Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-10-01
Fighting Spirit and Conf
dence in Coach Big Assets
to Wabash Eleven.
TALENT is RATED GOOD
BY HEZE CLARK.
Times STAR Correspondent.


CRAWF0RDSvILLE, Ind. Oct. 1.-The
tice of the Wabash College football men.
Coach Pete Vaughan is a Crawfords-
Vile man, having played his prep school
football on the Charlottesville team, but
he had double experience In college
football. Vaughan played fun back on
the NOtre Dame team that defeated Mlchl-
gan University and won the western
championship and later he played full
back at Princeton University. In THIS
way he knows both the western and
eastern style ef football.
Vaughan has the confidence OF every
member Of his squad, Of the faculty OF
Wabash College and of every supporter
of the team in Charlottesville. IL Is
this confidence in the ability of the coach
60 develop a winning football team, COM
hined with the famous fighting spirit OF
Wabash. that is sure to be big factor
in the success of this years combination
of Little Giants.
vaughan took hold of a bunch OF
losers and made them win before, ue-
clared a prominent Charlottesville bust,
ness man. "and Vaughan can, and VIII
do ii again."
That confidence in the ability Of Coach
VAUGHAN is one of the outstanding Iea-
lures Of the gridiron situation at Wabash.
still this year no coach In the state mas
lot Of Coach VAUGHAN link seems
to be following the Little Giant squau
and an unusual number of injuries nave
interfered with the building OF loot
bali machine. None of these Is Oh
serious nature. but they are the slight
sprain and charlie horse" type which
keeps athletes out of practice.
yauphan is being assisted by Kari Huf-
fine. former Wabash College star. who
has done much for athletics at the
Hoosier Athens.
ATHLETES TAKING
LOTS OF TIME.
There is one thing certain, and that
is that Wabash at this time is not as
advanced in team play as either De PAW
or Purdue This Is due % the fact that
Coach Vaughan IS not rushing his attn
letes being content 10 make the devel-
Opment of his team slow but sure, ana
have his team ready for the important
battles of the schedule, the majority OF
which will be played late In the season
In this way he takes no chances OF the
athletes becoming stale before the late
season games. A team can be override
yeloped for its early games and some
times will 90 stale" before the lmpor-
tant games played late In the year.
The Wabash team, while not exception
allv heavy when compared with teams
like Indiana and Purdue, Is, however, not
unusually light. 1t might better be de-
scribed as husky. The players Save q
world of go some," and they WORK hard
for Vaughan. There are, of course. some
weak spots In .Vaughan's combination
that must be iroued out by the big coach.
The loss Of kercheval. former Sheridan
High School player, who was star
center at Wabash last year, hurts. Dal-
rvmple n tall man. probably will be
used in the center position in the Tran
sylvania game Saturday. He his tne
size. but his passing must improve II
he is to hold his job. Bradley. a smaller
man, passes better than Dial fymple. but
he lacks the other center SIZE anu
weight. Bradley played on the MOBILES
Vile High School team.
What Wabash lacks IA an experienced
center, the team makes up to a great
extent in It's guards. Cash. powerful
and aggressive played last year and II
will be remembered that In all Of Wa
bash's games last season the guards OF
the Little Giants equaled or Outplayed
their opponents. Cash is as good as any
guard in the state.
KEsSLER MAKES
GOOD GUARD.
Kessler. who played in some Of the
early games last year, is in the other
guard position, and this pair viii give
any combination of guards plenty OF
trouble, and forms stone wall on de-
Tense.
wabash has giant tackle N Mill
SteQ, kOCk lSiuHu tlli-j uAku SchooA
player He weighs 21O pounds and he
proved that he was the third fastest
runner on the Wabash squad yesterday
when the coach lined up his forty ath-
letes on one goal line end they sprinted
to the other goal line at the close OF
like perfect athlete and he mixed them
up in every play during the 40 minutes
Of scrimmage.
Aud, a Cleveland high school boy.
is big and has the drive and Wabash
will find him a good tackle, for be
battles all the time. The real "hnd"
Of the season, however. was made yes
terday when Brucher appeared in suit
for the first time. He Is a powerfully
built man who played football on an
Iowa high school team. While he still
lacks condition, and scrimmaged only
10 minutes, what he did in those min
utes caused every football fan on In
gals field to start talking OF Brucher.
His defensive play stamps him as
line man far above the average. and
lie is sure to make the team as soon
as he has been in suit few days.
Ehlert and Stassand, two of last years
men, are back at the end positions. Both
are tall and both can reach forward
passes.
passes in yesterdays scrimmage which
these men should not have dropped, bur
il is early in the season. and WHEN they
get going the chances are that they will
seldom drop the ball sent via the over
head route.
cox TRYING
FOR END JOB.
Frank Cox, an indianapolis Manual
Training High School athlete, was on
the wing of the second team yesterday
and there seems to be a lot of football
in the tall athlete, but he has never had
the chance to play the gridiron game
until this year. Cox will make the other
ends work to beat him to the first team
job before the season Is over,
Wabash has real combination in its
back field. Weber is at quarter. Herbert
Huffine, star open field man on the
Wabash team in 1919, is not playing
football this year. Weber, however is a
fast runner and can handle punts lie
calls his signals in voioe that can lie
heard and he is a good opep- field tack
Ter. Now that the burden or being the
field general is placed on his khoulders