Indiana daily times., 1920-10-26
PREP BATTLES
FRIDAY CARRY
TITLE CHANCES
Tech-Manual and ShOrtridge-
Wabash Games to Supply
Fuel for DOpesters.
CITY CONTEST ATTRACTS
BY HEzE CLARK.


Shortridge will play Wabash High
School at Wabash, Manual Training High
School meets Technical at the Butler
athletic field.
The latter game will have a direct
bearing not only on the city cham
pionship, but also on the State High
School football honors.
The game between Shortridge and Wa
bash is no less important. for no team
outside of indianapolis has shown the
class of football equal to the Wabash
High School.
While it is expected that the Tech and
Manual game will draw one of the record
crowds of the season, still the results OF
the Blue and White athletes Dattle
against Wabash will be watched with
just as much. interest Friday.
The high school situation in the state
is somewhat mixed. Two teams in
Northern Indiana are superior, or at
least they are undefeated this year.
These teams are Wabash and South Bend.
The latter defeated Gary and has been
going big. Wabash has team OF vet
-eran football men who have not been
halted. piling up many one-sided scores,
and even defeating Elwood, which team
is a strong combination.
TEAM BOASTS
OF CLEAN SLATE.
With such stars as Frazier, Showalter,
Wilson and the speedy Marks, the
Wabash High School team has so far a
clean slate. Yiu Shortridge have a
chance to win? Every north side boy
Of this city hopes that the Blue and
White combination will be returned a
winner.
Shortridge and Manual football squads
had fewer experienced football players
at the start Of the season than did
Tech Manual met Wabash High School
in the first game Of the season and the
experienced team from Northern In
diana won, 2S to 0. 1t was only to be
expected that a school where football
had been played every year for twenty
five seasons would be able to defeat a
school that was starting football again
after a vacation of thirteen years. All
Of Wabssh's points were scored in the
first three periods and Coach Evans
team came back strong in that last pc
riod and played Wabash to a standstilL-
This showed that all the Manual ath-
letes lacked was experience and, had the
game been scheduled later in the season,
the score would have been close.
The Shortridge team lost TO Bloomfield.
one of the best teams OF southwestern
Indiana, in the opening game of the year,
and that defeat was due TO two things,
first to the lack of football experience
on the part of the Shortridge athletes
and second to the playing Of Kidd, the
bloomfield full back.
Since that game Coach julius has
taught the Shortridge athletes lot about
how 10 play the gridirOn game. He has
developed a line which is equal or su-
perior from tackle to tackle TO any other
high school line in the State. The FIVE
center men on the Blue and White team
are the type of line men who can move
and they are aggressive on both the of
fense and defense, and these men will
give the Wabash High School line men
the battle of their lives.
HE'S POWER ON
THE DEFENSE.
Kilgore, Shortridge full back. is a
wonderful defensive player and this
means that Wabash's chances of defeat
ing Coach Julius team center in the
ability OF Frazier and Marks to get
around the Indianapolis end. or forward
pass on the wings. Kflgore's ability to
slap down forward passes over the center
of the line was so clearly demonstrated
in the Shortridge sided victory over
Brazil, that il is a sure bet that Wabash
will not try forward passes near the
big full back, which means over the
center of the line.
While 1t is admitted that Marks of
Wabash is probably the fastest runner
on any high school team in the State, 1t
is also stated by critics that Frazier, his
teammate, is the best half back in the
State Therefore, it is Frazier and Marks
In Clark. right half back, Coach Julius
has developed the best punter seen on a
high school team in many years. Clark's
toe, If Lusby viii call the pu4tt signal
when in trouble, will keep Wabash fan
from the Blue and White goal line many
times.
The improvement of the Shortridge
team since early in the year is shown
best by the comparative score route
Shortridge lost to Bloomfield by about
twenty points. Bloomfield trounced
Worthington. one of the best teams in
the State. but Bloomfield lost to Clinton
The Clinton team scored only a 20 {
victory over Brazil. while Shortridge
scored a 4S-to-6 win against Brazil a
week ago.
IMPROVED LINE
BOLSTERS TEAM
This means that Shortridge is fifty
points stronger than when II lost the
first game of the year to Bloomfield and
much of this strength is due to the
strong line developed by Coach Julius.
VIII Coach Archie Ereharts Tech team
take the measure OF Coach Evans Manual
machine
Tech is the heavier team and Tech has
not lost a game. having defeated kirkhn
81 TO z, and Newcastle IL to 0. Both oi
these opponents supposed TO be strong
we're unable to halt the powerful ohense
Of the east end team.
Manual while losing to the powerful
Wabash eleven in the first game Of the
year, has kept its record clean since thai
time The improvement Of the Soutf
Side team has been marked. The 13-to-
victory over Sheridan (the city made
famous by footbalD was a big feather In
the hat of the Manual coach. for it was
a clever forward pass that won the game
In that department Manual was weak In
Its first game with Wabash. but strong In
its last game which was played against
Sheridan This shows team play, ano
team play is what eleven men must nave
to win football games.
The big contest at the Butler athletic
field Friday between Manual and Techni-
cal High Schools will be one of the most
interesting football games of the year
The big crowd that is sure to witness
that game will be well repaid. for they
will see In p. Payne of Tech one OF
the greatest ends on any high school
in the country. Nipper, Griggs and Gle
ger form a powerful back field for Tech
Wertz and II. Harmeson are sure to
gain much ground for Manual, and then
again it must be said that Manual has
developed a line that may prove a big
surprise to the Tech forward wall. The
line is important and IL Manuals line
might defeat the east end eleven, but II
the Tech line can outplay the Red and
White forward wall then the play of the
big Tech back field combination may
give that team the edge. 1t will be some
game and the winner viii be in line for
the city championship and will have
some claim to State hOnors.