Evening star., 1952-02-02
Alabama Site Doubt;
Navy Only Opponent
|0f Pre- -Tatum Days
By MerreII WhittIesey


Maryland's Sugar Bowl cham
lpions will play at least three and
possibly four games at home next
season, according to the nine
game schedule released officially
today by Jim Tatum. coach and
athletic director.
| The schedule is q strange one
Ito Marylanders Of the pre- -Tatum
era, as Navy is the only one Of the
nine teams ever played by the
Terps before Jim took over as
coach in 1947.
The Terps win play their three
home games Ia q four-week
stretch in October, meeting Glenn
son here October 4. Navy on the
18th and Louisiana State ON the
I25th. The site Of the Alabama
game November % has not been
decided.
Four Are Requirements.
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Four games. with Auburn. Glenn
son, Boston University and the
University of Mississippi have been
added since the Richmond meet
ing of the Southern Conference in
December, when Maryland lost
six games from its 1852 schedule
as punishment for accepting q
bowl bid against the recommen-
|dation Of the conference presi-
dents.
Thus the Terps will play these
-four in place of Washington and
Lee, North Carolina State, South
Carolina, North Carolina, George
Washington and West Virginia.
November 8 is an open date
and there is little chance it will
be filled. Tatum toyed with the
idea Of scheduling breather be-
fore the Ole Miss and Alabama
games, but decided against 1t.
Open With Missouri.
The Terps will open with Mis-
souri, at Columbia September 20
and play Auburn at Birmingham,
Georgia at Athens, Boston u.
there and Ole Miss at Oxford as
road games. with Alabama unde-
cided.
The only night game will be
with Georgia October II.
Maryland is meeting Auburn,
Clemson, Mississippi and Ala
bama for the first time. The Terps
have played and beaten Boston
q. and .LSU once each, have
played and beaten Missouri twice.
and met Georgia three times. The
series with Missouri and Georgia
each includes a Gator Bowl game.
Only five Of Maryland's nine op-
ponents had winning seasons last
year. Louisiana State and Mis-
sissippi look like the toughest Of
the 1862 foes, with Georgia and
Alabama next and Navy the
sleeper.
In meeting five Southeast Con-
ference teams, the Terps are
playing more teams from that
section than some Of the teams
in that conference.
Home-and-H Home Basis.
Most of the games are believed
to have been made on q home
and-home basis, which means the
Terps will have little room for
Southern Conference opponents
when they are restored to good
standing in 1853. That is, if they
don't go to another bowl game
and suffer banishment.
Tatum is in West Natrona, Pa,
where tonight the town will honor
the Modzelewski brothers, Ed and
Dick, in q testimonial banquet.
Guests will include Jack Henne-
mier, who helped bring the
brothers to Maryland, and Art
Rooney and Joe Bach Of the
Pittsburgh Steelers. Ed Modze-
lewski was drafted by the Steelers.
Maryland's 1852 schedule. with
the 1851 won-and-lost record Of
the opposition:
September 20-Missouri Q-9)
at Columbia.
September 27-Auburn (5-5) at
Birmingham.
October Clemson GA and
Gator Bowl loss to MiamD at Col
lege Park.
October 11--Georgia (5-5) at
Athens, night.
October 18-Navy t2-6-D at
College Park.
October 25-LSU 7-3-D at
College Park.
November Boston U. (6-4)
at Boston.
November 8-Open.
November 1S-MiSsissippi (6-
3-1 at Oxford.
November 22-Alabama (6-5)
site undecided.