Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-02
CRIDIRON STARS
PLAN FOR SEASON
Independent Football Teams of
This Vicinity Post Call for
Candidates.
MAR0oNS HOLD A MEETING
Practice Periods Arranged-Moline is
to Have Two Good Teams in the
Field-Outlook Bright.

WIN the coming Oh september anu
a promise of cooler weather, the indie
pendent football players of this vicin-
ity have hunted up their last years
toys and are preparing to don them
again. Last evening the Maroon foot
ball team of this city held a meeting
to discuss the prospects of the club
and to outline the seasons work Near
ly all those who made up the team
last year and several new candidates
as well were on hand at the meeting,
which was presided over by Manager
VIII Voss. 1t was decided to com
mence practice next Tuesday night
and thereafter the team will meet for
practice three times each week. The
squad has been successful in securing
the service Of Ralph Souders, a for
mer high school star, to act as coach,
and he will take charge Of the squad
at once. The players who were on
the team last year and who have prom
ised to don uniforms again this year
are Voss, Robb and Stapleton, back
field men, and Juhl, Flanagan, Salz-
mann, White, Smith, DeSmet and
Caufeld in the line. Taylor. a new
man, gives promise of being a strong
candidate for a position either in the
line of in the backfield while there are
several other new men who are ex-
pected to report for practice. The
list of candidates for the team includes
% players, nearly all of whom are ex-
GA IN sv,la
pendent football
Had Good Record.
The Maroons made an excellent
showing last year although they were
a little late in getting into the field.
They lost only one of the five games
which were played and they met such
aggregations as the East Ends of Mo-
line, the West Ends of Davenport and
the Muscatine Athletic club.
The Moline team was the only ag
gregation that trimmed the local boys
and they failed to show any decided
superiority. The score was 9 to and
was made on a field goal and fiuke
touchdown. This year the boys hope
to do even better.
The Rock Island Independents who
met disastrous defeat last year at the
hands of the West Ends and the East
Ends of Moline, will not reorganize
this year according to present indica-
lions. Whatever strength they had
they will offer to the Maroons IN an
endeavor to make the latter team
representative one.
Moline Teams Busy.
AS usual there will be two strong
teams in Moline again this year, the
East Ends, champions of the state,
and the Illini club being the contend
ers. The latter club is a new one
composed principally of the men who
made up the Moline East Ends in for
mer years. With the two successive
defeats of the latter club last year by
the West Ends after the West Ends
had been trying for years TO do that
very thing, the East Ends practically
disorganized and the new club was
made up principally for the purpose of
defeating the champions on the grid
iron.
The West End team of last year, al
most intact and apparently unweak-
ened. will be in the field again this
year to endeavor to retain the laurels
won last year when such teams as
the East Ends, the LIST regiment of Chi
cago and the Spring Valley Tigers
were beaten. Games are already prac-
tically arranged with the Chicagoans
and the Spring Valley team and ar
are being made for
game with the Rock Island Maroons.
The prospects are that the year will
be a most successful one for the in
dependent football teams of the three
cities.