The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1913-11-06
STATE FOOTBALL DOPE

With this week the 1913 gridiron
season passes the half way mark, and
all the teams that have not as yet been
eliminated from championship honors
are girding up their loins for the long
hard fight to final victory, says a Yer
million dispatch. In South Dakota,
State, Yankton, Huoon and Miners are
still in the running, although Wesleyan
and Northern Normal still have fu-
ture games in which they may redeem
themselves. State has played consist
emily, and seems to be developing
equally. 1t has won a practice game
by a large score from Huron, just beat
North aDkota Aggies, and has lost by
considerable margins to Carleton and
Hamline. Yankton lost its early sea-
o game to Morningside, since which
it has beaten Western Union and Wes-
leyan and tied Huron 90. 1t is very
adept at open field work, gaining con
sistently by forward passes, but lacks
the weight to punch it over in desper-
ate work on the opponents line. It's
defense is very strong. Huron has
qualified over Redfield and Northern
Normal, and tied with Yankton, but
has no o~ffense, and it does not seem
likely that it can pull the champion
ship on a stubborn defense alone.
Miners are an unknown quantity, hav-
ing won by large scores owe weak
opponents in the Hills country. 1t is
figured that they cannot win both of
their games with State and Huron on
their eastern trip, and will not land in
a top-notch position at the end. AS
things look now, the State-Yankton
game at Yankton November 21st, will
decide the State College champion
ship, although it may be complicated
by a tie with Huron.
There are certain players in each
of the football camps who are forging
ahead, and will certainly be named on
the mythical all-state team at the end
of the season. Beginning at centre,
Abbott of State, and Hetland of Yank-
ton stand head and shoulders above all
cmpetitors. Hetland has been used at
full, but will likely go back to the line
so that the two will clash directly
later on. There are a number of good
guards and tackles, including Capt.
Walters, Wesleyan; Andrews and
Baker, Huron; Big" Benz, who is in a
class by himself at Normal; and Ahlfs,
Yankton, all Of whom are big huskies
who could take are Of themselves in
any company. Captains Chappell of
State, Sherwood, Huron; Lewis, Yank-
ton; and Woodland Of Wesleyan, are
all classy. At quarter, Sheehan, State,
and Robinson, Yankton, are without
equal. Both are small, weighing in at
1876 and 1875 respectively, but are the
peer of the state in football sense and
ability. Both run we'll, tackle we'll, punt
and drop kick excellently, and are
gridiron generals. Robinson has de-
veloped an excellent pass, working
eighteen out of twenty tries against
Huron in the teeth of a forty mile
gale. Fullback seems to be weak
everywhere, Payne, Wesleyan; and
Royse, Miners; seem to have the call,
although Benz may develop into whiz-
Ger at Normal. There is a wealth of
fine halves. Capt. Bost, Miners; the
Martins at Huron and Wesleyan.
Bushy and Knox, at State and Steven
son and Johnson at Yankton.
This week and next is the period OF
the mid-season slump, most feared of
all football fatalities. State College
alleges that it had it last week, when
it lost 21O to Hamline; Yankton
thinks it had 1t Tuesday when It play
ed to a tie 90 with Huron; Coach
Henderson IL doing his best to obviate
it at the University by not scheduling
a game for this week Saturday and
letting the lei loaf for the rost part