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by by high THE NEWS AND OBSERVER, RALEIGH, N. SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 4, 1937. Return to Old Ruleon Fumble among Changes Urged by Coaches COACHES SUGGEST AIDS FOR OFFENSE Proposals Include Elimination of 'Five-Yard Rule' on Forward Passes By BILL BONI. New York, Dec. -Working with all the well-oiled efficiency of any other nation-wide concern, the American Football Coaches Association is in in no way haphazard about its consideration of possible rules changes for 1938.

In the Columbia University office of Lou Little, impeccably-tailored head of the Coaches' Rules Committee, reposed a mountainous stack of mail. These are the early returns from 650 member coaches polled by Little for suggestions on altering the gridiron code or improving the game generally. The principal suggestions differ not at all from those gained in the annual survey by The Associated Press. Most prominent are recommendations that: 1. The goal posts be returned to the goal-line.

2. The ball be moved in 15 yards, rather than 10, from the sidelines. 3. The defense be permitted advance a recovered fumble. 4.

Forward passing be permitted from anywhere behind the line of scrimmage. The recommendations that now are pouring in will be shot right back at their sponsors. They will go out in the form of a questionnaire. Proposals receiving the most backing will, in turn, be considered by the coaches' meeting in New Orleans on December 29. Final recommendations will be passed on to the N.

C. A. A. Rules Committee, which goes into session at Edgewater Park, on January Little's Comments. Little, himself a member of the "Help-the-Offense" brigade, has pertinent comments to make on several suggestions.

"The rule against running with a recovered he explains, "was put in several years ago to encourage the development of the lateral pass. It was felt then that restricting the defense to recovery of a fumble would lead the offense to try more laterals. As far as I can see, however, the lateral hasn't developed according to expectations. So, perhaps advancing a recovered fumble will be made next year. "I believe permitting forwardpassing anywhere behind the line of scrimmage might help the offense, but not by strengthening passing attacks.

Rather 1 it would be an aid to greater deception, particularly on reverses." Little is not in full sympathy, however, with the proposal to force the defense to keep a definite number of men on the line scrimmage. He feels that this would be a dangerous move toward over-standardization. Incidentally, though he's a keen disciple and admirer of the professional game, Lou doesn't believe the pros are notably better at forwardpassing. "I like pro football, because I've played it and coached it, and because it's a well-conducted game, with good coaches and fine players, But that doesn't mean I go overboard about it. I've seen better punting and passing in college games this season than in the pro games, and I certainly believe that teams like Pittsburgh, Fordham or California could hold their own with the pro outfits.

plenty of room for both games. The colleges aid the pros, and the pros in turn help the colleges. Both help keep the game on its present high level." THEY SHOULD HOLD OUT FOR ANOTHER FORECAST Lakeland, Dec. soda dispenser here who had an uncanny way of predicting the victorious march of Alabama's Crimson Tide to the Rose Bowl will be rewarded with trip to see the game. Isaac (Dick) Traywick, Florida's No.

1 booster for the Tide and a native of Newton, predicted at the start of the season that Alabama would win all of its games and get the Rose Bowl bid. On top of that, he predicted five of the scores by which the Tide won. He never has seen Alabama play nor has he ever been in Tuscaloosa, where the University is situated. Two local citizens circulated a petition to send Traywick to see the game and raised $225. SOUTH CAROLINA BESTS MIAMI ON FIELD GOAL Miami, Decfl -Tom Lonchar's field goal from the line in the third period gave 28-yard Carolina's Gamecocks a 3-0 victory tonight over the University of Miami before 7,543 fans.

South Carolina twice stopped Miami's a attack at the line, and made one unsuccessful try for field goal before the winning score. After Lonchar's well-placed punts had enabled the Gamecocks to reach Miami territory in the third, Jack Lyon shot a 26-yard pass to Glen Myers. Four plays later, Lonchar calmly booted the ball between the uprights. TICK ON HEADS FIELD FOR TANFORAN EVENT San Francisco, Dec. On, eight-year-old stakes winner now making a great comeback, tops a 12-horse field entered in the $2,500 added feature race at Tanforan tomorrow.

