At School

Football tradition at Lawrenceville School says that if the captain of the team wears a certain red shirt the day before the game with Hill, Lawrenceville cannot possibly lose; but if Lawrenceville does lose, the shirt will remain a potent talisman if immediately washed. Last week at Lawrenceville a debate was still in progress: whether or not to wash the shirt. Captain Fred Janney had put it on before the Hill game; the game had ended in a tie, 7 to 7. That was three weeks ago. Lawrenceville ended its otherwise successful season with a 13 to 6 beating from Choate. Most Lawrencevillians favored not washing the shirt for another year at least.

By last week, most of the big preparatory schools of the East had finished talking about red shirts, school spirit, beat Middlesex, and a month ahead of the colleges, were looking over their season's records.

Oldest school football rivalry in the U. S. is Andover v. Exeter. It has been going on so long that no one knows just when it started. Exeter thought that last week's game was the 52nd; Andover claimed it was the 53rd. Exeter, heavily favored on its record which included a 73 to 0 drubbing for the Tufts Freshmen, won more easily than the score showed, 6 to 0 on a touchdown by its able kicking fullback, Thomas Bilodeau.

The day after his father's election. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. was playing right tackle for Groton in the team's last game of the year, against St. Mark's. His Brother John, an assistant manager, carried waterbuckets and footballs uncomfortably packed in a burlap bag. It was the 44th Groton-St. Mark's game; St. Mark's won, with a triple pass for a touchdown in the last five minutes, 7 to 0, for the first time since 1928. The winning team was rewarded by being hauled about Southboro, Mass, in an old wagon.

The Hill is Lawrenceville's big rival but Hill's big rival is Hotchkiss. which has lost regularly since 1927. Last week, with only the Lawrenceville tie this year and a Lawrenceville beating last year to mar its record, Hill beat Hotchkiss 12 to 0. Only a few Hill boys were allowed to go to the game, at Lakeville. Conn.; 200 or so Hill alumni remembered the cheers well enough to yelp for Hill's Fullback Dick Hebard. who made both touchdowns, the second with a 66-yd. run. His punts averaged 43 yd. and with one exception went out of bounds inside the Hotchkiss loyd. line. Eighteen-year-old son of Roy W. Hebard. New York engineer, Hebard is the only athlete in history of his school to win four major letters; he is on the baseball, football, basketball, soccer and tennis teams, has been captain of the last three.

Of all the unbeaten school teams in the East, the most devastating this year is probably Choate, coached by Jack Maher. who teaches his team Warner football with spinners, reverses, double and triple passes. Choate's quarterback and captain, a Jack Stonebraker of Hagerstown. Md., is so averse to all forms of effort that he sometimes walks across the goal line to make a touchdown if there are no tacklers near him. Choate's guards are Cubans: Miguel Mendoza y Kindelan and Eneas Antonio Freyre de Andrede. Right tackle is Oilman Joshua Cosden's son Joshua Jr. Last week Choate finished its season with its 12th victory in a row, 40 to 7, against Kent.

Other undefeated school teams last week were: Taft. which finished its season by drubbing little Westminster, 13 to 2; Middlesex, whose teams, coached by Robert Foster, have won their last 19 games and have not lost to St. George's, which somehow or other remains their chief rival, since 1916.

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