The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-09-14
GRID
BIG THREE TO
START SEASON
Call Will ResOund Tuesday
When Huskies Begin Work
for 1925

Chicago, Sept. l4.-~(R-The call to
the gridiron will resound throughout
the Western Conference football
camps next Tuesday afternoon when
the huskies begin work for the 1928
season, which promises to be a record
breaker.
Three big features mark the inau-
gural in the middlewest. The first
is the uncertainty with which many
elevens will start work, due to the
absence of many of their stars which
scintilated during the 1924 season.
The second is the increasing number
Of intersectiOnal games scheduled by
Big Ten teams. The third is the
number Of new faces and changes
in the coaching stats.
Chicago, Illinois, and Michigan APP
pear to be in the big Ten" again,
although the loss of veteran material
gives any one of the other elevens a
chance to grab the honors.
Amos Alonzo Stagg. the Grand
Old Man of Football" in beginning
his thirty-fourth year as the Univer-
sity of Chicago football mentor. faces
the task Of building a team with on.
ly mediocre material. most of which
saw experience last season.
Coach Robert Zuppke, of Illinois
will build his offensive machine
around Harold RED" Grange, the ma
TONS greatest backfield star and All
American for the past two seasons.
But Zuppke has no forward wall.
From end to end the little Orange
and Blue coach has a gap to fill.
Coach Fielding Yost, minus the
services of his right hand man.
George Little, will take the helm of
the Michigan machine with a host
of veterans at his command. The
Wolverines loom as a potential
championship contender.
A new face appears in the big
Ten" coaching field this season in
DR.. c. w. Spears. formerly Of Dart
mouth, who comes to the Gopher
post from West Virginia.
The storm of controversy at Wis
consin last season cleared up with
the resignation Of Jack Ryan and the
acquisition of George Little as ath-
letic director. Little has been a,
Michigan where he did most of the
football coaching although Yost was
the figurehead. Titles move to Mad
ison marks new era in Wisconsin
athletics.
Jack Ryan is to assist Coach Glenr
Thistlethwaite at Northwestern in
bringing the Purple out Of the grid
iron DEPTHS into place of promin.
ence. Northwestern went outside The
western conference to acquire ar
athletic director in place Of the late
Dana Evans. in Kenneth L. Tug
Wilson of Drake University.
The scheduling of big intersection.
al games by five of the ten western
conference schools indicates the
growth of recognition attending foot
ball progress in the middle west. Chi.
cago has the hardest schedule with 8
powe rful southern foe and two big
eastern elevens lining up against the
Maroons. The first game Of the sea.
son finds Stages ever crafty team
facing Kentucky, on Oct. 8. Las
year the Maroons played Missouri
in the opening game, only to fall
before the rugged but ragged attach
Of Tigers for the only reversal suf
fered during the wear. On Oct. p
Chicago goes to Philadelphia for ,
big tilt with Pennsylvania and last il
the year. when Stagg has rounded hi
team into shape, Dartmouth. the BIZ
Green eleven, comes to Chicago tt
meet the Maroons on Stagg field.
The other conference teams SEIZED
uline intersectional games arl
Northwestern. Illinois, Ohio State
and Michigan.
Columbia plays q return game
with the Buckeyes ct Columbus OF