Loyola Freshmen to Play Jefferson College Today - October 28, 1923

Byline: Price Crane

 

The Loyola Freshmen-Jefferson game today promises to be a grand battle. The question of supremacy is only a minor detail of the contest. As yet neither team has sipped of the wine of victory, and both will be striving with brawn and brain to break into the win column. The Freshies were defeated in their only game of the season by the Gulf Coast team, 19-6. Jefferson has twice tasted defeat; the first time the Jesuit Blue-Jays trimmed them 27-0, and on the second occasion the powerful Southwestern eleven swamped them, 81-0. 

The Jefferson boys were going out of their class in tackling the heavier and more experienced Southwestern eleven, but nevertheless they put up a game and aggressive fight. Much needed experience has been gained in those first two games, and the Jefferson squad will be much stronger. Levar and Denux are the outstanding players on the team, Levar is a fullback while Denux plays right tackle. Much is expected of these two players. 

The Wolf Pups have fully recovered from the defeat by Gulf Coast and are eager to get at the Jefferson team. The team that faced Gulf Coast was an inexperienced bunch playing together for the first time. Martinez has rounded the team to a strong, fast eleven that executes its plays with machine-like precision and lightening speed. 

In Captain Mal Molony and A.D. Smith, Coach Martinez possesses two men who would make strong bids for berths on a mythical all-Freshman eleven, were such an eleven chosen this year. The Freshies have been scrimmaging their big brothers, the Varsity, during the week, and, in these brief scuffles, Molony has time and again broken through the line and nailed the runner in his tracks. A.D. Smith is fullback for the Pups and his a brother of Bill Smith, captain of Loyola's team. A.D. probably will give his brother a tussle for the fullback position on the Varsity squad next year when he graduates from the Freshies. 

Practice this week has uncovered a new star in Henry "Si" Griggs. Si has been playing a bang-up game at tackle. Although not starting the game, Griggs probably will play a large part of it. 

The probable line-ups will be:

JEFFERSON (surname/position)

• Vafencuela / LE
• Caire / LT
• Vegas / LG
• Miller / C
• Roussel / RG
• Denux / RT
• Stokes / RE
• Kelly / Q
• Sardinia / LH
• Coco / RH
• Levar / FB

FRESHMEN (surname/position)

• Dardis / LE
• Clark / LT
• Holmes / LG
• Salassi / C
• O'Keefe / RG
• Molony / RT
• Billeaud / RE
• Woulfe / Q
• Broussard / LH
• Rive / RH
• Smith / FB

Others who may get into the game for the Freshmen are Griggs, Kinsella, Coyle, Maumus, Morris, and Accardo.

Officials: 

• Paul Maloney, referee
• Bill Walmsley, Umpire
• Bill Smith, headlinesman