Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-20
IOWA STATE COLLEGE FOOTBALL
PROSPECTS BRIGHTEST IN
MANY YEARS.
SCHEDULE HARDEST IN
HISTORY OF SCHOOL
Almost 1co candidatss Turn Out in
Response to Call Of Coach williams
Season to Open With Iowa College,
With Annual Gopher Game Week
Following.
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Ames, Sept. 20.-Ames looms up like
a colossus on the 1913 3Missouri Valley
conference gridiron horizon. The
toughest looking football schedule an
Iowa State College coach ever had is
confronted by the most Formidable
looking football squad an Iowa State
College coach ever had to work with.
a glance at the outlay threw cold shiv-
ofs into Minnesota scout who dropped
in on state field an afternoon or so ago.
Almost hundred men turned out on
the call of Head Coach Clyde Williams
Monday. The number is nearly double
what it was last year. and the quality
of the material is so high that the
coaches have a puzzle and a job on
their hands to do justice to them
selves and the varsity. The team will
not be a collection Of men gathered
about a few bright lights; but on the
contrary, 1t will be a balanced machine
with every individual forced to his ut
most when his own excellence is not
sufficient to keep him there unless he
does work and work hard.
Early in the week Williams and
Assistant Coach Hubbard made the
first pick OF the varsity squad. They
drew out twenty-five men from the
general mob on the scrub field, ushered
them over to new State Field, broke
them up into two teams and started
work. The efevens went thru signals
and schooling with all species Of the
forward pass the early days Of the
week. Thursday afternoon Coach Will
liams ordered the sawdust doll hung up
for the first strenuous grind. making
the men nail the dummy hard to the
ground to stiffen up abdominal muscles.
Season Opens With Grinnsll.
Monday the coaches will get down
to. business with practice. The first
game Of the schedule is with Grinnell
at Grinnell, next Saturday. Scrimmage
is on the bill-of-fare but. altho Coach
Williams does not expect to drop the
first game. 1t hardly will be Of the
merciless variety. Usually the Gophers
have the opener but the opening con-
test is within the state this year and
Williams believes he will have a better
chance to trim Minnesota by first
gauging his men In hard game before.
1t is too early in the season to guess
on the occupants of berths. even when
the first game IS only week off, but
il any candidates pretty surely has his
clamps on position It is Ed Uhl. full
back on the prep team last year. who
proved himself terror to the varsity.
Uhl is terrific line plunger on offense,
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ability as football player he Will prove
star at the middle Of the backheld.
It isn't apparent that anybody will be
center; He practically has the eprad-
ding Job cinched. He made all-state
center on the Clinton high school
team. Thayer. who held down tackle
on the 1912 scrubs, who halls from
Storm Lake, - the only opposition that
has developed 30 far to Johns PROS
poets. They are the only two that have
been tried at the middle Of the line.
The scramble for the guards seems to
lay among Holmes, Kerwin and McKin-
ley. Holmes has little cause for worry
but Kerwin and Mckinley will have to
draws straws for the first call on the
other guard. Holmes, Sioux City high
star end, Splinter, Jumper and weight
man, was expected to be tried out at
end. and he may yet be given a whirl
at the flank job. but he was worked out
at guard this week. He is the heaviest
man on the squad, weighing 1874
stripped. but in spite Of his weight he
can reel of the hundred yards in ten
and quarter Kerwin came to Ames
from Beloit College (Wis.), where he
got varsity experience playing guard.
Mckinley, st. Ansgar, Iowa, hasn't got
much history in football way but he
is heavy, displays the pepper Of good
hard player.
Reevs Mainstay In Line.
Reeve, veteran holdover, and Worm
houdt, Ottumwa high star, without
question stand al the head Of The class
in the applicants for the tackles. Barring
accidents, the man isn't out who can
jeopardize Reeves chances. Karr and
Farley, neither with known football
pedigrees. also are out for tackle: they
look promising and very probably can
count on SUBJ one or the other.
Captain Cowan, veteran. will go back
at end Herman, Iowa City high end;
Cunningham, Knoxville high end. who
served on the varsity squad two years
ago but was not in college last year, and
Costigan constitute the nominees FOR
the outskirts Of the line. Cunningham
probably will land permanently with
Cowan.
Bill Brennan. the third Of the four
veterans back. light but scrappy half
back, who had quarter on the prep
team and then subbed at half two years
on the varsity, on his fourth year Of
football including class games, viii nave
charge Of the arithmetic and be the
general of the team, unless something
happens. The players and coaches Ike
him, and he - . tighter 20 the last
ditch. Kenick, Adel high quarter and
captain Of the prep team last year. IS
ambitious for quarter and he was tried
out there on one Of the squads this
week.
Composition For Halves kssn.
Competition for the halves will be
keen, with Mattison. Oskaloosa high
product. 1s5-pound line plunger and
punter; Mead, veteran with three
years experience fast, heady but light:
Wilson. Upton. all-state high school
thAifbaek IA 1911; and Powell, an old
Iowa university man who subbed Mike
Highland, playing the whole game
against Ames that year Coach VIII
liams. appreciates that each Of the four
has a lot Of merit to be considered and
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