The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-26
Football.
GREAT YEAR FOR THE GRIDIROH
CANVAS SUITS WILL SOON MAKE
THEIR APPEARANCE.
High School Under Callahan-Y. M
c. A. and Varsity Will Have
Heavy Weights.

ThlS is the season of the year when
the one-time Oepadded gladiator of the
gridirOn is wont TO incline toward hir-
suite luXuriatiOn and look longingly
forward into the near future He has
taken out his suit of canvas armor.
scraped the mud from it's surface and
is waiting, waiting for a chance to once
more gambol as of yore over muciIa-
ginOUs mudholas to the goal posts of
popular admiration. All this is signifi-
cant Of the fact that summer is wan
ing apace and the days of the foot
ball man are fast upon us.
And Salt Lake is to be right there
with the goods this year Every indi-
cation is that in point OF interest, num-
Der of teams and general attractive
ness, the coming season will surpass
any others since the establishment Of
the sport in the valley. AS soon as
the schools open, which is only two
weeks distant, the teams will begin 10
practice and by the time the leaves be-
gin to redden they will be ready for
business
The meteOric career of the High
school team last year and the manner
in which they mOpped up everything
and captured the state championship
engendered an intense rivalry in the
breast of every footballist who belong
ed to one of the organizations that
happened to have been the under dog
IN the hopping process and each and
every one of them swore eternal ven
geance. They will get TO work early
and If hard practice under efficient di-
rection can lower the colors of the
High Schedules, it will be done
But from the prpDa r9fiOn that tho
little Wearers of the red and black are
making it is very evident that il will
require all of these things to vanuuish
them, and even then there is grave
doubt IN the minds OF many of its be-
ing done. D. a. Callahan. who has
made a winning team for the High
School for the past two years, is back
from his trip To the east and will have
the boys out shortly after the first of
September for light practice.
Practically the same team that NAV
ed for the High School last year will
again defend the red and black. The
two Tarpey boys. the star tackIers of
the year, go to Stanford and their
places will have TO be filled by new
men, but aside from that change there
will be very little difference in the line
up of the team. Howell will most like
ly be played at full back instead of left
end, which position will be occupied by
Burke, last years sub-end. Fred
Smith and Groesbeck will be back in
the halves again and Ritter. who was
by far the best quarter back that the
local team put forward last year. will
be in his old position, with Worthen as
center.
The Y. NJ. c. A. is making elaborate
preparations for "a big HEAVYWEIGHT
team such as they had two years ago.
with Ben Wilson as coach and can
tain. The other places will be filled bv
the old Stand-bys of the Christians
and Johnny Axton is looking happv
OF course, the team will outweigh the
High Schedules, but Johnny is ont for
blood and ne Will doubtless insist that
a game be played between the two 10
give MIN chance to retrieve his lost
glory.
At the university football matters
will be generally shaken up and II is
out that a Wisconsin man is coming
here 10 coach the crimson and silver
The lack of interest in the game. which
mas Deen a bug-bear at the varsity
for the past two or three years will
it is said, be joyously conspicuous nv
its absence. The varsity bows arc al.
ready talking the game and thew in
tend 10 be in the field with a team the
weight of the Y. NJ c. A.
All Hallows viii have Charming IF
Princeton Tor coach this year. and he
VIII no doubt make of the team AT the4
institution a winner. 4 series nc O.
games with the High School will n,
arranged and things will be whoone5
up generally. The two Fannings eye,.
the life OF the game at the college. arc
back again and viii play their Old no.
sitions. ~