The Bismarck tribune., 1928-09-17
MOST BLEVENS
BEGIN ASSAULT
THIS WEEKEND
Devils Lake High School Drops
It's First Tilt to Satan I.
Alumni
JIMMIES PROMISING
Mandan Coach Says He Is Not
as Optimistic as Has Been
Reported
JIMMIEs PROMISINC G

as Optimistic as Has Been
Reported
Football candidates for the vari.
GUS North Dakota high schoo'
squads are knuckling dtwn to q final
weeks hard labor with the opening
game of most schools drawing near
Most teams have their first game
scheduled for Saturday, September
22, with few Of the teams charted
to get into action Friday afternoon
With the first game drawing near
mentors in most Of the schools are
initiating a sitter schedule of prac-
tice work. For the last two weeks
the coaches have been satisfied "a
see their proteges kick the ball
around, practice the art Of properly
falling on the pigskin and take short
runs around the practice field.
This week, however, things will be
different. In schools where fresh
men team is available, practice
games with the younger squads have
been scheduled. At several schools
games have been scheduled between
the alumni and aspirants for berths
on the 1928 machines.
The state agricultural high school
at Fargo and the senior high school
outfit at Valley City will get q ONE
day start on most football machines
by virtue Of their games scheduled
for Friday afternoon. The Fargo
team will have little to lose in the
way Of practice by having their first
game scheduled on foreign grounds,
because the six games on their chart
are all away from home. They will
meet the Sheldon high school ma
chine at La Moure.
Coach Claude Miller Of the Valley
City outfit is confident that his
squad will have little trouble in win
ming their first game, with Enderlin
Friday, at Valley City,, Miller has
five 1927 letterInen back this year,
and he can choose from Embertson,
Kelly, Smithlin, Gray, Thorne,
Arthur Orness, Sheehan, Robert
Nugent and Maier. to fill the places
made vacant by graduation.
The lettermen who will be on the
team in the first game are Leopard
Ferguson, end; Harvey Maier
guard; Clarence Orness, tackle; Joe
Sheehan, guard; and Arthur Metcalf
back. Other likely candidates fol
berths are Healy, Zimmerman, Fink.
enhagen, Golseith, Lloyd Thofson
Oliver Thofson, Moe and Nordgaard
Aggies Are Light
Coach J. F. Cline at the state
agricultural high school is working
with light snappy team this year
The present preseason prospects fol-
the team this fall are equally 4.
good as those for the 1925 team
coached by Cline, that played II
games without having q player re,
closer to their goal than the 40-yart
line, Cline says. Cline is expecting
much from the members of the squa(
who have been playing 1t the schoo
for two or three years, Six letter
men have reported for action, includ
ing P. Larson, p. Leer, B. Schnck
r. Pierce, G. Smith and P. Ribble.
Bismarck and Mandan will clasl
in the annual tilt scheduled ct Man
dan September 20. For many year
the game has been first to be lists
on the cards Of the two outfits. Thi
year, however, the Bismarck De
mons will have the benefit 81 On
game prior to the inter city play
They will meet Linton on the De
mons home field, September ~. Ath
letic Director Roy Mcleod Of tn
Bismarck team considers the gam
little more than q warm-up, but b
will have chance to see all his mel
| in action.
Mcmahon Not Optimistic
Although reports from the Man
dan headquarters have been tha
Coach McMahon feels rather opti
lnistic about the coming season, tn
coach himself says that things lool
anything but rosy for the outfit
Only four men have returned fror
last years team, with Q possibilit
Of . fifth coming back. Mcdonald
who played fullback last year, is tn
only back. Fleck plays end an
Forman and Ellison are the guards
The line will average about .16
pounds, the coach said, and the back
field about 148 pounds. There is n
first team material among the fresh
men candidates, he added. Abou
81. huskies turned out for opeI1in
practice.
Coach Roy Mcleod, Of the Biz
marck outfit. believes prospects Or
exceptionally bright this year, con
sidering that nine lettermen hav
returned. A host Of promising lin
and backfield candidates have turne
up, eager to get into the play. Ind
cations are that Bismarck will hay
one Of the heaviest teams in th
state this year. John Lee. 23(
pound tackle, and Ted Meinhove,
| 220.pound tackle, have reported 1
the training quarters for practic'
| and the rest Of the team also
Heavier than the average. For
backfisld men, one end, two tackle
, and two guards are returning to q
squad this year from last years le
tstmsn group.
They are Fay Brown, quarterbacl
Earl Hoffman, fullback; ,Joi
sO,Hare, fullback; Gordie Lander
endy Ted Msinhovsr, tackle; 81
Jacobson, quart4rback; Jim Slatter
tackle; Robert Paris, guard, and z
mer Klipsteini guard. McLeod u
also choose from John Lee, tackj
I'd Spri9gs, hal{back; Grant Hi
j -nD.