The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-09-30
NJ. j. S ELEVEN
IS BEGINNING TO
ROUND IN SHAPE
Coaches HippIer and SChIOsS
Have Likely Looking Bunch
Out of Which to Mold
Championship Team.
sY BOB PleuE.

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- OACH c, W. HIPPLER, as
~ sisted by Assistant Coach
Gilbert Schloss. is husily
engaged In molding a high
class football eleven for
Memphis University school
this season. and one slant
~ at the abundance of material
that turns out each after
noon for practice shows
theFe y every indication that the Red
and Blue will be heard from I'm the
where
Head Coach Hlppler is from North
western university, where he was a
nneman, and three years later was with
Battle Creek Normal The squad is
already at work running signals and
getting In shape to start the season,
There are eight letter men back this
year as follows Liddon. guard; Lawrie,
captain and center. Rainey, end; Crump
end Thompson, tackle; Gibbons. half;
McGoldrick, guard; Creson. full.
Perkins, the crack little quarterback
or the 1918 team, is now attending the
University Of Virginia, and Bob Smith
wick looks like the most logical candi-
GATE TO take his place. Hunter, who
played half last year, Is also gone, and
John Shea will take his place. Bolton
smith, tackle, who is now attending
HaVerford, will be supplanted by some
good man, There Is lively scramble
on Tor his job, with several promising
candidates out making a bid for the
position
The squad is practicing every after
noon on the M. U. S. campus from 3 to
8 o'clock
The team is expecting to get under
way next Saturday, although 1t is an
open date on the schedule. An effort
Is being made to line up a good team
70 meet them, but II this isn't done
the team viii be split in two and the
regulars VIII go up against the second
squad, In this way Coaches Hippler
and Schloss will have an opportunity to
overlook their entire layout of material
IN action and get a line on what some
OF the newest canSidates can do UNI
der fire. At present the greatest diff
heulty is that there are several good
men for each position, and il is going to
require keen Judgment on the part of
the coaches to pick, the right man,
Have Tough Schedule.
Oct 4, which will be next Saturday, Is
an open date. On the following Satur-
DAY, which will be Oct. II, the Red and
Blue squad will go to Clarksdale. Miss,
where they viii tackle the high school
team at that PLACE. On Oct IS they win
go ec TO brownsville and meet the high
school squad Oct 81 will find the NJ.
Y. s. outfit in Mayfield, KY, where
they will clash with the high school
team, The following Saturday, Nov. /,
NJ. U. S. will meet the Princeton, KY,
high school team
On Nov, s the first home game Of NJ.
u. $, will be played, when Coach Hip
piers men will go up against the West
Tennessee Normal eleven This Is ex-
pected to be one OF the hardest games
on the schedule. An effort is being
mace TO arrange a game with the
Columbia Military academy for Nov. ID,
but nothing definite has developed as
yet in regard to this game.
On Nov q, which will be Thanks
giving M. IT,. S. will meet Central high
school in the annual game between the
two teams, This will be the hardest
game on the M. T. s, schedule,