The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-10-28

Next Saturday Montana state UNI
vcrsity will play Its first football game
az 4 member OF the Northwestern In
torcolegiate conference against Whit
man college of Walla Walla, Wash.
Montana did not become A member OF
the conference until after the close
of the gridiron season last fall. playing
it's first games as members OF the or
ranIzation on the basketball cour'@,
However. though the team was not
bound by conference rules in 1916. the
requirements for athletic competition
were lust as strict as those enforced
at the northwest colleges, and in some
cases even more severe, The One-ycar
residence rule has been the rule at
Montana for the last two seasons and
has been closely adhered to.
Montana and Whitman are the only
two teams in the conference which arc
allowed to play freshmen on tE'!r
varsity teams. both schools having
been granted special dispensaiionS be"
cause their male enrolment was less
than 200. The University of Wash
ington and Washington State college.
the University of Oregon and the orc
gon Agricultural college, and the INT
versity of Idaho, which compose the
conference. together with the Missouri
and the Walla Walla institutions, are
barred from playing frst-year men.
! Whitman twice defeated by the two
| teams that are considered the heS' IN
| the northwest by football experts, VIII
| give Montana II tremendous battie, ra-
| prcialiv as the game is to be played on
| the Whitman field. In its battle
against the University of Washington
! the Missionaries outplayea Coach
| Hunts uudefeated eleven after the
! first 10 minutes. during which the
! Seattle team crossed the Whitman
goal line twice. In the second quar-
ter Borlcs1e's team rallied ana
charged through the Siwash line
! Mase. a new haltbaclx, scoring the
! touchdown that gave the Missionaries
fbeir lone score. In this game the
Whitman eleven put q splendid a'rug
ri. against the best coached, hardest
| ejrhting team in the conference and
defeat WAS no dishonor,
The Bruins have met Whitman on
! the gridiron three times, being defeat l.
cd at Walla Walla back in 1908, "hcn
DnihtHl WAS COACH, anu 's''h wv
1918, when Ileilman was field director
Last year Montana ontplaSed the AIS
siona rics clearly from start to tin,sl
fumbleS losing at least two toucn
downs for Jerry Nisscn's team wh'c'
was al its best ia u defensive and SEr'
orai offensive way that day l'''
game in 1905. the first athletic couttS'
of any kind between the Two teams
was Won by the enemy. To y. over
"a Eruin eleven which had duWn"d tn
Acs,ies % to q. lIeiluau's light i2l'
suuad which was easy Tor every team
in the west except tn" Bozentan AZ
yi,S, WAS overwhelmed on THANKS
giving day, o to 81, though giving th'
Missionaries a terrific batt't In TN
ti'St half
Montana viii haze u slight, yer!
sight. odGc over Whitman ~ NtiEh
when the two teams tangle nest SAL
urdav. The difference will probably u
.,hOut three pounds to the man III Va
E,rEn's favor In the game aga'ns
the University Of Washington IN
Whitman bunch. which aNera s's Ahou
'GT pounds to the man, had %''Gi
advantage in beet,
The Whitman team is again undo
! the direction of Vincent t'Nigp BOZ
lrSkc, some six years ago cUnsiuGrt
the greatest all-arOund fuliback IN "a
, northwest. BorlcSke also WAS a sta
, track man and won much fame aS
u pitcher After graduating from Nh.'
o man he pitched professional bah IL
, Il few years. finally leaving his dla
n | mOnd cndeaNorS to become director I
. | athletics at his alma mater. lie ~
enjoyed good success with unit.
amount of material from which
! ! fashion his teams and IS exceeding
! popular at Whitman. He Succeede
, Archie Hahn as director of athletics.
= The Whitman team has two game
o lett after playing Montana, lining u
n against Idaho in the annual conte'
% between the two teams. who are III
% rivals. on November 10, and mcctir
~ the Gonzaga team on ThanksgiviI
N day.
~ BorlcSke has eight veterans in II
lineup this fall, while the new men a
Il all experienced football players.
ELI Grief. end: Captain Bush, tackl
johnson, guard: Balm, center; Com