The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1920-09-30
STATE(OLLEcE
WARRIORS READY
FOOTBALL TEAM TO HAVE OPEN
ING GAME AT Aberdeen
SATURDAY
NEW MEN SHOW UP WELL IN PRACTICE
Northern Normal Expected to Put
Up a Good Fight - outlook
Is Encouraging.

State college opens the 1920 football
season Saturday with a game at Aber-
deem against the Northern Normal and
Industrial school. The team will leave
tomorrow and a good sized delegation
of rOoters expect to go up Saturday
morning. The northern teachers
claim to have a team of sterner stuff
this year than they ever had before
and the game may prove to be a hard
fought contest. Local fans are per
fectly confident that State will give
them a good %trouncing and are mainly
interested in the manner in which
the new men will show up. Captain
Jim Salisbury may not be in the line
up for Saturdays game because OF an
injury to a ligament received in a
scrimmage last Saturday.
Coach West has been bringing his
men along rather slowly and care
fully and as yet his first string men
are without injuries other than the
few early season bruises. 1t is likely
that two teams will make the trip
to Aberdeen and every mar will be
given a chance to display his wares.
States material this fall, as last,
seems to be ample to furnish two
fairly good teams. Those who watched
the scrimmage last Saturday say that
Coach West is developing a machine
hat is a sure championship getter.
The new men are showing up very
we'll in practice. George Thompson.
a husky lad from Fort Dodge, Ia, is
holding down left end and looks near
ly as good right now as any end de-
veloped in the state last year. He
blocks and tackles like a veteran
and catches and passes like a big
Lacquer.
Carl Bennett, Jimmie Stout, and
Thune are now candidates for back
field jobs and all have considerable
ability. Art Johnson, a former N. n.
/. S. star, is trying out for quarter
back and full. He is a short, sturdy
fellow, has a good pass and punts
well. Jack Funk, a track star, is IN
other new man. He has had five
years experience playing quarterback.
He is ar all-arOund player as he can
punt, pass, drop kick and is a fast
man carrying the ball.
Welcome Waltz, who served with
the First Division in France, and has
a wonderful record, even for that ia
NOUS division, is an experienced play
or nrJ 1nDEc tho part IIa r,InC with
his knees high and wide and has the
faculty of kicking off wOuld-be tack
lCrs. Willadsen and Roberts, star
h~alfbacks of last season, are going
good, as usual. Roberts was unani-
mOusly chosen all-state half last year.
His forte is running back puntS.
WilladSen has the makings Of one
of the best halls in the country. He
hits the line like a fullback, has a
good sidestep and whirl and tackles
and blocks with all his might. He
was a comparatively green player last
year. but has shown wonderful i'm
provement.
In Simonson, Lippert, Bachman and
Lee, Coach West has a quartet Of
guards that ought to last the season
out, and it certainly will be inter
esting to watch their battle for the
first call for the positions.
Towers and Mckay are a pair of
centers, both of whom played last
year and both are feeding the old
pigskin to their backs in nice fashion.
Both of them have the faculty of be
ing in the right place at the right
time. Simons, 4 new man, is big and
aggressive, and if he can keep up the
place he set on his first night out
there will be a little doubt but what
he will earn a place on the team.
On the whole the outlook is so en-
couraging that States coaches are
hopeful Of beating the university in
the big game of the year. This feel
ing is based entirely on the knowl-
edge that State will have a better and
stronger fighting machine than she
had last year. However, much can
happen to a football team during a
season, and it will be interesting to
watch the two big rival teams as they
go through their respective seasons, ,
each getting ready for the supreme
test to be made at Sioux Falls next
month.