The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-05
RIOTERS AWAIT
FIRST SIGHT OF
SNEDBEReIEAM
Dope Points to Ylctary~fsr>Locals
I'm Initial Home -Game~of
tina Season.
BY K.sCnERgY.


Angustan2 college football fol-
lowers viii be- giEen their first OPP
portunify OF the season to see
Swedberg's proteges In action Sat-
urday afternoon. when the Luther
ans go up against Parsons college
of Fairfield. Iowa, on Ericsson
field
Dope and relative strength of the
two teams point to a victory for
tbs Rock Island school Parsons
split even last season. winning and
losing four games of it's eight-game
schedule, whereas Augie won seven
and lost one out of its eight games.
Parsons has practically the same
lineup this year as that of year
ago. Augustana has lost four of
its veterans by graduation. but
these men have been successfully
replaced. Parsons line will be OUT
weighed 10 pounds to the man when
they go up against the Terrible
Swedes. This fact, coupled with
the fact that Augie's backield is
one OF the speediest in the confer
ence, indicates that Swedberg's
men should wallop the team from
Fairfield.
However, the fact that all play
ers on the Parson college team
have played together for two and
three years cannot be overlooked.
This is great asset in their favor,
and it rs very probable that this
years team will show a marked
improvement over the showing
made last year.
Augustana was the only team in
the /. l. A. conference that did not
play Saturday. BY chance, this
was fortunate for Augie, for at that
time Swedberg had four men on
the cripple list However, all of
these men are now in shape and.
with the exception of Littig, all will
start in Saturdays fracas. Littig
suffered a twisted ankle at the be-
ginning of the season. and al
though he is recuperating nicely,
Art does not want to use him if he
can possibly avoid it. Parsons is
not a conference game and the
Augie mentor plans on saving this
smashing fullback for the Illinois
Wesleyan game at Bloomington the
week following Curt Norton will
not be in Saturdays lineup.
Saturday was a day of rest for
football candidates at Augustana
hut Swedberg has been putting his
men through some real workouts
this week. Half an hour of scrim-
mage every night, receiving for
ward passes, hitting the dummy
and signal practice constitute the
general run of practice every after
noon. The Augustana mentor is MOI
giving his men very long scrim
mage workouts for fear of bungins
up some more of the players, bu
he has made up for this in Other
lines. Yesterday afternoon was
spent almost entirely in sigma
practice and running interference
In this department Augie is a little
weak The backfield men are good
open field runners if once given the
chance, but this is impossible with
out good interference. Swedberl
believes that his men will show {
decided improvement in this line
as well as in all other phases Of
the game, when they go up agains
Parsons.
Swanson and Wilson will proba
bly, cover the wing positions, E
Peterson and c. Larson (captain)
will be used at tackle. NJ. Cornell
and A. Larson are slated to battle
at guard, and Wood will cover the
ball In case that Swedberg saves
Littig, Pearce will replace Rog Pc
terson at quarter. Peterson cover
ing the fullback position, with AL
sene and Holland at half
Lexington, Ky-Helen Dillon
proved the best in the Futurity, the