The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-09-27
PRACTICE TILTS
SHOW RELATIVE
TEAM STRENGTH
McMahan Forecasts Victory by
20 Points for Bismarck High
Machine
MANDAN LIGHT, GREEN
Mcleod Says Braves Strength
Should Not Be Underesti.
mated, However
MANDAN LIGHT. GREEN

Scrimmagc sessions this after
noon for both teams and a light
workout and signal drill tomorrow
are scheduled to put the Mandan
and Bismarck high school football
squads in shape for their annual
game Saturday.
machine is out for revenge this year
for two singing defeats handed
them last season at the hands Of the
Black and White outfit, and the
chances arc that the Morton county
crew is prepared for any such m
vasion.
The first game of the double bill
will be played at Mandan at the
Fair Grounds. The game will be
called at 3 o'clock, Mandan time.
Coach Roy Mcleod yesterday aft
ernoon sent his team through one
of the most strenuous workouts of
the year. No special team was
picked for the scrimmagc yester-
day, resulting in both teams having
a fair representation of the first
string material.
Although not exactly satisfied
with the showing last Saturday
when the Demons opened the season
against the light, green and mex
perienced Linton team with a 30 to
0 win, Coach Mcleod announced
yesterday that he expected to start
the same lineup against Mandan.
No changes in position are antici-
pated. Mcleod yesterday was
training Spriggs in the kicking de-
partment while O'Hare, Potter,
Landers and Larson were used to
carry the ball.
Mandan inexperienced
Bismarck has a number of per-
formers from last year this sea-
son to show their abilities on the
gridiron.
Mandan will be weak for the lack
Of experienced material. MacDo
aid is the only old man in the back
field for Mandan. Fleck, last sea-
sons end, who sustained a cracked
shoulder in the game with Wash
burn Saturday, will probably be in
the game, although his injury has
kept him from practice this week,
according to Leonard McMahan, the
Braves mentor.
Besides Fleck and Macdonald,
McMahan has Ellison Toman, last
years tackle and Vosika, guard.
The rest of his team will be com.
posed Of men who have never been
in game in their Lives.
Bismarck football fans remember
hA ~ l.
counters with the Mandan aggreRa-
ton when the Morton lads subdued
the Demons 1870 and 14-6. Mandan
also copied one game the year be-
fore by decisive score and tied an
other, IA all.
This year, however, it will be a
different story, Bismarck fans
agree. Even McMahan, the Braves
mentor, has himself conceded Satur.
days game to the Demons. He
! says the local performers have at
least a 20 point advantage over his
proteges. ~n6n
Both teams have won one game
each this season, although these
test games were not so encouraging
~ the scores would indicate. They
played green and inexperienced
teams, Bismarck winning from Lin
ftcn 80 to and Mandan emerging
victorious from an encounter with
1Washburn by a score of Al to 0.
Reserve Strength Fair
1t was during the Mandan- Wash
burn game that Fleck, the flashy
Mandan end, was injured which
Iadded to the weakness of the Man.
jdan lineup for the Saturday game
with the Demons.
/ Both teams have plenty Of re-
serve material. Twenty-eight men
reported for the Demon workout
yesterday, and the Braves were rep
presented on the field with the ap-
spearance Of squad of about "a
hpskies.
Nandan, despite it's weakness, will
present q fine coached machine.
Their strength should not be under
estimated, said the Demon mentor
today. At the same time, it is
pointed out, Bismarck will put q
team on the field that has worked
;wOll together and one that will be
hard to down.
Knowing that Mandan will offer
stubborn resistance to their charges
md while not over-confident by any
means, the Demons will 20 into the
ZANE expecting to win. Mandan,
200, will enter with the same deter
nination and any one believing
'Sjth6r Of these two teams will BE
pnsy to down will have another
KaDss coming. With lidlifters last
1oek with lighter and weaker
nms, the mentors Of the two ma
fhines did not have much chance to
Figure out their rough spots.
q However, those that were brought
but BY the initial play, have been
feceiving considerable attention
nth the result that both mentors
atsill have smoother working arrre-
ations when they take the field
Iaturday.
Il After today's scrimmase,, li9ht
workouts will b observed. consist-
6SfnG chiefly o. fundamsntals. Sir-
Anle Will b run and the boys win
Enye = chauca 70 pass the pieskin
Y ~ before IT, whistles blows.