The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-09-01
VARSITY PIGSKIN
CAMPAIGN Is ON
CANDIDATES ARE NOW IN
THArHINo AT MOTT cHATEAU.
Eew n1aueraA1 LOOKS lsromandng and
Coaches Are opt4mistto-FootbaIi
In FIRST Place At state school.

Special Dispatch 20 the InteiiiEencer.
MORGANTOWN. W. Va. Aug. 81
The 1915 gridiron campaign OF the Uni
versity was formally opened this morn
ing when 20 or more candidates headed
BY Coach Sol s. Metzger and Assistant
Coach Eliza Tobin were taken to Mont
Chateau Hotel on Cheat river where the
training camp will be organized. Every
thing had been made ready for the foot
ballers and there was nothing to wait
Tor after arriving "a the hotel
Accordingly. the men were given their
hrHt course OF sprouts today and the
coaches have promised the men two
weeks OF the hardest kind Of work ln
order that they may be conditioned for
the hard games which open the sched-
ule. Two practices, at least one lecture
and blackboard drill. several hikes and
2 Dip IN the cool waters OF Cheat viii
be crowded into a days routine and the
men viii have little time Tor anything
but football. food and rest
Footban IN First Place.
Football assumed FIRST place on the
local boards Saturday with the arrival
mere or the vanguard Of the squad. In
cluded IN those who arrived here aatur-
and Tobin. and Harry curry. bud
ton. Pred Chsnoweth. of Phiiipri. s. u.
Euccy end r. ~ Bailey. Of Weston. Nc
9raw brady. ~ Washington. ID. g.. Will
William Dourher Of Ronceverte. Ciav
hite or Huntington, Frank Ice Of Pair
NOM, Guy Hidole, Of iarkcrsburE.
biz Rahi. o. GrennsburF. ia. These
men we're quartcder az frat houses SAT-
urday and sunday and departed early
biies which we're generously donated by
local people
The issuing Of equipment was begun
iisie smith handed every candidate n
a complete uniform Including a copy Of
The 1918 guide which means that every
famiiarizo himself thoroughly win the
rules and especially this Years changes.
Hsw material Promising.
al ~ the new men who have arrived
lon. promising Guy Riddle. ~ rarkcra-
burg o. a husky lincman. Weighing IN 90
iarkcrsburE hiEh. and viii each co. the
beam pa about ieb pounds
Mciirau Brady ia n graduate or Wcr-
ton hiEh ne Washinron. u. ~. where be
played four years During the nraf two
years. BE- played on Che line but The lHei
two wac shifted to end position ard in
The hackfield. De has been out % school
Tor one year bot expects f1 get back into
condition with two weeks nf Che train.
pound ueeides bic football experience.
Brady tuirled several years on tha hlrh
toam at Waahinrion and D. rated a7 r.
~
and played four years there Ifn II
heavy and fest and should develop uifh
De- ooaching that he WI receive He
D. also n good track man. having hung
naif mile and fn lhr lnn-EarI faah
No1nurs Reports soon.
Two new candidate ffIa rnnr who
were iu school larf FOLD nuf go nnf be-.
port. are 1901 nnurnrr and 1914 stead.
man. Both are heavy aud fairly ffai
and uIll make some one hustle f.r end
. positions. NuuGnrF was HuH-nrHf
hnaewau nu fna Varsity nine last f1U
and HfrnIm1n won rnruruIfInn fnrnunn
niH work ln track. uiuuInn fhe quarter
lu aII track mrefH In which Wnrf NIr.
rlniH participated laaf spring
Hubby MuInIIrr. Ilnn nHnrn VIII
arrive here early fhIH week and proceed
at once fo ODE camp nuaan MrfFrrr was
7 Iu conference With Mrfefrn nf CLARKE.
burg Saturday and MrInfIrr nnfIfIaH
b him Ht chat time trHf Dol would De- Hrrr