The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-20
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In voss, the Michigan Team Claims
Truly Wonderful Grid
FASTENER.
(special to The Argus.l

Especial TO The Argus.)
Detroit, Mich, Sept 20.-Wher
the Detroit Tigers, professional
football team, opens its season a
Rock Island on Sunday. Oct. 2
lovers OF the gridiron game in Dav-
export and Rock Island are going
to see a remarkable pair of tackles
in August Goetz, former University
of Michigan start, and Steamer
Horning, an all-American tackle
while at Colgate. Goetz was Wal
ter Camps second choice for a
tackle berth in 1920.
These two men are of the fast,
rangy type. both aggressive and
both at their best on defense.
Goetz and Horning are about the
same size. The former is feet II
inches tall, while Horning is one
fourth inch under that height.
Goetz weighs 1877 pounds; Horning
tips the beam at 1856. In a dash
down the field it is doubtful if one
cou1d beat the other. and the only
three mem on the Tiger squad capa-
hfe of outsprinting these two are
Voss, the giant end, Sacksteder, the
fastest man on the squad, and Jack
Dunn. former Michigan quarter
back, who will act as field leader
of the professional team.
In Voss, Detroit has truly won
derful football player. This %
year-old giant stands feet 315
inches in height, weighs PIP pounds
in the pink of condition, runs the
hundred in a football suit in the
fast time ,of 10 3-5 seconds, and
can snatch forward passes prob,
ably better than any football play
er playing the game today He can
play end, tackle, guard or in the
backfeld. Going down the field un-
der punts he is unstoppable, at
least he proved so in college cir
cles. Some notion of his worth |
may be cleaned from the fact that
Walter EckeTsali claimed him the |
greatest tackle the west has seen |
since the days of Curtis Redden, |
and Walter Camp picked him for |
his third anAmerican team in |
1920. And Voss attended a small |
school, the University of Detroit
Advanced Ideas.
Coach Bill Marshall is introduce |
ing lot of advanced ideas. Bill |
realizes that to win the champion
he is now enrolled, he will have to
pull the real big league" stuff and
SO he is beginning with a regular
training trip.
The Tigers will do their early
practicing in Davenport, Iowa,
right across the river from Rock
Island. III. They are scheduled to
play their first game in Rock Is
n1f
that by training in Davenport, |
which loves Rock Island Just as |
st. Paul. it is said, adores Mime |
apolls, they will work up a senti-
ment that will not hurt the gate
receipts a bit. In other words, Bill |
thinks that the Davenporters will
adopt the Tigers as their own and
Will turn out enmasse to see them
whip the Rock Islanders.
To Report Early.
The Detroit players will report
Sept 26 in Davenport and will have
morning and afternoon sessions
daily until the time for going into
battle across the Mississippi. They
will thus have a chance to get into
much better condition than is chs
tomary with professional teams i
and at the same time will rehearse
plays until they can execute them
with something of the sureness and /
dash of college aggregation.
Marshall has gathered the best l.
looking squad of professional grid
ders that Detroit ever saw. He I
will need them. for this new league
is thoroughly business-like. with a
fixed schedule. a drastic set of
rules for the conduct of teams and
players. etc
About half the outstanding col
lege stars of the last five years are
enrolled with one or another of
the II teams. Detroit'ha its share
or them, with such PLAYERS as Voss.
Seiz, Applegran. Tallman. Hornfng
Jack Dunn. Sackstader, Guy, Blake
Miller. DePrato. Moegel. Kruger.
Carman. Stobbs and others
The team will open its home sea-
son Oct. 9 with the Dayton Tri-
angles. who expect to have Jim
Ihorpe as the mainstay of their
backfeld.