Evening journal., 1913-09-25
BY Hal SHERIDAN.
-ritten for the United Pressl

lWIllltn lOI lnd 0nlNNA 1881
NEW YORK, Sept. 25.-somewhat
behind the eastern teams in getting
started, but now right down TO busi-
ness there is more football being dem
onstrated and pracuced throughout
the central west today than a busy
boy with a movie camera could lamp
lin week. The conference teams got
down to practice September 20, and
they are now at 1t hammer and tongs.
Western football critics, taking
stock OF the material In advance,
have II doped out that Wisconsin,
Chicago and Minnesota, in the order
named, should be played favorites in
the fight for the conference title. Out
side the conference. Michigan and
Notre Dame are certain TO have elev-
ems on par with the best in the
west
Coach Fielding H. Yost, known in
other and PALMER years as Hurry
Up Yost," has been putting half a
hundred huskies through severe
practice Yost Is OF the modest opin-
ion that they look like inner"
Eight IN" men are on the Ann Arbor
squad this season. They will be push
ed for places by twelve promising
members Of last years freshman elev-
en-. German Schultz. Michigan's
greatest center, who showed the Wis
consin linemen how TO emulate the re-
distance OF hessemer steel on the de-
tense and 14-inch projectile on the
lonense last fall, is aiding Yost this
year.
Coach Bill juneau, Of Wisconsin,
has seventy candidates from whom to
pick his eleven. Among them Is But
Ter, All-American tackle last fall.
Three other eligibles this year we're
picked as members Of the All-Western
team in 1912. The Badger line Of
l1e12 Is almost intact, and several Of
last years backfield substitutes are
available this year for regular work.
The entire first string backfeld Of
last year has been wiped away but
the first string subs who did grand
work last year are confidently expect
ed TO plug the holes.
Coach Stagg, OF Chicago. Is we'll
. fixed insofar as a backheld IS concern
led. but he admits that the line Is not
yet all that he desires. Il is posi-
bic that before the season is far ad-
vanced one OF two of the men who are
now playing in the Maroon backhelc
will be shifted 10 the line. Stagl
has Captain Norgrehn and four other
! veteran backs as starter towarJ
building up an effective system o.
j attack.
Minnesota starts the season II
great shape Nearly every membe
OF the old whirlwind smashing 19i,
eleven reported 10 Coach Williams
and squad OF recruits from las
years freshmen team is dependei
upon to give the necessary additiona
strength The Minnesota team ma
be lighter than in previous years, bu
lit is certain TO be faster.
Purdue looks TO Coach Andy Smith
who succeeded the late "Keckie" Mol
TO produce a more successful tear
this year Six linemen and three back
field veterans we're In the squad tina
answered Coach Smiths first cal
which leaves but two places that mus
lbe filled by recruits. The are tn
tackle positions left vacant by III
graduation Of Winston and Herdric
and believe Coach Smith, they'll b
hard TO I'LL.
- Eight veterans and a squad OF ex
e ceedingly light substitutes is the nuc
n leus about which Coach d. II. Grad
OF Northwestern. must build for 1911:
r. There were recruits aplenty turne
n out for first practice, but they wer
as unusually light and it took just abou
a. that first practice for Coach Grady I
he see what he's up against. For thes
We obvious reasons Northwestern is M
w regarded by the critics as a seriou
T. contender for the conference title.
Bob Zuppke, the new coach at N
ne University Of Illinois had about n
I'd best BET of any of them at the sta
w OF this season. Zuppke has one
III the best outhelds in the conferen,
land fva vataran unaman on which.