South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-21
STATE FOOTBALL
MEN IN ACTION
HooSier Teams Prepare for
Most Strenuous Season in
Years With Plenty of Good
Material for Fast Games.

Conference football training started
Monday and western gridiron activi-
ties are on in full blast. Every col
lege in Indiana has either been work
ing during the past week or will jump
into the fray at once so that first
games OF the season on Oct. 3 prom
Use to reveal some OF the fastest
football seen in the state for years.
With Notre Dame as the strongest
aggregation in Hoosier land and the
contender against the east for nation
al honors and Indiana and Purdue
universities contesting for the cham
pionship Of the western conference,
this state should rank in the fore this
season.
Reports from the different football
camps over the state indicate that
every coach is striving to put his team
to the front this fall with an abund-
ance Of good material to support the
ambition. Clarence Chlds, who is
plotting the Indiana squad, says that
his team will be lighter than usual
but that the men are older. The
quarterback, center and guard posi-
tions will be the most difficult to fiji.
Frank Whitaker, a South Bend boy,
who was one of the high school
stars, is the most promising candidate
tor the Bloomington quarterback
hole, and will probably land the
place. Whitaker left South Bend
Sunday and will be in toys at the
initial practice on Jordan field Mon
day afternoon.
Miss Oliphant-
Andy Smith, Purdue coach, will
miss Oliphant, the greatest half back
the black and gold ever had, who is a
candidate for the Army team this fall,
while the loss Of CLOSEUP, defensive
center, is a blow 10 the team. Smith
does not believe that he has a multi
tude OF material with which to work
but the other conference elevens fear
the Smith spirit" which keeps Pur-
due battling from the first to the last
shrill whistle signal.
Prospects at Wabash are good this
season, according to reports from the
Little Giant stronghold. Phil Nicar,
a South Bend boy, is the most promis-
ing end on the Crowfordsville SQUAD
Nicar is veteran, having obtained
much of his training under Coach
Jesse Harper of NOtre Dame The
South Bend boy is light but drives his
way over the gridiron by speed and
endurance and is expected to show
up well among the other state ends
this fall. Capt Rowe OF the Little
Giants is also a South Bend product
and one of the crack men on the Wa
bash team. He will be one of the
fastest and strongest backfield men
in the Charlottesville squad.
Other Teams Fast.
Every other college team in the
state is preparing for one of the most
strenuous seasons in years DePauw
has a large squad of candidates to
pick from, while Rose Poly and But
Ter will also take their places in the
state program with speedy aggrega-
tons. The state schedule follows:
Purdue.
Oct. wabash, at Lafayette
Oct. 1O-Western Reserve, at La
fayette.
Oct. Wisconsin. at Madison.
Oct. 24-Chicago, at Chicago.
Nov. Kentucky State, at La
fayette.
Nov. Northwestern, at Evans
ton.
Nov. 21-Indiana, at Lafayette.
Indiana.
Sept. 26-DePauw at Bloomington.
oct. Chicago, at Chicago.
Oct. 10-Illinois, at Urbana.
Oct. 17-NOrthwestern, at Bloom
ington.
Oct. 31-Miami. at Bloomington.
Nov. Ohio State. at Indianapolis.
Nov. 21-Purdue, at Lafayette.
NOtre Dame.
Oct. 3-Alma college at Notre Dame
oct. 10-Rose Poly. at Notre Dame.
Oct. 17-Yale. at New Haven.
Oct. 24-South Dakota, at Sioux
City.
oct S1-HaskeH Indians. at Notre
Dame.
Nov. Army, at West Point.