University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-11-30
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UNDER HEADWAy
TIGERS Will Now Practice
Five Times a Week Tn
til Christmas.
MANY CANDIDATES OUT
Schedule Will be Made in
.Des MONIES This Week
Coach Not Selected.


University of Missouri basketball team |
has started practice in earnest. From |
now on the Tigers will practice five |
times week until Christmas, when |
the squad will be cut down and prac
tice held every day 1t is not known |
yet who will have charge of the team |
this year, but for the present I. E.
Jones and Captain Cohen are coach |
ing the men.
About twenty candidates for the |
varsity team were on the floor last |
night at Rothwell gymnasium for the |
first practice since the Thanksgiving
afternoon and still more are expected
to- be out in a day or two. Practice
from now until the Christmas hol:-
days will be held Tuesday and Thurs
day nights and Monday. Wednesday,
and Friday afternoons. The afternoon
practices will b. limited to one hour,
work probably will last about two
hours and Z hail.
c. l.. Brewer. the new head OF the
athletic department OF the University
OF Missouri, Will be N Columbia in a
week or two 1t will then be decided
who Is to coach the team this year.
Until then Coach Jones, Captain Co
hen. and possibly Frank Dur-ess, who
capitalized last years team and who IS
ineligible this year. will train the
playerc.
Twenty Out Yesterday.
The twenty mel whc were out last
night were gwen work out lasting
from I o'clock until S:45. including
scrinlmage lasting nearly three Guar
tiers of al hour. Much tine was spent
In letting the men feel tie bali" and
get used to it again. The usual work
in dribbling. lodging, passing, and
shooting goals was given the cand;-
dates. Then two teams Were ned UP
and after passing The hall for time
without trying to make goals wIre
set to scrimE- aging in earnest. Prob
ably half hour was spent in the ac-
tunl scrimmaga. The two teams were
fairly we'll matched, though the one
on which the veterans OF last year
were playing succeeded in scoring Of
tener than its opponent.
The team this year, from present
evidences, will be faster than that of
last year. The men are speedy, most
of them know the game fairly well,
and the team when made up will prob
ably be larger than that of the sea-
son of 1910.
Only three m" men from last years
team are out for the team. They
are Cohen, at forward; Conklin, at
guard or center, and Parker at for.
ward. Several men, who tried out
for the team last year, are back again
The feshmen team of last year has
given the varsity some good men, and
there are number of good men out
for the team who have never played
before here. Perkins, at center, is one
of these last men who has been show
ing up exceptionally well SO far. HI
is six feet, three inches tall, weighs
about IFS, is fast, and has had eXper
fence.
No schedule is made up yet, but on
will be completed after the meeting
of the Missouri Valley Conference i,
Des Moines this week. 1t is probabl
that. as the new rules in the Vale
allow only twelve games to be played
all games with minor schools will b
dropped this year and only majo
schools played. Ames, Kansas, Ne
braska, Iowa, Washington, Oklahoma
Grinnell, and Drake are possibilitie
on the Tiger schedule. Kansas an
Washington are sure to be playe
probably two games each. Their
will be three trips taken this yea
by the Tigers. Each trip will inclut
ewo 6duieS. II 10 luouSuI tudt III
method will take less time from tn
players studies and will at the sam
time leave them in better conditio
than was the case last year when on
trip lasted ten or twelve days.
The two teams which scrimmage
last night for the varsity lines up /,
follows. First team: Cohen( Capt.
left forward; Leverette and Tod
right forward; Perkins, center; Cast
and ConkFin, left guard, and Parkt
right guard. Second team: left Il
ward. Huston; right forward, Stiff
man; center, Francis; left gual
Pearse, and right guard, Edwards.