Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-18
NEW COACH IS
ALL BUSINESS
MEANS TO MAKE 0CClDETAL
TEAM WORK HARD
WALTER CAMP GIVES HIM BEST
OF REPUTATIoNs
Presbyterians Have Begun Work on
Gridiron and lntercIass Practice
la Scheduled to Start
Monday Next

"If there is any football in these fell
lows, I'll get it out of them or die in
the attempt" said the new coach, f, H.
Gorton, of Occidental in an interview
In the training quarters at Highland
Park, while donning jersey and MOLE
skin trousers yesterday. The fellows
in question were the thirty Presby-
terian huskies who had just trotted out
on the gridiron for their first practice.
II won't make any boasts about turn
ing out championship team, as have
Acome direct from the east and do not
know a thing about the rating of the
other teams and the football conditions
which prevail here. / like California,
that is, so far. l just got in this morn
ing"
The new coach comes to California
with a fine athletic reputation. Walter
Camp, the dean of football in this
country, says of him that he turned out
the best teams with the least material
of any coach he ever saw. He is man
of small stature, about the size of Go
heen, who directed athletics at the
Highland Park institution last year.
His last coaching was done at Rutgers
college at New Brunswick, N. ]. Like
Coach Stanton of Pomona he favors the
open formation and has used it in his
coaching for the last two years. He
through little light practice, which
will continue for the rest of the week.
On Monday the practice for the inter-
class games will begin. The freshmen
will meet the sophs on the gridiron
September 22. A day later the two up
per classes will scrap 1t out and on
September 25 the winners will try con-
clusions.
A ship without rudder. That phrase
characterizes the Occidental squad
which donned the union suits yester-
day, for although about thirty men
showed up for the opening practice
there was no quarterback in the bunch
and without quarterback the best of
football teams are like an unguided
ship upon an open sea. Speedy" Rush,
who was to have played that position,
is i'll with st. Vitus dance and will not
be able to play at all this year. BUS
ter Brewer, who alternated with Rush
last season, will not return to college,
SO 1t is more than likely that quarter
will have to come from the incoming
= kfreshman class. There Is some talk Of
George Baer trying out. and the only
new material likely to fill the bill ap-
pears in Casey Hayes, a former full
back Of Belmont Military academy.
Gorton Well Pleased
When Gorton stepped into work yes
terday he seemed pleased with thu
classy bunch of players with which b,
had to work.
| With the exception of four vacancies
caused by graduation and withdrawal
all the veterans of last years winning
conference team will be back In the
harness and some new material OF
promise is expected to develop in the
preliminary practice.
Wieman will captain the team and do
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at left tackle, while Kenneth Kellogg
and McDermitt will fight it out for
right tackle. Kellogg made good In
some of the games last year and was
the mainstay of the freshman eleven.
1t seems probable that he will make
varsity this year.
Conrad Is in a class by himself for
center. His speed and stature made
him one of the most valuable men on
the squad in 1907. At right guard Pat
terson, a veteran of four years football
experience, will have little competition
and Henry Thompson appears to have
the other guard cinched, unless some
new blood shows up.
Johnson is another old player who
has a lien on end, but at the other
end of the line new face will be seen,
since. this position. was made vacant
by the withdrawal of McClung, who
played there last year. Wood, of last
years freshman team, may get the
place.
Thompson seems to be the only solu-
tion of the fullback problem and Col
lins will be one of his colleagues at
half, while additional halfbacks will
have to be culled out of the freshman
class.
Manager Goodell gave out the fol-
lowing schedule yesterday:
October 10-Occidental Freshmen VS..
Pomona Freshmen, at Claremont.
October 17-Occidental VS.. Sherman
Indians, at Riverside.
October 31-Occidental VS.. Whittier,
at Occidental.
November 17-Occidental VS.. U. S. c..
at Bovard field.
November 21-Occidental VS.. Pomona,
at Occidental