The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-15

unteer and played in a game while in San
Francisco between the Montana and Min
nesota boys. He weighs 100 pounds, is 90
years old and is an all-around athlete.
w. M. Brown, who passes the ball back
is the lightest man upon the team, but
what he lacks in weight he makes up in
wire and pluck. His weight is about 145
and he is % years old. He was formerly
captain of the second eleven in the Uni
versity of Minnesota. He is now engaged
with the Boston & Montana company.
E. d. McAllister, who plays right-half
is a former member of the University of
Michigan team. His weight is 165 and he
is exceptionally strong and active upon
his feet. He has been engaged as a miner
IN Butte for the past six months. In him
it is thought that the Butte team has q
lind and one who will set the Anaconda
team to guessing before they down him.
Waye, left-half, weighs about 1853 and is
81 years old. He comes from New Jersey,
where he played with the Orange Athletic
club. He is an exceptionally fast man on
his feet and plays with great vim. If he
should get Il glimpse of clear field it
will be a sure touchdown.
Captain Mahoney iss well known in
| Butte He has an ideal football build, is
a swift runner and a very strong line
bucker In him Captain Wilson of the
Anaconda team will find a match in this
respect. Concerning his superior kicking
abilities, every one is acquainted. He has
been in Butte number of years and is
engaged in leasing. He is a graduate of
st. Johns academy and received his first
. initiation in football there.
Among the men who will act as substi-
tutes if called upon are Freund, Hooper,
koren Paul and Rowe.
From the foregoing personal description
of the team it will be seen that it pos
Sesses two requisites for successful foot
ball, viz, weight and youth. Weight is
an Indispensable requisite for a winning
team, other things such as unified play
being equal, while youth is necessary to
give the player. the enthusiasm and dash
necessary to carry the ball over Il hard
fought goal. To those who might wish to
form an opinion concerning the winning
ability of this years team the only ques-
ton is whether they have as yet had suf-
ticient practice to play the game in uni
| SON AS the game now played, how
ever, consists in large measure in kick
ing and open running down the field, it
will be safe to wager that the team will
give good account of itself.
For the benefit of such persons as de-
sire to attest their patriotism for the re-
turning volunteers through the medium
of a contribution to the football game,
and yet do not understand the game suf-
ticiently to appreciate it, the following
points about the game have been thought
not amlSS:
The object of the game is simply to
send back or carry the ball forward from
the center of the field over a line drawn
| through the goal posts at the end of the
fleid. In accomplishing this purpose, a
few simple rules are observed. In the
first place, the ball must be placed down
IN the center of the field for kickoff.
The team kicking off have for their OBJ
Ject carrying or sending it over the end
line OF the field which they are facing.
Upon kicking off, the ball is usually
taken possession of by the opposing team
who carry it as far up the field as they
can. Whenever Il player who has the
ball in his possession is tackled and
downed, the ball must be put into play
at that point. The side which has the
ball must now carry it forward five yards
in four trials or deliver up the possession
of it to their opponents. If they succeed
in carrying it the distance of five yards
they are allowed the ball for yet another
four trials, and so on until they are
stopped or the ball is forced over the
opponents goal. One of the rules of
Rugby is that the bali must never be
passed ahead with the hands, but may
be passed back; neither when the ball is
down can any player charge ahead until
the ball is passed back, If they do SO,