The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-09-03
STATE FOOTBALL
TEAMS START
PRACTICE
The Coming Week and the
First Games Will Be Played
September %.

Only little over week remains
before the state educational institu-
tions open their doors for the 1916
II year ard with their opening the
1916 football campaign formally
opens. AS has been noted previously
In these columns there will be five
teams of college caliber in action
through the September-October
rember campaign in the West NiT-
ginia mountains. These are the
West Virginia University, West Nir-
gina Wesleyan College, Bethany Col
lege, Marshall College and DavisEi-
kins College. Very recently Norris
Harvey College has come into tho
field and although late to be very
successful in securing good college
schedule, it will be Il factor among
the weaker teams and will add q
touch oil color to the southern West
Virginia gridiron menu when 1t
stacks up against Marshall College
at Huntington late in November.
OF the two big institutions that to
1 very large extent monorolize the
attention OF the disinterested fans
Df the state, West FirRinit gets into
season being in effect early this
week. The Gold and Blue will train
ut Mount Cateau rs last year. bat
Wesleyan. its strong and only rival
IN West Virginia. has decided to pass
MP the training camp proposition this
year. Its reason for this, no doubt,
Is that 1t has two comparatively
Easy games at the start of its season
with Davis-EllSins and Muskingum
before going TO Washington and
Jefferson on October G. On the other
hand West Nirginit University starts
right off the reel with Pennsylvania
University.
The most pertinent happening of
the last two weeks. and in some re-
spects, the most important of all the
Rnte-season developments is the an
nouncement OF the employment of
GREASY" Neal and John Kellison to
roach the Orange and Black warriors.
Neale has had one years experience
Mt Muskingum College as a coach
and Kelllson has had none, being a
graduate of Wesleyan only since last
June. Whether or not this will prove
10 be handicap or not remains to be
seen. On the gridiron these men
have both shown qualities of leader
ship that will be of inestimable value
to them in coaching. Neale was cap
tain of one of the best teams Wes-
leyan ever produced, while Kellisou
was captain of the 1915 team and
Tor several years has been regarded
as one OF the most mature judges OF
football material connected with the
game in the state. Their big job, of
course, with the excellent material
Rlwayssavailable at Buckhannon, will
be to get the best out OF the men
there is in them. and to instlll into
the team some OF that fighting spirit
that always characterized their own
work when they were in the ranks.
II the can Undue the men who make
up Wesleyan's team with that in
dominitable spirit with which they
bot thought through many a hard
battle, then 1t will behoove all oppo-
uents to he wary. Kellison should
produce line that has not been
eaualled in previous Wesleyan foot
ball teams. Although a powerful
man physically, Kellison did not de-
pend on his strength to outplay his
opponents, but invariably made use
OF all the tricks known to the grid
4rca game and football fans through