Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-02-08
; ACC EIeyens Open
Spring Drills Today;
7 More Start Soon
By mo A.,oeiuisd Pres,

BY ne Assoeioied Press
It's little more than a month
since the football bowl game
fever subsidized. Basketballs are
bouncing up and down the court.
Major league baseball players
are checking Florida timetables.
But for four Atlantic Coast Con-
ference football teams it's back
to work this week.
Spring" practice gets under
way today at North Carolina,
South Carolina and Wake For
est. Clemson gets into the act
Friday. Duke plans to open its
drills a week from now.
Maryland. which started 1854
with a New Years Day loss to
Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl.
waits until March 8 to begin its
preparations for next fall.
Virginia. making its bow in
conference football competition
after joining the new circuit late
last year, also will begin work
March 8. North Carolina State
has not yet set a date.
Only One New Coach.
Earle Edwards at N. c. State
is the only new coach in the
eight-team conference. He'll be
installing his Michigan State
system. Quarterback Eddie West.
from Alexandria, Va, is the most
promising holdover.
Twenty days of workouts are
allowed in a period of 35 days
under conference and NCAA
rules.
At North Carolina. Coach
George Barclay expected SOU ..
of about 60 to report for dairy
drills from 2 to A pm. Eighteen
lettermen are in the group and
80 froSh numeral winners from
last fall. Unless weather changes
the plans, the annual intrasquad
game will wind up the drills
March 6. Last year the Tar
Heels won 4 of 10 games.
South Carolina. still happy
over one Of its finest seasons in
history G-3), will have 10 let
termen in the squad reporting
to Rex Enright. head coach of
the Gamecocks since 1888. Re-
placements for Johnny Gram
ling. quarterback star. and Clyde
Bennett. ace pass-catching end,
are major problems to be solved.
Enright's personal problem was
solved last week when trustees
gave him a professorship and
tenure.
New Deacon Line Coach.
Coach Tom Rogers looked for
81 players, 20 lettermen from
last season and 20 freshmen, at
Wake Forest. Last season the
Deacons won three, tied one and
lost six. but they finished with
their finest performance, upset.
ting South Carolina. Pride Rat
teree, a star guard for Wake
Forest 10 years ago. was on hand
to take over his new duties as
line coach. He'd been assisting
at Lenoir Rhyme College since
l949.
Clemson. hoping to improve on
last years 3-5-l record. plans to
catch up on defense this month.
Frank Howard says putting in
the T-offense last year caused
the Tigers to neglect defense
somewhat. With Don King look
ing to his Junior year at quarter
back and some interesting pros
poets from last seasons fresh
man team coming up. Clemson
hopes for better things.
Duke loses four all-conference
team players-back Red Smith
and linemen Howard Pitt. Ed
Meadows and Bobby Burrows.
They were invaluable last year
as the Blue Devils posted a 7-2-1
record and swept their four con-
ference games. But Coach Bill
Murray has some promising line
men and backs coming up from
the yearling squad and a few
classy holdovers with which to
face rugged schedule.
Terps Face Rugged Start.
Jim Tatum at Maryland loses
three all-conference backs in
Bernie Faloney, Chef Hanulak
and Ralph FELTON,. plus Stan
Jones. All-America tackle, but
things look far from black at
College Park. The TerpS and
Duke again appear to be the
class of the conference. although
sweeping all 10 regular season
games as last year may be some
thing else in view of that rugged
early season Maryland schedule
calling for trips to Kentucky
and UCLA.
Virginia was no world beaten
last year and North Carolina
State won only one game in 10
starts. Obviously. much must be
done at both schools to enable
them to compete with the other
six conference clubs on an even
footing. Ned Mcdonald at Viz
ginia faces a nine-game schedule
with only two conference foes.
It will take another year or two
tn Uork the Cavaliers into Y1oSt