Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-26
Put
On 0ffense for
'East-WestGame

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 26 up.
Woody Hayes of Ohio State
and Jess Hill of Southern Cali
fornia are following the same
tactics in preparing their East
and West football squads for the
31st annual Shrine Game here
Saturday.
Both coaches are accenting Of
Ifense and letting the defense
take care of itself. And. if past
performances mean anything
they'd be right the defense
would work itself out.
Three of the last four Shrine
classics have been decided by a
single point. with the East win
ming each one. 1t was 1912
last year, 21-20 two years earlier
and 1914 the year before that.
only in the 1853 game, which
the West won, 31-7, did the
Ipattern fail.
/ Players Drill Outdoors
/ The sun shone on the San
Francisco peninsula today, giving
the East-West players a chance
to practice outdoors for Satur-
days game.
Two of Stanford's three repre-
sentatives of the West team were
bedded down. however, with aches
and pains. Guard Tony Mosich
had the flu and Fullback Bill
Tarv strained a leg muscle. Both
are expected to be able to play
/ Hayes, whose version of the
tsplit-T carried Ohio State to two
straight Big Ten titles, will lean
heavily in Saturdays game on
the man who made it work
Howard (Hopalong Cassidy,
the l78-pound two-time ALI
America halfback. Cassidy,
Handicapped the first couple of
practices by a heavy cold has
been pronounced ready to go.
But Hayes has indicated he
won't rely exclusively on the
pounding running game with
which he pulverized Big Ten
rivals.
Il figure we may stick in a
few pass patterns with this
squad" he said after a workout
at the University of Santa Clara
"(Stu) Holcomb knows a little
bit about that sort of thing and
we have a couple of pretty good
passers on hand"
/ Holcomb, assisting Hayes with
Rip Engle of Penn State, had one
Iof the Nations best passers in
ILenny Dawson at Purdue last
fall. Holcomb gave up the Boiler
maker coaching job to become
athletic director at Northwestern
Two Pretty Good" Passers
The pretty good" passers arr
IIowa's Gerry Reichow and ILL
inois' EN- Lindbeck. Between
them they completed 81 of IA
tosses for 1907 yards in 1855
j Although he has refused tt
name his starters. Hayes has
been working hard with an all
Midwest backfield. Cassidy, Of
course, has first call at left half
In the unit with him, most OF
the time. have been Reichow
OF quarterback, Tony Branoff
iof Michigan at right half and
Don Schaefer of Notre Dame
at fullback.
| Hayes was pleased when
Schaefer indicated he'd be will
ing to do little quarterbacking
if the occasion arose. The big
Irish back has played the posi-
ton at Notre Dame and is
known to be a good passer.
! The West. in camp at STAN
ford University, can be expected
to pitch a few passes, too. John
Roach. Southern Methodist:
string-bean quarterback, was
the No. 10 passer nationally ano
finished one notch ahead OF
Reichow in total offense with
l1,126 yards. Assisting him will
be Hills own signal-caller
southpaw Jimmy Contratto.
Hill. who lost to Hayes by
POT in last years Rose Bowl
game. figures to use a wide
variety of offensive patterns.
The game, played under pre-
rules permitting free sub stitu-
ton. will be staged before
a $1,000 sellout crowd at KezaI
Stadium. Proceeds go to the
| Shriners Hospital for crippled
Ichildren. Television NBCl and
radio (MBC) are scheduled ma