Evening star., 1952-08-10
Coaches Optimistic
As Co||egians Drill
To Meet Rams Friday
BY the Associoted Press

in Chicago with the Los Angeles
Rams. professional football
champions, boast a squad that has
no apparent weaknesses.
Two weeks of virtual day-long
practice sessions for the August
Is. Soldiers Field encounter have
left the coaching staff optimistic.
There has been only one serious
injury and, despite great amount
of secrecy surrounding practices,
insiders report the squad has
caught on rapidly to Bobby Dodd' s
T-offensive and tricky defense.
10 Game i'm Series.
The charity game is the 10Th
in an unbroken series going back
to 1884. OF 18 games played,
the All-Star collegians have won
six, lost 10 and tied two.
(The game will be televised
over a National hook-up. WASH
ington area fans will be able
to see it over Station WTTG,
Channel 5, starting at 9:30
p.mD
Dodd. the Georgia Tech mentor
who was chosen head coach of the
All-Stars for this years game, has
the usual quota of All-Americas
on his squad of 54.
Dodd and his assistants includ-
Ing Jim Tatum, coach Of Mary
lands Sugar Bowl champions,
are openly enthusiastic about the
efficiency and depth displayed so
far in every Extensively
and defensively. They don't find
any real weaknesses anywhere.
Whether the obvious man-for-
man brilliance of this 1852 assem-
blage will be up to the crushing
precision Of the Los Angeles
powerhouse can't possibly be
known until next Friday night.
Decides on Squad.
Meanwhile, Dodd has just about
decided on the makeup of his
tirst-line squad. Only a few men
will share both offensive and de-
fenSive assignments.
With passing expected to be the
main offensive weapon, Dodd has
three T-formation experts on call,
Babe Parilli of Kentucky, Darrell
Crawford of Georgia Tech and
Bill Wade of Vanderbilt. He has
shown no preference so far and
it looks like all three will see
plenty Of action.
Doing most of the receiving at
end. it is believed, will be Bill
McColl of Stanford, Darrell Brew
ster of Purdue. Bill Howton of
Rice and Bob Carey of Michigan
State.
If Dodd crosses up the experts
and concentrates on a running
game, you can look for Ed Mod
zelewskt, the Mighty Mo of Mary
land, to be doing most of the
heavy work at fullback. Bill
Reichardt Of Iowa and Ollie Mat
son of San Francisco, a recent ad-
dition from the Olympic squad,
are sure to help out.
JanOwicz to Handle Kicking.
Vic Janowicz of Ohio State and
Hank Lauricella of Tennesses have
proved they can run with anybody
at left half. Janowicz probably
will handle the punting and other
toe work.
II there is one position on the
squad that outshines others in
personnel. it is the difficult right
halfback post, which boasts a
number of highly capable runners.
These include Hugh McElhenny
of Washington. Johnny Karras of
Illinois and Al Dorow of Michigan
State. Dorow is a converted
quarterback and an excellent
blocker.
The burden Of the offensive
tackle-to-tackle duties probably
will fall on Tom johnson of Mich
1gan and Marion Campbell of
Georgia, tackles; Don Coleman of
Michigan State and Don MacRae
OF Northwestern, guards, and
Doug Mosley of Kentucky and
Bob Griffin of Arkansas, centers.
Line to Average 215 Pounds.
Defensively. Dodd probably will
field line that averages 215
pounds. Hal Faverty of Wiscon-
sin and Leo Sugar of Purdue have
looked most impressive at end
and Bill Pearman of Tennessee,
Bob Toneff of Notre Dame and
Jim Weatheran of Oklahoma at
tackle.
Les Richter of California and
Jim Clark of Oregon State are
leading the guard contingent.
The squad apparently has lost
Guard Jim Mackenzie of Ken
lucky, who suffered a fractured
ankle in practice. His was the
only serious injury to date.
Center George Tarasovic of
Louisiana State appears to have
one linebacker position cinched
and may be one of the few squad
members to play Extensively
Chuck Boerio of Illinois and Keith
Flowers of Texas Christian are
tabled to share the other line
backing position.
Among backs expected to per-
form mostly on defense are John
Petibon of Notre Dame, Bert
Rechichar of Tennessee, Frank
Clifford of Southern California
and Bobby Dillon of Texas.
Columbus Rigkt-Honder