Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-05
TECH TO BATTLE
FOR GREATEST OF
GRIDRON HONORS
Portland Team to Meet Har-
risburg For Champion
ship of Country
BIG SCOUTS ARE COMING
Colleges and Universities Are
After High Schools
Stars

the Mecca for lovers of tootpall
from all parts of the east. For
Harrisburg will stage tomorrow on
the island the first championship
contest for highest honors ever play
cd in the State. Football fans, col
lege coaches, word painters from
Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and New
York, will go to Island Park to-
morrow to see the Technical High
School eleven match its skill with
the champions of the New England
States.
Harrisburg has just recently
awakened to the fact that Tech has
a football machine that has no
match to date. With Scott High, of
Toledo, afraid to do battle, with Erie
defeated at that place last Saturday;
with Masten Park, of Buffalo, hoist
ing the white flag following the Erie
victory, Tech sent out challenge
broadcast, and Portland, Maine, re-
sponded.
Portland is noted for its fine har-
Dor; for it's beautiful scenery; it is
famous as the home of the great
American poet; it boasts of its water
falls; of its lumber markets and its
mirrored lakes. But all of these
are but a mere bagatelle compared
to the magnificent football team
that will battle against Tech to-
morrow.
Pick of New England
For Portland is considered the
pick of the New England High
school teams as result of its VIC
tories over the high schools of Man.
chester, New Hampshire and
Waltham, Mass. The visitors are
coached by Fred Ostergren, famous
Holy Cross athlete, who has Installed
that system in the Southern Maine
institution during the past three
years.
brought such great fame to Har-
risburg as this battle tomorrow.
Reading, Lancaster, Leoanon, York,
williamsport, Altoona-in fact every
town within a radius of 100 miles
will send delegations to see Teen
win. and in each instance they will
root for the native sons of Harris.
Student Body Out
The entire student body will
march to the station and escort the
Portland boys to the Bolton House
where they will make their quar-
tors while in this city. Tomorrow
the Maroon student body, augment
cd by Central, Edison and Camp
Curtin goods, will form a parade.
headed by the Municipal band, and
march to the island in body. 1t
will be u holiday for the city in
general.
With college football laid away
on the shelf for the season, coaches
from all over the east Will attend
the game to make bids for the best
alI-around athletes in this part OF
the country. Athletes who can play
football, basketball and track and
do all equally well. For champion
shin was brought to Tech last year
in each of the three sports. Glenn
Warner is coming in from Pitt to
look over several backheld stars
whom he expects to land next sea-
son. Tom Ready has been in this
city for several days. He is tutor at
I.ehigh. "Bin" Hollenback. of Penn.
will be on the ground. He has hopes
of getting Wilsbach and another
Tech star at Penn next season. In
addition TO these coaches. there will
be scouts from all of the smaller
colleges.
1t will be a championship game.
between two champion elevens. and
not n person in the city but expects
Tech to emerge champion of cham
pions. Taggart. of Rochester; Oke-
son. of Lehigh: Hitchler, of West
Virginia, will be the three extra men
on the field tomorrow afternoon
when Tech meets Portland, Maine,
in the championship battle for the
supremacy of the United States.
Tech Heavier Team
Tech will go into the fray with
the heavier team, averaging almost
40 pounds to the man. The visiting
team will be five pounds lighter.
Tech has not been in better shape
for some time than it will be to-
morrow. Hoffsommer is still slightly
under the weather, but with Harry
Ellinger playing n bang-up game,
the gap in the line will be well
takes place at $50 tomorrow, the
largest crowd is expected to be on
hand that ever witnessed a struggle
on the island. The crowds of seven
and eight thousand that attended
Central-Tech battles will be far out
numbered with good weather
Carl Beck, Wilsbach. Lingle and
Garrett viii comprise the Tech
backfield at the start of the game.
Both teams hope for dry field. A
muddy gridiron will handicap both
aggregations and eliminate that
spectacular open field running for
which Tech is famous. The visitors
are a well-rounded, rugged bunch