Arizona republican., 1913-08-09
FIVE GRID
 TEAMS HERE
Possibility Tempe and Mesa High Schools and Normal Will Put Elevens Against Phoenix and the Indians This Fall

I IlOtllIA dIltl ClIt II'l1dI1O
 This Fall
 Tempe high, iha Norma! ard Mesa high on the ragged edge of slipping three fighting fast football teams in ! the fi1a this fall. vaCey school ath- letics are bound soon to be .he big gest thing yet Widening the football horizon of the Phoenix nigh school and the Indian SchOol-the only two schools in the valley to maintain football through the "Lapsus athletical' of the other institutiOns-WiU consist in the field being brought nearer home. In the past few seasons these two val ley schools have had tO fight against just two other teams of their own class-Tucson and Prescott high school.
 That peculiar grinding noise that emanates from the southside is said by some as knows to be rhe rnnderous machinery of pnblic opinion at work 10 compeU the three great educational in stitutiOns of the trans Salt districts to enter the most strenuous of. the school games and the P. U. IT. $. and U. S I. s. stand ready to welcome these three
  come.
 The possibilities of football teams from the southside cause large face splitting grins on the visible counten- ance of northside team-men and coaches. The general as included in school fandom is also strong for a re- cruiting of the grid teams of the neigh borhood-two to five. In fact it is said that the valley will support five teams playing among themselves with an occasional game with an outside team much better than two. The sea son is not long but there are plenty of dates for q splendid schedule.
 Team Material.
 Team material will not set the south side schools back even this first year after two of gridirOn inactivity. Owing to the nature of the game as she is played these days. the coaches grab the light, active. fast players with only a side glance for the beef and braWn. Fortunately Mesa and the two Tempe schools have plenty of both sorts of materiaI-enOugh. in fact, for easily the three teams demanded Leaders in all branches of athletics. the Normal never lacks good eleven stuff while the other two schools are going to en- roll stout lads enOW ere winters blast -etc.
 Excellent School Relations.
 Excellent school relations will make the formation of a five team league an easy matter. as 1t is, valley athletics as applied to baseball track and basket ball-are handled in a manner which imposes An excellent business ma chine is already formed to handle ath- Ietics for the valley schools. Men who have made athletics their business for years compose a board which accurate ly directs sports. An easy matter would be, to slam together playing schedule for five teams.
 What's the Objection.
 The above two paragraphs detail some good reasons why there should be valley football This will simply state the question, Why should there nOt?"
 And echo answers, search mel"
 In no department of athletics has any sOuthside ever failed to be there. Football has been banished. it is true. but the dictum came not from players or public. The valley-so far ahead of other parts of Arizona in many things would only be catching up" again by putting in five grid squads this fall. | Even remote Yuma high will have its opponents of the noble school game this l fall-tO say nothing of Prescott. Tue ! son, Globe, Bisbee and Douglas. Nearer 1 still is Glendale high-perhaps there l will be a team there
 P. L. H. & should rightly be spelled l PUSH" for that is just what it is do- 1 ing in advance of what is sure to prove l the best sports season ever. Mid sum 1 mer representations for a high school | football team is new in Arizona-and | it shows the progress of the state. The | University of New Mexico until two 1 years back never gave a thought to it's | team until the players assembled for | registration There have been two 1 splendid athletics pow VOWS" con | ducted jointly by "Old Doc" Jones, fac ulty member of the athletic commission | and the new coach Pep" Geary To | say that these have had an influence on the situation would be putting it mildly. With some more of the same, these meetings can properly be said to have made" the season.