Division title in the old
Basket Ball Association of
America, while the Caps were
grabbing the Eastern honors.
The Caps beat the Royals three
out of five games last season,
winning one thriller in two over
time periods at Uline.
A Catholic Youth Organization
preliminary starting at 7:15
o'clock pits st. Francis de Sales
against st. Jerome'S.
Evening star., 1949-11-30

worked until midnight the
night before.
A routine day at Maryland
for the coaching staff begins
at 8 am. and for the first hour
the mail and newspaper clip
pings are taken care of. From
8 until noon is a full staff
meeting when they work on de-
tails Of the defense to be used
against the next opponent.
After lunch the staff draws Of
fensive diagrams fol-. the next
game and works on details to
be tried out in practice. From
2::30 to $3.50 is given over to
visitors, salesmen,. newspaper
men, important alumni and
such others who work their way
past Jim's secretary.
Then comes practice until
$50, then dinner, and often as
not a meeting at night. If the
staff works until midnight, the
next days work might not start
until 8 or 10 am.
Jim himself was a football
player of note under Coach
Carl Snavely at North Caro-
lima from 1882 through 1884.
AS a big, good-natured and
sometimes lazy tackle he made
the All-Southern Conference
team twice and was on the all
America second team. After
graduation he tried out with
the New York Giants but left
there to go back with Snavely
as assistant coach in 1886. In
1886, 81 and '38 he was as
sistant football coach and head
baseball coach at Cornell, and
went back to Carolina In 1888
Evening star., 1949-11-30
Turnover in Grid
Coaching Ranks
lis Under Way
Oklahoma A. & M. Gets
Whitworth; Bornhill
May Quit Arkansas
By the Associoied Press

NEW YORK, Nov. 30.-There
were heavy rumblings today in
college coaching ranks, the after
math of a turbulent football sea-
son.
A new head coach was named
at Oklahoma A. and NJ, shakeup
was forecast at Arkansas and
rumors of changes were quieted at
Pennsylvania. Wake Forest and
Holy Cross.
J.B. (Ears) Whitworth. veteran
line coach at the University OF
Georgia, was named head coach
at Oklahoma A. and M. to succeed
Jim Lookabaugh.
Looka baugh resigned this fall
after IL years at the helm. His
team won four games, lost four
and tied two this year.
At Little Rock, Ark, there was
report John Barnhill would re-
sign as head football coach today
and turn over the reins to big
timer from professional ranks who
can "jazz up" the Razorback Of
fense.
The Arkansas Gazette. which
made the prediction, said Barn.
hill probably would stay on as
athletic director. The former
Tennessee coach has called press
conference today. The Razorbacks
won five and lost five games the
past season.
At Wake Forest. N. c., Coach
II. C. Peahead Walker said there
was nothing to reports he had quit.
II have not resigned here nor
accepted a position elsewhere, the
coach of the Deacons added. my
present contract has two years to
rum"
Walker was reported in line for
the coaching post with the WASH
ington Redskins.
At Philadelphia. Harold Stassen.
president Of University of Pennsyl-
vania, issued q vote of confidence
to Coach George Munger. whose
Quakers lost successive games to
Pittsburgh. Virginia, Army and
| Cornell.
Munger did a great job and I
will take George ahead of anybody
else except the late Knute Rockne, F"
Stassen told $50 alumni and stu
dents attending the annual foot
ball dinner.
Still another report had Hugh
Devore, former Fordham aide, in
| (See COACHES, Page C-3)
Evening star., 1949-11-30
BY the Assoeioted Press

MIAMI, Fla. Nov. 30.-Tropical
Park launches Florida's 122-day
horse racing season this afternoon
A crowd of 10000 was expected
to see the nine-race program
topped by the $4,000 Inaugural
Handicap for 3-year-olds and up
ward at 6 furlongs.
! A. r. Mann's Dukes Gal, carry
ing top impost of 11s pounds
heads the field of II named for
the inaugural event. Rarco
Stables Tight Squeeze at liz
pounds and Lady Alice at 10s
likely will be second choice. Dukes
Gal was held at 81 in the over
night line with the Rarce
entry So.
Others named for the feature
include Coyote, 116; King Midas
ia: Toby B., Ill; MidchanneI
and Escador. 10 each; Dawn o
Peace. 109; Risk Whirl, 108, ano
Royal Lover, LOT.
All these performers made cred.
Evening star., 1949-11-30

