The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-01
LIKE MINNESOTA'S
STYLE OF PLAY
Badgers Promise to Be Strong in
Line and the Back
field.
Special to The journal.


Madison, Wis, Oct. 1.-The Wisconsin foot
ball team had its first tryout of the season this
afternoon, its opponent being the regular army
eleven of Fort Sheridan Ill. A large number Of
candidates were given opportunity to demon
strate what they could do, and the coaches were
able to get pretty fair line on their qualih-
cations. The army team IS a good one, and was
able to hold Coach McCcrnack's Northwestern
team down to II points week ago.
Tonight marks the close of the fourth week
of training at the Wisconsin university and the
candidates have developed to such point to
Justify some speculation on the probable strength
of the team this season. While Wisconsin has
suffered reverses in the way Of assertions,
failure of some of the candidates to turn out
as well expected and failure Of other candi-
dates to pass the necessary entrance exan1na-
tions, it may be said that the prospects are not
particularly dark. A strong heavy line has
been develOped-a better line with the weight
more evenly distributed than Wisconsin has had
in some years The center, the ends and one
guard were members of last seasons team and
are generally regarded first-class men. They
| are Remp at center. Captain Bush and Findlay
| at the ends and Bertke at guard. The two new
tackles Donovan and Kinney, are both expert
enced football men. The new guard is StrOm-
quist, who made reputation as fullback
on the team Of Bethlehem college, Kansas City,
Mo-, last season. There IS an abundance OF ma
terial for backs, and of it is of a high
quality. Vanderboom at left half and Clark at
fullback are both old men. Grogan at right half
back Is one of the best of the new men. He
made a good reputation as a back on the Mar.
| quette college team of Milwaukee last year.
| The weakest spot the team seems to be at
quarterback There five after the place,
but none of them has just satisfied the coaches.
The quintet is Keuhmsted, George Jones, Schrei-
Der. Melzner and Cummings. The first three were
subs last seasons team. Melzner played last
season on the Iowa university team and Cum
mtngs was on the team of Andover college,
Massachusetts. Cummings. who is from Du-
luth appears to have the making Of good quar-
| terback. He drop kicks and punts exceptionally
we'll.
There are several sets of backs and it is prob.
able that they will all be kept the sublist
for emergency cases.
| The most depressing event of the week was the
desert1on of Conville a promising candidate fol-
| tackle. Becoming dissatisfied with conditions
here and having had a disagreement with the
local chapter of Greek letter society to which
he belonged Conville packed up his effects
Thursday and left for parts unknown. Acker
of Colorado Springs and Claire of Kansas City
failed to pass the Entrance examinations and
left for other institutions. De Lappe, friend
of Acker's, and a promising candidate for the
team, also left
The style Of play this will be much like
Minnesotas last year. The guardsbacL
and tackleback plays will be used much more
than ever before by Wisconsin. Stromqust q
heavy man man, who has apparently qualified
for right guard has made highly favorable i'm
preston in carrying the ball, and will be used
for bucking the line a great deal during the
season.
The training table has at last been started
The men at the board Captain Bush, Find
lay, Bertke, Remp, Vanderboom, Clark, all ole
men, Stromquist, Donovan, Grogan and Kinney
new men.