The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-08-07
PROSPECTS FOR
ATHLETICS GOOD
COACH WEST OF STATE COLLEGE
sEss PROSPEROUS YEAR
AHEAD OF US
COnNG MEN MEAN INCREASED CHANCES
News About the Old Students and New
Men Who Expect to Place State
College Far In the Lead.

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c. A. West, formerly athletic coach
at Shattuck Military Academy, is now
in charge of athletics at South Dako-
ia State College. With fifteen letter
men expecting to return this fall for
football practice ard the number of
high school stars already in line.
Coach West is encouraged to antici-
pate a banner year. Among the ex-
perienced line men who will return
are Dalthorp, Simonson, Burdette,
Evans, Johnson, Thompson, Bacon,
Lambe, Hanson, Rowe, Erp, Salisbury,
Odland, Towers and Anderson. These
men will tip the scales at $50 pounds
or more. Some of them are veteran
men of army camps. Experienced
candidates for back field positions will
be Walseth, all-state full back, Metz
ger, all-state half back, and Howley,
all of whom were dangerous men OF
States back field in 1917. Some ex-
cellent new material will be on hand
for the opening Of the aso Jack
Funk, who played quarter for West
three years at Mason City and was
selected all-state Iowa High School
quarter. is an expert punter and drop
kicker and fast on his feet. He won
the 100 and 200-yard dashes at the
M~orningside meet, IT the Iowa State
College invitation meet and placed in
the same C at Des Moines. Funk
was also selected ali-state basketball
forward. He is rated as one of the
best all-around athletes of the Iowa
high schools. Henry Fuller of Fort
Dodge, an a~ll-state high school end
and a member of the Fort Dodge state
champion basketball team and Cap
tain Nelson of the same team, will also
enroll at State College this fall. Three
stars are also expected from southern
Illinois, all Of whom have held posi-
lions in the back field. McDearmon,
half back from st. Johns Military
Academy and Clarence Johnson of
Aberdeen will also be on hand to bid
for places on the football team. Coach
West, having just arrived at Brook
ings, mas not yet come into touch with
the South Dakota boys. However, he
says he has considerable mail from
uation. State has or her schedule
this fall games with Huron College,
State School of Mines, Dakota Wes-
leyan, North Dakota University. North
Dakota Agricultural College, Univer-
sity of South Dakota and perhaps
Sioux Falls College.
Basil Irwin, a crack middle distance
runner from Shattuck, is now training
on the State College track under
Coach West, getting into condition to
compete for the Illinois Athletic Club
of Chicago in the Central A. A. A. u.
championships on August 16. States
coach, who formerly ran for the l. A.
c., is sending Irwin to compete for
them in the 440 and 88O-yard dashes,
Carl. Schjol in the javelin throw, and
Harold Crawford in the hurdles. These
boys will be up against real competi-
ton against the stars who represented
SA0 OAAtSu DIdIcc III lAC 6dI1cS Ut
Paris. including Joe and Frank Loom.
is. Joie Ray. Fall and Buchett. Both
Irwin and Crawford will enter State
College this fall, and Coach West ex-
poets them to lower records in the
Dakota and Minnesota conference next
spring. Irwin won first in the half
mile and second in the mile In the
indoor meet at Patton's gymnasium in
Chicago last winter in competition
with such men as Bird Of Notre Dame,
and Moore. McCash and Long of the
University Of Chicago. Crawford is
the Mason City boy hurdler who was
featured by the American Boy Maya
zine last winter.
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