The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-26
EnnTnAEI TEAM
4 UUEDAAL xEtAliI
OF FLORIDA U. IN
SHAPE FOR FRAY
Practice Has Been More Extensive
and Intensive Than Ever
Before

Gainesville, Sept. 26.-University OF
Florida wound up her first week of
football on Fleming field after one of
the hardest practice sessions in her
history. Realizing that with the ma
jority of the squad consisting of green
men except for prep and high school
experience, Head Coach Kline and
Major Van Fleet have practically held
4 school in the fundamentals of the
echnic of football AS both coaches
nave had experience in coaching in
the Middle West, their work is unusu-
ally co-ordinated and the smoothness
If the work has done wonders.
With the game at Columbus, Ga,
only a week off the squad has been
put through some stiff work despite
the heat. AS there are over seventy
men reporting daily the competition i
not only keen but intense.
Head Coach Kline had the linemen
most of the time and after from fif
.een to thirty minutes daily on the
charging machine he has put them
through the drills in charging, de-
tense, breaking through, positions,
unning interference and the use o.
he hands The work has been heart
breaking in the unusual heat here, but
the squad has stood up well as the
practice is broken up by short resi-
periods. The line although exception
ally heavy has gained noticeable
speed and technic.
Major Van Fleet, assistant coach,
has had the back field in charge. With
hours spent on sidestepping, lodging.
change of pace, clipping, passing.
ticking and catching, the men have
II a short time developed into at least
material to work on for fast back
ieh. They have also had the amount
If time necessary to train them in US
If stiff arm, twisting, reverse turns,
knockdown and running down punts
md receiving forward passes. The
ends have been specializing in block.
ng tackles in and out, charging in Oh.
License and receiving passes, besides
he routine work on the dummies ant
running down punts.
The first regular scrimmage was
held Saturday and except for the
Usual sluggishness which typifies tn
beginning of the season, the men
showed the result of the hard and Sc
we're course of training in the funda
mentals The line especially shows an
unusual offensiveness. The backfield
and end men who relieved each other
1t intervals showed the result of their
work and blackboard talks.
Nearly all of the old men are back
and the next three days will deter
nine who will go to Camp Benning
game next Thursday. The practice
besides being of long duration in the
| afternoon will be supplemented b.
nightly lectures and blackboard dem
onstrationS.
1t is impossible at this time to pick
the squad that will make the first trip
but of the last years squad Captain
Perry, Dutton, Dickson, Anderson
Carlton, Gum, Merlin and Beasley
are doing fine work The enthusiasm
| over football has increased daily
Between four and five hundred stu
dents are on the field and in the
grandstand every day, and they are
supplemented by several hundred en-
thusiasts from Gainesville. One OF
| the post season games that the asso
citation is trying to arrange is with
| the University of Georgia the week
following Thanksgiving. This will
keep the interest of the teams at high
pitch and keep them in shape for the
Christmas and New Year games
which, as it now looks will be arrang
ed with northern teams.