The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-27
GOING ON A GREAT TOUR
Picked Football Team From Ana
conda and Butte.
GAMES BEING ARRANGED
First Will Be Played at Denver, Novem-
Der 25-Plans Laid for a Trip
Thence to Nebraska and
Then to the Coast.

Plans are being matured for a mid
winter tour through the West Of a foot
ball team made up of star Butte and
Anaconda players and to be known as
the Butte team.
The team, when completed, is expect
ed to be one Of the strongest ever gath
cred together west of the Mississippi.
1t will do credit to the entire state
Football as a sport is in excellent
condition in Butte and Anaconda this
season. AS shown by the few games
that have been played Butte has two
strong teams and Anaconda one that is
pronounced by good judges the best
that has ever been got together in Mon
tana since 1895. Several of the Ana
conda players will certainly go on the
picked team and more would go were
it not for the fact they are all en-
ployed and cannot leave their positions.
The exact extent of the tour has not
vet been determined. A game with the
Denver Athletic club at Denver has
been fixed positively for Nov %. Salt
Lake is negotiating for a game and
doubtless will get one. Seattle, Tacoma
and Spokane also want games and If
possible the team will go there.
1t is planned to secure games if pos
sible in Nebraska and possibly in Iowa
after the Colorado and Utah games
and then, if the team is successful go
through to the coast and play in Cali
fcrnia. securing games with Berkeley
and Stanford and also with the athletic
clubs around the bay of San Fran
cisco. From there the team would so
north, playing in Portland with the
Multnomah club. in Seattle and Ia
coma with the athletic clubs of those
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team that is reported in process of or
ganization there.
The Anaconda and Butte teams are
so strong tits practically impossible for
them to secure games elsewhere in the
state. AS a further inducement for
them to go outside after games to-
ward the latter part of November -
have begun in Montana. making good
football playing in this mountain
country impo sible.
On the coast the team would run
across many an old Anaconda player
and would be pitted against them.
Pete Smith. Anaconda's old captain. Is
now captain of the Olympic club team
in San Francisco. Mcmillan. another
Anaconda player, was coaching the
Multnomah Athletic club team at Port
land at last accounts. Arlett in whom
this city formerly took much pride. is
playing on the University of Oregon
team. Wilbur of Anaconda fame is 4
big toad in the football puddle in Seat
tie.
Next Sunday the two Butte teams
are to meet on the gridiron field and
after that game the team will be Sc
| lected. Big Jim Hooper is at the head
| of one team--the regular Butte eleven =
| and Percy Benson has charge Of the
other. the Montana Athletic club team.
| Several of the Anaconda players have
been asked to join the team. but it is
not vet known just how many of the ',
can go. Wilson and Kellar. who will
play full back and left tackle respect
| lively. are pretty sure to accept LiV-
| ingston may go to play on the line.
Fitzpatrick is a possibility TO play one
of the ends. If Rentz. Anaconda's big
center, will play tackle, he too will
! likely make one of the team. Sam
| Emmons may go as a half back.
Kilroy of this city and Brown and
Benson. all quarter backs, each playing
on one of the three crack teams are
| possibilities for quarter back on the
new team, but it is feared Kilroy can
| not 60 as his duties as principal OF
the Anaconda high school will prevent
! Billy Slater, La Blanc. Paustian and
Griffith. all of Butte. are among the
possibilities for positions on the line
| Trilby Davis of Butte will go on the
end in all probability.
1t is expected that nearly 90 players
will be taken on the trip so that any
emergency may be met.
Hanging in the quarters of the Ana.
conda team is football that was new
| last Sunday morning. 1t is now deco
| rated with copper and green ribbon
and is valued far beyond it's intrinsic
worth. The ball was that used in las
Sundays game and, according to foot
ball custom. has become the propert!
of the winning team.
The next two games between BUTT
and Anaconda will be played in Ana
conda the first of the two probably
week from next Sunday.
Portraits of Montana's LIST regimen
commanders and line officers in "On t