The Detroit times., 1914-09-15
ALMA COLLEGE
HAS A TOUGH
GRID SCHEDULE
Presbyterians Start OF the Sea-
son Against Notre Dame
and the Aggies
PROSPECTS FOR STRONG
TEAM ARE NOT BRIGHT
Best Men Are Lost by Gradua-
tiOn-Hobart Chapel Is Class
lest Freshman Candidate

| ALMA, Mich, Sept. l5!-With
Coach Bleamaster on the campus and
five Of the six "A" men who will form
the nucleus Of the 1914 Alma college
football team in the city. the grldir0n
sport will get an early start here this
year. The coach and players are itch
ing to get busy and will be out on
Davis fleld at the earliest possible mo-
ment.
Alma college football prospects are
not Of the brightest but they are az
good as those of any Of the other
small colleges of the state. Gradua-
ton has broken the backbone OF the
term here as 1t has at the other col
leges that had topnotch elevens last
season.
The schedule is a very difficult one.
1t rs poorly balanced. the most diff
cult teams being played first The
teams supporters here fear that the
two early games with Notre Dame
and Michigan Agricultural college will
cripple the eleven at the start as they
did last season. Coach Bleamaster,
who scheduled the tough contests, be-
lieves that his men will learn enough
football from the two big elevens to
make up for the chances Of injury.
or the six men "A" who return to
Alma this fall, only four of them are
considered valuable men. Pug" Wood,
who played fullback last year and
who was captain, will be back on the
job, having reconsidered his decision
to leave college. Paul Austin. the
1914 captain, lineman; Hyde. an end,
and Spinney, another end or back
field men, will also be back. Arden
Johnson and Cole will be back for
jobs but II is felt that II Coach Blea-
master has to use these men he will
not be able TO brag about the
strength OF his team. johnson Is one
Of the gamest men In the sport but he
lacks the physical requirement for
football. Physicians have repeatedly
warned him to leave the game alone.
Cole may have developed since last
year into star. He lacked speed
and Quickness. He has been playing
lot OF tennis at Alma during the
summer vacation, however, and he
may have acquired fieetness.
The biggest addition to the team
from the freshman class. which
doubtless will be the largest that has
ever entered Alma, II Hobart Chapel,
a Parma, Mich, high school graduate.
Chapel Is the last of three brothers,
all athletes OF note. to enter Alma.
First came Byron In 1906. He was q
great football, basketball and track
man. Then came Theron. one Of the
greatest centers Alma has ever had.
Hobart Is said to be better than
either Byron or Theron. He In o big
fellow. standing six feet. and very
fast
/ A big loss to Alma came In the de-
cision OF the Schults brothers, VIII
and Harry, to leave Alma and 60 to
the University OF Michigan. Bill
Schultz plans to get out for Yosts
team. The team also lost several
good men by graduation. among them
"Eph" Johnson. AlrState tackle, Tar"
Robinson. "Tacks" Maybe and DOC"
Hyde.
I Alma has only two big games.
These come with Albion and Olivet
and upon them Alma will have to
base her claim for the intercollegiate
J championship. There IL feeling
here that Alma h due to whip 0livet
when they meet at Alma In the final
game OF the season. Nov. IA. They
are not so sure Of defeating Albion
when the Presbyterians and Method
lists meet at Albion two weeks earlier.
The Alma schedule follows:
4 Sept. 26.-Bay City Eastern High
school at Alma.
Oct. 3-Notre Dame university at
;; Notre Dame.
4 Oct. 10.---M. A. G. at East Lansing.
Oct. 17.--Michigan Ypsilanti State
Normal at Alma.
Oct. 24.-University of Michigan All
Fresh at Ann Arbor.
Oct. 31.-Albion College at Albion
Nov. ferris Institute at Alma.
Nov. 14.--Olivet college at Alma.