Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-12-12
FRESHMEN TO HAVE
ONE CAGE TEAM A!
LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL.
CoACH NENBERG TO START
GRIND FOR TURNING OUT FU.
TuRE SQUADS BY TRAINING
FIRST YEAR MEN TO LIMIT

A freshman team Just like they
have IN big universities Is the new
est plan of Coach Dick Newberg,
Ottawa high school. TO build up play
ing material for his varsity
II he can secure the aid Of u Cou-
pie of the male members of the facul.
" who will alternate and coach the
freshies. the team will be organized
with squad OF twenty prospective
looking candidates who VIII go on
the floor every night In the armory
and high school gym in practice. New
berg plans to secure mostly fresh
men but Il few sophomores may be
allowed on the squad for the new
team.
The new team Will journey to 9th
or towns. play curtain raisers for IN"
big games aud lastly act as somebody
else in practice. The latter sugges.
ton applies to their adopting some
other teams system of ofense and
defense and using 1t against the var
sity.
Many small towns are continually
communicating with the local men
tor for games, They usually have
teams that would be below the class
of the high school second team but
freshman team would give them a
good battle.
Then all members of the freshman
five would learn great deal and
build up Coach Newberg's hoped for
everlasting chain of the athletic de-
velopment His varsity and grade
school team leave a missing link for
every aspiring eight graders are very
seldom able TO do anything when in
their freshman year in the high
school. However, a freshman team
would take the place of the missing
link and make the unbroken line for
the creation OF real teams
For basketball or anything else in
stilled in schooiboy will stay with
him until he sees fit to quit his ath.
letic career. Kids basketball will
start the first Saturday after the
Christmas holidays.
Full particulars of Newberg's plans
for those days will be announced in
these columns at a later date
Big Athletic Night.
A big athletic night will be sport
for the basketball fans who trek over
10 the high school next Friday night
to take in the treat that is being pre-
pared for them by Coach Newberg
The purpose of the night is to raise
money for the coming basketball
season
Coach Newberg's present plans and
orders call for twenty new basketball
cuitc TAI aud gnpppI
fits The suits will cost around $3.50
while with the additional costs OF
the schools share of the players
shoes the cost will go we'll over the
S4Q0 mark. In previous years every
man has purchased his own shoes.
which gave great variety OF cheap
and inferior kicks worn by the play
ers. The local mentor has hopes this
season Of raising enough money to
purchase twenty pairs OF dogs" but
even Ii he can't secure the necessary
funds to pay the entire cost he will
get as much as he can and pay that
on the shoes Coach Newberg has
visited all OF the local stores and has
picked out the best shoes for his pur-
poses.
Shoes are the. most important part
bf an athletes outfit and without them
team can get nowhere Many
will remember that last year there
was ALWAYS SOME PLAYER on the bench
with trouble with his feet. Newberg
does not propose to have any such
trouble as he will secure the best
footwear and medicines possible for
the, attention of the feet
The program arranged for the big
coming night will exhibit the two
star girl teams in the school in com
bat white the two boy teams will also
meet. The boy teams viii be com
posed OF many members Of the high
school squad and the teams are Just
on the edge for the big battle and