The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-25
THEIR OLD ENEMIES
Butte Will Line Up With The Omaha
Football Team Saturday.
AN ALL NEBRASKA ELEVEN
This VIII Be the Opening Game of
the Season In Montana and
It's Going to Be a Holly
Contested One.
AN ALL NEBRASKA ELEVEN

There Will be a football game next
saturday that will be a bird The Oma-
ma football team will be here, Butte's
ola enemy, and will play with Butte in
the nrst game of the season. The Butte
team Will have all the old heroes and
some of the new ones The team that
VIII oppose them is the pick of all Ne
braska and will give the Buttes a game
for their lives
The Omaha football team is composed
entirely of ex-collegiate players, some
of whom have been seen in Butte be-
fore and are said to form quite a for
midable aggregation. although some
what out of practice. The football sea-
son in the Missouri valley is short as
IL Is too warm to play before Oct. and
too cold after Thanksgiving, yet there
is always game at Omaha on New
Years, between the home players and
the boys who have been at college play
ing on the different teams. In the spring
baseball holds the attention of the low
ers OF amateur sports and football is
pushed to the background, although
some few games are sometimes played
The Omaha team is not, as a whole,
nearly as heavy as the Butte boys, al
though ii contains some pretty good
sized individual players, as the follow
ing short account of the men will show:
c. l. .Tobin, the manager and cap
tain, is the largest man on the team,
played here three times within the last
year. He will probably play right
tackle and will have as his opponent
Slater.
Joe Polcor is the other heavy weight,
and while he is somewhat larger than
Thomas, he is not so weighty. Polcor is
an old Princeton man of 93 and is well
up in the game, although Jim Hooper
can probably take care of him. He will
play right guard.
w. w. Wilson was captain of the Ne
braska State University team last year
and has played in Butte twice before
Wilson is stocky, heavy man and car
ries the ball well from his position of
left guard. and is good man on de-
fensive work.
w. III. Hayward has been in Butte
with every Nebraska team which has
played here, although in the first game
he twisted his ankle in practice and
was unable to play, having to act as
umpire. lie viii play the other tackle.
is feet, inch and weighs about $50
pounds.
George Shedd, the right half, played |
that position on the Nebraska State |
University team last fall in the last |
part of the season, being moved there |
from tackle after the Butte game. He |
played half for the first time in the |
Denver game and did so well that he |
retained that place until the end of the |
season. He is very large for a half
back, weighing over $50 pounds but is
quite active and a good line bucker.
Willie Gardner will play full back, |
and he is too well known In Butte to 4
need especial mention, as every one
remembers how in the first game Will
lies white locks were seen to puncture
the Butte line for 80 and 40 yards at a
clip. and how every one sang of His
golden locks were hanging down his
back"
f. F. King, the left half has had con-
siderable football experience, and is an
all-around athlete. For four years he
played on the Grinnell college team and
was captain for the last two, when the
team held the championship of Iowa.
He is a good man to carry the ball,
blocks and tackles well, and is n val
liable man for a football team to have.
II. Fair plays the left end is an old
Nebraska University player. stands s
feet and weighs about $50 pounds. His
position is back of the line but he plays
the end fairly well.
Frank Crawford. the quarter, has
had more football experience than any
of the rest of the players. as he played
at Yale until 81, coached the Universe
ty of Michigan team in the fall of 81,
coached the Baker University team in
92, the University of Nebraska in 80
and "a and last fall, '95, he coached the
Texas University team of Austin when
he won all of his games and was not
scored against in a single game.
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