The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-10
FOOTBALL TEAM FORMING
Anaconda Players Confident OF Defeat
ing Any Men They May
Nat
(By Associated Press

Anaconda, Sept 10.-That Anaconda
will have a football team this season has
been definitely decided by those inter-
ested in that sport.
1t will probably he organized under the
management of the Twentieth Century
athletic club. The matter Is being talk
ed up now and as soon as the organiza-
ton is effected practice will begin. 1t
is the determination of the club to put
in the field the best team in the north
west, and with the material to be found
in this city there will be no excuse If
such is not the case.
Aside from the old players who were
on the teams Of 1898 and 1899 there are
a large number of new men who will
try for positions on the team and some
of these are men who have played the
game in eastern colleges and who can be
depended upon to give a good account
of themselves.
OF the team of 1899 there will be Rentz
the two Emmons boys, Storey, Jack Sui
livan and Bernier. Rentz will have no
opponents for the position of center. Bob
Emmons will be out for right guard.
Sam Emmons for left half, while Bert
Storey will undoubtedly be at his old
position at right half.
his ability as a fast, hard player at
either end.
Among the candidates for full back is
Dan Sullivan of last years normal school
team at Fremont, Neb. He is an ideal
full back in build, weighing 1856 pounds
and having a track record of 10 2-5 Sec
onds for 100 ~yards.
For left guard is Mcdonald. late of
St. Marys Academy, Kansas. His east
ern reputation gives him a corner on
| hard playing experienced guards.
Aside from the above mentioned play
ers there Will be several other eastern
| college players iss&the9 intention 4: = .
| those who have the matter at heart to
get enough candidates in the field to
make two teams for practice. Those who
| show up best will be picked to repre-
| sent Anaconda. either on the field or
| side lines in the games that may be
| matched. -
| Bert Storey, who is probably working
harder than any one else to make the
| project a success said today: "Just as
| soon as We get the thing started We
| want every one who ever played football
| to come out for practice and also every
one who think they would like to learn
the game. Experience is not the whole
thing in otball. but it is to certain
! extent nerve and activity.
Neither are heavyweights always the
best players, some of the greatest play
ers the world has ever known have been
men of medium weight and for some
positions light men are preferable to
heavy ones. Every one will be given q
chance at making the team"
| With the contamination of the prelim-
mary arrangements, the matter of para
phernalia will .e taken up. 1t is to he
hoped that the lovers of football. whether
players or not will give all encourage
ment possible. There is not the least
| doubt as to Anaconda being able to put
| out a crack team.
It is rumored that Butte will have at
| least one and possibly more teams. The
! Overland club is thinking seriously OF
organizing a team and with the players
that Butte has always been famous for
very little difficulty should be encount-
cred in effecting an organization.