Assigned top weight of 119 pounds, Tick On will be up against such speedsters as King Saxon, former champion miler of the country, and Indian Broom, holder of the world's record at a mile and an eighth. In the National and American Leagues last year, there were 140 shutouts pitched. All Champions Los Angeles, Dec. Everybody, Valley won the high title school in foot- this ball conference. Here's how: There are four teams-Brawley, El Centro, Calexico, and they play sixgame schedule, each playing the others twice.

Brawley beat El Centro twice, El Centro beat Holtville twice, Holtville beat Calexico twice, and Calexico beat Brawley twice. Brawley and Holtville broke even. El Centro and Calexico broke even. The race ended in a four-way tie. HIGH STARS PLAY IN CHARITY GAME Pruitt and Davis of Wilson to Start for Tar Heels Against Sandlappers Charlotte, Dec.

(P) -Brief drills today completed preparations of allstar high school football teams representing South Carolina and North Carolina for their charity game tomorrow. The contest, played for the beneft of the Shrine Hospital for crippled children at Greenville, S. will begin at 2:30 p. m. The teams were selected by coaches and sports writers of the Carolinas.

The coaches selected three teams, and the sports writers, choosing 22 men from each squad, nominated. Head coaches of the rival teams are tutors of the recognized State champions, Jim Brice of Easley and Bob Allen of Charlotte. Brice is assisted by Red Dobson of Spartanburg and by Speedy Speer of Greenville. assistants are Charles W. (Soup) Porter of Lenoir and Jim Morgan of Gastonia.

Sponsors are Hejaz, Omar, Sudan, and Oasis Temples of the Shrine. Probable starting lineups: South Carolina: Ends-Hempley, Spartanburg, and Chapman, Rock Hill; Kennedy, Abbeville, and Roof, Columbia; guards--Turpin, Easley, and Stockdale, Spartanburg; centerCraig, Greenville; backs Byers, Greenville; Albergotti, Columbia; Minott, Charleston, and West, Camden. North Carolina: Ends Charlotte, and Davis, Wilson; -Gregory, Wadesboro, and Barr. Charlotte; guards-Spransy, Durham, and Cooper, Charlotte; Wilson, Charlotte; backs--Pruitt, Wilson; Wartman, Charlotte; Church, Lenoir; and Gill, Charlotte. Officials: Causey, South Carolina, referee; Hill, Wofford, umpire; Frew, W.

and headlinesman, and Smith, Davidson, field judge. KING LEVINSKY DECIDES HE'LL BE A 'WRESTLE' Chicago, Dec. Levinsky, one-time night mayor and pride of Maxwell Street, swelled his chest with a sucking-in sound today until the buttons of his coat nearly popped off. It was preliminary to an announcement of tremendous importance to him. "Hey, you louse," he bellowed, pulling up in front of a beer tavern.

"You're just the guy I'm looking for." "I want to make it a wrestle," he parried, squinting his "There ain't no more mazuma for me fighting any more. From now on I'm a wrestle, a murder of the mat." The strapping Kingfish, who earned $300,000 with his fists since 1929 and lost it, is going in for what he regards as important dough grunting and groaning on the mat. The individual he wants to meet is none other than Bronko Nagurski, recognized here and there as heavyweight champion. FREDERICKSBURG WINS OVER REIDSVILLE HIGHS Fredericksburg, Dec. 3.

