The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-24
BUTTE AND ANACONDA
Tbs Home Team Is an Aggregation
Which Has seldom Been Equailed.
Ts Msn Who Make
Up the Team.

Chlcago-Michigan game, out suite Will
have its great Butte-Anaconda game.
In the matter OF sports the West II not
a whit behind the East. Eastern people
are wont to pride themselves that in
them alone dwells the true spirit of
sport; hat they alone patronize al IL
should be p~atronized the great game
of football. The Western people, they
say. have not yet risen 90 that degree
OF culture where they can appreciate
this game. Its fine points m intricate
workings escape their attention. Not
only this. but IL r. only In the East hat
men physically competent to play the
game as n should be played are TO be
found. A.. 1t is only in the East hat the
game resembles what IL really Is. mini
AZURE warfare. The Western people are
too much absorbed in the process Of
money getting TO play the game for the
pure sport, but to-day these people of
the West who reside in Butte will give
convincing evidence by their presence
at the game, not only that they appre-
ciate true sport, but h a they can un-
derstand the fine points OF football.
In the present Butte team Butte has
an aggregation which has seldom been
equaled. From the giant Hooper. the
captain, to the mail but active Brown,
the quarterback. they have n collec-
ton of men who viii hold their own
with any other similar team In the
country. OF these men In particular
lovers of the game in Butte already
doubtless know considerable. Braham.
the center man, If a Butte product. He
weighs 10 pounds, Is active N very
aggressive. When the opposing team
has the ball ne has beer frequently
known to break through and block a
kick or tackle a player. The Anaconda
center will more than meet his match.
The right guard OF the Butte team. as
everybody knows, is the giant red
headed Hooper. Hooper weighs 300
pounds and is in the pink of condition.
Before coming to Butte he played on
the famous champion football team OF
The University of Michigan. II was
while on this team that he gained the
reputation for being able to walk down
the field with half a dozen men cling
ing TO his sides and back. He Is a mar
that il is almost impossible TO stop.
Comstock. the left guard. is a rela-
lively new man in Butte. having play
ed here only this season. He comes
from he University OF wisconsin
where he played on the ~invincible team
of last year. Mate" az he Is called.
is a veritable whirlwind upon the foot
ball field. From the time the game Is
called until the finish he IL in every
play for every ounce that Is In him.
There have been few guards that have
ever met iComstOck that have been ble
20 hold their own with him. He Is also
always a sure gamer with the ball.
In Griffin. the right tackle, the Butte
team has a player who viii greatly
strengthen IL. Griffin has but recently
come to Butte from Chicago. where he
PLAYED upon the Chicago Athletic club
team and previous to that upon the
University Of Michigan team. He was
with the Chicago team when they start
ed East, winning most or the games
from the Eastern universities with
which they engaged. Griffin is a great
football player and knows the game
from A to Il. He weighs 1870 pounds
and is very active upon his feet. In
him In Anaconda tackle VIII far more
than find his match.
The left tackle. Slater. needs no in
PRODUCTION 10 Butte people. He has
played with the team for many years.
and in every succeeding game has dis
tinguished himself for his brilliant
playing. He Is a man Of unfaltering
nerve and grit. and fearless to the
death. He is a man also OF wonderful
muscle and endurance. having been en-
gagged in labor up to the present game;
ne is in fine physical condition, and his
friends may look to see him make great
gains with the ball.
The right end will be Bean. Bean
weighs $50 pounds. but this does not
prevent him from being a Splinter Win
close to a 10-second record. He Is an
ideal man for the end position. which
requires both speed n weight Speed
to prevent a man going around the end
and weight to break up an interference
on the right side Of the line Butte IL
practically impregnable. On the left
side the line is completed by "Triiby
Davis. who will MI the position OF left
end. Davis Is a product OF California
where he gained considerable n
for himself as a fine tackler and fast
runner. II any OF h Anaconda ex'
perts succeed in going around "Tril-
by's" end to-day IL will be becaus hs
did not have a chance to stretch him
SELF out and nab them. IL the righl
side of the Butte lineup Is impregna'
BILE. the left side Is a stone wall ant
| cannot be shaken.
Behind the line. in Dygert, Mahoney
Lane and Brown. the Butte team ha,
a auartette of stars. Their combined
weight will aggregate 500 pounds. and
when this strikes the Anaconda linz
they will be apt to think they have
been hit by one of those monster she'll
from a 1i-inch gun.
Dygert. the full-back. is known 4
| nearly everyone in Butte not only as /,
| reckless and daring carrier Of the ball
| but also as n brilliant tackier. Shoult
| one of the Anaconda players by chanc'
succeed In getting by the advance lin
| OF the Butte defense. he will surel,
| meet his Waterloo when he meets Dy
CERT. Lane and Mahoney. who pla.
the haif-bsck positions for the team
| are very swift runners. strong In
| buckers and excellent tacklers.
Mahoney has had considerable ex
| ~perience in the game In California
where he was known as a hard man Z
catch. Lane Is a Butte boy. but In IN
few games that he has played he Ia
shown that when he Is carrying tn
ball on a plunge through the line h
in almost impossible to stop.
In the clever head-work and skillfu
interference Of Brown. the quarterback
the Butte team will have a strong ele
ment for victory. Brown Is not mucl
OF a man 20 talk. but he is a great ma
to act.
IL the weather proves propitious "a
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