The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-10-12
WHITMAN HOPEFUL
Will Rely on Speed on Grid
iron This Year
INTEREST IS ON The INCREASE
Teams This Year Will Be Five
Pounds Lighter to the Man, but
Much Faster.

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rely on this year to gain her victories
On the gridiron. The first game will
be next Saturday at Walla Walla with
! the Spokane high school, This is stir
ring up interest among football men
to fever heat. Captain Brown said:
The team will be probably five
pounds to the man lighter than last
year, but much faster. We will line
up for the regular positions next
week. The whole week will be spent
in perfecting old plays and developing
new ones and above all getting speed.
That will be the great thing for next
week. We will work up more speed.
The men must line up like lightning.
That is to be the keynote of our play
ing this year.
/! The game with the high school next
week will be played on an entirely
new plan. There will be two speedy
sets of ends and backs which will be
changed at the end of the first half
The game next week will be used by
Coach Allen and Captain Brown as a
tryout for the varsity team. There
is probably the best back field man
about equal The men who develop
the best in defensive work in this
game will get places on the team.
The aim in this game will be to run
| up a big score and develop fast work.
| Most prominent among the candi-
dates for this years team is probab-
ly G.. D. Brainard. He played quarter
/ in the game with the University of
Idaho last year and distinguished
himself for his heady, fast work. He
is probably the best back field man
in the Northwest and is without doubt
the best all round man On the team.
He is becoming an expert at place
| kicking. Captain Brown will practice
him an hour a day on this alone dur
ing the coming week. He will prob
4ably be field captain this year.
! Another prominent man is Perrin
ger. He is one of the heaviest men
on the team, weighing 10 pounds.
He was center last year and is deVel-
Oping into a sure ground gamer this
year. He is very fast for big NINA.
George Reser, Big" Reser as the
boys call him, shines at running with
the ball. He is a very bad man to
Istop. He was a good man last year
on the scrub team and is getting into
the game in good shape this year.
Paul Brattain, who played tackle
last year in the Moscow game, DON
ned a suit again today. The team has
been a little weak On punters hereto
fore. but Brattain and Walter Brown
are showing up in good shape at this
work now.
Walter Brown is brother of Hez
Brown, the great line plunger of last
year He bids fair to rival his great
brother at line bucking.
Another good man is Elmo Reser
He is a track man and is very fast
He will probably be one of the fastest
backs that Whitman has ever turned
| out.
i Kennedy was star tackle on the
Pendleton high school team last year
He is we'll acquainted with the de-
tails and theory of the game besides
being speedy and nervy on the field.
Jim Hill, one of the speediest men
back Of the line last year, will be
back again early in the week. He is
wiry and gritty and a sure ground
gamer.
The Paxton brothers, John and
Harry. are valuable men. John is
probably the best man on the team
for defensive work. He is a terror on
interference fairly forging through
the line after his man. He is also
i a good punter AS an all round man
he is hard to beat. His brother. Harry
weighs $50 and is built close to the
ground. He is a hard runner and sure
tackler.
O.Neile from the Spokane high
school is one Of the few experienced
men on Whitman's team this year.
He carrys the ball we'll and is a fine
interference smasher.
Helm of Pomeroy star tackle on the
scrub team last year is at it again.
He is a fierce player.
Gilbreath. Norris Reaves, Smails
and Hooper are among the stalwart
men from which Whitman can pick
to fill up the remaining places in the
line.
| The situation is improving all the
time Things looked pretty bad at
the first of the season but everybody
feels much better over the prospects
now.
ii "If had as mich time as Won have