Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-13
IOWA SPORTS Talk
Football Season Opens 1
Schools and Colleges
Turnout the State.
MUCH ENTHUSIASM DISPLAYED.

Prospects for the Teams at Iowa City
Drake, Cornell and Ames-Big Game
Season opens-The Winners in the
Three 81" League.
With the coming of the first frost OF
September the long haired gladiator,
who aspires for honors on the football
sridiron, has ceased to patronize the
barber and is gathering together his
musty noleskin and ragged shin guards
that have laid away unused since the
last battle of q year ago. In all the
schools, colleges and universities OF the
state captains are mastering their can
didates and gathering them in SQUADS
for the early practice of the season.
1t is at this time of the year that all
students athletically inclined go foot
ball mad. Football is talked at the
club breakfast, rehearsed at dinner, and
dreamed of during the night. the alr
is pregnant with it's lore. and the stai
wart old men of last years team are the
center of an ever enthusiastic circle o.
admirers. Almost all of the collegs
and schools of the state have gathered
their squads together. althO some OF
the school years have not as yet COM
1nenced. 1t is too early to even attempt
to say what the various elevens may De,
for accidents and misfortunes OF one
kind or another are liable to come up
that may change the prospects OF the
hest team to one Of utter disappoint-
ment.
The schedule for the State Univers-
ity team has been announced and con-
sists Of nine games all of which Will
be PLAYED at Iowa City excepting
two. one being with Michigan at Ann
Arbor and the other with Illinois at
Champaign. Ames. Drake, Simpson
and the State Normal will meet the Old
gold at Iowa City. Grinnell. who came
so near defeating the university last
fall, will not be included in the sched-
.ule, but instead Washington unlvers-
ity, of ST. Louis, will come to Iowa
City. brakes game is so early in the
season that they can not hope to win
and the contest will probable be little
else than a practice. one. This ar
rangement is very unsatisfactory 10 the
friends of the other Iowa teams, but is
a source of much satisfaction to the
followers of the old gold, as 1t will give
them an opportunity to get in excellent
condition for the hard games with
Michigan and Illinois. Minnesota comes
10 Iowa City on October IS. This will
be the most important of the home
games.
until next Monday the team has been
in the field for light practice for the
past ten days. The team this X sar' ago. ago,
but they are confident of making a
cleditable showing. Eight of last years
eleven have returned, and are candi-
dates for the team, they are; Captain
Bates. Stewart, Kinney, Boyers, Jour-
dan, Bacon, Young, Mair and Clark.
The first game is with Iowa City on
October at the latter point. 1t is un-
fortunate for Drake that this game
comes so early in the season, for they
can scarcely hope to win owing to the
games are in the schedule which closes
With a return game with the State Uni
versity on November %.
Cornell College also opens on next
Monday, and the prospects for good
team are most promising as bunch of
last years members will return. Nc
Intyre. DeAcres, Hayard and Day will
not be back to school but the indica-
tons are that the new candidates will
be many to choose from. Cornell has
a big schedule this year which opens
with a game with Morningside at
Sioux City on September "a. All Of the
games excepting three will be played
away from home. These three are
with Coe on the 9th Of September;
u. /. U. on October II and Drake on
November 8. Lindgren. of Illinois, will
coach the team this year.
A week of practice at Ames has
brought out about forty candidates for
this years team. There are not so
many candidates for the line as for
the back and end positions but more
of them are men of experience. f. NJ.
Byle has been elected captain. to take
the place of Coyle who was elected
last fall but who will not return to-
school this year. The line will be
doubtless light but should be fast one.
Practice thus far has been light and
there have been no line-ups.
The Iowa State Normal opens its
football season on September %, when
they meet Grinnell at Marshalltown.
The schedule this year is composed of
eight games and closes on November
is with a game with Sampson at In
dianola. Every effort is being made
to put as strong a team in the field as
Isl possible. Charles Pell, of Drake
has been secured to coach
the team for the coming season. Pell
is we'll known in the athletic circles
1hruout the state and promises to do
much for the men.
The Illinois, Iowa and Indiana base
oall league closed it's season this week |
md as was predicted in these columns
several weeks ago, Rockford run away
With the pennant by winning seventy
hree games and losing fifty. Terre
daute landed second, and Cedar Rapids
,ould do no better than third. 1t is
'umored that Cedar Rapids will drop
tut of the league before next season.
In certain of the northern states. |
he season for big game has opened,
md the list of fatalities has already
,ep,ln TO come in Two men have al