The Rochester Royals, the cir
resistible force" of the National
Basket Ball Association point de-
partment and the Washington
Caps. the "immovable object" Of
that division will meet head-on
tonight at Uline Arena at $50
o'clock.
And as usual, in cases like this,
something has to give.
The Caps have the best de-
fensive combination in the league.
They've given up only 9o3 points
in IL starts for an average of 1873
per game.
The Royals are tops extensively.
They have an average Of 90.1
points per game.
The Caps will try to chop down
that Royal average tonight. Bones
Mckinney. rounding back into
shape after missing early season
play because of a knee injury, will
try to hold down Bob Wanzer
Rochester's third-high scorer.
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piled. "In 1916 the split-T was
kind of new; nobody had seen
it much and couldn't. stop us.
Now everybody's seen it,"
Maryland has a better pass
ing attack than that Oklahoma
team had, but Oklahoma had
maybe a little better running
attack. That Golding was all
right; I could use something
like him every year. But Mod
ZeleWski ed Modzelewski, Ia
tum's prize sophomore half
back is just as fast and has
more power, although maybe he
isn't as shifty as Golding was.
Also Moe can pass, which Gold
ing didn't do. And also Moe is
only 10 and a sophomore; wait
until he gets some more experi-
ence," and he sighed in happy
anticipation of Modzelewski
roaming up and down gridirons
all through 1850 and 1851.
In the line Tatum thinks his
present outfit a standout offen-
sively, "but Oklahoma had more
speed and more downf1eld
blocking"
TatUm's record OF having
three teams in the same bowl
within four years is unique in
college football history. But
Big Jim has no special formula
for. football success other than
great attention to detail and
long hours of hard work. He's
q smart business organizer and
gets things done, but he con-
stantly drives himself and his
staff. It apparently agrees with
him, though. He's healthy and
hearty and always looks as If
he's had a good nights sleep
when in reality he may have
Evening star., 1949-11-30
Ike Williams Draws
Suspension From NBA

World Lightweight Champion
Ike Williams today was suspended
by the National Boxing Associa-
ton at the request of the Califor-
mia State Commission. The an
nouncement was made here by
Heinie Miller, executive secretary
Of the NBA.
The California commission said
the suspension was for failure
to fulfill contract to fight Ber-
nard Docusen and that the sus-
pension would hold until Williams
filled the contract or reimbursed
the Los Angeles promoters of the
proposed fight for the $4,000
they spent.
Lightweight AL Gualteri of Har-
risburg, Pa, also was suspended
at the request of the District Box
ing Commission. He failed to live
up to a contract to fight Sonny
Boy West at Uline Arena, the Dis
trict commission said.
Evening star., 1949-11-30
Baugh 10 Punt, Poi||on
May Pass Against
Packers Sunday

