The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-08-14
PROSPECTS ARE
NOT VERY GOOD
Local High School has Little
Material For Football
Team this Year.

With the summer vacation nearly
over the students of the Grand Forks
high school are beginning to discuss
h prospects for a football team this
fall. There will only be about three
or four of last years team back to
school and this will be a serious handi-
cap as an almost entirely new team
will have to be found. Anthony LODI
NELL, who played a star game at
left half last year. will be in the game
again and Roy Ferguson will probably
play in the backfield. Ferguson play
ed right tackle last fall and he was
n of the mainstays Of the squad.
Another valuable man is Dryden. who
filled the right guard position and he
will undoubtedly show up in good
form when he call is issued next
month for candidates. Albert ARM
strong has been spending the summer
on the farm near Glasston. n. D., and
if he decides to attend here again will
no doubt play center.
Unless some unknown" man en-
tiers school this fall the kicking de-
-partment will be taken care of by
Kenneth Wells and Anthony Lodmell.
Both men can raise the ball in good
shape n thus there need be no fear
from this quarter. Wells will prob
ably play quarterback and it will be
hard to find a more capable man in
the state than he is for that position.
While no definite announcement has
Vet been made Doc" O'Keefe will
probably fill the position of coach. His
high class work for the past two sea-
sons has shown that he is the man
for the place. He took the proposition
on his hands when he had very little
good material and made an excellent
chnyyinor and loct S-oor ho turned otft u
championship team. Fargo and Grand
Forks were scheduled to play the
championship game on the university
field in 1911, but We're prevented from
doing so on o of a bad snow
storm. When a comparison is made
between the games played by the two
teams last season Grand Forks has
the best record. but Of course the
championship is not decided that way.
No schedule of games has been ar
ranged yet but it is expected that at
least eight games will be played by
the local boys. Besides the games to
be played with the teams in this state
game with Duluth or a twin city cam.
The Grand Forks high went to Duluth
last year and was defeated by that
squad by a few points. OF curse
bringing n of these big teams here
will be a great expense but if the pros
poets r bright enough this will be
done at any cost. School will open in
football practice will begin the first
thing.
If the students at the local high
school would work hard to develop a
good "%scrappy" second team the
chances of securing a winning first
team would be greatly increased as the
scrimmages are very important in
forming a good live squad. Last year
there were several men on the second
team who did excellent work and they
will be all the better this fall and
have a splendid chance to make
good" on the first.
The fact hat a, number of schools
Forks last season shows the kind of
an aggregation that Coach O'Keefe
had under his care and it would not
he a great surprise to see him develop
something pretty fine again inside of
a few weeks. The opening game last
fall was played between the high
school and the alumni and the former
err side scoring once during the con-
test. The text contest was with the
state university and the score was 5
to 3. this being the first game where
the local boys ever scored on the
varsity" A short time after this
game the squads were rough tOSetn-
er again and the III" won by five
points. score Is to 5. When Crookston
came owe Grand Forks ran up 2S
points without much trouble and at
the same time prevented the former
from securing a single point. In the
game at Grafton the local aggregation
made twelve points in the first quar-
ter and then took it easy during the
remainder of the playing. Devils
Lake cancelled her date and Minot
and Grand Forks were unable to
make satisfactory arrangements for a
game.
Edward O'Reilly is captain of the
alumni n plans will be made for an
other contest with the high school
during the first part of the season.
If plans now under way are carried
cut the university field will be used
for practice this season and this will
help considerably as the work has al
ways been done in toe small a space.
There have not been enough chang
es made in the football rules this year
to make very much bother. The team
carrying the ball will be allowed four
downs in which to make ten yards and
slight changes have also been made
in the forward pass and the onside
kick.