Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-16
High Street School Decides to
Try Her Luck on Gridiron
This Season.
MANY WOULD JOIN SQUAD
Other Sports Temporarily FoYs
gotten in Effort TO Make De-
but an Auspicious One.

More than forty candidates re-
sponded to the initial call for foot
ball candidates at st. Benedict's Prep
School yesterday afternoon. The High
street institution makes its debut as
a contender for scholastic gridiron
honors this season, with no lack OF
quantity but with rather dubious
quality in the matter of working ma
terial. There appears to be plenty OF
husky lads at the school who in
time should make first-class football
timber, but Just now the squad, al
most to a man, is green and mex
perienced at the gaI..1
Realizing the stupendous task he
has before him to whip the squad into
shape before October 8, when the
first game is carded, the Rev. p
Nalerian, who is now athletic d.
rector of the school, will call out MS
candidates every afternoon until the
season gets under way. Uniforms for
two full teams have been ordered,
and II is planned to carry about
twenty men in the first SQUAD ali
season. The school athletic field. op-
posite the school building will be
| used for the practise scrimmages.
The schedule as arranged by Man
ager Herbert Peter, will consist of
about eight games, Central High.
East Side, Orange, Lakewood. Nut
ley and Battin High, of Elizabeth.
/ have already been booked, while
games with Newark Academy and the
new South Side School are contem-
plated. The home games will be
played at the NewaiK Athletic Park.
where the ST. Benedict baseball teams
have played their games for the past
two seasons
Basketball. which heretofore has
drawn the rays of the limelight at
| High street, has been temporarily
forgotten In the novelty of football.
which has already proven Itself very
| popular at the school When the
snow begins to fall, however, and
the gridiron toys must, OF necessity.
be cast into the discard for the sea
son, king basketball will again be in
all his pomp and glory. Frank Hill,
who has had phenomenal success in
turing out fast quintets during his
regime at the institution, will be on
the job again this season. With Nc.
Dermitt, who will captain the f1Ye.
Donahue, Flarity and Baader, of last
years State championship team. to
form nucleus, Coach Hill has high
hopes of developing another crack
/ quintet. Practise viii start later
tnan usual this year, as Hill does not
intend to call out his men until after
Thanksgiving. On that day the foot
ball warriors will bring their season
! to a close with contest with Central
! High School, at the new athletic field
in Bloomfield avenue
| Among those that reported for prac-
tise yesterday were as follows: James
Cavanaugh, Herbert Peter, Frank
McDermitt. Hugh Gilligan, Thomas
Hanlon, Frank Dander, Lloyd Flarity,,
William Burke, John Hall, Karl
! Gerstl, Edward Cooney, Allan Me-
Donald, Allen Bush, Jack Donahue,
| Joseph Igee, Frank Tully, Martin
Crown, James McKenna, William
Higgins, Lawrence Smith, Thomas
Quigley, Raymond Swan, Thomas
Regan, Richard German, Thomas
Duggan, Junior Mangin, Arthur Con-
nelly, Joseph Connolley, Leonard
Stanton. Wilfred MCGEE, James Gar
rigan, Thomas Cahill and Frank
Sweeney.