San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-09
ADD
zEST To GRID
PROSPECTS
Big Schools Coming Out
With New Coaches
This Season.

Although the football season will
not get under way until September 15.
when the majority of the country's
leading squads will take their first
practice, numbers of incidents have
transpired recently which are of inter-
est to football fans.
Appointment of DR.. Clarence w.
Spears, the former Dartmouth player
and West Virginia coach, as head
mentor at Minnesota has met with
popular approval among Gopher
alumni and students. DR.. Spears is
elated over his appointment and he :,
will enter upon his new duties with n
deal of enthusiasm. 1t is a certainty
DR.. Spears will develop team which
will be n factor in Western confer
ence football circles as long as he re-
mains in charge of the football situa-
ton.
Fred Dawson, the former Princeton
athlete, who has been head gridiron
coach at Nebraska, goes to Denver
University as chief coach. Fred had
lot Of success with Cornhusker elcvens
anu, dS tue tIlHlule Ut btiiNtF Will DC .
beneficial to him, he should give the
university some winning teams. There
is no disputing the fact Dawson knows
football, and il given the material
will develop the desired eleyens.
Kenneth l.. Wilson, recently APP
pointed director of athletics at North
western, will enter upon his new office
with kindled spirit. Wilson believes
] af ha
Purple institution and he intends 70
build an athletic department which
will be the equal of any in the Big
Ten. Wilson is one OF the youngest
athlestic directors in the conference,
but has had the necessary experience to
not only make the grade but to i'm
prove conditions at Northwestern.
Ira Rodgers, one Of the greatest
players in West Xirginia's football
history, has been chosen to succeed DIR.
Spears. who resigned to take over the
Minnesota berth. Rodgers played full. b,
back for West Virginia. His terrific
line plunging and forward passing
played havoc with many teams. Prince
ton especially, in his last year.
LIONS IN DEDICATION.
Bill Hollenback. the former Penn.
sylvania back, will referee the game
between West Virginia and Penn State
at Morgantown on November II. This
struggle will be the dedicatory feature
of the new stadium, which has been
needed at Morgantown for years.
Both institutions will be represented
by strong elevens this fall and an in
tercsting contest should result.
Howard Jones, the former Yale play
or, who has coached at Syracuse and
| Iowa, and who will be in active charge
Of the University Of Southern Cali
| fOrnia squad this fall, recently an
nounced the TrOjans will open their
season by playing a double-hcader on
September &c. The California 1nsti-
tute Of Technology and Whittier Col
lege will be met on the same afternoon.
Bill Spaulding,, the former Wabash
College player and Minnesota coach,
will leave next month for Los Angeles,
where he will take over the athletic
dictatorship Of the University of Cali
fornia, Southern branch. Bill will
start to assemble his squad early in
September. Spaulding is well pleased
with the athletic possibilities at South
crn branch and predicts a successful
| future for its teams.
Managers Of the Pacific Coast con-
| ference universities will assume con-
troll of the East versus West intersec-
tional game to be played in Pasadena
on New Years Day. The managers
will select the best eleven on the coast
to clash with the best possible oppo-
nent from the Middle West or Far
East. This will take lot OF the re-
sponsibility off the shoulders of the
| Tournament of Roses Committee,
which has so ably handled this affair
| in the past and made II one of the an
nuaI features Of the football season.
Haskell Indians, Of Lawrence,
Kan. and Loyola, Of Chicago. are
scheduled TO play n game in the Grant
Park Stadium, of Chicago, on the Sat
urday following Thanksgiving Day.
Coach Dick Hanley. competent mem
tor, will take his team East 10 meet
Boston College in the Hub City on
October 10. Columbus Day.
LITTLE is BUSY.
George Little. the newly appointed
athletic director and football coach az
| Wisconsin, conducted the most sue
ccsSful summer school in the history
of Badger athletics. & jrge Is a hui
man dynamo and is certain 10 make
| things hum ut the Madison institution.
He is intensely enthusiastic over foot
ball prospects ut Wisconsin and he is
bent on giving the university a win
ming eleven.
Copies of the new football rules will
be ready for distribution this month.
Only n few changes Of importance
have been made and these pertain to
the kickoff, which will be made from
the 40-yard line instead of the center
Of the field; the 15-yard penalty for
clipping was increased to %. to be
enforced from point Of foul. and the
| inf!iction Of the five-yard penalty only
for offside play. On such an infringe
ment, the down will remain the same.
In other words the offense will not be
given first down when the def"rsa
is off side.
Blocked kicks which do not cross
the scrimmage line and are recovered
by the kicking side shall count as
down. If partially blocked and cross
the scrimmage line, they shall be plag-
ed MS in the past. No tees will be
permitted for kick-offs or field goals
and a physician or trainer who comes
on the field must report TO the referee
the same ms an incoming substitute.
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