The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-12
A HARO-f0UGHT BATTLE
Between the Butte and the Mon
tana Teams.
ARE STRONGLY RECRUITED
The State Has Been Searched for Avail
able Material-A Red Hot Game
Has Been Promised for
To-Day.


and the Montana Athletic club will line
up for what is expected to be one Of
the hardest-fought football games ever
played on Montana gridiron. Each
team has much to gain by victory and
much to lose by defeat, and each cher
ishes anything but friendly feelings tc-
ward the other, so every man can be
expected to do his best and when the
game is over and the score has decid-
ed that one team or the other is the
victor, the result may be taken as con-
elusive of the relative strength of the
contestants. Both have had ample OPP
portunity to train, both have recruited
strongly from Anaconda and both have
searched the state for available ma
terial, SO 1t can truthfully be said that
when they line up to-day they will rep
resent the two strongest teams obtain
able in Montana.
The game means, If anything, more
to the Butte team than it does to the
M. A. c., as the former has scheduled
a game with Denver A. "A. C. on Nov.
rs, and going forth, as it were, to rep
resent Montana, it would hardly do to
have it said that they left better
team behind them. Indeed, the consen-
sus of opinion seems to be that they
| will win to-day's game, having, as they
| have, an advantage in weight of some
l5 or 20 pounds per man. The Montana
, team is fast, strong and aggressive, but
| it seems hardly possible that it can
! hold it's opponents down to any less
| than two tcuchdowns, and considerable
| doubt is felt as to whether they them
| selves will be able to force more than
] one through the heavy line which will
| confront them. Man for man. the Mon
t tana club, excepting the disparity In
1 weight, compares very well with the
Butte team. but the continual charge
of heavy backs sooner or later have
their effect on the piuckiest line.
At center LIE Blanc will be against
Sam Davis of the Butte team. The for-
mer is slightly larger, and if he plays
through the game in the form he chow
ed during the first of the season should
have d considerable advantage over his
opponent although the playing of the
latter thus far has been OF the highest
order At guard Grady and Ltvings-
ton of the M. A. c. will be against
| Hooper's giants. Clemans and Sullivan
respectively. Grady is an unknown fac
tor, as this will be his first game in
| the state, although he made consider
able reputation few years ago with
/ the Boston Naval Reserves. Livingston
was formerly Of Anaconda and was
classed by Wilson as being the best
guard in the state. Sullivan and Glenn
ans have so far been impregnable to
all assaults made upon them. AT tackle
Butte will play Kellar and Herbold
against Rentz and Tonkin. Kelar,
| while not very aggressive, plays bull
| dog defensive game. Herbold came
here from Perdue and plays a good all
A around game. RentZ will make his
first appearance at tackle, having for
merly played center for Anaconda,
where he gained the reputation of being
one of the most aggressive players in
the state. Tonkin likewise formerly
played at center, making a reputation
for himself in that position in some Of
the inter-regimental games at San
Francisco previous to his departure for
the Philippines At end the Montana
team will line up Mcleod and Trilhy
Davis against Purcell and either Dan
Mcleod or Hooper. The former have
possibly a little the advanta in speed,
but are very evenly matched other
wise. Behind the line Sullivan, Brain,
and Harrington or O'Donnell make a
strong, fast trio, but 1t is very doubt
ful it they can do the work against a
heavy line, which can he expected OF
Fitzpatrick Poverty and Griffin. ave-
raging, as they do, about 1870 pounds to
the man. The lineup will be as fol-
lows: