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Marines-Coast Guard Looked to One Game j Sports News fp)£ IBjmrttg Jita. Classified Ads WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1930. PAGE D-1 Marines-Coast Guard Looked to One Game: Trojans Can’t Expect Weather Aid Phoney Committee Carideo Deadly All-America Selections for hast Five Years GIRDED ALLSEASON Gets Grid Prize NAVY SUBSTITUTES At Point Kick ROCKNEIADS SHOW Notable for Their Great Array of Star Ends ¦nLOOMINGTON, Ind., December December 3 (£>).—lf D 3 VP). —Bucket, bucket, who's CHICAGO,an extra point Is needed to FOR ANNUAL JOUST got the old oaken bucket? help Notre Dame defeat BY ALAN LACKING IN POWER the GOULD. question University CUSS KINDS That’s the that of Southern IN ALL thun- California Associated Press Sports Editor. dered across Saturday, chances are the Indiana University It will be sup- No. 12. National Polls Begin. campus today. The cherished bucket, plied by Frank Carideo, generalis- icAtaran -^#oil^ Disbandment Rumored, Gy- May Team All-America debate has been i emblematic of foot ball supremacy Force First to simo of the Rockne Raiders. Heat, Cold, Rain, Sleet Have between those two fighting rivals, When Carideo booted over the Just as Interesting, If not more renes Determined to Retain Purdue and Indiana, has been stolen Shoulder Heavy Burdens winning point In the Army game keen than ever, or lost. Saturday it was his twenty-fifth since the de- Been Endured in Irish’s After Indiana had successful place-kick for TIEparture of Walter Camp. So startled the the extra President’s Cup. Big Camp’s foot ball world by upsetting Purdue, in Two Games. tallythis season. It's big news when long as he lived. selections re- Victorious March. 7 to 6, November 22 the Purdue he misses. tained an aura of authenticity. Athletic Union sent the bucket to His was “the” team, by force of BY H. C. BYRD. Indianapolis, By Press. tra- where it was to be the Associated dition and custom, but where he had BY PAUL MICKELSON, picked up by representative Indiana YORK. December 3.—The competitors Marine Corps and Coast such individual In 1900 as Associated Press Bport* writer. students. Fifteen youths, posing as Navy foot ball team, which has BIG CROWD WILL Caspar Whitney, the originator of the Guard, which meet here the official delegation from Indiana, SEE only important op- , All-America idea. Camp was in compe- \ My December 3.—The beaten two Saturday in a foot ball took the trophy and that was the tition at the end with syndicates and Trojans last seen or heard of it. ponents this season, faces one i of the University NEW SAN PLOT Nation-wide polls THEgame, which TITLE TILT on player values. sh ‘ • .v&v all receipts of A conference between Gov. Harry of the hardest assignments of the year The All-America has become a popu- m f M CHICAGO,of Southern California, go for local charity, arranged G. Leslie and officials of the two in larity contest, rather than strict, I jhb universities was playing Pennsylvania and the Army a ex- contrary to the usual cus- gone to be held today Saturdays, Fans Worked Up . pert analysis of performances and com- their schedules and have In an effort to discover the missing on successive but the Mid- Over Game Sun- tom, cannot expect too shipmen are not discouraged at the parison of merits. Modem ballyhoo much aid through the season so far with a trophy, the Indiana Dally Student odds has given a distinct advantage to the from the weather stated. against them. day TwixtHawks and Apaches. man Saturday single purpose in mind this At various times Navy has been han- player doing his stuff for the big team, when they attempt to dicapped by injuries, but now it has a Gunners Challenge. playing before the biggest crowds and halt the game. Holding a cup which is the full team of regulars in condition. Two as a consequence gaining the biggest Notre Dame victory march. award of no less a personage than big problems still are ahead of Coach amount of publicity. The Rockne raiders, In forging the MARYLAND Bill Washington* The All-America star, in short, must the President of the United States, SCHOOLS Ingram, keeping the men In shape final sandlot tid-blt, last nine links In their victory string, through Saturday’s battle with Penn, the annual Mohawk-Apache game, is : shine in the spotlight of "big league” the Marines are especially desir- which probably will be played on frozen likely to set a local sandlot foot ball l foot ball. It may not be exactly fair have played foot ball in. almost every on RESUME FOOT BALL ground unless the weather goes through record for attendance. They will meet to the