Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-08-27


ming capabilities of the agricultural
college boys, will be pleased to know
that there is to be a very strong team
at the agricultural college this year
Many of the boys who played in last
years team will again be on the.
grounds, and there will be many addi-l
tions from the high schools of the
state OF able athletics as competitors
for positions on the team. .s...ss4, q. I
The new athletic director, Gilmore
Dobie, for three years assistant coach
| at the University Of Minnesota, and
perhaps the most noted player. that.
institution ever developed, Is q recog-5
|nized authority on all lines of foot
ball, especially the so-called Mime
sofa strategic plays. Mr.. Dobie will
be on hand a week or more before the
opening OF the school year and prac-
I tice to fit the new rules and methods;
of play as established by the big nine
representativeswill be started as
soon as the term opens.
Much interest will be taken in the
game this fall in as much as the regu-
flations for play have been revised to
LIT the popular clamor Of the news
papers Of last season The game was
| not more Productive of injury the past
season than It had been for twenty
| years when the number of players
were taken INTO account, but perhaps
the injuries occasioned were sufficient
Ely numerous to bring the game into
question. And it certainly was ques-
toned with vehemence by many peo-
/ pie who had never seen the game
| The rules have been modified to suit
this elamor, and most of these people
will attend the games throughout the
country to see the effect OF their adj
vice It is the belief Of the players,
who have been longest in the game,
i that accidents will be fully as numer-
4 Gus as heretofore. Football is game
lin which each man of twenty-five
players uses his physical strength and
I mental energy to bring about a vic.
i tory, and, even though no unfair
4 means are used, the game moves
swiftly and powerfully and accidents
are sure to happen. The fact re
l mains, however, that while the mum
4 er than in baseball, people have said
Ter than in abseball, people have said
nothing about the deaths that occur
ION the baseball field or due to its
injuries. IL the game needs to be
further modified, no doubt the lovers
! OF the game viii find means to do SC
4 without destroying the viriIe points
4 It is said by socialogists that the
i American children know no longer
4 how to play. II will be a sad thing
4 when We teach our grewn-ups that
there is nothing Of impo rtance in the
world except work and cash getting
4 We prophesy that western push and
vim will pronounce in favor of pro
! longing the college gam One OF
I the sad things in Russian life, notice
1 able to every foreigner in that land, is
THAT there Is no recognizes play of any
sort among school and college men
i There is nothing left for such people
except to be sad, morose, and an
archistic;; having intense desires to dc
q something. but no Ultimate means OF
4 tightening their somber spirits.
] The schedule arranged BY the agri
4 cultural college athletic association
this season IS the heaviest that. the
4 college has ever carried 1t Is heav.
s. in two senses: 1t carries only largs
games and it has been impossible tx
B get games for Fargo without import
Ing them long distances. The rail
Z road expenses for the cheapest games
Icarried at Fargo exceed $3.50.
The games as scheduled not includ
q ing local games. are as follows.
q October Il Valley city stat,
/ normal.
55fs S1Sea,,uSI 80 eI0n# COtlege, NORTH
u field, dnn.
October ~ ST. Thomas College. ST
Paul, MINI.
November ankton College
Yankton, s. z,
November 10 EIIamline University
4 ST. Paul. MINI.
All these games are TO be played ol
the home ground, The season tickle
viii be sold at the lowest possibl,
price which VIII insure Inc proper ii
tendance at the gate.
AS vet no definite arrangements ar
/ made for the annual game with til
University of North Dakota. but til
/ Idats of Nov. II has been LEFT sacan
FOR that purpose making ii the gram