The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1929-09-27
FOOTBALL SEASON
+ HAS OPENED AGAIN
Great American Intercol-
legiate Sport Is Here.

in any section according to reports.
Practice has started at all major uni
versities, about the same time as in
previous years.
When the Big Ten squads reported
coached last year. There have been
only two radical changes in the coach
ing stats. Harry kipke, one Of the
greatest backs in Michigan's foot
ball history, will direct the Maize and
Blue eleven. He succeeds Tad Wei
man, a former Michigan player who
became head coach when Fielding ii.
Yost decided to devote his time to the
athletic dictatorship.
Aside from the appointments of
Kipke as head coach at Michigan and
Willaman at Ohio State, the only
other important change in coaching
STATS of major institutions is at Ne
braska. Dana Bible, who learned his
football at Carson Newman university
and who has coached for years
in the South, will be in charge of
football at the CornhuSker institution.
tractive intersectional contests. Among
these will be Army and Illinois at
Champaign on November 8, Harvard
at Michigan on the same date; Col
gate at Wisconsin October 5; Car
negie Tech at Southern California
December IA; Army at Stanford De-
cember %; Notre Dame and Army at
New York November 80, and Wander
bilt and Minnesota at Minneapolis
October II. Colgate will clash with
Indiana at Bloomington October 10
and Mississippi will come up from
the South to play Purdue at Lafay-
cite November 9. .......
No Change In Rules.
Officials who will handle Western
conference football games this fall
held their annual meeting at Chicago
to reach uniform interpretations of
the playing rules.
Maj. John L. Griffith, athletic COM
missioner of the Western conference,
presided. Several prominent officials
talked on the various penalties and
the reasons for them. In general,
however, all concurred that this
years rules are specific and need lit
tie Interpretation.
The forward pass was discussed,
also the five and fifteen yard penal
ties. 1t was agreed that officials sig
nal the score board keeper the rea-
sons for various penalties. The code
will be determined by Major Griffith
and announced before the first games.
Dana X. Bible, new head football
coach at the University of Nebraska
and member of the national football
made the new regulations ruling a
fumbled ball dead at the point of
recovery, explained the rule and de-
Tended himself and the committee in
a meeting at Kansas City.
For the seventh time william T.
giles tennis championship, defeating
Francis T. Hunter. The match was
played at Forest Hills.
comiskey to Rebuild.
Charles A. Comiskey, seventy-year-
old owner of the White Sox, has in
formed his associates that he intends
to rebuild his team himself. In other
words, the veteran baseball magnate
will return from his summer home in
Eagle River, Wis.,, shortly and imme
diately plunge into the business of
giving south side fans something to
cheer about next season.
Two GUESTS who made their repu-
tation in the last generation will en-
deavor to stage comeback this win
ter and have announced their inten-
ton of entering the worlds cham
pionship 1872 balkline tournaments
against the younger stars.
Willie Hoppe, who captured the 1872
billiard title in 1911 and held it, with
the single exception of the year 1921,
until the 1924 tournament, will be
seen in action again this season.
George Butler Sutton is the other
old-timer who will meet the modern
opponents of the game this winter.
1.-THE Iron Man" is the most coveted
trophy in the American battle fleet.
The U. S. S. Tennessee now is in pos
session of the prize. which is re-
ward for prowess in all sports.
The New York Giants announced
the purchase of the contract of Her.
man Pruett, left-handed pitcher. from
Newark Of the International league
Pruett formerly pitched for st. Louis
tn h. vi 81
phia in the National. He became
noted early in his career with the
Browns as nemesis of Babe Ruth.