Evening star., 1927-08-16

/ That list of candidates for the foot
/ bali eleven which has just been an
nounced by the athletic department of
/ the University of Minnesota is wen
worth attention.
When it came to the writer's desk a
man who has an important interest in
/ heavyweight pugilists happened to
! drop into the office
| Gee" he exclaimed, clanCing over
| the list. DO YOU suppose there
would he any chance of signing up
| some of those huskics?"
! True it is that the Noune men who
are eligible for positions on the Gopher
! team this Fall would fill the eye and
excite the envy of the man in search
| of puGiliStiC pachydermS. Of the re
| Cruitinc officer of one of those British
/ regiments. which goes in for soldiers
/ Of heroic proportions. or, in fact, of
any one who for one reason or another
! likes To have around him men who
are big.
one Of the questions most frequent
/ ~ asked the writer ut the conclusion
of his annual foot bali migration
! throughout the various sections of the
country is where they have the biggest
men for foot ball.
The West Coast always comes to
mind upon such occasions. particularly
the University of Washington But
the writer believes that year in and
year out Minnesota and then Nebras-
ka lead them all.
Has Plenty Of Beef
OF the is candidates listed for the
1927 Minnesota eleven, - weight 1870
pounds or more, usually more. Ten
tip the beam at 1S0 pounds or more,
again usually more. Five weigh 10
pounds or over. This leaves only
eight mdgets of the middleweght
class. 100 pounds and over.
DIR. Clarence Spears. who is no fly
weight himself. likes them that way.
1t takes him some time to get them
moving with desired celerity. But
when he does-well consider the 1926
Gopher outfit in November of last
year.
Spears has a faculty for handling
big men. for teaching them to get a
move on. He acquired it in West
Virginia. another place where they
come big.
In this connection a little incident
which marked the first Eastern in
vasion Of the Mountaineers comes to
mind. They visited Rutgers. Foster
Sanford, the Rutgers coach. walked
into the visitors dressing room as
they We're getting into their foot ball
garb. Taking one glance he returned
to his own team.
Boys" he said, ''be sure to play n
very gentlemanly game this afternoon.
Be careful not to make them mad
Then maybe the game will be over
before they get really warmed up
Reverting to the gigantic Minnesota
team, it is interesting to note that all
but 10 are homebreds. Two come from
Washington, two from Iowa, one from
South Dakota, three from North Da-
kota. one from Colorado and one from
Oklahoma.
Fasteners who have seen Monte
Mum in the prize ring-he having
turned pugilist, as almost every one
knows-will gain a pretty good impress
sion of the Nebraska type of lineman
Monte. by the way, who has had ribs
crushed in and an ankle broken in
football, thinks none the less that
boxing is the more Furnishing game.
IF you get hurt in foot ball." he
says, you can lie on the ground with
time taken out and grunt all you
please. In the ring when YOU get a
shaking wallop you have to keep
going, while at the same you must
smile in order to convince the referee
that the punch was just one of those
little things"