Omaha daily bee., 1906-10-07

was elated at the victory won last week
from Creightons second team, which was
much heavier than the high school boys
That game showed the rooters that there
was lots OF good stuff in the team and all
that was needed was to work it out. The
players went against the odds with a vim
and tackled much better than the Creigh-
ton boys. All the team lacks is team
work for the boys all seem ambitious to
get a winning team in the field and the
manager and captain have confidence in
the players taking good care of themselves
physically so all that is needed is team
work. This will be worked up as the sea-
son advances, for Captain Howard has the
promise of the assistance of several of the
old foot ball coaches with which this city
is filled.
Creighton is getting a splendid start this
fall with its foot ball team and the sea-
son promises to be the most prosperous
since the game was inaugurated at the
university. With Coach Cavanaugh at the
helm, the team is practicing as no former
Creighton team ever worked Harmony
seems to prevail and as the players have
the utmost confidence in the coach they
have been working harder than any form
err team. No more harder worker ever
followed team around the field than
Coach Cavanaugh. He runs just as hard
as the players, and is in the game at all
times. When a coach does this the play
ers cannot complain they are being worked
too hard, for the coach is working just as
hard as they. The team played it's first
hard game at Morningside yesterday, the
second eleven having played one game
with the Omaha High school team the Sat-
urday before.
The last week at Doane has been one
of marked Improvement Three eleveas
have been on the field each evening run
ming through signal practice ana forlna-
lions. NUMEROUS new formations have
been tried with view to securing a strong
fianxing play The varsity use one set of
formations and the scrubs another. Each
team endeavors 10 spring a surprise on
! the other The plays that cause the most
trouble for the defense are worked over
and placed on the regular list of plays
The forward pass is a play often resorte5
to and seldom fails to make ten yards
This play, when well executed, Is a pretty
piece OF work. Often times the player who
receives the forward pass is tackled In
his tracks. This does not indicate a loss
for he advances from ten to twelve yards
beyond the point where the ball was put
in play before receiving the ball. Srim-
mage practice lasted fifteen minutes NJ
Wednesday nights practice, and during
this time the varsity made two touch
downs on the scrubs. The first touch
down resulted from long runs and forward
passes. The second was secured by buck
ing the line on a tandem formation for
twenty yards. just making the required
gains in the three attempts
Several changes have been made in the
varsity lineup during the week. Dutch
was moved from right end 10 right half
in the place of Barber. Price has beer
placed at right end and Hooper promoted
from the scrubs to left end. with these
changes the varsity lines uD as follows:
Center Taylor; guards Bronson and
Medlar: tackles, Captain Day and
sloniger; ends Hooper and Price; quarter
Bates: halves. Dutch and Hartwcll; full
Hall. The average weight OF this aggre-
cation will be Just under 100 pounds. about
nve pounds less than last year.
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John w. Fuhrer coach or the Doane
foot ball team. has given his views on
the changes which the new rules viii
make in the game OF foot ball as II looks
TO him from the practice which ne has
witnessed. He SAYS 'The game wiz, no
doubt. he somewhat opened up. but I
think there II still place for a good many
line buc',s. They VIII come In as transit
ton plays. as surprisss after several end
runs. More attention should be given To
teaching men how 10 interfere accurat eiy
IN the open field This art has decreased
under the I'D rules because coaches found
II easier for players 20 block In the line
where they are AZ close auartera II