Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-11-13

Hoyus Out to End
13-Yeur Slump
BY MORRIS SIEeEL

AT TIME WHEN others are only couple of games
away from packing in the football season. Georgetown
Just getting started The pace becoming increasingly
frantic at the Hilltop.
Bob Schmidt launching his first wear as head eoach
OF the Hoyas has been pracing his squad almost around
the clock He breaks out his group of AZ at 645 for
morning shakedown and reasSembleS them again at in
the afternoon
Town insists the players must attend classes between prac
tees The school has longsandng reputation for being
non-chariIable in this area
Schmidt goes along serenely as possible under the
trying circumstances His intensity is understandable
when one learns what Schmidt is trying to accomplish
HE WAS ENGAGED to deliver Georgetown from the
longest slump any football team has endured The
HoyaS haven't won a game in the last 10 years They
haven't played any,
They ended the intercollegiate phase of their football
history with 147 loss to George Washington in the last
game Of the 1850 1t also turned out to be the last
time any Hoya football squad would meet anything but
intramural competition until week from Saturday
the GU campus
That's when Frostburg State College comes bussing
down from the Maryland hills to give the Hoyas the first
taste Of outside grdiron activity since the Rev. Hunter
Guthrie, president of the university, accommodated
football.
FroStburg VS.. Georgetown may not like much
but to the battleStarved Hoya volunteers it's Rose Bowl
ArmyNavy and the battle for the national championship
all rolled into one
TT HAS BEEN designated unoffcially but enthusi-
astcaly as Homecoming Came by the militant students
who would like to the Hoyas return to football The
fact that they know they aren't getting any place with
their petitions and entreates doesn't deter them in the
slightest
number Of alumni in New York, tired of romancing
memories, have chartered plane to shout Hoya Hoya
saxa for Georgetown football team again. Others
in smaller groups, coming in from elsewhere
Having game to see, Just to watch football team
represent Georgetown against anybody beats walking
around the campus a Homecoming feature" one Of
the players, whose dad played for the Hoyas Of old
beamed yesterday.
Schmidt is not coach in the everyday sense He is
secondyear law student who coached the seniors in the
Intramural League He quarterbacked Southern Cal in
1960-61 and also the 1858 Notre Dame freshman
squad.
his assignment had he been named head coach Of the
Green Bay Packers He's making progress but admits his
grades in law school suffering a result
He doesn't know from day to day how many students
attend afternoon practice that's why he holds the
pre-breakfast muSters. Yesterday" he moaned "16
couldn't show up. They stuck in labs"
Accidentally, Schmidt has worries Most of the
players either prelaw predentsy foreign service
They've got the intelligence to be good players Wen see
soon Just how good they are"
BY the very nature Of Georgetown's unique single
game comeback Schmidt will enjoy a strategic advan-
tage at least Fostbug He has been able to scout
them twice. The Bobcats will be flying blind.
They've got two nnemen, No. II and rs, can't
remember their names" Schmidt says who weigh
ESQ., But don't think the game viii be mismatch"
Georgetown students couldn't less. All they want
is action "Just contact sport besides dancing
of EN- said