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Show Golden Bears Are Versatile GRID TEAM HAS MANY STARS Bottari Is Scoring Threat By ROGER JOHNSON United Press S porta Writer BERKELEY, Cal, Oct. 16 Football ia only a hobby for most of University of California's Golden Bears hot favorites to win the Pacific Coast conference title and play in the Rose Bowl New Year's day. ' The "wonder boys" from Berkeley Berke-ley possess such a variegated array of athletic talenta that Coach Stub Allison thinks It's a miracle he was able to get his first string eleven to agree to play football all season, en masse. The California team that knocked over St. Mary's college. 30-7; Oregon Ore-gon State. 24-6. and Washington State. 27-0. includes a prospective m;ijor league baseball rookie. a champion sprinter, a varsity crewman, crew-man, a first-rate tennis player, a javelin thrower, an all-star Rugby player and the school's basketball team captain. . Some experts have tagged the Bears a "super team" after watching watch-ing their vicious blocking, hard tackling, deceptive but powerful line attack and effective pass offense. of-fense. California has beaten three normally nor-mally tough teams on successive Saturdays by using the first string for one half, then throwing in all substitutes on the bench in the aecond aec-ond half. Thumbnail sketches of California's Califor-nia's first eleven: Bob Herwig. renter 163 all-America all-America choice: cocaptain of the basketball team and a good track man, baseball player and swimmer; recognised team leader, he can virtually vir-tually break up a backfield maneuver maneu-ver single-handed: hs won 10 letters let-ters at Pomona high school. Cauda Evans, left guardRegarded guardRegard-ed the hardest tackier on the squad: a cousin of Ernie Pinckert, famed U. S. C. all-America halfback, he plans to be a footbAll coach. Vard Stockton, right guard-The most serious player on the squad, he holds an academic arholarship in mining engineering. With Evans, he fills out one of the most formidable for-midable guard combintions seen on the Pacific coast in recent seasons. Dave De Varona. left tackle A ragular on the varsity crew, he finally was persuaded to play football foot-ball because of his talent for aggressive ag-gressive line play and blocking ability. William Stoll. right tackle From Portland. Ore., he Is the only out-of-state player on the team. He likes tennis better than football, but you'd never guess it to see him open holes In enemy lines and smother plays headed for hie side of thf line Willard Dolman, left end In his own words, his chief fun in football (Contlnutil on Follnwlnl Pasal Bear Grid Stars j Versatile Outfit Ointlml(i frrm PrtvffV.isr Pift) is 'knocking someone down." He rose from the ranks to replace veteran vet-eran Henry Sparks. Voted the beat defensive Rugby player on the coajt .last year, ha is an excellent pass snagger and offensive linesman. Perry Schwartz, right end A made-over fullback, he once held the California junior state tennis title and was rated nationally when he turned to football. He is the best pass catcher on the squad and 'can handle opposing tackles single-handed single-handed on offcn.se. , John Meek. qu;irterha k - Barrel-.chested, Barrel-.chested, his forte is blocking and jdearing a path for the ball-carriers; in high school he played baseball and has ket ball : exjvert.s are boosting boost-ing him for all-America selection. Vic Bottari. left halfback-Main offensive threat of the team, he runs, kicks and passes with equal dexterity; he holds the California inters, holastic record for the football foot-ball throw at 232 feet: he is fast, quick to take advantage of the breaks, and always a scoring threat I Mushy Pollock, alternate left halfback Has run the 100-yard dash in 9 5 seconds and was former national junior decathlon champion, Sam Chapman, right halfback-Rated halfback-Rated the best all-around player on the Pacific coast. He is a sure fire, deadly tackier; he throws a football like a baseball and his . punts average about bO yards; he led the Intercollegiate Baseball league in hitting two years ago with a .420 average. Major league scouts have tried to sign him. Dave Anderson, fullback - A good javelin thrower and 440-yard dash man. he furnishes manpower to the hackfield. and blocks and tackles .Affluently. |
