The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-10-01
IN THE WORLD OF SPORT

.lon was manifest from the start when
ne was put in charge Of the second
Team: As an outgrowth of the poor
noWln on Saturday when the varsity
scored but once against the local high
school, the alumni have started a
movement that may result in a visit to
the president, asking that the change
be made.
It has been evident from the first
to those who have watched the work
of the little coach with the second
string men that he was 4 man who
knew football from the beginning to
the end and that he knew how to
teach it to others. Every afternoon
the. scrubs are put through a course
Of instruction that resembles a., class
held by the strictest prof in the in
stltution. The men are told how to
do a thing, then shown how, then
made, to do it and they, are
made to, repeat the performance until
they can do it. He has lnstilled the
spirit of fight into every one that has
come under his instruction and has
the confidence Of every one Of the
PLAYERS to the fullest extent.
While it is somewhat early in the
season. the followers of the team would
IKE to: have seen the team made a
day, and they are satisfied that with
Grogan working with Coach Archer,
the results that they hope for can be
obtained. He will be with the, school
only three weeks more, when. he goes
to Northwestern university to COM
plete his course in medicine, but DUR
ing that time he can be of invaluable
service to the varsity if his coaching
is utilized as it should be.
There is no game scheduled for next
Saturday, the first college game to BIZ
played with Hamline here being one
week from that date. With two weeks
of work before meeting their first OPP
ponent the team should; be in much
better shape, and it is during the next
two weeks and the week following
that the most can be done in. the way
Of developing team work and new
plays. With the schedule that the uni
veTsity has. and the games following
IN such rapid succession as they do,
there will be little time for more
than the developing and perfecting of
plays that they already have, and it is
certain that there will be no time for
the teaching of players what they
should know by that time. or what
they should have learned in the first
month of practice.
1t is this that the students and
alumni think that, Grogan can help
bring about, if he is placed where he
can be used. 1t is true that he is de-
Veloping players where he. is, but he
Is not helping develop a team, and
that is what is needed, a team that
will work together, and not a mass of
individual players. There are good
players on the varsity, bu they must
be taught to play together.
A Word About Grogan. !
AS a player of the game Of football
the following article, taken from the
Chicago Record Herald of Friday
which accompanied a full length cut
of the assistant coach, will give all !
that Is necessary: -.
1T is an open secret that Ole Skjar-
sen was once upon a time the main
cog in the Knox college football ma
chine, George Fitch, who played the
game himself on that compact eleven
where Ole held sway, is responsible
for the statement, but, strange to re-
late, Ole never broke into print until
he had been separated from his alma.
mater for several years. Then the pen
and ink artist got busy on Cle's physi-
ognomy and Fitch did the word paint
ing, and fame came to one of KnoX's
sons over night.
Now another one has been handed
the palm, and this sketch introduces
John S, Grogan, the greatest of all the
stars who streaked over the chalk
lines at Knox. ''.' ..
IL was IN 1911 when Grogan ann
to the front and his deeds are a con
slant reminder Of Knox's former
greatness on the football field. An ac-
cident to "a promising candidate for
quarterback in the fall of 1901 gave
Grogan his chance, and he. soon de-
veloped into the greatest quarterback
and generally all-around player that
Knox ever produced. His name as a
football player was synonymous with
all that gameness, dashing play and
g~eneralship stands for. Small as to
stature, no job on the gridiron was too
big for him. His fearlessness and
personal prowess soon won him a
name which has been held by no 9TH
er. q. -, e
"Grogan had little experience to
start with, but he soon developed I'M
der the tutelage of John Mclean, for
mer Michigan star. His first year at
quarterback Inc the first most impor-
tant game of his career saw Knox pit
ted against. Wisconsin,, and Grogan's
seventy-yard run for a touchdown
through the entire Badger. eleven is
still green in the memory Of Knox
alumni. In 1902, backed by the great
est team in the history Of the college,
Grogan's work stood out as never be- |
fore. His judgment in directing his
ofense won game after game for the
purple n gold. His own speciality |
was drop-kicking, and he added many
a goal to the seasons total.
His greatest distinction as, a kicker