The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-02
DE PAW WILL BE HEARD FROM.
It's Team Is Being Well Trained and
Two Coaches Are Employed.

Special to the indianapolis Journal.
GREENCASTLE. Ind. Oct. 1. Great
things are expected at De Paw this year in
football, from the fact that for the first
time in its history the university has a
regularly employed physical director. on a
permanent salary. Professor McIntire, who
has charge of the department of physical
culture, comes from Roanoke College. Vir-
ginia, where he has been very successfui.
He is an old football player, with six years
field experience. He arrived Saturday
morning and met with a rousing reception.
The active work of the football team is In
charge of Coach ]. H. Ford, of Cornell,
who has had a brilliant career. Last year
he coached the Buffalo University team.
which won every game it played. with one
exception. He put the home team and can
didates through some hard work last wees.
Ford has coached with Newell, the crack
coach of Yale. and with SANFORD. now with
Columbia. The team Is under the man.
agement of Dan Pyle, and Joe Pulse, who
last year won the State College champion
ship In baseball, Is captain. Pulse is an
all-around athlete, but this is his first sea-
son In football. He is a splendid field gen.
eral. and has the full confidence of the stu
dents.
For three weeks some of the old men
have been here. engaged in active practice.
Though De Pauw. opened one week late.
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association Is sparing no pains or expense
to make its team the best the university
has ever had. Thirty men were on the field
Saturday afternoon. and from twenty to
thirty has been the daily average. Among
the candidates for places are the following:
At center. Pearson and Lee. The former
played guard last year and weighs l5
pounds. Lee is new and weighs 1875 pounds
At guard. Williams. BIS; Adams. lis. and
r. Williams, 100. all new and promising
men. Brown, liz, new, and WEEK, 100, of last
years team, are out for tackles, ana
Blakeley. 1S5, the star tackle Of last years
ends are Allen, 160, new; Bacon. 80, new:
Swinehart, who played part of last season.
and Fisher and Donnohue, who went
through last season. at ends. Pulse ana
Faris are at quarter back, with Cartright
and Peterson, both old men, at half. Lock
ridge, who graduated last year from the
Western Military Academy, at Alton, Ill.
and played regularly on that team. will be
at full back. There is, in addition to these.
some excellent substitute material.
The games scheduled so far are: Oct. Z.
with Indianapolis Manual Training School.
at Greencastle; Oct. 3, State Normal, at
Greencastle; Oct. i6. Indianapolis Univer-
technic. at Terre Haute; Oct. IS, Purdue, at
Lafayette: Nov. IL, Indiana University, at
Bloomington; Nov. is, Rose Polytechnic, at
Greencastle; Nov. q. Miami (Ohio), at
GreencaStle.
The THANKSGIVING game will be played at
Lansing, Mich, with the Michigan Agri-
cultural College team. In addition to the
foregoing regular schedule games are being
arranged with Notre Dame at South Bend
and the Haskell Indian team at Greencastle.
Other games will make a full schedule,
and the prospect, with the two new coaches.
is the best that De PAW has had in foot
ball in years. Great enthusiasm prevails,
and the old-time rivalry between De Paw
and Indiana University bids fair to crop
out again in all It's glory.