Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-09-13
TECH GRIDISTS
TAKE PRACTICE
ON NEW FIELD
Coaches Burgess and Kings
oliver Issue Toys to Many
East Side Candidates.
MATERIAL IS PROMISING
BY HEzE CLARK.

BY HEZE CA@Ahh.
One hundred and fifty husky young
athletes asked to be fitted in football
suits at the Technical High School yes
terday. 1t was the first day of football
practice and coaches and managers were
swamped with demands for football toys.
Thirty suits were issued the first day,
| and today thirty more suits were to be
issued. Within a few days every boy 81
Technical High school who wants to
play football viii be outfitted and every
athlete Will be given fair chance to
make the team
Technical has strong coaching staff
this year Milo D. Burgess of Wis
consin University, Is head coach. VII
liam Kingsoliver, the former star
quarter back at Franklin College, is
coaching the ends and will help with
tho back field. He Is also giving special
attention to developing & punter at the
east end school. Kingsoliver, while at
Franklin, was q wonderful punter and
drop kicker. Choenelworth and Cleye-
land, former Illinois University men are
assistant coaches. 1t is planned that
one Of these men will take charge or the
freshman football squad at Technical
jlst as soon as the varsity squad gets
we'll under way.
Manager Frank German has arranged
an excellent schedule for Technical. and
the Green and White boys will clash
Stth the Greenfield High School eleven at
the new Technical athletic field Sept. 20.
1t viii be the first game ever played
at the Technical athletic field. Black,
basket ball coach, is assisting German
in Issuing football toys and getting the
varsity football team started.
ATHLETIC FIELD
ONE OF BEST.
Just word about that Technical ath
letic Geld. 1t is a real one, evidently
planned by msu who knew what is need
ed to make hrst-class athletic neld
for a big, modern high school cinder
path wide enough for 220-yard straight
away on which eight sprinters can run
, at one time, and wide oval 44O-yard |
track Is almost completed. The concrete
bases for the big bleachers on the south
side of the field are almost completed,
The bleachers will seat $500, and from
any seat every part OF the athletic i1eld
can be seen. The field, as level as
floor. stretches between the cinder run
ming track, and on this field Technical
will play its football games. An excel !
lent feature Is that the taxpayers OF In /
dianapolis are not paying for the held !
out Of school funds, but the bleachers |
and concrete work and other construction
expenses Is being met from the athletic !
funds earned by the teams at the east
side school through the careful manage
ment Of Frank German and other team
managers.
With tho best athletic field ever made
for high school team in the Central
West Technical athletes should show
some class this year. While the first
work of any team is not one in which
a critic can get a real line on just what
strength an eleven will show, still il re-
quired only a few minutes yesterday TO
determine that Technical has material
which. If combined and developed In the
right way. viii make one Of the strong,
est prep school teams in the Central
West
When discussing the football prospects
member OF the Technical faculty hit the
nail on the head when he said, We have
"a Ia. obi am ha
school comes first and we do not per
NIT for one minute any petty Jeslousies
to creep In among the coaches. That Is
why Technical has been successful In
athletics. and that Is why we are sure
Technical win continue TO be successful
DIG SQUAD OF
WILLING WORKERS.
with this idea In mind, the school
first" coaches and players went onto the
new Technical Sridiron yesterday and
worked. The bOys were dripping with
Precipitation after that first work out.
They were a happy, willing bunch OF
kids" and they appear To be In eXcep-
tionally good condition for the start.
However, a track athlete who won fame
on the track team said after practice.
II believe / ran more today than l did
all last spring when making the track
team" Then Gray spoke up, AID the
champion Splinter Of all the Indiana high
schools declared that after going down
on q series of long punts he felt like no
never had run so hard before in all his
life
Technical High School coaching stan.
Far from 1T. SIX Of last years regular
team are lost this season; This loss
would hit any school hard. Such sth-
letes as Griggs, all-State half back,
Screes, second ail-state quarter back aud
chosen as the best quarter back in the
city; Payne, the tail athlete who was
named as allState end; Hodges. the
lanky cel ter, and Sweeney, powerful line
man; are not in uniform at Technical
this year some OF these men viii WIN
fame on college teams this season. Up
dergraff, the stocky full back Of the 1920
team is also missing.
Just the same there are some real ath-
letes among the thirty players who wero
100 more suits issued and without ques-
ton some Of these will make the varsity.
While no captain has been chosen for this
years team, Nipper, captain Of last
years eleven, Is back. He is n half back
/ of exceptional class, and his long s't-9l
punts smiled high down the field in l. e
/ first work out. Graham and Davies, twv
other half backs Of last years squad, were
in suit. Geiger, full back who played 80
! a number of games last year, Is counted
on to fill the place left open By the loss
Other back field possibilities are;
| Nicewander, Harvey, Baldwin, and Vel
sey: Then there is Wilson. the basket
George Hays, former South Bend high
school player, has entered Technical this
year. He can be used at either quarter
back or end. Hays probably solves the
quarter back problem.
DASH MAN 10
AFTER PLACE.
Wolgar, last years regular end, stepped
out in a suit yesterday and In going
down under punts booted by Nipper he
appeared just as fast as last season
Glenn Gray the fastest high school sprint
man in the State, is after an end job
Blakesley, another track star, may make
one Of the wing positions Adkins, bas-
ket- ball player, is trying the grid sport
this season and wants to pay end AS
pinwall, Huston and Garrison also are
otter the end positions and the man who
holds wing on the Technical eleven must
work for his place.
Technical appears to have enough husky
boys to build another powerful line this
season. With Hodges gone, there were
four boys in the first thirty who an
nounced they play center These were
Garrison, Zollner, Mulholland and Swain.
Hiatt, Wilson, Murphy and Curran, all
big husky young athletes, want the guard