Show Grid Coaches Patch Holes I I In Backfield SAN FRANCISCO Dec 27 I With eastern and western football stars rounding rapidly into shape for their heir annual west east charity clash here New Years Year's day Coaches Dick Hanley lanley and Andy Kerr at their Berkeley Berkeley Ber- Ber keley celey headquarters concentrated Thursday on revising their crippled backfield lineup Duane Purvis ace halfback from Purdue wrenched his knee in in practice tice and is definitely out of the game came An operation was or ordered ered Thursday at an Oakland hospital He was tackled while carrying the ball and ligaments muscles and cartilages were torn Doctors said h he will be out of action about ten d days ys and probably probably ably will not even see the game Hanley said he will alternate Bill Shepherd of Western Maryland and Ed Brominski of ol Columbia at right half haH in place of or Purvis Meanwhile from Stanford university university sity where the western ag aggregation is practicing came the announcement that Coaches Percy Locey and Orin are arc counting heavily on Big Al of St. St Marys Mary's to run interference for Cotton Cotlon Warburton of Southern California The westerners have the Stanford field to them themselves for th the first time today since practice began The Stanford team left last night for Los Angeles for their New Years Year's day brush jrush with Alabama at Pasadena's Rose Bowl The western team has been sharing the field with the In In- I |