The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-09-18
SPEARS WILL GROOM
MEN FOR WESLEYAN

Morgantown. ". Va. Sept l7-(Spe-
cial)--Wese Tirginias head football
coach, Or. Clarence Wiley Spears. recog-
nizes that even after due allowance has
been made for wild runners. false reports
and all tina. sort OF thing Rob" HiS-
gins viii have a football team at Wes-
leyan this year which will merit consid-
Grafton when the Mounta!neers and the
MethodiSts meet az South Side Park on
Saturday. September 30th.
Therefore. Secret practice" is the or
der on Monday afternoon and continuing
till after the Wesleyan encounter. So
49, no provision has been made even for
students watching the workouts and
Spears states there will be none. II is
barely possible. Of course. that students
may he admitted for brief period the
beginning OF each practice the latter
part OF the week. but this will be only
while the men are warming up. Forma-
ton. signal drill and all that sort OF
thing will be strictly sub rosa so far
as the students and the general public
IS concerned.
While the Mountaiueer squad was IN
training at JaCkson'S Mills. numerous
reports came in from those who had
seen the Methodist squad stating that
The Buckhannon aggregation was per-
meated with former Western Confer
ence players. and others who had seen
service on the leading teams Of the east
and west. No credence has ever been
placed in these reports bv West VIZ
-r.inia authorities but IL Is recognized on
every hand that Wesleyan has gathered
together this year by far the most
formidable bunch OF material that has
sraced her campus since the regime or
GREASY" Neate five years or more ag"
That Higgins Is real coach. nobody
doubts and he is ably assisted ny hc!cei
Ross and Carl Miller.
So. while the i92n aud 1927 Wesleyan
teams were TO an extent "set ups" for
the Mountaineers nobody who Is in
formed at all thinks that this condition
IS going to obtain on September goth
and Spears ia preparing for real bat
tie.
No Morning workouts.
Spears had originally intended to con-
tinue the training camp program for
practices for the three DAYS os regis
tration at Morgantown. This would
have called for a light workout In tho
morning. and an intensive session in tho
afternoon. However. on his arrival here
last night IL was announced that since
the men were already in good shape and
the development of the team was salts
factory. he would eliminate the morn
ing practice order and have long Sc
will be inaugurated AT once and Instead
Of a workout tomorrow morning long
drill win be on the program AZ o'clock
IN tho afternoon.
Freshmen Practice.
The frs, real work. for the develop
ment OF Ward I.anhams 1926 freshmen
eleven will start tomorrow afternoon
when a dozen or more Of tho thirty
three Freshmen who attended tain inS
ramp and twenty-five o: mora new can
s,dates will he equipped and assemble
on Falling Run field for inc 'nit'ai
workout, Nothing was done at training
ean,p toward tho development or Ian
S,n,'s eleven except that larc" mum
nor OF first wear men got valuable OK
nsr,encs In working ont With the var
.,tv snuad However. Lanhans team
n,avs no game till Potomac state Is met
., Eeyser on October 7th. Thre" weeks
will therefore be availahl" for l.annah
snd his new assistant. Grant Hall. 70
.nrr nm tho team and a very successful
,eason q looked forward 10.