Show Alabama Expects Good Y Year I I Despite Loss of Many Stars I I Thomas Introduces New System to Green reen Men len Meni in First Year as Crimson Tide Mentor i f By Claire Burcky NEA Service Sports Writer The Crimson tide of Alabama Is rising again But If It there is 15 any need for repetition of ot the flood warnIngs warnings warnings warn warn- ings of ot 1930 perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps the most surprised surprised sur sur- person in all Dixie will be Frank Fran k William Thomas S This 11 Lu is 5 Thomas Thomas' S I ILu first year as head 1 football coach of or orthe the Tide It also also is Alabama's first 7 attempt to master anything resembling resent resent- bling hUng the Notre Dame shift The 1 natural don slon then is that 1 the Tide must do doa a lot of boiling and churning before it Thomas gets out of ot bounds There was an unbeaten n team down there a year ago But graduation took its toll toU leaving lea only John Hurry Cain fullback of the championship championship cham cham- eleven Cain Is 15 a kicker passer jasser ball ban carrier and signal caller caUer yet this versatility does not entirely fill fm Alabama's need in her schedule of nine games Quite naturally Coach Thomas visions a team that will make trouble trou Iron ble blo for Its opposition HARD TO BEAT We arc are not expecting another championship team says Thomas but we do expect to be hard to beat The reserves from last year are very strong trong and there are some outstandIng Ing ng sophomores Of course cours l the new system the boys bos are arc getting may handicap us for the first few weeks But by the time Kentucky on homecoming homecoming home home- coming and Florida and Vanderbilt come along well we'll be dangerous There are several teams in the southern conference employing the Notre fotre Dame system as taught by Rockne trained men Alabama meets only one the thc the Florida I fighting Gators Ga tore tors ors coached by Charley Chancy Bachman In n future years Thomas may en encounter encounter en- en counter more of his old enemies In Including Including In- In eluding Harry Mehre at Georgia and Chuck Collins at North Carolina BELONGS DELONGS TO NEW SCHOOL The Crimson Tide Mentor belongs to the new type of ot coaches There Theres ls IS s nothing of tho the roughneck about him A pleasant personality personam catches and holds those with whom he be asso elates A full fuJI round face indicates his natured good-natured disposition But Thomas can get tough There are no way half-way measures with him He believes in discipline Plays must be executed correctly for him On the practice field he shows his as association as- as with Rockne and the Notre NoIre Dame principles From Rockne Thomas learned that the painful sting of a tongue lashing carried more weight when eased with a wisecrack From Prom the wizard of oC South Bend be also learned that a knowledge of fundamentals and speedy execution of ot plays netted greater success than power or de do- do Thomas knows the Dame system from end to end and center to fullback He quarterbacked the Rockne teams of 1920 1921 arid and 1922 He called signals for the great George Gipp in his first season He gave the Four Ho Horsemen emen their first riding riding rid rid- ing big lessons in his final campaign |