DEMONSTRATIONS DEMONSTRATION OF AMERICAN FOOTBALL — EASTERN TEAM DEMONSTRATIONS—AMERICAN FOOTBALL AND LACROSSE HE Protocol provides that the Olympic Organizing Committee may arrange demonstrations in two Sports not included in the programme Tof competitions : (1) A National Sport of the country in which the Games are held; (2) A Sport foreign to the organizing country. THE FOOTBALL DEMONSTRATION American Football was decided on as the National Sport to be demonstrated at the Xth Olympiad. It was chosen because it is a game played almost ex­ clusively in the United States, and because it is primarily an amateur sport enjoying its greatest development and interest in the schools and colleges of this country. The Universities of Yale, Harvard, and Princeton, in the East, and the Universities of California, Stanford, and Southern California, in the West, officially approved the plan of the Committee to organize two Football teams, one repre- v* 1 WESTERN TEAM 739 Source : Bibliothèque du CIO / IOC Library XTH OLYMPIAD LOS ANGELES 1932 senting the Eastern institutions, and the other the Western, to meet at a demon­ stration game of Football on the evening of August 8. In order not to interfere in any way with the athletic programme of the institutions involved, only graduating seniors at each university who had com­ pleted their football competition were selected for the teams. The officials for the American Football Demonstration were: East Team T.A.D. Jones (former Yale coach), Chairman of Coaching Committee Mai Stevens (Yale), Advisory Coach Henry W. Clark (Harvard), Advisory Coach Nelson Poe (Princeton), Advisory Coach Adam Walsh (Yale), Line Coach George Connors (Yale), Trainer Harold F. Woodcock (Yale), Manager West Team Howard H. Jones (Southern California), Chairman of Coaching Committee Glenn S. Warner (Stanford), Advisory Coach THE WESTERN TEAM IN A PRACTICE DRILL W. A. Ingram (California), Advisory Coach Dr. Walter R. Fieseler, Medical Supervisor William W. Anderson (Occidental), Advisory Coach The complete roster of players for the American Football Demonstration J. Phil Ellsworth, Manager of Football Demonstration and West Team was as follows : East Team Herster Barres Francis H. Kales John F. Schereschewsky Benjamin C. Betner, Jr. Lea Langdon, Jr. Albert Burton Strange Pierre Bouscaren John C. Madden Albert Thomas Taylor John W. Crickard Edmund A. Mays, Jr. Kay Todd, Jr. Hans Ivar Flygare Henry Meyerson Bernard D. White Walter H. Gahagen John Muhlfeld Casper Wister Arthur S. Hall Edward Rotan William H. Yeckley Thomas P. Hawley Harold Carl Sandburg Frederick Robert Zundel West Team Garret Arhelbide Harold E. Hammack Philip Neill Robert B. Bartlett Milton N. Hand Kenneth M. Reynolds Eugene C. Clark Peter Heiser Rudolph Rintala Raymond E. Dawson Ray Hulen Gaius Shaver Louis F. DiResta Edward J. Kirwan J. Ralph Stone Raymond East Thomas 0. Mallory George Watkins Charles S. Ehrhorn William Marks Stanley Williamson Edwin Harry Griffiths Frank W. Medanich Philip Wilson Robert H. Hall • : -J THE EASTERN TEAM IN TRAINING 740 741 Source : Bibliothèque du CIO / IOC Library XTH OLYMPIAD LOS ANGELES 1932 DEMONSTRATIONS The members of both teams were assembled in the Olympic Village several six inches and the great crowd had vision of another successful stand by the East, weeks before the opening of the Games and lived there under the same conditions but on the fourth play Shaver dived head first across the line for a touchdown and as all other athletes. Kirwan kicked the goal that won the game by the score of West 7, East 6. The game was played as nearly as possible under the same conditions as It was a spectacular contest with fine individual and team play, a wide variety the regulation game of American Intercollegiate Football. The massed Olympic of running plays, and a reasonably successful forward passing attack. It could bands and the Olympic Chorus formed a large white block in the seats at one hardly have been a better demonstration of the American game. side of the Stadium similar to the "rooting" section which has become a tradition The foreign athletes and press representatives were interested in the game of American Football, and the songs of the institutions represented were played but bewildered by its complexity. The consensus of foreign opinion was that and sung. Between halves the Olympic Band staged a musical marching spectacle American Football is a hard, bruising physical combat with a little too much on the held, coupled with massed singing by the Chorus. emphasis on complicated technique. Most of the visitors commented chiefly on The game itself was a remarkably hue exhibition of American Football. the great amount of time out and the numerous substitutions. Individual players were in splendid condition and teamwork was of a calibre The lineups for the American Football Demonstration were: hardly to be expected in midsummer from players chosen from different colleges. JVest (7) East (6) Marked offensive