Fredericksburg High football team, Class champion of Virginia, defeated Reidsville, North Carolina Class titleholder, here today, 13-0. Randy Halfin, local halfback, plunged over from the four-yard line early in the third quarter for the first score. Russell Carneal took a nine-yard pass from Bobby Bellomy midway of the fourth for the second touchdown. The visitors failed to get beyond Fredericksburg's 35. DUKE BOOTERS BLANK CATAWBA INJUNS, 5-0 Salisbury, Dec.

lege, 5 to 0, afternoon for soccer team Catwaba Coldefeated, its second consecutive victory over the Indians. The lineups: Duke Hodges, Finn, Bailey, Miller, Lewis, Pray, Thomas, Edwards, Ingram, Little, and Jones. Randleman, Curran, Hoopercy, Young, er, Walters, Frantz, Carpenter, and Stein. WILSON HIGHS SCORE WIN OVER SMITHFIELD Wilson, Dec. defeated Smithfield, 36-21, tonight in the opening game for the basketball team of the local Charles L.

Coon High School. The Wilson boys led by 22-13 at the half. Young counted a dozen points to pace Wilson's scoring. H. B.

Smith and Rose, each with six points, led Smithfield. Marquette's 1938 gridiron schedule intersectional games with Southern Methodist, Texas Christian, and Arizona. REVENUERS LOSE COUPLE OF GAMES Federal Employes and Independents Win Contests in Y. Court Leagues Y. MEN'S LEAGUE.

W. L. Pet. Wachovia 1 0 1.000 Federal Employes 0 1.000 Penn 1 .000 Revenue 0 1 .000 Y. GIRLS' LEAGUE.

Pet. UCC 0 1.000 Revenue 0 1.000 Carolina Beauty .000 Independents .000 State Revenue Department teams were defeated in last night's basketball doubleheader offered by Y. M. C. A.

leagues the Revenuers lost by almost identical scores. Federal Employes defeated the Revnue men's team, 27-21; the Independents defeated the Revenue girls' team, 28-21. Last night's twin bill was the second offered in the Y. basketball program and completed the round of opening games for members of the four-club leagues. Key Scales made 10 points to lead the Federal Employes to victory over Revenue quint.

Bruno Mangum, with 10 points, was high for the losers. Senna, with seven, was runner-up. Jack Biggs made eight points to rank next to Scales in the Feds' attack. The lineups follow. Revenue: Forwards--Ellington and Mangum 10; center-Stell guardsStephenson and Senna 7.

Federal Employes: Forwards Goodman, Scales 4, K. Scales 10, Futrell, Rote; center-Williams 4, guards--Biggs 8, Waters, Poe 1. In the game between girls' teams, the victorious Independents were led by wade, forward who made 13 points. Lassiter, with eight, was the losers' leader. The lineups follow.

Revenue: Forwards-Hiner 5, Lassiter 8, Gautier 4, Lockhart Baker; guards -McKernan, Jones, Gorham, Webb. Independents: Forwards Stevenson 7, Benson, Wade 13, M. Houlder, Stewart; guards; Thomas, Holden, Skinner, C. Houlder, G. Houlder.

AND HERE'S REMAINDER OF STORY ON ALL -STATE (Continued From Page Six) Hill, center; Little, O'Mara, Burnette, and Berlinski, backs. Second teamTatum and Kline, ends; Maronic and Heims, tackles; Wrenn and Woodson, guards; Adam, center; Hackney, Ditt, Watson and Tipton, backs. Vivian Seymour, Route 1, Cary: First team--Tatum and Bershak, ends; Brunansky Bartos, tackles; Wrenn and Lipscomb, backs; Mark, center; Hackney Burnette Tipton, and Berlinski, backs. Second teamHudgins and Williams, ends; Maronic and Helms, tackles; Woodson and Brownie, guards; Hill, center; Little, Rooney, Lafferty and Watson, backs. Willis Smith, of Raleigh, and Pat Morgan, students at Sewanee Military Academy, Sewanee, agree in their ideas: First teamBershak and Hudgins, ends; Bartos and Brunansky, tackles; Wrenn and Lipscomb, guards; Hill, center; Hackney.

Tipton, Burnette, and Berlinski, backs. team- Williams and Tatum, Maronic Helms. Second, tackles; Woodson and Yorke, guards; Mumford, center; Little, Ditt, Lafferty, and O'Mara, backs. Dr. A.

