Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1902-09-24
FIRSTFOOTBAI.L GAME
Rock island High School and
Alumni Teams to Meet
Saturday.
HARD FOUGHT CONTEST EXPECTED
Sides Pretty Evenly Matched as TO
Weight-Who Will
Play.


son Will open in this city with game
between the united Rock Island high
school team and the bunch selected
from the available timber of the
alumni of the same institution. In
number of ways this will be one
of the most interesting that the high
school viii participate in here this
season.
The fact that it opens the season.
and will give the new men on the
high school team chance to show
their mettle, lends an interest to
many that sthe last contests will not
possess. Then. there are others who
viii be anxious to turn out To see the
old favorites work under the alumni
colors. the spectacle carrying them
back to the happy days when they
were i'm the harness. The greatest
drawing card connected with the
game, however. will be Il strong de-
sire of both teams to win, the rivalry
having grown out of the experience
of past seasons since the alumni
game has become Il fixture
No Old Time Stars.
The two last contests have been
won by the alumni teams through the
individual playing of some of the old
time stars, and through greater
weight This season things will be
changed somewhat. There will be
little difference in weight To the dis
advantage of the high school team
and some of the stars whose mete-
oric flashes burned holes through
the high school goal posts. have drop
pei out of the constellation and the
older men Will have to depend more
upon team work to win.
The alumni players have been in
the field practically all summer, the
GOODNESS of the weather having kept
thoughts of football ranking within
Them when ordinary dog days would
have kept them in n very different
state of mind. Before high school
was in session they were practicing
in the new gymnasium. using that
room before half the high school
boys had seen it. for signal practice.
Since then they have worked con
Stantly, and when they have not been
together practicing. they have been
running through in their respective
minds the long list of fancy plays
that Captain Dudley Marshall has
mapped out. So the high school will
probably jolt into pretty well or
EanizGd aggregation. neXt Saturday
afternoon at half past three.
The Alumni Players.
Taken in the aggregate the alumni
team is remarkable in the number
of members who were in last years
high school team. Then the number
Of Wills" is another thing. There
will be five. and perhaps six of the
players with the same handle to
their cognomen. The significance
lies in a recognized football maxim
that where there is a VIII there is
way to get behind the other fellows
goal posts"
Following is the distribution that
will be made of the alumni players.
according to the latest agreements:
Center. VIII Schroeder; guards. Ben
Payne and Robert Borgess.: tackles.
VIII Hageborn and Bruce Wright;
ends. VIII Adams and Louis Harms:
full back, VIII Channon; half back
VIII Snyder; quarter back. Dudley
Marshall. For the other half back
place there is so much rivalry that
the other members have decided to
argue the question a while longer be
fore selecting a man. There will be
plenty of substitutes ana they will
all be fully qualified To go i'm ana
carry out the complicated plays at
any stage in the game.
Last Saturday the high school
team that went against the Daven-
port first team was made up of ten
new men TO one who was in the
game i'm former years. In the game
next Saturday more old men will he
put in, but the husky recruits will
all have their football clothes on and
will hold convenient places on the
side lines. The lineup as furnished
for publication numbers no less than
eighteen men, and there will be II
''subs" besides. Follow
ing are the players who will hold
down the different POSITIONS: Center.
Cameron or Streckfus: right guard.
Ehrhorn; right tackle. Sullivan or
Fry; right end Franck or Clark;
left guard. Gustafson or Folsom; left
tackle, Morrison; left end. Mosen-
fielder; quarter back. Schroeder.
Harms or Griffith; right half, Lift:
left half, Souders; full back, Graves
or Marquis.
To BE Called at $3.50
The game will be called at the
Twelfth street park at $3.50. The of
fcials win be Messrs. Darby AMI
Kent. The admission fee will be 25
cents and the proceeds will go to
help buy approximation the new gym
nasium al the high school.
Three of the six games. in addition
to that with the alumni, the high
school aims to secure for the season
have been scheduled They are:
With Geneseo high school at Rock
Island. Oct. ]; with Moline high
school at Moline. Nov. Is: with Dav
export at Davenport. Thanksgiving