Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-02-01
ATCHISON'S
ANGLE
The Boys in Blue
BY LEWIS r. ATcHIsoN

PHILADELPHIA FEB lit isn't that the Redskins were
seeking culture among their athletes in selecting
Lopata Yale end their eighth draft choice but merely
that he happens be of two players formidable
1856 Eli squad with the hallmark of real pro- Halfback Al
Ward the other and the Chicago Bears grabbed him in
the round when the National Football League owners
resumed the annual player draft here yesterday.
OF late, President George Marshall the Redskins has
been Gliding the Ivy League for tonng down football
he made no complaint when Lopata's up For
one thing Coach Jordan Ovar of Yale youngSter
is good Gene Bro the Redskins a-eague defensive
end at the same stage OF their Jerry Neri
backhed coach who also OivarS assistant Loyoa
of Los Angeles during BrtoS undergraduate days goes
step further He thinks Lopata at this stage,
better than Brito This Washington fans got to
Wellington Duke Mara, who helps run the New York
Giants front office said they had Lopata tabled
one-real good.
Harry Jacunski (the Yale end COACH said Lopata was
the greatest end he coached Mara said and Harry
was on the Notre Dame staff the late Os Lopata
IN our second flight OF endswe don't list potential draft
choices by number We thought pretty good but we
weren't looking for an end"
IVY LEAGUERS ESPECIALLY Yale men, aren't new in
football The Giants had Century Milstead an ALI
America tackle, back when the unwieldy league
struggling for survival and good could be pea
nuts Century, named because he born New Years
eve, 1900 big and. from all accounts a tough rascal
who could hold his in the best modern company
other Yale whose may conjure up pleasant
cries for Old Blues Bruce Caldwell cofkng good back
for the Ellis and the Giants
But the two Ellis the Giants of all are
couple of Johnny -atelys Bill Schiller tackle and
Francis Buddy Barzauskas guard started his pro
career with the Inflated Boston Yanks and finished with
New York Schuer first went Auburn during World
War II captured by the Germans struck up friend
ship with Barzlauskas in prison camp. Buddy
spun fascinating tales of New Haven Professor Billy
Phelps for Schiller followed Yale after the war and
made the football squad
He wasn't big" recalled Steve owen, then coach of
the Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles staff but
he was terrific competitor. He didn't have Barzauskas
equipment but tried like hell"
Schuer's competitive spirit accompanied him into the
steel business in his native Birmingham Ala where he first
went to work in his fathers mill Trying his wings
struck out on his and at last reports giving the
old gentleman a for the big accounts.
He lived at the Waldorf Astoria when he played for
u.s., Mara said land I'm his tips more than we
paid him."
NOT EVERY TEAM in the NIL has had an Ivy Lacquer
but is surprising how many the older Eastern
schools have had fling at the game Detroit Lions fans
remember Johnny Prchik another Yale tackle now labor
relations manager at the Ford Co. parts equipment
plant.
Coach Paddy Drscon of the Chicago Bears fondy re-
members the days when Harvard great Arnold Horween
Iater mead coach OF the Crimson played for the Cardinals
under nom de guerre OF Mcmahon" Colleges at that time
activeseven If it did provide welcome pocket money and
no true Ivy Lacquer INDUCED pro football after gradu
alton for sordd gain.
Arnold was great blocking back" Drscoll recalled
"Oh, how he loved to hit EN- behind that line"
Arnod's brother Ralph, fulback, played for the
Cardinals but according to Paddy the same class
with the other.
Before the draft ended late last night, still another
Yale selected Dennis McG back from New Jersey
was taken by the Eagles.
From the way the Yale boys have gone in this draft
old observed yale should have gotten that Ivy
League organized long ago"