The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-10-01
BY Dick Miller,
Indianapolis Times Staff Core
spondent.

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spondent.
TT AFAYETTE, Ind, Oct. T.
III Coach James Phelan, accom-
IL panied by thirty-flve Of mis-
Boilermaker football team, boarded
the rattler here Thursday for An
napolis, Md, where on Saturday the
first of the present year intersec-
tional football battles between East
and West will be fought with the
Navy team.
1t might be said that Jimmy is
going East to experiment. The Pur-
due line is green, and if there are
any regulars, save in one or two cost.
tions, we failed to see them while
watching the last practice session
here Wednesday. That viii be ex-
pertinent No. /.
Phelan teaches a brand Of sensa-
tional football, and 'e has had in
mind ever since tn scheduling Of
Navy to startle the boys s, or, at least,
make them rub their eyes. This is
very likely to happen when Purdue
struts out onto Farragut field. The
Phelanites will be all dressed up. in
their new airplane cloth pants.
Those New Pants
The new type of pants, being used
for the first time in football, is an
innovation of Jay Wyatt, State man.
ager of the school and college de-
partment of A. G. Spaiding Com.
pany. Wyatt, Phelan and Athletic
Director Nelson Kellogg met at La
fayette last spring and out of the
conference grew the idea of Purdue's
startling football regalia.
With a golden, silken glaze, con-
trasted to the solid black socks, the
gold stripped jerseys and the gold
head gears with black stripes, the
Boilermakers formed 2 dazzling APP
pearanee as they went through their
final dress rehearsal Wednesday.
Those uniforms will knock the
fasteners eyes out. Of course, there
is a business idea in the new cloth.
Wyatt says the airplane cloth, dipped
in rubber, is waterproof and consid-
cradle lighter than canvas. If the
brooches prove durable, then the Pur-
due team can be expected to put on
speed that will make the Navy team
hustle. That's experiment No. 2.
Back Field Good
The purdue back field is no expert
ment. Smiley and Seidel, at quarter
back position, Leichtle and Wilcox
at half back posts and Veteran Glad
ders at full back. present splendid
combination. Wilcox was about the
best thing that trotted on Hoosier
grididons in 1925, and that was his
first year of varsity competition,
Coach Phelan says he is the great.
est in the West today. Cotton" as
he is known to every Purdue stu
dent. can run, gallop, smash or any.
thing else you might call it, to ad-
vance the ball personally. In 1925
he averaged seven yards for every
personal effort expended.
Then he can kick, and that in
cludes punt, drop and place. He can
pass and receive them. too. Is there
anything he can't do?
Left, end on the Boilermakers Is
held down by the versatile Tom Ho-
gan, captain Of the team. Tom is
a great player, bear for punish
ment, a great receiver Of passes AMI
a demon tackler.
Passes to Hogan
The Purdue back field combina-
ton, with it's passing attack, will no
doubt shoot many a spiral to the
galloping Hogan. There, in the opip
ion of the writer. lies Purdues
chances to score on the Navy.
On the other wing. Stillwell. for
mer Shortridge High School star, IS
clever end. He is leading the 9th.
err aspirants at present for the post,
Hutton, another Indianapolis boy
and former Manual star, is looming
as a contender for the same place.
Hutton and Greicus are just shade
better than Malone, Mackle and
Sindelar, so the battle for end posi-
tons is a peach.
Winkler, another Indianapolis
youth, who took up football after he
entered Purdue, and who is a Junior,
is the first.string choice for tackle.