Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1915-09-06
Football Fans
Already Eager

first team graduated, but neverthe
less there is splendid material fol
new men, according to opinions O.
those in a position to know.
r. r. Hutchinson, instructor ot
mechanical drawing at the high
school, will have charge of the work
in athletics this year. Work at drill
ing for football will soon commence
Captain "Climax" (Delsman) is
sure to be a winner this year, and
Ashland football enthusiasts can well
remember his terrific plunges of last
year. Men remaining from last years
team are: Delsman, Young, Ply
mate, Cunningham and Jones. Men
conceded to be good prospects for
first team this coming season besides
those mentioned are: Norton, Lea
witt, Erickson, Harris, Brewer, and
others whose names we have been un-
able to get FOR this issue.
While Ashland's success In the
coming season is yet to be deter
mined, there appears to be mighty
good outlook for winning team, as
the new coach has achieved fine
things elsewhere.
OF interest to football fans is the
football material and training of the
University of Oregon, and the follow
ing article from last weeks Register
gives one an idea of what they are
planning for this year:
The arrival of a dozen football
heroes, the advance agents of nearly
1000 University of Oregon students,
has awakened Eugene to the dual
realization that the opening of col
lege is less than two weeks distant
and that the great football season is
on.
A crew of fifteen or twenty-five
number is painfully uncertain-grid-
iron warriors will leave at 1870 to-
morrow morning for Florence, Lane,
county's seaport, to the training
camp for ten days for the 1915 Ore
gon team. Coached by Hugo Bezdek
and Bill Hayward, it will not be a
period of signal practice or line
scrimmage-it will be one great out
ing, the purpose of which is to hard
en- the muscles. Football will come
later.
Miles of hiking through the Sius-
law forests, tramping through the
sand to the beach, with deer hunting,
trout fishing and swimming as in
ducements, will form the program.
eve may go out and kick the ball
a few times before breakfast" Coach
Bezdek said, "but we're going up
into the mountains a good deal. It's
just camp to harden 'em up BIZ" "
The talk of local football circles is
all prospects" While other col
leges are reported securing the Pa
cific coast and the middle west, Ore I
gon this year is merely waiting to see
what turns up.
The prospect dope" runs along
the line that last year Oregon had
the greatest array of football ma
Lerial in its history, an array that
was scheduled to put the skids on
he Dobyites, had not the Washing
on coach removed the opportunity. :
Not a player graduated; everything
vas rosy.
Prospects are all bushwah," de-
lares Hugo Bezdek, sans enthusi-
sm. "Out of seventeen letter men
asst year ten may not come back. \
very place on the team is short. |
ant tell how many are coming, and
won't know until get into scrim
lage Paper stuff don't go with me,
"I'm not talking prospects; I'll
uild a team out of the men that
re here"
Those arriving yesterday and to-
ay for tomorrow's trip are: Ans
'ornell, quarter; Cossman, center;
,isley, center; Snyder, guard; Cau-
~, guard or tackle; Bartlett, end or
ackle Garrett, last year back
eld man who will be tried in the
ne this year; Teggert, a guard;
pellman, who also will be shifted
rom back to line; Enslie, tackle;
lifford Mitchell, end; Johns, big
ne man from Lincoln high; Bob
[alarkey, Columbia University end
nd half; Morfitt, Malheur county
with good looking pros
ects. The latter three are said to
3 the only new men in sight Of
le doubtfuls, Johnny Parsons is in
ortland, with a $3.50 chance of hs
,turn; Bryant, fullback, has not
Iuch chance of returning; Sam Cook,
ero of three years, is in Idaho with
cloud of uncertainty hanging over
Is return. Both he and Bryant form
we're losses.