The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-13
COACHES HAVE
MANY CANDIDATES
High School Teams Getting Down
to Serious Work at
Football.

With 115 candidates out and scrapping for the
gridiron warriors the coaches are having no diff
fculty in getting hard and snappy practice out
of their physical culture classes.
South high Is making good fight to recover
from the slump Of last year, and if determination
and enthusiasm a good coach and a squad fully
up to the high-school standard and ready to
learn the game count for anything, the orange
and black will wave over team which will be
a strong factor in the championship equation.
The south town material Is unframed but
Coach Goltbloom has turned out winning teams
for South Side before, and should be able to
make something good out Of the Wiry bunch
at his disposal this fall. twenty-five men turned
out for practice yesterday and made up in ear
nestness and Willingness to learn what they
lacked in football form. With proper training
a team is certainty and there is possibility
that several stars will be developed.
The Candidates. .-.-
Among those who were out for line positions
yesterday or will be out as soon as their summer
jobs are completed are Rand, Chase, Solem.
Nordlie, Holmstrom, McKenna, Holding Eliot
Lahner and Wethall In the backfeld there is
larger bunch of aspirants, Thynge Bonner,
Ostrum and Hort will try out for quarter. For
Gundison, zalusky Rose, Dolquist Grettum,
Phellaps, Scordra, Hjeln, Stuper and Johnson are
entered. Some of these men have played on
the second team and all have some football ex-
per1ence, but until they have been given a thoro
tryout it will be impossible to say what any in.
d1v1dual can do 1t is certain that with good
coaching eleven men can be found or developed
who can play the great game WE'LL Capron, the
Shattuck tackle, was out looking over the bunch
and was very favorably impressed.
The great difficulty at present confronting
Manager Paul Solem is that Of procuring enough
suits for the squad, as last years season left
fpnoc ort,, %,1,r xoI
the men are coming to the front and furnishing
their own equipment, and by the end of the weel
| the squad should be fully armored and prepared
| Tor scr1hmage work. Yesterdays practice con
| sisted of charging in line, passing simple forma
tions' handling punts and falling on the ball.
Burgan's Busy Bees. ~
Thirty-f1ve men turned out at Dr. Burgani
North Side football seminary earlier in the af
ternOon, and braced by the suggestion of fros
| in the atmosphere did some stiff work for tn,
second practice of the season. With all but fou
OF the men in armor strenuous stunts were DOS
slDie and after some running up and down tn,
held In squads the men were initiated into tn
mysteries of carrying the ball and tackling.
Captain Marks is slightly indisposed this weel
and has not taken his place on the field, but ha
confined his work to coaching. Wilkinson, 70
| three years quarterback on the Shattuck team
was out in a suit yesterday and joy reigns in tn
North Side camp in consequence Tho seyera
times reported as registered at North high
| P1llsbury team, has not turned out for practic
and Will probably go back to his old school.
Morse Has Scrimmage.
Coach Morse had thirty Central men ont +
suits and Is giving them long scrimmage work
| with signals. The men have already been rough
~ divided Into first and second team Thj
division Is by no means permanent, but has bee
rendered necessary by the nearness of the uniye,
sity game. H..
Among the recent additions to the squad ar
Austin, Corcoran, Shave and Brown. The r,
port that the fullback Of Duluth's last year
team was at Central has proved to be withor
foundation.
East Side has again changed captains. JAG
Frederick, who was elected to succeed Nat Fryl
man, will not be in school this year and Bul
nell, who has played halfback for two years
has been chosen to fill the place. good
bunch Of last years men are out again; they a,
Morrison, Martin. Williams, Hunter Rollins
Westbrook, Huey and Bunnell.
Coach Wyman had twenty-five pupils yesterda
afternoon and seems we'll satisfied with tt
showing made in the preliminary practice