The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-10-09

In some of the games
BY the loss OF Harlan the Tigers are
| without good kicker and some time vii
be expended Ia trying to fortify that par
| OF the game this year. Buckingham may
be used to do the punting.
AS a whole the eleven looks as IL 1t will
| be strong, on the defensive, aud fairly
good on the attack. IL will have weight N
the line, and IL the coaches are able to dc
may 20 to New Haven In November with
an eleven that will be much better than
the Tigers thought they would have when
| they began to count up their losses for this
Butkiewicz, who In years back played
| with both Princeton and Pennsylvania,
| will assist In the coaching, his time being
devoted to the men ON the line, while Nc
| Cormick handles the back field. There will
be other Princeton men to assist in coach.
| Ing. and the Tigers mean TO do everything
| the prestige which they have lost on the
/ football field
Johnny; Poe has been assigned to the
scrub team as coach; and that means
plenty Of work for the varsity, as Poe
will keep the. scrubs on their toes from
the time that be puts them on the field.
Pennsylvania Hard Hit.
Not only has the University of Pennsyl.
vania been depleted In football talent by
graduation, but an entire new policy has
son to come. There was no preliminary
| football practice, such as Pennsylvania
| was wont to have In the very early days
| Of the fall, when the players went to the
seashore, or to the mountains and worked
| hard for two weeks.
/ The men were taken as they reported AT
the university and were put under the
care of Smith, who has been chosen to act
as field coach this season.
The QuakerB certainly were hit hard
when the final game was played In 1908.
Hollenbach, Manner, Keinath and Means
were swept away In lump. Graduation
brought II about. To add to the troubles
of the Pennsylvania men, they lost both
CASTOR and Draper, two tackles who had
made reputation for good work all the
year and In years preceding. Scarlet, the
best end Of 1908, became no longer eligible,
and even the guards were swept away by
the fact that a team had been playing
almost all of which were graduates in one
summer,
With all the material which is at hand
for Pennsylvania, the coaches have task
before them which Is anything but en-
vlable. as 1t Is apparent that the team
must practically be reconstructed from tor
A new back field will have to be coached
and taught Pennsylvania system. new
line will have to be built up, and by thu
first hard game Of the year unusual interes
Will be aroused to see what the coaches
have been able to do with their material
In one respect they are fortunate. They
have man for quarterback who should bf
success judging by the manner In which
he played last fall. This Is Miller, captain
of the team for this season. There is little
reason to doubt his success behind the line
as he showed last fall that he could handle
the team well and that his general ideas as
to making the most Of the ability of the
players controlled by him were good.
Marks at FuIIbaek.
For the back field 1t is quite certain that
| Marks. who played center In 1908, will be
4 taken out of the line and placed at full
4 back He has the qualities which go to
make good back, and the Pennsylvania
/ authorities are quite certain that they win
/ have less trouble to find good line material
In that which will be available for this sea
son than they will to ind good back field
material.
Young, Hutchinson, Heilman. Van Hoes
en-the last three from the freshman team
| Of 190S-will be asked to come out for the
| back field. II Ramsdell, the sprlnter, re-
turns to Pennsylvania he may try for the
back field, although 1t Is possible that the
college authorities will not permit him to
play on the eleven. Mike Murphy may
rule against 1t also.
| tysburg, may come out for that place in
this years eleven, and Graham, who play
| ed with Wisconsin, is eligible for the team
again. Both of the men have had expert
| ence at tackle. so that they should be OF
| some advantage to the coaches while they
| are busy trying to reconstruct their eleyens.
Lamberton, Pike, Ditrich, Irwin, Elbe
and Wolfert are all eligible for the guard
positions, and as Pennsylvania has shifted
Its style OF game, so that the guards are
were In years back, there is no particular
reason why, from this material, two men
should not be selected who will be able to
play strong defense and be of some as
The makeup of the team for the I'm
portant games OF the year Is so much q
matter Of uncertainty that little can be
predicted as to the success Of the eleven
this fall. There will be plenty OF excel
lent coaches available, and so far as In
struction Is concerned Pennsylvania will
be as well of as any team which plays
among the eastern universities.
What everybody wishes to see who has
the interest of football at heart Is that
Pennsylvania shall continue to develoT
football along the lines of the game which
was played by the red and blue last fall
for there Is little doubt that the modern
enthusiasts particularly are greater pleased
anything which looks like a return to the
stupid mass plays that dulled the sport Ii
the past.
| On the Ends.
The ends must necessarily play yery
important part In Pennsylvania game
and while there are not two such good
men as handled affairs last year, when
Scarlet was almost team in himself
there are available Braddock and Crooks
and as both have had experience, Penn.
sylvania Will profit to that extent
Unfortunately Pennsylvania has no game
Win any one or the three large universe
ties In the east, but there will be more Oh
crowd to see this years game with Mich
cause there Is more interest In the inter
sectional games than there was, and Penn
sylvania Ia expected to find MICHIGAN 3
harder rival to beat than was found last
fall
Cornell has changed its coaching policy
The Regular field coaches this year will be-
Valdez, O'Rourke and Larkin, all of las
years eleven. By the way. In the loss 81
Valdez and O'Rourhe Cornell ID drained
OF two OF the best players who have beer
developed at Ithaca in recent years
The big Red Team" has been shorn oil
much Of It's strength by graduation AMI
Cornell must so through the building uE
process like all OF Its rivals. There wifi
be an abundance Of graduate coaches *
assist in the work OF DEVELOPMENT n saar
as the season II ripe for hapd practice
From last years eleven there remained
ITydemanns who To captain this year ant
win play halfback Pope will be bacl
with the team and will probably play full
back. He is Z strcng. punter perhaps moi
the best Of the last three years, but still
q capable man. Wood will come out fol
quarterback. That ~ one Of the positfons
which have been annoying Cornell ar 1t has
ether universities. Yet Wood did very wei
toward the close Of 1908 and III ID probable
Il that he win be even better this year.
Il Hurlburt, Crosby and Macarthur will BIZ
candidates for the end positions Bell will
be out for guard and Leyentry for tackle
/ Good Freshmen Recruits.
Cornell had very strong freshman elias.
10 1903 and n the material In that team