Evening star., 1953-08-23
Forty-Niners Game
To Climax Redskins
Weeding-0ut Plans
By Lewis T. Atchison
Star Stoff CORRESPONDENT

LOS ANGELES. Aug. %, -
Fourteen Redskins reach a turn
ing point in their pro football
careers this week-the last week
Of training camp. They are the
IA who must be dropped to get
the squad down to the league
limit of 80 before start of the
title race.
None are slated to go before
the second exhibition game with
the Forty Miners at San Fran
cisco one week from today. Some
will be retained after that. But
the wedding out process is un-
der way and for some it will
reach a climax against the Forty
Miners.
Coach Curly Lambeau an
nounced tonight that he plans
to use boys in San Francisco who
didn't get in against the Rams
last week. or who weren't in for
more than few plays. He
doesn't want a good prospect to
slip through his fingers.
Only Game VIII Tell.
"You never know what a boy
will do under f1re-how he'll
react to certain situations" the
veteran coach pointed out. "I've
seen lots of players you wouldn't
give a nickel for in practice
star in a real game. The crowd
and competition with another
club brings out the best in them.
And I've seen others who were
World-beaters in practice who
simply couldn't deliver under
fire. We've got to find out what
we have. and a game is the only
place to do it,"
Tackle Dick Modzelewski,
Quarterback Jack Scarbath and
End Lew Weidensaul, all from
Maryland, are among those who
didn't face the Rams who'll get a
chance against the Forty Miners.
Little Mo" could have played
last Wednesday, but Curly de-
cided to hold him out to assure
his complete recovery from a
charley-horse suffered in the
All-Star game at Chicago. Scar
bath is passing as though he
didn't have a fractured right in
dex finger. and Weidensaul has
been ready to go for 10 days.
Big Paul Decker from Michi-
gan State, a pass-catching end
the Redskins are counting on,
Linebacker Alex Webster from
North Carolina State, Guard Bill
Link from Wake Forest. Line
backer Madison Nutter from VPI,
Guard Dave SuminSki of Wis
consin and Center Jim Dublin
ski from Utah are other first
year men scheduled for heavy
duty.
No More Scrimmaging. .
To get them ready. Curly plans
some hard practice this week,
but there will be no more team
scrimmaging. Control Scrim-
mages"-small groups working
on special assignments-will be
the only rough stuff.
Lambeau isn't taking the
Forty Miners lightly or sluffing
off the game. He'll send the
Redskins out to win if they can.
And he we'll remembers last
years incident when Dick Todd,
then head coach of the team, in
sisted on using rockies almost
exclusively against the wishes of
George Marshall, president of
the club. The Redskins took a
fearful lacing and Todd handed
in his resignation the following
week.
Todd also went on the theory
that football players should be
tried in a game, not judged by
their practice form. Marshall
contended, however. that the
fans who paid as high as $3.50
to see a game were entitled to
something more than a scrim-
mage between teams in different
make between teams in different
colored jerseys.
Some New Men Standout.
Lambeau says the customers
needn't worry about competi-
ton this year. He'll play his
best men and when the oppor-
tunity presents itself the new
men will go in. Some of the new
men look better than holdovers.
Whether they'll stand up as
well against a team like the
Forty-Niners is another ques-
ton.