The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-12
PUNTs AND PASSES.
University and High School Have
Arranged a Game.

What promises to be perhaps the best
game of interscheiastic football that
will be seen this season will - played
at Walkers field on Saturday, the 18th
of this month. The contestants will be
the University of Utah and the High
School. Both elevens have been train
ing hard fer some time with the hope
! Of getting a game with the other, and
now that the meet has been arranged
the training will be continued with
more vim than ever. and the coaching
will be far more stringent than ii has
been in the past There were never
two more deadly rivals in all depart
ments of sport than the Varsity and
High School. Ever since they have been
football into Salt Lake they have been
after each others scalps with per-
sistency that always presaged a good
game when they met on the gridiron.
The old rivalry has not abated one 1ot
this season. though it appeared for a
time as though there was going to be
no game arranged. 1t was settled yes
terday, however, and those who are in
terested in the school games look for
ward TO the meet with a great deal of
anticipation.
Eth Barker, a member of the old
Crescent and Elk teams of this city.
is coaching the Varsity this year, and
his work has been attended with a
large measure of success Barker
coached the High School two years ago,
and it was he who taught the wearerS
of the red and black the rudimentals
of the game He has instilled into the
Varsity men the need of playing a fast,
clean game of football. He has also
shown them several new plays that
they calculate will be good for long
gains. For the High School, D. A. Cal
lahan and j. Allen Wheat are doing ex
cellent work. Mr.. Callahan has taught
them a swift, scientific, low running
game that won everything in the school
class last year, and has started out on
a winning streak this season. Mr..
Wheat's work has been principally for
speed and discipline. He has made
great progress in both lines. and as a
result the High School stands in fair
way to be called the best disciplined
team on the local gridiron. When these
two well trained elevens get together
there is going to be a game played
that will surprise those who do not
think that school teams are capable of
playing good football.
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One of the old college graduates of
this city has suggested that it would be
fine thing if a football team could be
organized among the members of the
University club. The proposition seems
feasible to those who are acquainted
with the condition of affairs. A large
number of those who belong to the club
played the game in their college days,
and the fever still is with them. Even
those who have not played, if they
have attended a college, they could not
help but have imbibed the spirit of
the game and wished many times that
they were players. As each fall comes
around the ''old grads" invariably
feel the blood course faster through
their veins, and they begin to attend
every game that is played, regardless
of whether it comes up to their idea
of the sport. 1t has accordingly been
proposed that a team be organized
from among the old graduates. and it
is probable that something along that
line will be done in the near future.
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game of interest that will be ar
ranged soon will be between the Y NJ
c. A and the University of Utah. Man
ager Riser of the Varsity saw Mana
ger Axton of the Christians yesterday
with regard to a game, and said that
the Varsity would be ready as soon as
they could secure another guard. AL
though it is conceded that the Y. NJ c. 1
A is the better team of the two, there
has been considerable conjecture as to
the respective merits OF the eleVenS.
The weight of the Varsity team is near
ly as great as that of the Christians.
but the men are not as experienced in
the game, and their playing is conse-
quently more crude. They are making
rapid Improvement, however, and by
the time the game is arranged they will
be in shape 10 put up good game.
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The second team of the High School
is now thoroughly organized and an
nounce their Willingness to meet all
corners of their class. They will aver
age 13S pounds in weight, and will meet
the Collegiate Institute team in about
a week. The lineup is as follows:
Christensen, left end: Brown. left
tackle; Jeremy, left guard; Miller. CEN
ter; POLAND, right guard; Billings,
right tackle; Mcmillan, right end:
Bergstrom (captain). quarterback:
Hassard. left halfback: Rich, right
halfback; Trent, fullback.
The junior team of the Y. NJ. C. A.
was yesterday defeated by the Oquirrh
school team on the Dog AID Pony show |
The score was to o.
A practice of the Y NJ c. A team is |
called for Monday afternoon at 4:30 |
D clock. The full squad of men will be |
out, and some new plays will be gone |
through with. The boys will also face !
the photographer some time this week !
FOR q picture of the team