The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-17


delphia; Oct. q. Dickinson at Carlisle.
Oct IS, Harvard at Cambridge; Nov.
4, Hamilton college at Utica; Nov. IL,
Princeton at Princeton; Nov. is, Uni
versity of Maryland at Carlisle; Nov.
%, Oberlin college OF Ohio at Carlisle;
Nov. 30, Columbia at New York.
The disaster that can be worked to
the punts of a team that cannot defend
its full back long enough to let him get
his kicks off was illustrated in the
Wisconsin, Chicago game last year.
ODea is very slow punter, and takes
plenty of time to shaping and kicking
the ball. He could afford to do this in
81, when he had heavy, active set
of forwards, but last year his slowness
became painfully apparent through the
number of kicks that were blocked ow-
ing to the inability of his line to hold
it's opponents. In the Chicago Wiscon-
sin game one of the conditions that
mitigated against the Badger full
backs giving a good exhibition of his
extraordinary kicking power was the
impossibility of his forwards to stay the
onslaught of the Chicago line. O'Dea
was hurried in getting off the first kick
was hurried in getting off almost every
kick, and a charging Chicago player
would force him to elevate his punt in
getting it off to such a degree that in
several instances the ball did not go
over so yards ahead of the Wisconsin
line.
When Wisconsin meets Yale this fall
the friends and players of old Eli will
witness, if conditions of field and
weather are favorable. a kicking game
that will be respected as much in the
East in future years as the last years
performance of the Wisconsin crew is
now. Yale has never had punter,
with the probable exception of Butter
worth, who could equal the best efforts
of O'Dea, and no drop-kicker in the
history of the game, except Frank Hud-
son, the Carlisle Indian quarter back,
can be mentioned in the same class with
the Australian. O'Dea's remarkable
performance in the Wisconsin North
western last Thanksgiving game, when
he drOp-kicked a goal from a place bO
yards distant from the posts has never
been equaIed in this country. This is
O'Dea's last year at Wisconsin, and
with a veteran team, a good schedule,
one Of the very best coaches in the
business, and the responsibility of cap
tainship resting on his shoulders, he
will doubtless make the effort of his
athletic career.
The candidates who hope to represent
the Tigers on the gridiron this season
have made their appearance on Osborn
field. clad in their moleskins, with the
summers growth of "crysanthemum
hair" and their faces hidden from view
by the masks of various kinds.
The makeup of the eleven will be
practically the same as the '9S team, as
only three of last years players grad
uated. and their places will be filled
by men who played in many of the
games last fall.
Crowds place at left guard will be
we'll taken care of by Mills. who proved
his ability last season. Pell, the star
freshman, has Geer's position at left
tackle cinched; as for the place left
vacant behind the line by Billy Black,
there are a half dozen capable candi-
dates, the most prominent being Ritter,
Roper and George Lathrope.
Big Bill Edwards of Lisle, N. Y.
will lead the Tiger pigskinites with Doc
Hillebrand as his chief adviser.
The coaching system will be revised
this year. Instead of head coach there
undoubtedly be composed of the follow
ing: "Biff" Lea, Ballet, Fred Smith,
Carrie Cochran and king Kelly.
The following candidates have re-
ported for early practice: Poe, Palmer,
H. Lathrope, Montgomery, Hillebrand.
Pell, Coe, Edwards, Mills. McCord,
Booth, Barnard, Duncan, Hutchinson,
G. Poe, Beardsley, Ayers, g. Lathrope,
Ritter, Gilmore, Wheeler, Kafer, Bart
lett, MATHS, knight, Roper, Watkins.
Lloyd, Riley, Sheffield, Ripley, Linds-
ley, Dana, Jones, Dewitt and Griggs.