Santa Claus won't have to climb
over the fence or crawl under it
to get into the Redskin- Green
Bay game Sunday at Griffith
Stadium. Coach Herman Ball has
"a shiny, new dressing room pass
for the old gentleman if he'll only
bring him a victory over the
Packers in the Skins final home
game this season.
Ball is willing to take any gam
BILE at this stage of the campaign,
and some of the stuff he's cook
ing up for the visitors includes
punting by Sammy Baugh.
And we might even let Dick
Poillon do some passing" he said,
referring to the Skins No. boot
er. We'll keep trying until I'VE
win one or something happens.
Jim PEBBLES, an enormous
tackle who usually has a good day
against Green Bay, may be moved
to left end on defense to help stop
the veteran Tony Canadeo. the
National Leagues second-leadlng
ground gamer, and to help break
up any passes attempted by In
dian Jack Jacobs or jug Girard.
If PEBBLES is changed over. Laurie
Niemi may get a shot at offensive
left tackle, a chore that will seem
strange indeed after a season on
defense. If Niemi doesn't do it the
nominee will be John >Steber.
Several, in fact almost all OF
the Redskins had a great day
against the Packers in the pre-
season tilt at Milwaukee IN Sep
tember when they chalked up a
1924 victory. Bones Taylor. Rob
Goode and Dick Poillon caught
touchdown passes that afternoon
and Harry Gilmer had a field day
running and passing against the
foe. Ball Is hoping they'll stage
an encore Sunday.
Dan Sandifer is another Red
skin who usually has good hunt
ing against the Packers. He re-
turned the opening kickoff 96
yards for a touchdown to lead
the Tribe to a 23-7 surprise VIC
tory in a league game last year.
The run took so much wind out
of the Packers sails they never
did recover.
Sammy Baugh, too. has had good
days against Green Bay in the last
several years, although there was
q time when the Midwesterners
had the Singers number The
seasons finale would be a fitting
occasion for the Texan to un-
Timber his salary wing and pitch
the Skins a few touchdowns for
the holidays. ATCHISON.
Evening star., 1949-11-30
By George Huber

OF his three Gator Bowl
football teams, Coach Jim
Tatum thinks his current Mary
land eleven is at least as good.
maybe a shade better" than
his famed Oklahoma team OF
1946. That was the year he
. had Joe Golding. a 25-year-old,
175-pound halfback and the
country's leading scorer as the
sensation of a Sooner eleven
that trimmed North Carolina
State, 34-13, in the 1947 Gator
Bowl.
THAT was a senior team with
lots of experience" he recalls.
. Nov we have a lot of sopho-
mores and Juniors, and before
they're finished I probably won't
hesitate to say they're the best
I've coached"
Tatum regards his 40 Mary
land eleven that plays Missouri
in Jacksonville January 2, as
the best he's had in his three
years there. His first Old Line
team of 1947 was good enough
to play Georgia to a 1920 dead
lock in the 1948 Gator Bowl.
/ Lu Gambino was the teams
, big wheel and Lu was bad news
to the opposition all the time.
But that team didn't have the
line or the extremely varied
! attack that Maryland has now.
It was suggested that Tatum
try to pick a winner Of an
imaginary game between Okla
] homa of 1916 and Maryland OF
1949.~ .~"I don't think I could say
who'd win that game" he re-
Evening star., 1949-11-30

nv
unworkabe impractical theory wnicn uoe 1hn ht rsher
moving the professionalism from college football nuI
eoreeovn puts it, Il vgna stand They're got quits
enough they can't live up to 1t ana consequently ~ ~
part of the CODE"
A Difference Between Purity and Sonity
Ironically Virginia of the football factories in the
which inspired certain Northern and Midwestern coge
officials to originally called among tter the
pury code" Actually nothing about it, All
code wanted to establish in effect was that ahees mus
work for being athletes And what else
wanted to awarding of contracts practice in
schools in the southeastern ana couple ol o
It was deemed proper by deserving ah
with financial aid if it could be shown they actually nea
of the purity code felt little aoashd ana cnango
nesbe D ''N'' '
The colleges bought the package right praccng
trouble making living Assistant Chief OF Mechan-
know Actually his Job merely looking the electric
dining hall day and ever appeared 10 De
stopped, to notify the janitor
Jobs Are Easy to Frame
In the Midwest sections of athletes
put highway payrol and thus in the of the
Virginia informed the NCAA Summer jobs
athletes and result not adherng to the
have been of the frankesand most refresh
ing-confessions in football history.
Any group of alumni big
hundred obs famous back may have coke dispenser
set up in the busiest and thrsest part of the campus The
profits Do think Marvin Hppleswitch who
also got for mathemacs-wod be allowed
set up an automatic the
Perish the thought Marvns all right in his brilliant
way took his school to the Rose Cotton Sugar
Orange picture national
Charley Justice and Doak Walker and Doc Blanchard
Glenn Davis lot of others make hundreds of thousands
of dollars for their schools
Virqinio Hos It's Principle
shenanigans Virginia objected grounds prnci
ple Virginia threatened by expulsion from the
refuse pretend the sanity code"
which inevitable long college football
big business .as.
And why shouldn't the football berewaded practical
people questions?
plays football, tooAes reality taking extra Dim
wits play brusing
of staring at eoach blackboard to play in the big
time -
the Academy discipline all the
byword Admiral James L. Holloway appreciates the football
players such extent that certain special privileges
allowed.
DR. Leib's warning is this: eff throw the code and
failure will be the midst of rush for athletes
be turmoil Operating premise turmoil
WELL what's the difference?
Evening star., 1949-11-30
None at Notre Dame
| Could Win Job With
| EuqIes, NeoIe Asserts
BY the Assoeiofed Press

