Evening star., 1952-12-13
By MerrelI WhittIesey
Star StaH Correspondent

CLEMSON. 8. c.. Dec. l3.-The
University Of Maryland's hopes
for q big advance season ticket
sale for the 1853 football season
depend on whether Coach Jim
Tatum can close q contract with
q national football power. The
game now is pending.
The announcement here yester-
day that the Terps would sign a
two-year contract with George
Washington University gave Mary
land 10th game and the pending
game would be an 18th. Southern
Conference rules restrict teams to
10 games unless an 11th game was
being negotiated for at the time
Of the 1852 spring meeting.
Maryland will play II because
negotiations for both the CIV
series and with the unnamed team
were started before the spring
meeting. Even if they had not
been, Tatum was sure the Terps
would get permission to play II
because Of commitments made be-
fore Maryland was suspended from
the conference last year.
Six Games In ID. C. Area.
This is the way the Maryland
schedule shapes up. 1t will be an
nounced officially during the
NCAA convention in Washington
in January.
Home games-Washington and
Lee, Georgia, either Alabama or
Mississippi, either North Carolina
or South Carolina and Team x.
Away games-George Washing
ton, Clemson, Missouri, Miami
(Fla.), either Alabama or MiSsis-
sippi and either North Carolina
or South Carolina.
From this years schedule the
Terps lose Navy. Louisiana State,
Boston University and Auburn.
The latter two were fill-in games
after Maryland's original 1862
schedule was riddled by the sus-
pension. The two-year contract
with LSU was up In 1852. Navy
is dropping Maryland for reasons
Of its own.
Many Changes Due In "a.
Alabama. Mississippi. Washing
ton and Lee, Clemson. Georgia
and Missouri probably will not
be on the 1854 schedule.
The George Washington series
renewal came as somewhat of a
surprise to followers of the Terps.
Maryland will play the Colonials
next November Z in Griffith Sta
dium and on November 80, 1854.
at College Park.
Tatum said he added the game
because Maryland wanted q WASH
ington area team on its schedule
and it did not have one after Navy
declined to resume its series with
the Terps.
Max Harrington, director Of
Athletics at CIV, said the Mary
land game was q happy solution
to an open date after Bucknell.
originally scheduled for November
z, asked to withdraw because the
Bisons had an opportunity to
play Colgate on that date and
Colgate is q more natural rival.
Bucknell will return to the CIV
schedule in 1854.
Sherman Philosophical.
Maryland was known to be
somewhat cool toward q revival
Of the George Washington series
because it has not been much Of
q drawing card. ,-.
Coach Bo Sherman Of the
Colonials said the Maryland game
was all right with him. Bo &C.
cepted the game in the homespun
manner in which he accepts
nearly everything. We'll try to
give them a good game" was
about all he had to say about it.
Tatum has been busy on the
long distance phone since his ar
rival here. and has been called
out of the Southern Conference
meeting on several occasions.
When he asked for permission to
play IL games yesterday, some
body remarked that he always
wants to play too many games.
Frank Howard, the Clemson
coach, yelled loudly across the
room, "You played two too many
games this year."