Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-08-23
EARLY START FOR
COLLEGE ELEVENS
Preliminary Practice Will Be in
Full Swing Shortly After
Labor Day
TIGERS BEGIN ON SEPT. IA

Although the football season will not
| get under way for more than n month.
It is only a matter Of O week or so be-
fore college athletes will dust off the
padded pants and have the jerseys all
washed up for the preliminary work.
| outs.
Penn will get off to a flying start on
Labor Day. and other colleges in the
East will follow in rapid order.
first practice being scheduled for Sep
tember II. By that date all the can
didates will be out battling to repre-
sent their alma matters on the gridiron.
I Coach Jack Heisman will use Cape
May as his camping grounds in the
early days of the practice season. The
former Georgia Tech tutor will take a
! squad of twenty five asplrants down to
the coast resort and another large squad
will start training at Franklin Field
under big Bill Hollenback.
Plenty Of Coaches
From this August viewpoint Penn
could gather a much better team from
| Its coaching staff than from the squad
| Of undergraduates. A combination
made up Of Jack Heisman. Bert Bell,
Bill Hollenback, Icy Levine, Hobey
| Light, Jack Keogh, Gus Zeigler, Tom
Mcnamara and Lawson Robertson.
with Scotty Ranwick and Bill Morris
| TO fill in the gaps, would look as for
midable as the squad Of candidates now
on the list.
Penns prospects are far from bright
| with only six veterans from last years
| squad. The line Is particularly hard
| hit. Three of the half dozen vets are
backfeld men. However, there is plenty
Of material at the Quaker University.
| True enough. it may be green, but with
q coaching staff such as the Fed and
| Blue has this season an eleven to match
il not excel the record made last year
| should be turned out.
Bill Grave. Cochran. Wagner, Rex
| Wray. Mike Whtchill and Pos Miller
are the only veterans from the 1920
squad remaining for this years eleven.
Tigers Hit Hard
Bill Roper also has been hit hard at
Princeton and only eight of the entire
| 1920 letter squad will be back in har-
ness. After the close of the season last
year, it was expected that there would
| be q raft of material available this sea-
son, but failure in examinations has
weeded out the candidates until now
only few remain.
The Tigers open the season on Octo-
ber l with Swarthmore. and it will take
considerable work to turn out a team
to match the strength of the Garnet
so early in the campaign. Two weeks
after the season opens. Ropcr's eleven
will face the Navy at Annapolis. This
should be a real battle.
But Princeton still has Captain Keck
and Don Lourie, and around these two
good eleven should be built. The
| Navy has excellent prospects. The
entire backfeld Of 1920 will be on the
Job again, and the combination of
koehler, Conroy, Hamilton and Mckee
ranks with the best in the country.
There also are many Of last years
regular linemen remaining.
Danny Sullivan. the baseball and basket.
| boz. star. should land one OF the end POSI-
! t!ons at Penn. Danny was IN the Cornell
Day. but tradition was broken when he was
not awarded his letter.
walt Greenawalt. Bill Grave and Carl
Ertresyaag will be the other leading candi-
dates Tor the wing positions.
Tho. Bucknell candidates viii report for
thirty-Hve men are expected to report
-, The Navy has four veterans for tho line.
| They are Captain Larsen. King and Boles.
tackles, and Parr, an end.
coachoa vii, have Inany veterans q RELY
| upon. Ann them CAPTAIN Altrich and