The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-10-12
LOCAL COLLEGE
TO GO AGAINST
ILL. WESLEYAN
The Contest is an Attraction of FRI
day Afternoon mt Bioem-
fngfsn.
BIZ X. C0NRKY.


Angustana college will play its
first conference game of the 1921
season next Friday afternoon at
Bloomington with Illinois Wesley
an college furnishing the opposi-
ton. Both Augie and Wesleyan
have shown that they are formid-
able contenders for the L /. A c.
championship this year by their
splendid showing in the games play
ed so far. Augustana was defeat
ed in her first game Of the sea-
son by the Little Giants" OF Wa
bash college by one touchdown. and
Saturday took Parsons college to a
% to IA trimming. Augustana's de-
feat at the hands of Wabash does
not show weakness; rather it shows
remarkable strength. Wabash de-
feated Purdue university 8 to b,
and cleaned up on Georgetown COL
lege, Al to o. Holding such a
team to single touchdown speaks
well for the Lutheran school
Wesleyan has also been display
ing great strength. The most not
able feat of the present season
thus far which they have accomp-
lished was, their defeat of Knox
college. Wesleyan scored its two
touchdowns in the first quarter
with straight football tactics, and
this lead was enough to tuck the
game safely away, although Knox
did threaten during the last quar-
ter.
When Augustana and Wesleyan
clash at Bloomington Friday, two
of the fastest backfields in the con-
ference will be in play. Augie will
be represented with Rog Peterson,
Alsene, Littig and Holland. Norton
will not be able to participate in
the contest, due to the fact that ne
is only an academic student and can
play only in non-conference games.
He is replaced by Oren Littig, who
played with Angie in 1918. Yves
leyan is equally we'll represented
in its backfield. Kinzer, well known
halfback with Peoria high school
last year, is familiar to football
fans of the tri-cities. He is COW
ering left half for the Bloomington
aggregation and promises to be an
obstacle in Augustana's path to vic
tory. Forrest Ford is playing quar-
ter for the opposition. Ford is a
Moline boy, and from the results
which he has been getting with his
team, appears to be a great field
general. Haussler, the third mem
Der of Wesleyan's backfield, has
played with the Bloomington elev-
en- for three years. He is fast
shifty, and 4 heady football player
In these three men, Augustana will
have her hands full. The lines OF
a IN H,1
anced, so that Fridays game prom
ises to be a real battle.
Monday, as a rule, is a day of RES
for Swedberg's football crew, but
contrary to custom, Art called prac.
tice this week and sent his mer
through a long workout Saturday;
game with Parsons brought Oh
some weaknesses and the Augit
mentor is determined to make these
null and void before clashing witt
Wesleyan Much work on forward
passing, both on the defense ans
offense, is in line. Augie did no
complete single pass in it's las
encounter, while Parsons got ava.
with some large gains via the SIX,
attack. Half an hour every after
noon will also be spent in runnin,
interference. Swedberg is conf
dent that his team will be workin,
in fine fashion before the end O
the week
At the time of writing, all Grip
Piles on the Augustana squad ar,
shaping up. Littig was not uset
at all Saturday, and Captain Lar
son and Peterson were in the con
test only few minutes. Barring
! further accidents, Art will have {
full crew with which to work Fri
day against WESLEYAN