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PIG KIN PROFESSOR-San Diego Sta e College football coach Paul Governali

College Grid DrillsO en On 4 Fiet Some 200 young :men start- ed regretting a sumrt\ of easy Jiving today as 1 ur San Diego colleges opened foot- ball practice on far Uung ;fronts. San Diego State College's :Aztecs, the only crew work- ing out at home, were about 50 strong as coach Paul Go- vernali started sending them through their first grunt 1md groan sessions. University o! San D ! e g o head man Paul Platz greeted between 35 and 40 Pioneer hopefuls on Marine Corps Re- cruit Depot', Beeson Field. The USD troops will play an abbreviated six-game sched- ule while Go,ernali's group ·will face six opponents. The Westerners from Cal- Western opened two weeks

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Luc I Catieges Open Grid Drills Four San Diego college foot- Corps Recruit Depot's Beeson ball squads will kick off on Field. The P i Qn e e r s will fall practice today. tackle six opponents. At San Diego State, head Eighteen holdovers a n d coach Paul Governali an d several promising newcom• staff will send about 50 play- ers are expected to be on ers through two daily ses- \hand when coach Al Lewis sions, starting at 9 a.m. and and staff open workouts for 3:20 p .m. Cal Western at Camp Pendle- Forty-fi\·e Aztec candidates ton today. The Westerners checked out gear yesterday will drill two weeks at Pend- and about five more are ex- leton and then return for the peeled. The Axtec.s will meet opening of school the middle eight opponcnL<, starting with of this month. the game against Los Angeles Coach GC'orge Schutte o[ State Sept. 26 in the R o s e San Diego Junior College and Bowl. aid(•s will grcl't about 65 (' an- Coaf'h Paul Platz nf ni- didafos today for the first vers it ' Qf San Diego e:i;pc-ct!< \>Orkout ThP Knight· w 11 1 37 prospects at the opening drill hetween 5 and 7 p .m. at workout toda) at :111 a r in P Ba lboa Stadium. 20 USD~ I More Co_ach Paul Platz of the uni-,UnJ\'ersit,··s fathers to . vers1ty o[ San Diego is v,:atch- ·. . . cut , ing the gate nearly as closely scholarships ~o a mm1mum as the playing field today as B_ack for his second year ot he ~ends his Pioneers throughlacuon was big Tom Gates. the their second day of foothal! former All-:\farine halfback practice. who receiYed all kinds of 0 1'. A scanty squad of 20 lads fei"s from other West Coast reported to Platz at :\1arinelschools after last summer's Corps Recruit Depot's Beeson furore o,·er USD's retrench- Field yesterday but he has mg mo,·ement had subsided. , hopes of another 10 "bodies" "Gates will be running at showmg up. f u_l lb a ck this year,'' an- "I'll be satisfied with a ounced Platz. "He:n weiah , squad of 30 men," said tlte mat o er 200 and 'the solid : former small schQOI All-Amer- man in the bacldield trtrnout.'' tQ eight games. a 3 Pio eers Lose Pair fTopGri rs _University of San Diego's·was lllred to San .8 . . PwnPet·s will take to the trail Junior College Fl"ml~na rd mo Sa turday night in mueh dan- comer to _ · · rea, i; :tt:~~~ ger of ha\"ing thE-ir scalps lift- mg Jan Die C. ed att<'t' losing rwo 01 · their . '' 1 th the loss of fol'mer jun- fpw guns the pasl week. 101 • l' 0 11 e g e All-American Fullbac·k Tom Gates, a 196- Bobby Reyes to the Marine pow!dpr "·ho's a iormer All- Corp:' and Gates to San Ber- lllarmP, and t,wklc,- Bill Frank a_rdmo. the, Paul p I a t z. a ;-;1. ·-toor_-tom lad of 235. who coat:hed Pioneers appear also _put Ill •ume time in the mu.ch ~veaker on the ground. ~lannes l1>tt the c ·n fn•>tball . l SD s team of 27 plays its fu•lcls fot other uniforms fir.st game of the season Sat- (;ate~. who 11a::, expected to ~ rd ay . ni hi at _Cal Poly of b<' t~e big- man in the Pio- Sa~ ~u1s ':)bi ·po. " """' ;sl'ound attaek this ,ear E,en \\'Jth Gates, Fi 1k and ---------..:.·_.__,,Keyes, the Pioneers would Also a factor in the. small turnout is the derision by the EVENING TRIBUNE }?AN . DIEGO_, CALIFORNIA . - '' ed.. ~ept. 16, 1959

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USD Ope.is Drills With !O P-layers no!n s:a~~:u~n~ut 0 \ 20 players reported yesterday after- its fourth footb:l~ecr::n~a~ins:~ 1 ~~? 0 ~egan Rgrid ~rills :for Paul Platz, in his first sea- , me orps ecru1t Depot. s~n as heao coach of the open with the graduation of f1?nee_rs, sai~ se,·eral per- Avalon W1•ight and Don Gll- orm1:1s had Jobs and would more. be , epo1·ttng for mornino- ' •·r I drills when the squad opei'.'. I . d iope we can ha,e a ates on a two-a-day basis Psq 1 ua of at least 30 men," - . atz said. "I'll be satisfied Head 1 n g the list of 20 to be two deep at all osi- 1 squadmen \\'as back Tom tions and three-deep iJ/ the 1 Gates, half of the 1-2 often- key S])()ts." sive punch USD exhibited E last season Hi·s . . ntrance requirements and . rnnnm"' l k f . b mate, Bobby Reyes 1 b ~c. 0 JO s have been de- joined the Marines a;d ;1t{I c1dmg t~ctors m keeping the play for MCRD this tall squad Size doWJ1. Platz said Platz. at first glanc~ ha to turn do""".11 approxi- his biagest prob! m _·. 1 ,._edf111Mt60 pros~ctlve players ,, e "1 ,_, they dtd not meet at end. He also needs a uirements guard and right hal1 · 1 Gates will swin" over ugh he declined to his right half po;t to fullba k , names, four players this year to fill 1 ,_ are ~till on the fence whether ,__~====~=::......:a:....:g;:.:a~p eh they 11 rejom the clul}. "It we can get jobs tor them I

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