The St. Louis Republic., 1901-09-01
PREPARING FOR
GRlDlRON BATTLES

arrive earlier than usual this year. The
a great Incentive to the players to try and
wipe out the stain and they are living in
the hope that they can regain their lost
with that Of the New Jersey school. the
chances appear about equal. On the one
hand. Yaie's men who return are the more
will have greater number Of old men
back. thus Offering almost the same team
as last year upon which to build. In re-
the advantage. as her eleven will be guided
by one OF the greatest lunches of ex-stars
that ever trod grfdiron. They are Biffy
Kelly, Jesse Riggs: Doc Hiiiebrand. How
ard Brokaw and Knox Taylor. assistants,
with the possibility OF the aid of Garry
The men who will be back at old Nassau
this fall are: Roper. left end; PeIl. left
tackle; Davis. left guard: Mccord, left half
field and Montgomery; guards Dana and
Mills; centers. Butkiewicz and Haze: packs
McGIs.; MMcGGlaye; EsSiek; ;,, Hart: UnasrhiI and
ers and the new material which Is in pros
pect the Tigers should be very formidable
Head Coach Lee. when asked his opinion
OF the team, said: "As to what kind of q
team.the kind of men. L mean-that viii
dspsnd .na on the synr that itself
ter and guards: Kelly and Baird will have
the entire back field. while Brokaw, HiIle-
brand and / will take the tackles and ends.
II the men are big. fast and active, with
good football sense. then we Will have an
ideal team: but whatever they may be. you
may rest assured that the team will be a
bad one to run up against
The prospects at Pennsylvania are ex-
| ceedingly gloomy. Only three of last years
men will be back, namely. Gardiner, Dav-
! fdson and Bennett. Experienced players are
! scarce, and Coach Woodruff will have his
hands full to get any kind OF a team out
Of the material at hand. Efforts were made
to bring about the return of Nat Folwell
| to college, but they met with failure. Wood
enduring speedy and brsny me ia s,rpas pns:
cent themselves at the first practice which
VIII take place on Franklin Field on Sep
a noticeable feature In PENIS work this
fall Will be the new system Of Coaching
adopted. There will be eight assistants. in
/ tain, who will have the principal control Of
the eleven. These men must all be old
Pennsyivania players and will give their
scrub and freshman teams. These men will
hold weekly meetings. In which parliament
ary rules Will prevail. and will be held to
! captain and head coach can only be over
ruled by unanimous vote of the other
coaches. Goa The men who VIII assist Woodbury.
| Will be: Truxton' Hare. Doctnr Schcff. Fol-
! well. Thaycr Rosengarten and Goodman.
and probably two of the following, Gnrdi-
i neTr WHHaMs, wharton ana hedges.
| Among the Western schools the outlook is
very bright for a fine season. Chicago.
Michigan. Wisconsin. Iowa and the coast
colleges will all begin work soon and should
turn out fast teams. The Iowa men are
J taking rosy view of things despite the
! loss of seven of last years team. and Coach
/ knipe declares that the new. eleven will
| surpass that OF last season. The men are
/ already in light training at one OF the
| Northern lakes. but will not get down to
| they will return to the university and pre-
] pare for the big games. The boys expect
/ the great game OF the year to be with Min
/ nesota, and say that the team winning that
contest will be about the fastest In the
West.
| At the University of Chicago. Coach
| stagg will have goodlv bunch OF ,csndi-
dates for position on the Maroon eleven:
!! Many high school and prepsratory school
players are to enter the school this fall
| and there will be no lack Of new material
4 for all the open places The positions for
= which there men will fight are chiefly In
the line. as the back stations are well pro
[ yided for by last seasons veterans and the
| back field can . be retained without q
| change In the lines the end and center
| are weak. but even these vacancies can
be readily filed.
A change in the schedule Of games to bs
played by the Chicago team should be q
Z benefit to the men. Instead Of hard, cru.
| N few big games with Wisconsin. Xlschigsn.
j Illinois and Northwestern. With smaller
'l:Eamess 70 all m the vacant dates. Iowa and
Miune4Qta. who disputed ltrBt.place hoH0rl
with teconEfn lh1t reason. VIII not be
Z plaa1 hts year on TIE Shove lscqge III; {