The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-27
READY FOR ACADEMY
The High School
Foot Ball Mems
Last Practice.
CRIPPLED But DETERMINED.
Rumor Says Academy Will
Prevent High School
From Scoring,

High school foot ball players put in
hard practice last evening on Bliss
Held, taking the last stiff work before
the game with Worcester academy at
the academy oval, tomorrow afternoon.
Z. ID. DAILY was with the squad for the
first time in several days, and his
presence did much to encourage the
boys to strenuous effort. Daily will be
of material assistance to the team in
the game tomorrow. He practiced
kicking for a time yesterday to get
back his swing and did finely.
The team was then lined up for sig
nal practice and later went against the
second eleven. The boys have an air
of determination, which promises we'll
for their chances tomorrow. In the
minds of many followers of the game,
their chances against the academy
team are not considered very good. 1t
is frequently heard that they will not
score and some predict that the acad-
envy team will roll up a score of about
so points.
Unless the academy eleven has plays
up Its sleeve which it did not try
against Harvard freshmen last Satur-
day, It's score won't be anywhere near
as high as those figures. The acad-
envy lads have big advantage over
their high school opponents, and ought
to win easily enough. But they won't
have clnoh by any means and for
the weight they have over the high
school boys, won't show as much supe-
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team Ia playing fast game in practice
and will hsep the heavier men from
the academy on the move. The high
school lads are unfortunate in having
several men recently recovered from
injuries and easily susceptible to re-
novel from the game, on account of
fresh hurts. They are a gritty set of
players, however, and will stand as
long as they can.
The predictions of high score for
academy and failure to score by high
school, reached the ears of some of
the latter last evening, when they were
practicing Their work did not show
that they have any such fear. They
entered into the practice with a COM
mendable spirit, and they don't take
any stock in predictions.
The makeup Of the team is settled.
1t seeps strange that the makeup of
football eleven could not be deter
mined on until two days before the
most important game of the season, but
it was fault for which nobody is to
blame in the case of the high schools.
1t was simply a case of tough luck
by which several of the best men were
injured, and then substitutes which
gave the greatest promise were put out
of the running by injuries. Teddy Lar
kin will play quarterback. He will look
like pigmy against some of the acad-
envy eleven, but he knows how to play
foot ball, and if any of the big fellows
get through the line, they will find he
can tackle in spite Of his weight. Burke
will play left half. He is exceptionally
light for the position. While he knows
the game and plays hard, his weight is
a big handicap, for weight counts in
that position, especially against such a
heavy line as the academy men will
put up. Scheurmann will play right
tackle. He was developed into a foot
ball player since last week, which
shows the difficulty which the coach,
j. f. J. Herbert, had to labor under
in training the team for the great
game Of the season tomorrow.