The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1921-10-29
Wrestling AND
CR0SS-GOUNTRY
RUNNING AT v V j
One Hundred Students
Now Training Along
These Lines

MoRGANTowN, Oct. 2s.-While
interest in athletics so far as the
undergraduates and majority OF
West Virginia fans are concerned
is conferred in the football team
the main remains that no less than
than ono hundred students are now
training diligently for the coming
wrestling and cross country sea-
cons.
For the past two weeks sixty men
have reported to Coach r, B. Day.
ton at the Ark" to receive In
s:ruction in wrestling. Coach Day.
ton, who has business here to at
tend to Mt this time OF the year, IS
only available three afternoons
week but this does not Interfere
with the men who report every day.
At present Dayton Is instructing the
candidates I'm holds and counters
and will continue to piece stress on
the rudiments OF wrestling until
about December LIST when the
real" work for tho mat season
will get underway.
Captain Scotty Hough will uu.
doubleday make the team again this
winter and the 125.pound class will
be well taken care OF. Burdette
another 1875 FOUNDER: Stricken. III
pounds: and Lambert, 135 pounds.
all veterans from the 1921 crap
plinE outfit are all out again be
cause of their experience have the
edge on the new men. However
some of the newcomers are apt
pupils and Coach Dayton believes
they will give his veterans tough
battle for a Varsity berth.
When football season ends about
twenty more candidates will he add
ed to the squad. Joe HaTrlcS
steve Harrick. Mcdonald and Tur-
kovich, all Varsity football men,
/ were regulars last winter and they
+, have informed Coach Dayton tha'
they will report after the ". anc
! ]. game ON Thanksgiving. In ad
! dition 10 these lettor-men in the
| football sport at least fifteen 9th
or pigskin chasers Gun be dependec
upon to try out for the team a..
| Mountaineer football men seem 10
Itake ia wrestling nHtuTaiy. Thear
men will adj greatly 10 the strength
OF the squad and give Coach Day
iton an excellent nucleus from which
to build up strong team for 1922
! Cross Country Team Practieing.
| Unde. the direction OF Homer
/ Rowley. who captained the West
! Virginia tract; team in 1920, forty
men are trying ont for the Noun
! ta.necr cross country team. Row
| lev returned to the university thir
! fall to complete his course aftei
coaching the Pannshoro nigh tract
! team last spring Under Rowley's
tuielage the Pennsboro cinder patti
aggregation won the state NEE
here last June so # Is evident tina:
Coach Nate Cartmell could not fin'
I n moro capable man to put in
charge OF thu squad during tn
early part Of the season. Cart
nell IS now busy training the foot
bali squad.
The forty men report to Rowle!
i three times a week and he leads
them over the nearby hills at .
slow pace. So far the runs havf
only been a mile in length. but be
ginning next week Rowley tntends
! 10 increase the distance. Rowley
Rufus Lazzell and Ralph Knuttt
tho latter two Varsity men in track
are tho only three men out for the
team who are we'll known. Th'
others are all newcomers hut arc
said to be showing good form foi
i their first ATTEMPT at the sport.
! This year will mark West viz
Einia's Inauguration OF cross coun
I try running. A meet has ALREADY
been arranged with Pitt and 1t will
! probably be staged next month
4 triangular meet with ALLEGHENY
College and Carnegie Tech is also
under consideration In order to ere
alto some interest in the sport here
However, nothing definite will b'
done until the dates OF the meetg
I 1rn namnd