The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-11
HE Is ANXIOUS To SEE HOW NEW
MEN WILL DO UNDER FIRE
SOME DIVERSION FOR
THE LOCAL RIOTERS.
STYLE OF PLAY WILL BE SHOWN
FOR FIRST TINE.

Generally known That Savannah
VIII Not Depend on Line Smash
ing Tactics This Year, But VIII
Seek to Outwit the Heavier Teams
of Jacksonville and Charleston
Team Has Never Been SO Strong As
1t Is At Present-WhO the Hard
workers on the Team Are.
Savannah has never produced a
team as strong as the one which We
will line up against the soldiers on
Wednesday afternoon" said Capt. Cope
yesterday in discussing the progress of
the team since the game with Jackson
Vile on Thanksgiving.
No one knows better than Capt. Cope
Just how much this means in COMPARE
son with the magnificent machine which
Savannah turned out last year, de-
veloped to the highest state of perfec-
ton for the final struggle on New
Year against an an-star team at
Charleston.
The team might not yet be as well
drilled collectively, and the composite
effort may not be as we'll developed as
was that of the team which played OH
New ear last year, but in keen,
heady and dangerous offensive play the
team is more effective than any that
Savannah has ever produced.
Tricks and Subterfuge.
Not even on Thanksgiving did Capt.
Cope use the wonderful collection Of
tricks and subterfuges which he has
been slowly and carefully developing
in the team. The Jacksonville game
was not considered dangerous until the
men were actually lined up, and the
ball had been put in play, and then 1t
required all the generalship at the
command of Cope to prevent defeat.
In tactics Charleston will exemplify
Yale play and formations-nothing
spectacular. no sensational runs or
trick plays. but a steady and terrific
smashing at the line. With the weighty
and quick charging line this is Charles
tons hope against the wiry Blue and
White.
Savannah will tie to no one system
of play AS the occasion demands and
the circumstances suggest, the scores
of football problems, which are being
developed to their highest state of
efficiency, will be set forth with be-
wildering rapidity.
individually the team will present
as much diversity in personnel as in
the collection of plays. Light, fast
men for fast and elusive gaining, men,
of solid Drawn and muscle to lead the
line attacks-in fact, the men selected
for their physical fitness for certain
plays.
In the secret practices which are be-
ing held the team is being worked on
plays which will be used in the final
game of the year. Some of these will
be used on Wednesday, just to see how
the new men stand their ground under
fire.
Must BE No Loafng.
1t does one good to watch Joe Ros-
sitter, Sullivan, Black, Strong and
Artly at practice These men work
as hard in the practice games as in
the mad struggles against an oppos-
ing line, and such tactics are sure
to bring out every ounce of efficiency
in the bodies of the men.
There are one or two instances of
lcafing on the team. At the last min
ute these men will find themselves
without the honor so much desired
and so hard TO earn. Hard work is
just as essential in practice as in play,
and already the fruits of loafing have
been plucked by some.
With all of the training he has had,
anu ali OF the cOacnlng ne mas Deen
under day after day, during the fall,
Joe Rossiter is perhaps even now the
hardest worker on the Savannah team,
and those who know him, as well as
those who play with him, have every
confidence that when he is sent out
on almost a forlorn hope for a need
ed gain he will deliver the goods.
But there are many hard workers,
many heady men and fleet footed ath-
letes from which to select the
machine. which will plough its way
through and around the flock of Gulls
and the bunch of Jays.