The evening times., 1896-08-13
FOOTBALL N THE WEST
Game WillBe Played at Butte,
Mont, Next Week.
TOWN MAD ON THE SPORT
The Montana Team Has Never Been
Defeated-Miners Believe Their
GridIron ArtistsC Could dDownPennsy,
Harvard OF Yale-Ltne-up OF the
Nebraska Team.

Early next week there will be played at
Butte, Mont, what gives promise of being
one OF the hardest and best games OF foot
ball ever played on d Western gridiron.
The devotees of football will doubtless be
surprised to learn that such contest is
scheduled for the month Of August, and will
probably throw up their hands In horror
when tcld that number OF Eastern collie
gians will participate in the game. Yet
such are the facts, and a well drilled team
has already left Omaha, Neb., for the great
mining town where the game is to be
pia yed. Fasteners would not be So in
credulous concerning the game, perhaps,
II they took into consideration une aita-
tude and climate Of Butte and the ardent
love Of the miners for the great college
game.
The Butte football eleven has not been de-
feated since its initial game, and the peo-
pie there have really come to believe that
the team is iDvincible.
They firmly believe that the Butte team
could defeat Pennsylvania, Harvard or
Yale, and II they thought it would do any
good they would offer to pay the expenses
OF one OF these teams for the entire trip
from the East TO Butte and return.
The Butte football team is made up OF
lotof husky y giants who harden their muscles
by working In the gold and silver mines
there. As far as mere physical strength is
concerned. they form what Is probably
the strongest team that ever played the
modern game Of football. Their knowledge
Of the game is limited, and good Eastern
team composed Of considerably lighter
nno oil
FOOTBALL MAD.
Butte Is football mad 1t has been So for
several years-in fact, ever since team OF
young men from this city, representing va
rious Eastern institutions, went up there
three seasons ago and gave practical
demonstration Of the game. The brawny
mienrs, ever ready to take up with form
OF exercise suited to their tastes, approved
of the game on first sight They took it up,
and since then have devoted the major part
of their spare time to studying the tactics
of the game and carrying them into action.
Philadelphia is football crazy on the oc-
casion OF the great annual game between
PENNSYLVANIA and Harvard. Poughkeepsie
Is seiztd with similar frenzy over aquatic
spcrt as Soon as the Cornell crews strike
the little town. With allowance for the DIFF
ference in the number of inhabitants, there
is no less interest in Butte whenever Wis
itilg football eleven comes there. When
one walks the street on the eve of one OF
these games he concludes that every man,
woman and child there talks, thinks and
dreams of football and but little else With
population Of only 1 900, Butte has no
trouble at all in securing an attendance OF
from 5000 to 5000 at any football game
that is likely to be exciting
The Nebraska team that will go against
the miners will be captained by Wiley
Woodruff, of Pennsylvania fame. The old
guard of the Quaker team will be seen at
his old position. on the left hand OF center.
He has been drilling the team | n the old tan
dem trick and other plays that have been
successfully worked by the sons OF Penn
and expects bis men TO put up a greatgame
He will have the advantage of a strong
line, but Will be severely handicapped by
a weakness In the backsfieid.
THE NEBRASKA TEAM.
The guards and the Ia ckies of the Nebraska
team are especially good. Nothing need
be said about Woodruff. for those who have
followed the game In the East for the past
three seasons know his ability all too well.
The right guard, is Polcar. He is nearly
as strong as Woodruff and weighs about
100 pounds. BE was substitute on the
Princeton team the two years he was in
college. oury, the left tackle, is from the
crack team of the University of Nebraska,
and is good one. He weighs 1856, and
is good on breaking through the line.
ho Ia ie frox
team, on which he has always played
guard.
The lineup OF the Nebraska team is
as follows: Right end, wiggius, loo: right
tackle, Jones, 1876; right guard, Polcar,
100: center, McCready, 225; left guard,
Woodruff, 200; left tackle, oury, 1s5;
quarter back. spooner, 1876; right half
back, Price, ITO; left half back. Golden,
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