Evening star., 1953-08-26
Coach Pleased
By Scarbath's S
Work in Drill /
Southern Players
Shine as Redskins
Sharpen Attack
By Lewis F. Atchison
Stor Stoff Correspondent

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26.-In
what was his first Scrimmage
and the clubs final one at the
Occidental College training
camp, Jack Scarbath brought
grinS to the faces of both Coach
Curly Lambeau and the Red
skins owner, George P. Marshall,
yesterday.
The big, blond quarterback
from the University of Maryland
directed the "varsity's" attack
for almost an hour in a con-
trolled scrimmage and put on a
sparkling demonstration. He is
the most impressive first-year
quarterback the Redskins have
come up with since they switched
from the double wingback in
1914.
No RedSkin rookie ever
stepped in with such poise and
polish as did Scarbath-not even
LIE Baron. Eddie was uncertain
and Shaky at the start last year.
But Scarbath, in his initial
scrimmage, was smooth in his
actions, sure In his thinking.
Tremendous Asset.
No coach, of course, ever is
completely satisfied. and there is
no such thing as perfection on
the football field. But Lam
beau'S attitude approached utter
satisfaction,
"The boys got it," Lambeau
said after the scrimmage. HE
can be a fine quarterback-a
tremendous asset to us this sea-
son. and in the years to come.
He is a well-coached boy who
takes nicely to coaching. He has
a football head and a football
heart. 1t figures to be a pleas
ure working with him this year"
Throughout the scrimmage,
Scarbath operated out of Lam
beau's new split-wing formation
"a tricky combination of the
split-T and the wing-T, which
looks very much like a spread
formation. Scarbath called on
a battling selection of optional
handoff and pitch-out plays and.
against strong defensive unit.
moved the ball in great leaps
and bounds up and down the
field.
Despite the fact that the in
dex finger on his pitching hand
is still painfully swollen and re-
quires a special pad-bandage,
Scarbath uncorked two payoff
passes to Hugh Taylor for what
would have been spectacular
touchdownS.
SmOOtheSt in Years.
All-in-all, it was a satisfying
scrimmage from the coaches
standpoint. The teams attack
looks smoother than at any time
in the past several years.
The scrimmage could almost
have been dubbed Southern
Conference alumni day" The
boys who shone brightest were
all graduates of schools not far
from Washington.
In addition to Scarbath, the
standouts were VPI's Madison
Nutter, the 6-foot-3 center and
linebacker; N. c. States Alec
Webster, 6-foot-3 halfback; Will
liam and Mary's Jack Cloud, the
veteran fullback and linebacker;
North Cardinals Ted Hazelwood,
the ex-coach who is making a
comeback at tackle, and Dick
Modzelewski, Maryland's ALL
America tackle.
Webster Runs Well.
Webster's running from the
split-T looked big league, while
the theirs were StandoutS on de-
fense. There's no doubt about
Modzelewski being pro-an-
other in a lengthening line of
Tatum- coached linemen in the
National Football League. No
body budged him on defense,
and he was smelling the plays
that Scarbath was calling. Jack
kept going to the other side,
however. Hazelwood was hard
to penetrate there and Scarbath
then took to the outside and the
air to gain. Nutter and Cloud
both did good jobs backing up
the line. There is hope here
that their play will allow Curly
to release Knox Ramsey to full
time offensive guard work and
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