obscure small college star, per- conceivable weather. They’ve won ous of retaining it. And, the t , haps equally as capable the / / another quick change, and developing Sunday at the Griffith Stadium for the as bally- eff/nn. when It was hot, warm, cold, rainy and is District title. hooed performer, but it is Inevitable. " —' other hand, the Coast Guard his reserves. V tm The Pre-game Interest Is high, I® 1 windy, against better than average foot Just as anxious to take over its Wicomico County Sanctions Game Middy substitutes did not show and with the Associated much last week they played against both elevens sporting rec- ball teams, too. « year. as creditable CONSEQUENTLY,Press consensus selections of the Hi i hi keeping for a in Pnblic Highs—Sport May George Washington and unless they ords, a bang-up battle Is expected. They beat Southern Methodist when . past five years reflect popular con- Marines probably are more anxious come through the regulars will have to Both the champions and Mohawks it hot—hotter by far probably than game Guard, Spread carry are to get In final week, centration on the major teams. Occa- was about the than the Coast in State. most of the burden. Penn Is licks this a possible. Only fully as strong as Navy practices being tonight, ’ slonally comparatively small lnstttu- it will be in Los Angeles Saturday. They If that were once since rated if the scheduled for tion, the Marines first won the cup has It Quakers can get all their men into con- tomorrow and Friday. The Apaches | such as St. Mary’s College of Cali- took the Navy when it was hotter still. been out of their possession, and that Maryland college and high school dition, although their record for the work out at Clark Griffith Stadium and [ fomla, acquires national repute, but They smothered Carnegie Tech when was when the Navy came forth with circles are Interested In advices from season is no better. the Mohawks at Shipyard Field at 7 i only by mixing in so-called "fast com- it was close to aero. after Salisbury, o’clock. pany.” Iffif When they beat Pittsburgh, was an eleven that beat them the Md., that the Wicomico Army stands far ahead in the rank- i * It had played on Thanksgiving Board of Education yesterday ings, but Two Apache backs are on the In- Foot ball ascendency was enjoyed at I l i cold and exceedingly windy. The same Marines decided that never has kept Navy intervals weather day and went into the President’s Cup to permit the reinstatement of foot from putting up a great fight and this jured list, but hope Is held out only - by the Middle West during p KL>- •.•I prevailed when they beat North- game the Saturday after. ball In high schools of the county after year it may be even harder fought than for the return of one—Huck Hillery, out ; Camp’s time and afterward. The past western. factor enters into the a laps; of 16 years. usual because since the first game of the season. Ed I five years have witnessed sensational Army Game Meanest. Then another of the breach between development situation. It has been announced that In some quarters the opinion was the service schools that has been only Abbey, player-coach, still Is unlikely of great players and re- Rain fell copiously during the Drake the All-Marine team as such is going expressed today that action of the partially healed by the benefit game to play. markable teams In the South and Far game but the Irish touchdowns boomed through its last year, that after the Eastern Shore County officials might they will play December 13. West. loudly. Saturday it will be disbanded signalise the start of an The A sweeping challenge to all foot ball The South, on three occasions, has game energetic move- Penn-Navy game is one of four elevens, particularly the Mercury A. C., been The most discouraging weather of and not brought together again and, ment throughout the State for the re- on next Saturday’s schedule. The selected to represent the region Benny Friedman, Michigan quarterback, and Herb Joesting, Minnesota fttll- campagin—sleet, oth- has been Issued by the Seamen Gun- east of the back, the rain and close to naturally, under such a condition, the instatement of foot ball. Except in ers are a meeting between New York Mississippi In the classic named in the Associated Press all-America consensus of 1928, still are zero temperature—tried the final Baltimore, public high ners. Outside of the St. Mary’s Cel- New Year day game starring foot professional “Fighting Marines want to wind up their school foot ball University and Colgate, arranged for tics, in Pasadena’s Rose at ball—in the ranks.
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