The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-26


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 the first brush of the tental. shy and the second eleven.
 The varsity. lined up with Ccs ' in his old position at center and CT.
 and Lumleyf on either side of him. A- the tackle positions were Gresham and Arant, while Bumgartner and Wilkin- sSn S his hsid ass sne wass yeas posen at at Sa back, Captain Pratt was at quarter Behind him Harsh. vandeGraaff and Palmer stood. respectively. at left haif- back. full back. and right halfback All of these men have played on the team before. except Bumgartner. Will kinson, VandeGraaff and Harsh.
 who smstadiS is taRing i law S a here. He Is quite light. but. he handles himself exceed college for three years. and every fall faithfuilness M and determination for the coveted honor of wearing the big foot-- ball "A" His ngh htness. however, has always kept him of the team, put as son, his chances for being in the line
 vandeGraaff was last season fullbach on the freshman team and his playing sgainst the junors and the sophomorei caused many to prophecy about hin For this season. And the prophesies seem to have been more tnan i,s,h justified Iiis6 Harsh is a new man, who entered the sophomore class this fall. but he has already had some training on the grid. iron From early appearances, he If going to be strong runner and good man on the defense.
 Material Plenty.
 All of the good material, however 1t not confined to the first team. OL z the second team there are men who wil make some of the above named players ! let out everything they have In tne way of speed and endurance betort they are sure of ssn tssIr op Riaee;S Se;nr AnT 1T inc second line. Lockwood. who weighs I only about 230. holds the center: but I he doesn't confne his operations tc ssa. pssiGssaEr sacEnS Seoy ont on the snds
 The cracks on each side of him ars N fiiled by Findley of last years fresh man team and Miller. a husky new rett, M a senior. who has been playins M for several seasons. and Johnston, q Junior, who has played for two sea sSter Su w the tackles positions. Garter # and Moffett play the ends. Nathan N who played quarter on his prep schoo team, and Cammack. Streit and Hays field. fully capable of keeping the var. sity line and ends working all tho time.
 .ment that some of the old players 1T school are not out for places this sea son. Jones. a very capable man in th' of work. and Austili. who worked harc and consistently at fullback last sea son, is held back partly by work an' M partly by an injury to nds Knee 1ae bs re failed to don harness. Moreover, Hurd < who played at end last year. thougl he returned for the opening. did no
 The team is coming very fast a present, and 1t should come even mor' rapidly if the, present temperatur, be that the responsibility for this iie in the fact that most of the men. sev eral of whom spent their summer work Ing out in the cooler climate of th' West and Northwest came back t' college in fine fettle for the pigskil campalgn; it may he that the spiri which looks the best in several year S partly the cause. However tha knay be, the fact remains that the tean being nodded into a fighting ma rhine very rapidly. and in such earl, # #deveIopment there is always an ele nent of danger; unless carefully watch Ed, the players may go stale and los hll their lighting spirit. or rather hbility, before the season Is over.
 H It isn't the team that gets the fair est and earliest start that makes th most satisfying finish-witness tn, Tennessee eleven of last fall. Tn Mountaineers tore up the earth early il
 he season. but when they met Ala & bama in Birmingham on ThanksgivinJ hay, and though the dope picked then 10 win, they fell victims to the on
 laughts of the Crimson and Whit warriors who attracted very little at
 ention when the season was young.