The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-26
FOOTBALL NOTES.

The youths with the long and tangled
forelocks and with piratical fierceness
in their gaze, who carry a pigsxin
under their arm and can see wide
blotches Of gore on the moon, are now
getting ready for divers trays and
fracasses on the football field. From
now until the end of the season the
monarchs of the gridiron will command
attention from every one, from the
frosty-haired veteran to the knicker-
bockered rooter who monopolizes ad-
Joining fences and qnlgh trees and
blows his lusty fife until the red leaves
on the autumn trees tremble at the
sound thereof. As soon as the season
has got well on its feet, the reign OF
the footballists will be undisputed en-
tirely among all varieties OF outdoor
sports.
The big-boned athletes of Salt Lake
have already thrown the castor into
the arena and are now prepared to
blemish the features of all boosters who
are brave enough to dispute the power
of their biceps. There is Odeil and Van
Colt and Porter and almost all the
others who in the past have distin-
guished themselves as punchers and
bruisers of their fellows. Also there is
Hampstead (Hal yclept by his CO.
mates, and there be none in all the
land hereabouts who has forgot his
wondrous spirits and the exceeding ia
cility with which he causes his enemies
to fall forward and perform sharp,
abrupt conclusions with We gridiron.
One bright and particular star has
faded out of the football lists and will
no longer send the rooters into wild,
lung-annihilating enthusiasm with his
with the pigskiE. This is Taylor the
spectacular and splendid, who, it is
rumored is doing another style of ath-
letics in other pastures.
The University eleven IS, as usual,
the first team of the heavy-weights In
the field. 1t is now a very puissant ag-
gregation, and nearly every one of the
II has already earned his spurs in many
a CORY conflict. Here they are:
e. w. Stringfellow, c.; Jepson, +. g..
Holbrook. !. e.; Jonassen, T. t; LIE
Grand Young, ]. t.; Van Colt, +. e.;
Hal Hampstead, !. e.; Miles varian.
quarterback; Sam Porter, r. half; Paul
Kimball (captain), l. half; Fred Odell,
fullback.
Most of these names are names to
conjure with and enthuse. Besides
having nearly all the old University
stalwarts, the team has been replen-
ished with the three immediate jewels
of the late high school team, Odell,
Hampstead and Porter. Never before
in the sporting annals of Zion have
there there been so many golden feeces
in one flock of school athletes.
Kimball, the captain, is always out
for blood, and he always succeeds in
getting it, either on his own well reg
ulated features or on the beaming
who is by no means tender or unso-
phfsticated in the ways of football. is
extremely potent in the role of first
lieutenant. Van Colt will loom up in
his old position. Van has a very glad
iatorial attitude, and when he puts that
rubber protector over his main fea-
ture, he is thing terrifying to behold.
Stringfellow and his trestlework
shoulders is able to take care of CEN
ter properly, and anyone who bounces
against his Spartan chest can count on
performing some entirely impromptu
pyrotechnics. Jonassen. whose ances-
tors roved the North seas and peregrin-
ated around the land of the midnight
sun, has the blue eyes, fiaxen locks
and tough sinews of those old sea
pirates. Also he is somewhat of a pu-
gilists. and the shoulders wherewithal
he is equipped are like unto the windy
side of an icewagon. Whomsoever this
son of the north tackles is liable to
surmise that an equinoctial gale and
two or three sections OF a hydraulic
press have lighted upon him.
And then there is Miles varian. No
one to look on Variants face, as it
beams irradiantly hitherward and
thitherward. would ever think il had
been in collision with di.a-s callous
hands and elbows; but it has. In fact.
conclusions are Varian's long suit. The
more his facial tranquility is disar4
ranged the more valiant is he. and no
never wages battle SO fiercely rs when
defeat seems to hang over his team. lie
Grand Young and his cleaning locks
are an indispensable quantity to the
team; and whittier would it drift sans
the robust form of Sam Porte,9
Each of the rcst is big of bone and
strong of sinew.
The first big game of the future. un-
less change of date occurs, will be
between the University team and the
Drake University eleven. of Des
Moines, Iowa. Manager SiegeI re-
ceived challenge from them about a
week ago, and at once sent a favorable
reply, in which he fixed Oct. 81 as the
day of the bout and the University
campus as the scene of battle. The
Drake eleven are going to Butte short
iy and will drop off at Salt Lake for
the contest on the return trim The
Drake men are said to be athletes of
great prowess and the contest is likely
to be extremely lively.
. -
Manager Siegal has for the past two
weeks been industriously hurting chal-
lenges in all directions One OF these
went to the Butte High school, but no
reply has arrived yet.
On Nov IA the Varsity team will
mix with the Brigham Young academy
men at Provo. The compliment of this
visit will be promptly returned by the
Provoites, who have arranged to meet
the University eleven in Salt Lake
about two weeks after the first match.
Thanksgiving will be luminous day
on the football calendar. The Univer-
sity viii have combat with one of the
elevens, but it has not been definitely
decided whether the Y M. C. A. men
or the Provoites will be the opposing
team.
At least two games are on the tapis
with the A. C. team OF Logan, one to
be performed here and the other in
the North city. The dates will be de-
cided on within a few days.