The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-14
KICKERS AT WORK.
Some Promising Material for the
Football Eleven.

Football practice at the university
has begun in earnest and before the
week is out there will be some sort of
team ready to line up against the sec
ond team. Although Coach Jerrems
was not on hand yesterday, he will ar
rive this morning at $50 from Chicago,
and the team was without captain
yet everything went off yesterday with
a rush. The arrival of the manager
seems to have put a little life into
matters.
A big bunch of candidates were on
hand yesterday, but only a small part
of them could get SUITS but there will
be plenty by tonight, and every one
who has ever played the game or wants
to, can be provided for. There will be
an embarrassment of material this
fall, and it will be hard work for the
coach and captain tC pick their men.
team than were expected, but as there
are candidates without number, little
is feared by the football people as to
the ultimate result.
The work yesterday for those who
found suits, and many simply put on
a sweater and took hand, was in
kicking, catching and falling on the
ball. Harry LOOMS was the main pipe
in the coaching and set the boys
by "Ho" Gilbert and Jack Harrison.
and between the three the freshmen
and new men got an idea of what
varsity football practice was to be
like. LOOMS did a little work at kick
ing goals and had no trouble in find
ing the proper place for the pigskin.
He will probably do all the goal kick
ing unless some particularly strong
man appears.
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raven-haired left guard. who declares
that he will play the game of his life
this fall, as it is his last year upon the
gridiron; Heath, substitute half last
year, and fast man; Kotlaba, the sub
center of the SO team. faster and
stronger than ever, and a man who
will bear watching as a candidate to
succeed Fulton; Terrish, sub tackle, a
good, hard, faithful worker, with a
good chance to make the team; Nelson,
the crack half and quarter-mile runner,
who has never played the game. but is
well-built with speed and endurance
that will stand him in good stead;
Murphy, a second team player, who
has stuck to the game for several
seasons, although he never made the
team; Simonson, center on the South
Side high team last year: Cravens, a
light man from the Carthage College
team at Carthage, ILL.,, but who evil
IDENTIFY knows the game well and is
anxious to play; Bernhagen, full back
on the Pillsbury Academy team, a
man Weighing about 165, fast and with
a fair knowledge of the game; ingalls,,
a big, strapping fellow, weighing 246,
with not an ounce of surplus flesh upon
him, he is a turner and a member of
the Norwegian Turner's club, and will
enter the law school, who wants to
try fer guard or center, and although
he does not know the game, he is a
promising man; La Fauns, a player
from Duluth, where he was on the high
school team and a man who can make
the team, for he knows the game and
created a most favorable impression
yesterday as he went through his work
Others out to see the practice, and
who will get out today, were Bagley,
Scandrett, Harrison, Gotsell, Nicoulin,
Folwell and Guild. There are many
others in college who will be on hand
today. An army of about sixty will
face Coach JerremS this afternoon as
he walks out to set things going.
This afternoon at o'clock all the
players and subs of last years team,
who are in college, will meet at the