Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-08-29
WISCONSIN WANTS FOOTBALL
CHAMPIONSHIP.
COACHES REACHING OUT
Graduate Manager Fitzpatrick on
Ground to Start Ball ROLLING
Team to Lose but Three Veterans
Problem to Fill Center and
Quarterback Places.

leLlc auCnOr1CeS are planning to make
big bid for the western inter-col
legiate championship in football this
fall. Graduate Manager Charles II
Fitzpatrick has arrived in Madison and
the work Of getting ready for the
practice season which begins Septem
Der Is will be pushed from now on IN
til that date. Coach Phil King has
been in the city for several weeks and
has been corresponding with some
$50 prospective Wisconsin students
who, because of their fine physical
makeup or previous football expert
ence, are considered as desirable ma
terial to secure in the DEVELOPMENT OF
a championship team.
Wisconsin will be especially fortu.
nate this coming season in the mum
Der Of veterans who will be back in
the scrimmage line. Only three OF
last years eleven are to be absent
from the game this fall. Paul Trait
Familiarity known as Activity" who
has played the position of quarterback
for the last three years, graduated
from the law school last
June and will not enter the uni.
versity again. A. A. Chamberlain.
captain last year, who has played on
the team for three years as center
and tackle, has also graduated and
will not be back. Ex-Captain Jerry
Riordan, probably the best guard
Wisconsin ever had, will be barred by
the four-year rule from representing
Wisconsin again. He will coach the
Lawrence university team and will
come to Madison frequently during
the early part Of the practice season
to instruct the candidates for the
center trio Of positions in the Wiscon-
sin team.
Riordan's place at guard will prob
ably be taken by Emil Skow, who
played such a steady game at center
last year. The vacant position in the
center of the line will be filed by
some new man. Among the candi-
dates most favorably mentioned for
the snap-back's job is that of Carl
Hessinger of Oshkosh, a 240-pOund
athlete who has had considerable
experience in the game as a member
Of the strong Oshkosh high school
team.
The position Of quarterback will be
the greatest problem the coaches will
have to confront. A promising can
didate is Fogg of Cornell, who played
that position on the plucky Cornell
team of last season. This team de-
veloped unexpected strength, winning
the state college championship and
suffering only one defeat in the
entire schedule Of games. Others
mentioned for the place behind the
center are Eddie Cochems and Earl
Schneider, both of whom played on
the team last year, the former as half
back and the latter alternating with
Driver at full-back. Neither Of
these men, however, will in all prob
ability be placed at quarter. Schrie-
Der will be more valuable in the
position left vacant by the departure
of Chamberlain at tackle. He has
had much experience at that place,
playing it for several years on the
Madison high school team and also in
some minor games with the univer-
sity team. Cochems might be in
clined to try for the quarterback
to his last years job at half-back,
where he proved to be a ground
gamer Of high quality.
''Norskie'' Larson will be back at
his place opposite to Cochems and the
two are confidently looked upon as
the most promising duo of line
buckers in the west. Earl Driver,
who lead the interference and did the
punting for Wisconsin last year, will
be back and is expected to hold his
job as half-back.
Lerum will return to his place next
to the center-rush. Abbott and
Juneau have been announced as in
tending to try for the end positions
and should have excellent chances of
retaining the places they played so
creditably last year. Juneau has
been sick much since the Christina
vacation, however, and may possibly
be beaten out for his place by some
new candidate.
Captain Arthur Curtis will play the
game at right guard, the position he
has held as though with log chain
for the three years he has been in the
university. He has been here al
summer and is helping King in look
| ing after the prospective candidates.
Coach King will be assisted by e
number of old varsity men, among
whom are Earl Anderson. Riordan
and Trait. ANDY" O'Dea will have
| charge Of the training quarters as
usual and will have general charge
and supervision Of the work Of con
ditioning the players and keeping
them in the best possible physica
shape. Leon Gilkey, who coached
the Cornell college team last year ant
| acted in the capacity of care-taker a
Wisconsin two years ago. has ap
| piled for that place again this fall
but has not yet been appointed. Thu
business arrangements Of the season
will be in the hands of Graduate Man
ager Fitzpatrick