NEW YORK. Nov. 30.-Earl
(Greasy) Neale. coach of the Phil
adelphia Eagles, thinks that nc
present Notre Dame player could
make his National Football League
club.
They have some fine players
particularly Leon Hart" Neale
said here yesterday, "but it would
require year or so of professional
experience for any of them to
crowd aside our regulars"
Evening star., 1949-11-30
Profit Assured
Rams, Browns,
Bears, Ayers
Redskins Are Little
Below Average Of
10000 q Come
oy the Assoeioted Press

NEW YORK, Nov. 30.-1f as
generally agreed, you have to aver
age 10000 customers a game to
break even in big time professional
football, then 13 of the II clubs in
the National League and ALL
America Conference operated in
the red this year.
The money-making exceptions
are the Los Angeles Rams and
Chicago Bears in the National and
San Francisco Forty Miners and
Cleveland Browns in the younger
circuit. All the others fell below
the 10000 average in home games,
an Associated Press check Of an
nounced atte dance figures
showed today.
For the first time since the
Washington Redskins moved from
Boston to Washington in 1887
they went into the below 80, 900
group. The Washington club. with
one home game yet to play, has
totaled 143,644 in five games for
an average of 28.729.
despite the less than 10000 at
tendance figure. the Redskins
ARE not in the red this year, F."
according to General Manager
Dick Mccain.
("It isn't how many people you
get for your games. it's whether
or not they all pay, and how much,
that decides whether you make
a profit" he explained. 1--WE fig
ure what our expenses will be.
what our. attendance will be and
how much We'll have to charge
to break event.
cYou can have 10000 at a game
and if half of them are in free
there's no profit, but you can run
a promotion with only a couple Of
hundred there, and If you charge
enough it makes a profit. But
actually we don't overcharge, we
get enough to keep us a going
concern"
(McCann added that income
from sale of radio and television
rights and for programs helps the
overall picture.
C"The only place we're behind is
in the games won and lost column.
and that's what the fans are in
terested In. That's what worries
us, too, and we're more interested
In winning more games right now
and next year than we are in max
ing money" he added.
Bulldogs in Deepest.
The weakest Of all at the gate
were the New York Bulldogs Of
the NFL, who attracted only 43,979
to five home games for an average
of s,796.
Neither league showed an ad-
vantage in the fierce dollar war in
which they have been engaged the
past four years. The National
averaged 26,810 in so games while
the AAC averaged 26,329 in AZ.
The AAC is off about 500 GUS
toners per game from last year
and the National is shy about 200.
The fattest gate receipts were
reported by the Los Angeles Rams,
who have averaged 47,439 a game
in four home appearances. The
Chicago Bears are next with
A, 4,193.
In the All-America. the San
Francisco Forty-Niners attracted
an average Of 1920 a game. while
the champion Browns drew 81 SIT.
The An-America Conference
has closed its regular schedule Of
IL games for each of seven clubs.
(See ATTENDANCE, Page C-3.)
Evening star., 1949-11-30
One Punch Does 1t

LONDON. Nov. 80 (P.-Aaron
Wilson. Birmingham (Ala) heavy
weight. knocked out Jack London
with one punch last night to put
a quick end to the comeback plans
Of the former British heavyweight
champion.
Evening star., 1949-11-30

