The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-09-13
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year, and it may be late in the season be-
fore 1t entirely RECEIVERS. 1t is possible.
however, that he will be able to play on
The school team this year. Kicker has not
yet slSnified an intention of getting out
regularly FOR a place On the team, but it
Is e&pected he viii take This move: He
was a strong player last year and will
make a valuable addition to the eleven
this season.
Reppy may not appear At end-at least
not Tor a tine. He is one OF the schools
best tennis players and is to appear in
the school tournament shortly. The inter
scholastic tourney has generally been won
hy High. and Reppy IS being held back
Tor this event.
He played at end last year in the
Thanksgiving Day game with Smith
one man who has Shown good form is
Smith of last years baseball team. He is
putting up good work in practice. and will
undoubtedly be 4 mainstay Of the eleven
this year.
Manager Pierre Grace has not yet ar
ranged the complete schedule for the in
stitutiOn. although the interscholastic card
Is prepared. He is now busy arranging
games with various teams DESTROYS of
meeting High. Games will be carded with
c. b. c. and st. Louis University. as was
done last year.
Smith Academy BOYS may get down to
work inside of the next week, and they
Will most likely have their old grounds
at Pastime Park. Prospects for the team
are somewhat uncertain. as 1t is not
known exactly just which players of last
year Will return.
Ed Stanard. the heaviest man on the
school team for the last two years. may
not return to the institution this season;
He stated some time since that he would
probably take a course Of tutoring this
year. instead Of returning to the academy.
IN this case. the school Will lose IL valua-
bic man.
Efforts will be made to bring him back
It IS certain. He hos had two years ex-
perienCe on the prlGiron. ana is a sea
soned player. His weight s. in his favor.
even under the new rules, when IL IS
claimed that light teams will not be at
such a disadvantage as they were last
year.
Coach Boynton Of Washington uni
versity will open his season a week or
two before the college term commences.
The myrtle and maroon eleven Will prob
ably hold forth at League Park, as II d4t
last season. Facilities are afforded Tor
training there that make the park most
convenient. st.
year. is a uwanee man. and bears a rep
utation of being u skillful handler of a
football team. The first game for the n
stitution is set for october 3, when the
Rose Polytechnic School VIII be pIayeu
here.
Walter Camp, in an a%rticle on the new
football rules. has the following to say:
There must be seven men in the line
Of scrimmage when the ball IS put in
play. There are two ways for the cap
tains and coaches to act under this
changed condition of affairs. one play
is to 20 back to the old methods altogether
and develop Il team without any ~fcrTnation
plays at all, but playing throughout the
entire field what has been
termed straight. Old-fashiOned football
The other plan Is to develop the team 50
that It can play modern formation plays
when between the twenty-five yard line
and the goal and seven men in a line play
outside those spaces.
The experience of captains and coaches
has been that ii was difficult enough to
develop a team along the ordinary meth
DDS with but one style in n season for
their big games. and the days and weeks
slipped away wen too rapidly then. Hence
to instruct not only Il team but a crowd
of substitutes IN two such entirely distinct
methods of play as those two styles has
driven coaches and captains back to the
desire of a long preliminary season. Some
solution of a problem by beginning in
midsummer.
There is no need to dilate upon forma-
ton plays. because players and coaches
have in the last two years studied these
faithfully and have originated many eX-
cellent methods of advancing the ball in
this way. The question. therefore, now
is narrowed down 10 what kline of plays
will be effective with seven men in the
line. To 90 back over the history of the
game il will be found that the most eff
fective play of all in use when teams were
under this system was the end run. II
is true that this would not gain ground
as steadily and rapidly as plunges into