G. Crumpler, Fuquay Springs: First team-Bershak and Williams, ends; Bartos and Brunansky, tackles; Lipscomb and Wrenn, guards; Hill, center; Hackney, Burnette, Little, and Tipton, backs. Second team--Tatum and Kline, ends; Maronic and Warden, tickles; Woodson and Badgett, guards; Mark, center; Watson, O'Mara, Ditt, and Berlinski, backs. Mildred E. Hiner, Raleigh: First team-Hudgins and Bershak, ends; Bartos and, Brunansky, tackles; Lipscomb Wrenn, guards; Hill, I center; Little, Hackney, Berlinski, and Burnette, backs.

Second team Williams and Tatum, ends; Maronic and Helms, tackles; Woodson and Badgett, guards; Mark, center; Tipton, Lafferty, Rooney, and Watson, backs. CHRISTMAS PRESENT? St. Louis, Dec. tomorrow and continuing until Christmas, fans purchase tick1938 opening home game of the St. Louis Cardinals.

The National League announced today it would offer the tickets in books of five, each packet decorated in 1 Christmas colors. In seven months, George Pencheff, Australian wrestler, won 97 and drew twice. This Is The Dizzy Way This is the way $10,000 Miami Biltmore chances," says the Cardinals, as he puts scene of the tournament. North Three Dizzy Dean advises professionals to clean up in the Open on Dec. 10-13.

"This tee holds the most great and eccentric righthander of the St. Louis his preaching into practice at Coral Gables, Carolina Dogs Win of Top Four Places Tar Heel Entries Finish First, Second, Fourth in Pointer Club Stake Pinehurst, Dec. Homewood Blue Willow, a white-andliver pointer bitch owned and handled by R. W. Norman of Salisbury, placed, first todinter the allage the Club of America's field trials here.

Second honors went to Shore's Zeb Doone, owned and handled by Dr. T. W. Shore of Booneville. Hiker's June, owned by W.

L. Colket and handled by E. H. Vare, both of Philadelphia, placed third. Peerless Decision, owned and handled by Louis M.

Bobbitt of Winston-Salem, won fourth place. First place in the derby stake, the concluding event of the membership field trials here, was won by Rumson Farm Jack, a whiteand-orange pointer owned and handled by Raymond Hoagland of Cartersville, and Rumson, N. J. Peerless Sensation, a setter owned and handled by Bobbitt, was second, and Martini, owned and handled by Vare, third. The Pointer Club's open events, in which there are both money and prizes, will start Monday.

trophon entry list, especially from Southern dog owners, has been received for the trials, expected to be larger than any in recent years. Charley Gehringer, Detroit second-baseman recently voted the most valuable player in the American League, is a badminton star good enough to be featured in vaudeville. STATE MAT. RALEIGH 8:15 TODAY SAM H.HARRIS presents the PULITZER PRIZE PLAY 19374 "YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU" By MOSS GEO.S.KAUFMAN SEATS NOW- -PRICES INCL. TAX $2.20: $1.65, $1.10.

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CARL 1937 Carl Anderson rights reserved 124 LANDER BILL WOOD NAMED ARMY GRID COACH Assistant Tutor Succeeds Davidson; Was 12-Letter Man in Days at Point West Point, N. Dec. Capt. William H. (Bill) Wood, former Army backfield ace and a 12- letter athlete during his Cadet career, today was named head coach of West Point football, succeeding Capt.

Garrison H. (Gar) Davidson, coach for five years. Army policy and precedents ordinarily limit head coaching assignments at the military academy to a four-year maximum, but Davidson remained an extra year by special order. Wood, a cavalry officer with a background considerable coaching experience West Point, will take over direction of Army's gridiron destinies next summer. Except for a three-year tour of duty in 1929-31 and his assignment during the last year to the general staff school at Fort Leavenworth, Wood was an assistant coach at West Point from year of his graduation, 1925.

The new entered the academy in attending head, coache Johns Hopkins University two years. He made the football varsity his first year, and starred as a kicker and defensive fullback through four seasons. His best known include George Smythe, star, and Ed. Garbisch, All-America center. Wood also played basketball and Da baseball.

