Evening star., 1953-08-21
Principal Takes Over
As Sub for Stricken
Chamberlain Coach

IndmDeTIdIn IOdCn
Five public high schools in
Division will start football prac-
tice Tuesday. but one Of the five.
Chamberlain, will be without its
coach for an indefinite period.
The coach, Alvin Handler, Is
recuperating in a veterans hos
pital near st. Petersburg. Fla,
from a serious abdominal opera
ton and his return to duty is
unlikely for some time.
Meanwhile. Edward D. Reed.
Chamberlain principal, has called
the squad of 40 to so out today
to organize it for the start Of
practice. Reed plans on having
the squad report to the school
at 9 am. Monday for physical
examinations and issuance Of
uniforms. Practice will be held
in the morning and afternoon
the following day and will con-
tinue until Chamberlain's OPEN
ing game with Laurel High at
Laurel September Is.
Volunteers Taking Over.
AS for coaching the team until
Handlers return, Reed said the
job would be taken over by sew
eral volunteers, including him
self.
II know nothing about coach
ing football" he said at his home
today. But the boys are COM
ing out for practice and between
myself and several volunteers,
including perhaps a few alumni
of the school who have played
the game and might be available
for a few weeks. We'll put them
through drills. We have Handlers
plays available and will continue
to use them until the situation
is settled"
Several names have been sug-
geSted as likely substitutes pend
ing Handlers return. Among
them are Ken Fowler, an English
teacher at Chamberlain and
cadet instructor at the school;
Tommy Nolan seball coach,
and Ed GRAY 1, basketball
coach.
Other Schools to Open Practice.
An actual replacement for
Handler. however, depends on
Hardy Pearce, director of ath-
letics for Division I high schools;
Norman j. Nelson, assistant SUI
perintendent in charge Of sem
ior high schools and night
schools, and Lawson Cantrell,
assistant superintendent in
charge Of junior high schools
and vocational high schools. ac-
cording to Reed.
The other schools starting
practice Tuesday will be VIII
son, defending champion, East
ern, AnacoStia and Roosevelt.
Tech. Western, Coolidge and
Bell will not start until August
81
Coach Joe Carlo of Wilson ex-
poets to have a squad of about
so reporting at am. Monday
for physical examinations and
issuance Of equipment. Another
physical checkup will be held at
2p.m. the same day for any who
don't show up or finish the
morning examinations. Prac-
tice sessions will be held from
3 to 10 am. and 2 to 4::30 pm. /
for the next two weeks.
AnacOstia Plans Evening Drills.
Anacostia will hold drills on
the AnacoStia field from 6 pm.
until dark the first week. The
following week there probably
will be morning and afternoon
sessions. Coach Zuzu Stewart
plans to hold only light workouts
the first week and is having
them in the early evening be-
cause a large number Of the
candidates are working during
the day.
In addition to the public high
schools in the city, the five
schools in the Catholic League
and teams in Northern Virginia
and Prince Georges and Mont
gomery Counties in Maryland will
start practice next week.
Bob Waldorf, who will take
over the coaching duties at
Washington-Lee in Arlington
for the first time this year, will
put his charges through morning
and afternoon drills with the
probability that some evening
sessions will be held the second
week.
Fairfax Has New Coach.
Fairfax will start it's practice
also under q new coach, Walter
Schultz, who came to the Rebels
from Virginia Episcopal at
Lynchburg. George Washington,
Falls Church and Mount Vernon,
the other schools in the Northern
Virginia League, will start the
first Of the week and all will
probably hold two-a-day Ses-
sions until the opening of school.
ethesda-Chevy Chase, Mont
gomery Blair, Suitland, North
western and BladenSburg are in
the newly formed Maryland BIZ
County League and all are ex-
pected to have full squads out
this week for initial practice.
Blair, under its new coach,
Conrad Brown, will start prac-
tice Thursday with a morning