Evening star., 1954-11-28
Georgetown, 1erps
And CIV Optimistic
About New Season
By GEORGE Huber

Basketball opens on an opti-
mistic note for collegians in the
Washington area this week, with
practically everybody predicting
or at least limiting at a success
full season.
It will be hard for George
Washington, winner of the
Southern Conference title, and
Maryland, which had its best
won-lost record in history, to
Improve on their 1854 stand
ings, but both have prospects of
at least coming close. And
Georgetown, third member Of the
Washington areas unofficial Big
Three, definitely is looking for
improvement.
The Hoyas came up with
another great freshman five last
season, and those players are
joining two or three fine hold
overs to make for right prospects
at-the Hilltop.
= Hoyas to Play Terps.
Wednesday night is jumpoff
night for most of the teams, and
the first week of competition will
be climaxed by one of those
Georgetown Maryland games
Saturday night at Ritchie Coli
scum. The Hoyas and Terrapins
split in their two meetings last
year.
The opening schedule Wednes-
day night has six area teams in
action, and the seventh, Wilson
Teachers. gets going the follow
ing night as host to Shippens-
burg Teachers. There are three
games here Wednesday night,
with Maryland host to it's
alumni, Gallaudet at Catholic
u. and Minnesota. Duluth
Branch, at American u.
George Washington and
Georgetown both will be on the
road against good opposition, the
Colonials meeting the Wake For
est@team that bumped out Mary
land in the selnifinals of the At
lantic Coast Conference tourna-
ment, and Georgetown at Loy-
ola of Baltimore.
Will DIox, -, To,,n,,ax,s
Most of the teams here also
are booked for tournaments a
little later in the month, with
George Washington getting into
three such. affairs during De-
cernber. American U. will be
the first to go. however. taking
part in the West Virginia Tech
tourney this week end.
CIV, the best here last season
with q 1913 record-two losses to
North Carolina State and one
to- Maryland were the only set
baekS-has Corky Devlin and
joe Holup back. They were the
teams leading scorers last sea-
son with 551 and SAT points
respectively. Some important
players are missing, of course
Elliott Karver, John Holup and
Phil DeTurk-and Coach Bill
Reinhart doesn't expect to match
that 1913 record. However, the
Colonials should earn a seeded
spot in the Southern Conference
tourney again and maybe take
it from there.
Maryland, which turned in a
23-7 season before bowling out
in the ACC semifinals, has lost
Gene Shue and two or three
other important players.
Terps Have Familiar Names.
An unexpected loss was Tom
Young. due to be a senior this
year and counted on to take
charge Of the floor play. He
was drafted. But some familiar
names will be back, such as
Bob Kossles and Bob Everett,
both Of them schoolboy stars
around here before they went to
College Park. and some good
sophomore prospects are working
in. nicely.
The big name in the sophomore
group would be Frank Fuqua, a
6-foot-7 player who was a
schoolboy star at DeMatha and
who led freshmen scorers last
year. Another who may make
1t right away with the varsity
is Bob O'Brien, a West Virginia
product who has a set-shot style
that reminds one of Shue.
Hoya Coach Optimistic.
At Georgetown, Coach Buddy
Jeannette has a note of cau-
tious optimism. He thinks the
Hoyas will >he better with more
height and more reserve strength.
both of which items were on
display a week ago when the
Hoyas trimmed a star-packed
alumni group.
Jeannette has Warren Buehler
who last year set a Georgetown
season record with 511 points,
plus two others from his first
five. And some of these veterans
may be displaced by sophomores,
of whom he has a whole raft of
good ones. It's too early yet
to decide which of these new
boys will be the ones to take over.
but. among the more promising
ores are ice Missett. 6-foot-6;
Ken Rode, 6-foot-4, and Matty
White. 6-foot-2.
This weeks schcdule::
"Wednesday.
Alumni at Maryland
Gallaudet at Catholic o.
Georgetown at Loyola tBaltimore).
George Washington at Wake Forest.
Minnesota (Duluthl at American q.
Thursday.
shippensburg at Wilson.
American q. at West Virginia Tech