He won 12 varsity letters, the maximum possible during the when plebes were eligible for days varsity competition. Subsequently, he was backfield coach of the plebes for one year and an assistant varsity backfield coach for eight seasons. the Teams coached during past five years by Davidson won 35 games, 11, and tied one. They made it three out of five from Navy with a 6-0 verdict last Saturday. The esteem in which Davidson was held by his pupils was emphasized when they presented him the ball used in the service match.

Ordinarily, this is the captain's trophy. HERE'S NEW CANDIDATE FOR GRID SCORING LEAD San Saba, Dec. Football fans hastened today to set forth the scoring record of Dean Bagler, little San Saba school halfback, when they read that Bill De Correvont, Chicago high school CAPITOL A LAST TODAY TIMES Mat. 158 William Nite 3040 in Clarence E. MULFORD'S HOPALONG RIDES AGAIN BUCK JONES SERIAL CARTOON Mat.

Nite PALACE 10c 10c LAST TIMES TODAY SAVAGE LOVE AND HATE Rex Beach's unforgettable story of Men, Women and Gold, set against background of snowcapped peaks and majestic forests REX BEACH'S The CARRILLO JEAN KRUGER JAMES -PlusThree Stooge Comedy News Best Blocker George Watson, University of halfback, is 1937 winner Jacobs Trophy, Carolina, awarded annually to the gridder adjudged the best blocker in the Southern Conference. Watson will receive the award at a banquet in Clinton, S. on Tuesday night. star, had been called the nation's top scorer, with 204 points. They gave Bagler's as 261 points, including 41 touchdowns and 15 points-after-touchdown.

And Baghas another game to play this year." Ducky Medwick, the National League's most valuable player of 1937, has made 684 hits in the last three seasons. The 684 hits drove in 418 runs for the Cardinals. WATSON WILL GET BLOCKING TROPHY Carolina Back Noses Out Duke's Spangler in Vote for Jacobs Conference Award Clinton, S. C. Dec.

George David Watson, University of North Carolina halfback, was announced tonight as the winner of the Jacobs Trophy awarded each year to the player adjudged the best blocker in the Southern Conference, The balloting of the coaches, who select each year's winner, was close, and Waston barely won over Duke's Spangler. Others near the top of the balloting were Kovar of Virginia Military Institute, Bershak of North Carolina, and Wrenn of North Carolina. Receiving votes were Trzeciak, of V. M. I.

Henry of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Sanders of Clemson, McNeill of The Citadel, Brown of Washington and Lee, Willis of Clemson. O'Mara of Duke, Tatum of North Carolina State, and Dennis of Davidson. The trophy, given each year by William Jacobs, president of Presbyterian College, will be presented at a banquet here on Tuesday night. BOONE BOYS BEATEN BY MISSISSIPPI CLUB Gulfport, Dec. State Teachers College gridders defeated Appalachian State Teachers College of Boone, N.

here tonight, 7-0. It was the first defeat in 10 games this season for Coach Kidd Brewer's Appalachians. Only other blot on their record is a scoreless tie with Carson-Newman. Football Rally Wake Forest, Dec. There was a "football rally" here tonight and college officials, coaches, players, and students rallied 'round.

Dr. Thurman D. Kitchin was the principal speaker-everybody was there for the rally, held in the gymnasium. Dean D. B.

Bryan also spoke for the administration. Coaches Walker, Weaver, and Fysal had a say, and so did Boots Mumford, varsity captain, and Charlie Mayberry, freshman star. Other varsity players made brief talks. COLGATE BOYS NAME COUPLE OF CAPTAINS Hamilton, N. Dec.

football players today elected Johnny Lucy of Rutherford, N. and Donald Wemple of Gloversville, N. as co-captains of the Red Raiders for fall. Lucy, 187-pound guard, been next, a regular on the team for most of they Wemple past two has seasons. been a regular end for two seasons.

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