Evening star., 1951-12-30

Don's Missouri teams have been in five sM@
bowls and haven't yet His Tigers N8NSaM
beaten in the Sugar, Cotton and Orange
twice in the Gator Bowl On the Francis s'nn
hand Tatum has lost poSeason winning
the Bowl and tying Georgia in another AS for
Wilkinson, he had twogame winning streak going in the
Sugar Bowl Day. when Kentucky beat
Oklahoma, 13 to 7.
frankly admits he's the Sugar Bowl now to
study the coaching Tatum and Bob Neyand of
learning something about Defense
he sighed, "I may have to start docking for job
FAURoT AT WHOSE KNEE Tatua Wilkinson sat
while coaching Navy flight teams during the war anxious
Maryland with its sptT plans to stop Tennessee
Tuesday anxious to how Neyands single
wngers will try to stop Maryland.
getting little sensitive the subject of Defense
Faurot said forhrghty But by goh I'm sold on the spT
194 points with but darned
if I can keep the other fellow from SCORING
strange record at that Over stretch in 1949
his played three successive scored "a
points and started with the Gator Bowl in
40 when Clemson beat Fauros Tigers the
regular that year. Ohio State beat Missouri 1884
the Southern Methodist over Faurot 2S2
"The best defense threw up" Fauro saying
probably the 1912 Bowl We played Fordham and
Jimmy Crowley coaching. But day when we played
terrific defensive ball. ofense couldn't get going We
lost, 20"
FAURoT THINKS TATUM the best defensive coach in
the country defensive COACH he admitted
wed game. I'll coach team that will score
Notwithstanding that Fordham game IL years ago"
Faurot had been small halfback at Missouri until ne
cOacnlng
then moved to his Alma Mater in 1886 He
orthodox coach until 194 when he began to develop
the Spnt-T.
Loosely speaking the spit-T differs from regular
tight-T lnemen spaced about yard apart
and quarterback slides instead of merely spinning and
handing off to hafback Sliding that he parallel
the line of scrmmage and has the option OF pitching out
to another back or keeping the ball.
good quarterbacks, Bus Entsminger was
running threat So of Wlknsons quarter
backs notably Mitchell and Darrell Royal Now Tatum
with Jack Scarbath.
scARBATH 21-YEAR-oLD JUNIOR from Baltimore, is
pretty much underraed Tformaon quarterback Faurot
saying good better than Ensminger, Royal
Mitchell" Don stated and far the whole Maryland
good better than of Wikinsons
good bowl including the Oklahoma team that beat North
Carolina by 16 in 199 and the that swamped Louisiana
State in 1850 by $50.
81 like the way scarbath uses fulback Most sptT
teams including mine can't the fuback
exception Wilknson when had Leon Heath
But Maryands fuback is pronounced
better ulback the country today than
Ed Modzeewski Scarbath has lot to do with it."
other thing Fauro likes about Maryland is the quick
of the nemen "Tatums got dozen or more of the
sophomoes freshmen I've seen he said and
they that makes you wish you could
steal couple of them. And you know why think they
play that way? they've modelled themselves
after They look at that little Ward playing guard
and say, There's Al-Amerca. He makes his block and
then he makes that second effort That's for u.s."
TENNESSEE MAY BE THE FAvORITE on New Years
Day but the Terrapins have thing going for them It's
been long time-1945 to be exactnce single wing team
has in the Sugar Bowl
Eddie Cameron coaching that year the Blue
Devils ouasted Alabama coached Frank Thomas 1926
Since then, only T-formation teams have
There Oklahoma AIM. in 1946, Georgia in 1947,
in 949 and 1850 and Kentucky in 1850
They may not have been spT teams all of them but they
were T-formation clubs
Barring biggest changes theyear Tennessee
playing the single wing On good day. which
usual, resembles of the better Pittsburgh
People who should know say that Neyands
n1a
there's Don Faurots word that Maryland is about
It