Possibly the entire South.
Alone of some 27O colleges and universities
Virginia has taken a definite stand against
the so-called sanity CODE alias the purity
code" It is Virginias contention that it is
hypocrisy to pledge allegiance to such cooe
when it is by no means certain school can
carry out the stipulations in all honesty.
Don't be surprised if Civil War breaks out in
New York January 1915 BY that time Virginia
is almost certain to be Joined in its stand by sew
eral, if not most of the other Southern Schools
It requires two thirds vote to oust NCAA mem
her and there are athletic authorities who gravey
do,,bt that DR., Leib can make his threat stick
Evening star., 1949-11-30

Ten years ago-Cornell re-
ceived the Lambert Trophy.
emblematic of Eastern football
supremacy.
Evening star., 1949-11-30
Special Dispatch 10 The Stor

NEW YORK. Nov. 3o.-Con-
ference champions have been
named, the major bowls are filled
and only five regular-season foot
ball games involving major col
leges remain-all to be played this
weekend. But national statisti-
cal championships hinge on two
OF them.
Notre Dame needs exactly 424
yards by rushing and passing
against Southern Methodist at
Dallas Saturday to become the
first team in history to win the
total offense title three times.
Chances are it'll do it.
Miami of Florida, now third.
has an opportunity against Mary
land Friday night to cop the pass
defense championship. Chances
are it won't as judged by official
National Collegiate Athletic Bu-
reau figures.
Going into the final week end
Of collegiate play, the total de-
lenses race shapes up like this:
Per
Games. Plays. Yards nds Gsmss, ems i
GfI.ss%. yli;nSSs ,s sst ga asss a:Sss 1858 1858
Strictly Up To Irish.
Looking at the probabilities,
Notre Dame never has been held
to fewer than 318 yards In any
1949 game-the total it extracted
from Indiana in the opener. This
was regarded as a shabby per-
fotmance by coach Frank Leahy
and the Irish subsequently ranged
as high as 523 yards against North
Carolina. Only once in its last
six games has Notre Dame fallen
short OF 424 yards-the distance
needed to protect its slender l.
yard-per-game lead over VII
lanova, which has completed It's
season.
Southern Methodist has allowed
q maximum of 351 yards to any
one opponent, the sum acquired oy
r. C.. u. last Saturday in up-end-
ing the Mustangs. 21-13. But then
s M. u. has not faced the likes OF
Notre Dame. =,
If S. M. U. should manage to
send the Irish back to their locker
room with only 1876 yards late
Saturday afternoon, they would
drop to third behind Oklahoma.
Specializing on the other side
of the picture, Notre Dame must
exceed its quota Of 424 yards
to turn in the third or fourth
best seasons mark in collegiate
history. A total of AL yards
Saturday would accomplish the
latter; SOB yards would bring
about a third best record.
Chance for villanova.
Should Notre Dame fall short
of the 424-yard mark Saturday,
Villanova will win its first Of
Evening star., 1949-11-30
AAU Retains Oscar Elder

Oscar Elder has been reap.
pointed public relations director
for the District AAU. President
Eddie Rosenblum announces. Eide
will be filling the post for the thire
wear. -.
Evening star., 1949-11-30
Win, Lose, or Draw
What's the Cure for This Code?
By FRANCIS STANN

Those were fighting attributed the other day to Dr.
president of the National Collegiate Athec ASSOCIATION
warned the University OF Virginia that II ola not meeS
the NCAA sanity code might expect expelled next month
de will make Virginia fight. at
Evening star., 1949-11-30

Five years ago-Dick Wake
field, Detroit Tigers outfielder,
was inducted into the Navy.
Arizona sun., 1949-12-23
District Of Columbia Medical
Society Has Not Yet Acted On
Acceptance Of Neqro Members

clusiOn has been reached" He
added:
"How soon there will be meet
ing of minds we do not yet know.
But we can promise you that the
matter is not closed so far as our
board is concerned. They are go
ing to continue their discussions on
this subject until they arrive at
some decision"