Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-22
LOCAL MEN
MUST WORK
WITH UTAH
MoRMoNs HAVE STRONG AND
CLEVER TEAM
VISITORS COACH WELL KNOWN
MICHIGAN ATHLETE
HempeI Has Plenty Of Material from
Which to Develop Winning
Team from ST. vIncent's
Squad

The st. vincent's college, University of
Utah football sanle to be played in Los
Angeles Saturday after next should be
one Of the hardest fought contests ever
seen on a gridiron In Southern Cali
fornia and Coach Walter Hempel will
have TO develop whole lot more speed
in his team than they showed against
to beat the Mormons.
Hempel has surprised football fans by
the way he has made q dangerous eleven
out of raw material already, however,
ana it is possible that he will be able to
hammer St. vincents into fast work
within the next two weeks
The University OF Utah has very
strong aggregation of players this year,
and probably dope by comparison with
ID. u. is about the best lineup that can
be gotten at present. Colorado university
has fast, heavy bunch, and beat d. u
20 to o; the Mormons beat d. U. by "a
to 0, and st. vincent's beat d. U. by
10 to o.
There you are, and the Saints are said
by the Salt Lake papers to have put up
the raggedest game of the season
against Denver, while the locals. sur
passed themselves last Saturday.
Since 1903 the University of Utah ath-
letfc department has taken q great
growth. Up to that. date the Mormons
had never won a game from an outside
school, but they got wise and imported
]. H. Maddox, one of the greatest
football players ever produced IN TINS
country. and since then the Saints have
defeated such schools as the University
of Montana, University of Wyoming, All
II rfasiiiooTs siiiooTs college Colorado college. Colo
rado Agricultural college, Utah Agricul-
tural college, University Of Colorado ana
scores of minor teams.
The University of Utah won the
Rocky Mountain championship In FOOT
ball last fall, and also holds the track
championship of the Rocky Mountain
region. showing what kind of spirit
Maddox has inculcated In his men.
Mormons' Clever Coach
Maddox is known in sporting circles
from coast to coast. He is a Michigan
man Of 1903, played on Ann Arbor's
championship elevens under Coach Yost.
and has ingrained Yost tactics and reck-
less daring on the field into his Utah
team. Maddox was also member OF
Michfgan's championship track teams
for four years, ard he makes foot racers
out of his football players. This shows
where those famous Utah long end runs
come from.
Inasmuch as Casper Whitney and Coach
Yost chose Maddox as All-American
all-western tackle while at the Univer-
sity of Michigan, it is evident that the
Mormons are being trained by an OLD
master at the great game.
Coach HeNpel has several men at St.
Vincents that ne ought to be able TO
develop to a point of high efficlency.
Take Taylor. Now, this boy can be
made into crack right guard. He
stopped all the plays that came to his
side in the Denver game and broke up
the interference like an old-tmer lie
has the tenacity and courage OF bull
dog. too. which is one of the salient
traits that go to distinguish great pos
sibilities in football player.
An hour before the Denver game began
TavIor couldn't walk. He fell the Friday
night before and sprained his left leg,
SO that by Saturday noon his knee was
swollen to twice its normal size. Never
fheless TAYLOR went into the game and
played like bull terrier.
Leffert. ST. Vincent's left tackle, fresh
from Pomona college, is another lad VINO
shows signs of brilliancy. In the Denver
game he was down under the punts just
as quick as the ends, and at times ne
was even ahead of them
Little Rupert is a fair kicker, but
doesn't handle his feet right. II he
hadn't fallen several times last Saturday
on account of the heavy field he might
have made several large gains
Stoney of last years Throop team is
a. fine right half and in the Denver game
he made sensational runs, independent OF
interference, picking MS own hoies OUT
like a weasil.
At times ST. Vincent's was lively, but
generally very slow. The college de-
tense and rugged, practically all OF the
line men failing to get through as they
ought to, with the exception or Taylor.
Gus Mast Is strong on onense, but
weak on defense, allowing himself to be
boxed in. Mast was also weak IN boxing
his tackle on offense.
Mast VIII Improve
But Gus Mast is heavy and inexperi-
enced, and Coach Hempel says that he
will have an old and experienced end
come out and work with him during the
next two weeks. With a hard schooling
by an old one Gus Mast should develop
into a wonderful end.
Taclkle Brinkop though doing some
good work both in offensive and defen-
sive. was at time sloughing. Hempel
should take Brinkop in hand and lecture
him severely on the criminal negligence
of hanging back out of the game "A
tackle, above every other player, snould
be In the muss at every play.
Holleran, the 148-pound center, is
neach. and he handled Ashby, Denver's
235-pound center. like a baby. But Hol-
Jeran has over r-trained, and Hempel will
probably give him rest this week. He
looks like package of skin and bones,
and such condition won't stand the grid
iron racket.
Captain Grindle, right end, was under
every Denver play, but was somewhat
weak in handling the opposing tackle.
Hempel, however, is confident that he
can soon cure this defect in Grindle.
Whit Mast did not play his game Satur-
day and will undoubtedly pick up.
st. Vincent's showed the true fighting
spirit In the Denver game, and Hempel
will do we'll to foster this aggressiveness
until the locals are full of 1t when the
nIorrnons cnma ont from Salt Lake.