Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-06


Progress in football at Spin
garn High School in the last
three years indicates that the
Green Wave is due for the I'M
disputed Interhigh League cham
pionship in 1956-only don't say
so in the presence of Coach Dave
Brown.
Spingarn'S first full season
was 1858, when it won one game.
In 1854 it turned in a 1922 rec
ord and tied Armstrong for the
championship of old Division II.
Last year the Green Wave won
seven games, lost one and tied
Cardozo for the Interhigh's big
prize at the end of the first sea-
son of full indignation. So,
what's left?
Brown expresses it like this:
IT have one of those clubs that
could go either way. If speed,
spirit and determination can
carry us. we may do all right"
Exceptional Speed
The team undoubtedly will
have exceptional speed again.
Brown weeded out some 20 half
backs who run so yards under 6
seconds without uniform. He re-
fuses to say who is the fastest,
however.
Don. Wills. slim senior who
has been shifted from quarter
back to half, is the most familiar
name among five returning let
termen. Carl Hunter is another
senior halfback. William Hans
bury. Sherlock Knight and Ev-
erett Payne. all junior tackles
at about 1870 pounds, round out
the list.
That's more veterans than
Brown had last year when he
started his first season at the
head of Spingarn football. At
that time he counted two first
stringers returning. This time
there are four (excluding
Hunter), but nowhere is Brown
likely to find another halfback
equal to the graduated George
Green.
A turnout of lis boys is the
largest ever at Spingarn, and
the school also has its largest
coaching staff, with Ray Ham
mond and Roger McNair as
!. sisting. But it's more material
/, than the coaches can handle be-
cause of a shortage of uniforms,
Keeping Open Mind
The team has another is days
before its first game and two
more weeks before it enters
league action. Between now and
October S. when Spingarn en-
cages Mckinley Tech, the
coaches are keeping an open
mind on candidates.
1--WE haven't picked anybody
yet" Brown says. Everybody
is fighting for a spot. Our first
two games with Douglass and
Baltimore Dunbar will be strictly
shakedowns."
PERSONNEL
Lettermen lost--1S.
Lettermen returning-Don Wills hb;
. Carl Hunter, hb; William Hansbury, t;
sherlock knight, +; Everett Payne, t.
Promising nonlettermen-Roger King,
( OBJ; Ronald Lyles, ab; Ray Hammond, qb;
Harry. Brown, qb; Carroll Payne, hb;
Robert Washington, hb; Charles Foster,
hb; Lawrence Carter, hb; Tyrone Mathis.
hb; Michael Hunter. hb; Rhoma Battle,
10; William Baltimore. fb; Robert Olive,
E; Lawrence Ross, e: Ralph Tapscott, e.;
Harold Bell Ss e; Joe Lewis LEWIS e; iV William
Thomas. t; Richard Frazier. /; Philip
Lane. I; James Fuller, {: Don Taylor, g;
Don Malloy, g; Robert Carroll, g: Alvin
Mayo. c; Robert Banner, C: George
Rucker, c; Gregory Tapscott c.
Il SCHEDULE
September 21-Baltimore DOUGLASS q.
September 2S-Baltimore Dunbar. 3.
October 5--At Mckinley Tech, $40.
October l2--Chamberlain (site un-
decided. $3.50.
October l9-At Anacostia, $3.50.
sOctober 26-Phelps at Eastern, $3.50.
November AT Eastern. 3:l5.
November 10-Armstrong at Cardozo,
'InterhiEh League game.