The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-09-12
WESTERN COACHES
ARE CONFIDENT
Material Looks Good, and All
Captains Are Veteran
Players.

/ Chicago. Sept. '11.-Westsrn football
coaches predict a successful season. With
plenty of promising material in sight the
men who 90 to make the winning combi-
nations anticipate little trouble getting
their prOteges into the swing. Captains
have been elected and it only remains Tor
the able underEtudies to lend their ablest
efforts. Here IN Chicago the honoFs 60 70
II Orville Page, better known 20 his
COnstits as Pat" YeOman service on
fhe cbanpionship elevens of 1903 boosted
Page to the top of the heap this fall ana
he is picked 70 pilot the maFoons after the
fashion of Waffle Steffen. whose deeds or
daring promise to live forever In the
hearts Of the midwayites.
At the University Of Illinois the root
ers will pin their hope TO the sterling
abilities of b. f. Baum, who by playing
brilliant football last fall won the right
TO lead his mates IN the campaign OF
1909. A Cunningham viii shoulder the
burden of the captaincy az indiana ana
in the plucky little quarterback Coach
Jimmy Sheldon claims to have found the
original demon Of the hOOsieT institution
The wolverine machine, with hurry
Up" Yost again on deck, viii respond 10
hhe orders Of Captain Ai!erdice, q kicker
of high degree. Yost looks forward TO
The coming season in his own optimistic
way and has little 10 say. Early arrivals
lat Ann ATbor have 1t from the proper
source that Michigan viii send one Of the
strongest teams in the history Of the
school to carry the maize and blue 10
Victory.
Johnny McGovern, quarterback and one
Of the smallest field generals now IN
football. VIII head the Minnesota eleven.
Light men will feature the personnel or
the gopher machine. John Wiicer one OF
the old guard, is to captain the badgers.
Coach Barry, former master of the snip
of NOtre Dame, viii again preside over
the destinies of the Madison giants ana
the feeling is prevalent that Wisconsin
IS at last to come into It's own-the west
ern title.
Great preparations have been made in
the Iowa institutions The Hawkeyes,
rated among the real leaders in western
football, viii be without the services OF
Kirk. to be sure, but Coach Griffith is
bending all his energies to the task of
assembling husky squad 10 oppose Min
HssOta on Oct. g Victory in this combat
viii mean a world of happiness TN the
HaWkey9 camp. Nebraska, 100, IS going
10 make a valiant bid for western SUI
premaCy.
Captains of some Of the smaller eIevens
of the great Hawkeye state are as fol-
lows; Coe. Jean Ogden; Cornell college,
a. A. Smith; Des MOines, II. Q. Clancy.
Iowa Wesleyan, Pliny Walters; Ame6,
r. II. Wilmarth; Simpson, John Hills.
Sturdy men fresh from the corn fields
viii serve in the main 10 bolster up the
fighting strength OF many of these COM
binatiOus
The forward pass is going 20 be deeper
TO overcome than ever before with green
talent taking its first baptism, according
70 arguments advanced by the wise sages
OF tlt football armament. In the last
year opponents Of the forward pass have
been numerous. with the result that this
much-mOOted question occupied consider
able time OF the national COMMITTEES en-
gagged in the colossal task OF formulating
rules.
Finally, after long elaboration, the de-
clslOn was TO leave the rule practically
as il was In the past. The only change
~ the forward pass section was to bet
ter designate the particular players who
are eligible 70 receive the ball when it IS
thrown.