The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-12
CANDIDATES ARE
WORKING HARD
High School Football Aspirants Were
Practicins Nearly Every Even
ing Last Week in Their
Moleskins.
THE SCHEDULE IS OUT
Showing Good List Of Battles For
This Fall-A Little Dope
on the Possibili-
ties.


football team were out nearly every
night last week and although not
much of line can be gotten on the
chances of the team this fall there is
likely squad of workers on hand and 1t
will not be for lack of coaching if the
team does not prove a winner.
Coach Belknap has been present at
each practice in regular togs and is
handling the men in good shape keep
ing close tab on all the work and Civ.
Ing practical Illustrations of how to
play the game.
So far, outside of little signal
work, no serious football has been en-
gagged in, the work consisting mainly
in falling on the ball, tackling, punt
ing and quick starts. All the players
are working hard at these stunts
which are not the easiest in the
world, especially tho first named and
by the time of the opening game they
should be we'll up on the handling of
the pigskin.
Among those who have been out for
practice already this season, are: Har-
ry Duncan, Glen Parsons, Charley
King, Van Hayden, Adrian Meinhardt,
Junior Hawks, Ross Nichols, George
Bickel, Bernard Merriam and Jesse
Devero, all of last years team, and
many new candidates including Earl
/, Carpenter, Scott Davie, Ferdinand
Board, Victor Peters, Lester Salzer,
Max Bloomfield, Harold Bowlby, Joe
Wycoff, Thomas McManus. Ralph Tea
| beau, Thomas Hoyles, Albert Corey
and Norman Ringstrom.
/ BY looking at the above list it can
be seen that it will be necessary to
| pick about six or seven men from
among the new candidates to make up.
| together with the old men, the squad
! for the first team, and from the way
1 things look SO far, it is going to be a
tight race for positions.
/ The quarter back position is bound
to make trouble for Coach Belknap, as
| there is not man on the squad who
! has ever played in that position,
although several are being tried A
pair of fair ends can be picked from
the bunch, in fact there are several
! who should be able to make good on
the extremity of the line, while it will
also be necessary to select a new full
back and probably half back too
For the center position there are three
or four men capable of filling in and
thus the midway line position is not
expected to give much trouble. The
picked most likely from the group Of
last years men who have had expert
ence.
The team should be up almost to the
average. in the punting department as
there are three or four men who car
boot the ball fairly accurate for q
good distance. OF these, however
Parsons looms up probably the best
punting around forty-five yards ant
getting the ball off quick He is also
drop kicker Of ability, although
slightly deficient when It comes to &C
curacy. which can be remedied b,
practice The team this year should
be able to work the forward pass Il
advantage as there are quite few OF
the squad who can throw the ball wei
and receive skillfully.
It will be necessary for the mel
this season to use the open plays quite
good deal as the players lack weigh
and it is lucky that few In the bunch
have the skill and speed which goes
with that kind of play. All in all i
looks as though the back field would
be as heavy as the line.
The team will have to get in some
good ticks in the next four weeks al
on the ninth of October the first game
: will be played. At meeting of the
athletic association last night in which
many new members were added to thu
enrolment, manager Parsons read the
schedule. which he arranged, 1t show
ing that there are eight games to BIZ
played, four at home, and the same
number away. The list is one of the
best ever gotten. 1t reads as follows.