Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-07-24
SPOTLIGHT
SPORTS
Football on the Golf Course
BY MERRELL wHlTTLEsEY

FUR The SAKE OF MARYLAND'S football fortunes it
is hoped Coach Tommy Mont keeping closer on his
ball club than the golf games of his assistant coaches
Tommy, Bob Ward and Ed Fullerton picked up a re-
porter for fourth at Fort Meade the other day and Mont
made the match Fullerton shoots in the middle 8Os
Tommy volunteered on the first ee land Ward little
better than So you and IT, said to the reporter
will play Fullerton and Ward"
couple of hours later, Mont couple of dollars
poorer because Fullerton doesn't shoot in the played
the parse front nine in 49, and only triple DOGGY on
the 18th hole pushed his score high n.
After the match Mont mumbled something about
Fullerton having been vacation and playing every day.
i didn't think he was that good' the coach added
MONT ALSO LIMITED that after August all of their
golf games will suffer he and his assistants
their round the-clock football grind.
I'VE have lot of work to do" Tommy said after one
of his roundhouSe Slices I'VE start right of in September
by losing day because September is Sunday And with
Texas AIM our first opponent September 81 full day of
practice could big difference You might fail to ac
complish something that could cost you the ball game"
Printing for the Texas Aggies will start with the first
day of practice September Mont scrappng the $3.50
or am practices in favor of morning workout at $50
and another in the afternoon He figures the players
Will be better acclmated to Texas working the
here twice daily
But the Maryland coach cautions that the season
doesn't end in the Cotton Bowl that afternoon 1.-THE
coaches believe after studying the films that Texas AIM
is of the finest teams we've realize
would be tremendous prestige victory but play Duke
two weeks later Well have to look ahead while thinking
of the Aggies. he said
BEFORE LEAVING FOR the golf course Mont had
been thumbng through of the preseason football
books Somebody pointed out that Maryland had been
picked to finish fifth in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Tommy had no comment on that item, but said II
play four of the teams they pick finish in the top
10 nationally" The four Texas AIM Duke Tennessee
and Miami.
Later in the afternoon Tommy opened up a bit on his
thinking just weeks before he begins his second
season as head coach.
Well be 100 per cent better organized WITH
Mont said land there's nobody saying they left us
the best material in the country
And we're not going to be stunned after our first
like last year We didn't think Syracuse
that good and didn't believe until later in the season
when they proved it, That game took awful lot of
us"
THE MARYLAND COACH is going to be far
cautious in his statements but he twirled
his fifth big glass of iced tea after taking pounds
in the l00-degree heat Tommy said II believe can win
the Conference with a break two
I'VE can't afford to have key injury in the middle of
the line, we're going to have to have better kicking
game, and we'll need top performances and injuries
our quarterbacks"
Mont went to explain that no help was expected
at quarterback Dicke Lewis Bob Rusevlyan and John
Frtsch are it, and he's hoping Lewis bad ankle holds up
Mont pointed out that this going to be the youngest
team represent Maryland the Terps moved into
the upper bracket of college football He likes that way
YEAR AGO THIS week, Mont received the stunning
that Frank Tamburelo faced Army induction That
the biggest blow in staggering series of mshaps that
cost the Terps almost their entire first team before the
The draft still is threat Jack Healy the co-captain,
is Ia and Ed Cooke who could be great end has been
ordered to take his physical But with lower draft quotas
In effect the Maryland coach hopes to retain the services
OF both.
About recruiting, Tommy says Maryland doing okay
against strong competition. I'VE can't afford to take the
marginal student any more We're receiving strong COM
petition from Virginia and bucking of the Ivy
League schools But have some fine freshmen coming
in, not as many but good football players"
In all, Tommy sounded pretty happy for guy who
usts