superiority was shown by the Western team in the hrst Right End Arbelbide Barres half, and only the stalwart defensive play of the Easterners, who staved off Right Tackle Ehrhorn Hall threatened scores three times, kept the teams on an even basis at half time. The Right Guard Hulen Rotan half ended in spectacular fashion when the Eastern team, which had been on Center Williamson ..... Betner the defensive the entire hrst two periods, suddenly rallied and a long pass from Left Guard Heiser Myerson Left Tackle Hall Bouscaren Taylor to Crickard was completed just as the gun sounded, only a spectacular Left End Stone Hawley tackle by Rintala of the Western team preventing a touchdown for the East. Quarterback Watkins White The second half of the game progressed without serious threat by either Right Half Clark . Taylor team until, early in the fourth quarter, the Eastern team secured the ball in Left Half Mallory Mays Western territory and Mays attempted a goal from the field. The kick was short Fullback Shaver Schereschewsky and bounced around on the Western 10-yard line where two of the defensive The substitutions for the West were : Hand for Heiser, Neil for Stone, players touched it momentarily, making it a free ball. Burton Strange, of the Rintala for Watkins, Dawson for Hulen, Hammack for Clark, Kirwan for Eastern team, swooped down on the ball, caught it on the bounce, and carried it Watkins, DiResta for Arbelbide, Hand for Hall, and Medanich for Williamson. across the goal line for the first touchdown of the contest. Goal was missed, leav­ The substitutions for the East were: Gahagan for Bouscaren, Todd for ing the score. East 6, West 0. Taylor, Crickard for Mays, Strange for Myerson, Yeckley for Hall, Wister for With only a few minutes left to play, the Western team pulled itself together, Barres, Zundel for Betner, Flygare for Wister, Madden for Schereschewsky, Mays and headed by Gains Shaver, one of the country's greatest football players, com­ for Crickard, Sandburg for White. menced a terrific attack on the Eastern line. Taking the ball on their own 35-yard Score by Quarters line, with Shaver carrying the ball on practically every play, the Westerners West 0 0 0 7 7 plunged straight down the field, climaxing their drive with a dashing run by East 0 0 0 6 6 Shaver which carried the ball from the East's 23-yard line to the 4-yard mark, Touchdowns scored; Strange (East), Shaver (West). Goal after touch­ where he was forced out of bounds. down: Kirwan (West). Here the East staged another spectacular stand, their fourth of the game Field officials for the Football Demonstration were : inside the 5-yard line. Shaver made two yards on the first play and approached Herb Dana, Referee Horace Gillette, Field Judge within a foot of the goal line on the second. Shaver's third plunge made a bare Ed Cochran, Umpire Bruce Kirkpatrick, Head Linesman 742 743 Source : Bibliothèque du CIO / IOC Library XTH OLYMPIAD LOS ANGELES 1932 DEMONSTRATIONS THE LACROSSE DEMONSTRATION Lome Randolph Guild Marshall Duer McDorman William Harrison Triplett James Wilcox Ives James Merriken John Iglehart Turnbull Lacrosse was chosen as the demonstration of a sport foreign to the oiganizing Caleb Redgrave Kelly George Frederick Packard Church Year ley country. Although Lacrosse is played in the Eastern United States, it is little Donaldson Naylor Kelly Peter William Reynolds William Frederick Weitzel known to the western section in which the Games were held. The Committee wished to take advantage of the opportunity to demonstrate tins interesting game Canadian Team to the people of the community as well as to the many foreign visitors unfamiliar Henry Baker J. Stuart Gifford Anthony Pelletier with it. Mr. Charles L. Ornstein and Mr. Lewis Jay Korn, representing the Joseph W. Bergin William Harrison Matthew F. Rohmer American Lacrosse Associations, undertook the task of organizing the demon­ Richard Buckingham F. A. Hawkins A. Norman Russell Kenneth E. Calbeck Rowland W. Mercer Bryce Spring stration. The Lacrosse Team of Johns Hopkins University was chosen to represent W. Fraser Bernard McEvoy H. D. Wallace the United States and an all-star team was chosen to represent Canada. J. Frasir John G. McQuarrie J. A. Worthy The officials for the Lacrosse Demonstration were : Norman A. Gair Yvan Paquin United States Team Canadian Team The teams were assembled in the Olympic Village and lived there under William Roe Kahl, Team Manager A. E. Lyon, President Ray Van Orman, Coach Dan McKenzie, Coach the same conditions as all other athletes. Lewis J. Korn, Referee A. Gordon Spring, Coach Three games of lacrosse were played, on the afternoons of August 7, 9, The complete roster of players for the Lacrosse Demonstration was as follows : and 12, respectively. The games were all well contested, any individual superiority possessed by the Canadians being offset by the cohesion of the American squad, United States Team who had played together as a team throughout the season.