Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-03
RUGBY FOOTBALL
POPULAR CHOICE
HIGH SCHOOL TEAMS LINE UP
FOR NEW STYLE
ST. VINcENT's WILL HOLD FIRST
PRACTICE TODAY
Double Coach System viii Be Used
at U. S. C. and Big Colleges VIII
Play American Game as in
Past Seasons

The first spring practice by foot
ball team will be held by the pigskin
warriors of st. Vincent's college
this afternoon at the college gridiron.
Coach-elect Waiter Rheinschilds, form
er1y a member of the famous Michigan
team of "Hurryup" Yost, will send
his men through preliminary practice
as an opening to the season of 19O9-1o.
Rheinschilds, who was chosen as one
of the players on the All-American
team last year and obtained his foot
ball start on the Los Angeles high
school, is expected to put out one of
the strongest teams in Southern Cali
fornia next season, and will get an
early start. Although he will have
light material to develop, he has sine
cure in rounding into shape his team,
which will be composed of some OF the
best athletes in the south, and no
doubt will give the University of South
ern California aspirants hard run for
honors in the opening game of the sea-
son, which has been scheduled for
Thanksgiving day.
Coach Sorenson of u. S. c., on the
other hand, predicts that from the
material he has on hand, and aided by
the presence of Shute, the clever and
speedy halfback, who formerly played
for st. Vincent's, and Burek, the two
veterans forming a nucleus for next
years team he will present a strong
set of backs. One phase of the local
coaching situation is the arrangement
by which Sorenson will tutor the law
Cromwell will coach the varsity team.
This is the first time in the history of
Southern California athletics that two
football coaches have served for one
institution in the same season, show
ing that the university will make a
serious bid for the southern cham
pionship.
Coach Ralph Noble of Los Angeles
high school says little about his
proposition of taking up the Rugby
game, as decided by the board of edu-
cation, and the students are in a tur-
MOL over the matter, taking sides over
the discussion as to the merits of the
Rugby and American styles of play.
The setback given by the board of
education in refusing to allow the high
school boys to participate in the north
ern track and field athletic events at
Stanford will naturally convey a strong
impression on the mindsl of the blue
and white adherents, indicating that
the eligibility rules will be strictly en-
forced.
Coach Thompson of Polytechnic high
school, whose team won the inter-
scholastic Rugby championship last
season. will not start regular practice
until September /. Rugby football will
be the recognized official game among
most of the southern schools next sea-
son, although the students are not
barred from playing the American
game as unattached teams.
Harvard Military academy will con-
tinue to play the present American
style, as heretofore, unless unexpected
action is taken by the school authori-
ties the students favoring the game
now played.
1t is rumored among amateur circles
that school trustees of Pasadena, Santa
Monica, Compton, Redlands and Whit
tier will abide by the decision of the
Los Angeles board of education, and
will foster the Rugby game. Redlands
high school, which gave Polytechnic
fifteen a strong fight for honors last
year, will put forth strong team, as
the members almost to a man will re-
turn next season.
w. w. Tritt, chairman of the gram
mar school athletic committee, stated
most emphatically that he would not
permit any of his scholars in the Thir-
tieth Street school, of which he is prin-
cipaI, to Law the American game as rep
.resentatives of the school. This dras-
tic action was taken on account of the
serious accident which occurred on the
Thirtieth street field two years ago, in
which a student sustained severe in
ternal injuries. AS a fact, the Ameri-
can game has not been played in gram
mar schools locally since that time.
Yale school, private institution, and
the Los Angeles Military academy are
said to be in favor of this style, how
ever.