The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-10-04
MAKING OF A GOOD TEAM
Dakota Wesleyan Footballists Ar,
Rounding Out Into a Very
Strong Team This Year.

what the ID. W. boys are going to do
in the line of pushing the pigskin.
The game will be little changed from
last year as to the rules and the
nature Of the plays ana formations,
so that with eight Of last years
players, most of the second team,
several high school men of 'O6, and
four Dr. five stars OF former years.
fast football is bound to be the only
kind which the teams that are to
meet Mitchell between now and
Thanksgiving are going to find.
The main change in the rules re-
garding the penalty on the failure of
a forward pass will perhaps serve to
increase the use of the pass and make
more punting but 1T will be no hind
rance to the Mitchell team, supplied
as 1T is with such men in the game
as Hardy, Seaman and Dobson to
do the kicking. The increase of the
length Of the halves, putting them
back to thirty.fve minutes, will also
only work In favor of the experienced
men.
The fact that the University opens
up later than some of the institu-
lions of the state and that corn
palace week is preventing several Of
the men from getting into training
is going to set the team hack for the
first part OF the season. Neverthe-
less, Coach Hardy has had from
thirty to forty men out every night
for the past week and is getting
a lot OF the new material into work.
Ing order, and this will only serve to
make the fight for positions on the
first team all the harder.
Just now it is impossible to tell Z
great deal about the lineup and In
fact 1t is very likely to be uncertain
throughout the season as there APP
pears to be material on hand for a
second team which will surpass any
lineup of subs Mitchell has had for
years. By the first Of next week
the squad will be composed of such
old men Is Hardy who is captain for
this year, Stephens, Captain 'O6
Graham. James Dobson, Auckland.
Seaman, Mcknight and Todnem.
Among the last years prominent
subs are Holdrige, Fred Smith,
Winslow and others. Among the new
men are several high school stars,
including two for Woonsocket and
n from Howard, both of these
schools have ranked high in high
school athletics during the past few
years. Prominent among the other
new men is Hubbard, who, Judging
from his s%printins record. ought to
be a fast man. Besides these, other
reinforcements have come in the re-
turn Of such former champions as
Burton and Warren Tanner, Hauser.
and John Dobson. Last year the
squad started out with about five old
men and coach Hardy put out a team
that played football. With the great
advantage the team this season will
have ir experience, it will, to say the
least, make Things interesting for
the teams Of the other colleges of the
state.
The schedule which Manager Dob
son has arranged will open the game
at Sioux Falls with the college there,
on the 7th Of next month. This,
while 1t is not expected to be a
heavy game, will afford some very
stiff practice in preparation for the
game at Yankton on the l4tb, which
will, doubtless, be a hard fought
battle as Yankton also has practically
her whole old team back as we'll as
most of the subs AMI has been hare
at work for the rast two weeks. The
first game on the home grounds will
be played with the team from Huron
college on the 2lst. Heretofore
Huron, though she has put up a
plucky stand, has never been a very
heavy opponent. This year, however.
under the coaching of Paul Young.
the Oxford graduate and athlete.
some surprises are looked for. This
game will be followed by the first try
ont with a school from the western
part OF the state, when the 5ean
from the School Of Mines at Rapio
City. will meet ID. w. on the home
grounds Nov. End. The team from
Rapid City has a very enviou!
record behind 1T, being the champion
of western Nebraska, western Dakot;
and of Wyoming, and 1t will make it!
first appearance east of the "Bi,
Muddy" an interesting one. o.
the 9Th and 18th Of November tn,
Mitchell team will make trips t,
Brookings and Vermillion, respec
lively. Both these teams claim t
be stronger than last year, bu
! Mitchell is expecting by that time L
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