The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-08-21
3RD STRAIGHT STATE
TITLE MAY Be FRUIT
OF COMING CAMPAIC
Hu|tberg, Spriggs, TAFT, Benser,
Dohn, Potter, Erlenmey-
er, Brown Back
LARGE SQUAD IS EXPECTED
Demons to Play Linton, Man.
dan, Wiliston, Minot,
jamestown, Fargo
LARGE SQUAD IS EXPECTED

Hopes for Bismarck high school
winning its third consecutive state
football championship this fall rest
upon eight lettermen, a goodly num-
Der of experienced men, an expected
large beginning squad, and, of course,
Athletic Director Roy D. Mcleod.
Lettermen who are returning to
school this fall are Captain Walfred
Hultberg, John Spriggs, and Harold
TAFT, ends; Leo Benser, Lester Dohn,
and Henry Potter, backs; Harvey
Erlenmeyer and Dale Brown, linemen.
Bolstering this group will be the
following men who have had a fair
share of experience: Woodrow Shep-
ard and Wade Green, ends; Robert
Stackhouse and Edward Agre. backs;
Lloyd Murphy. Sixten Norlin. Edward
Wherland, Arnold Schneider, Paul
German, and Gus Schlickenmeyer, all
linemen.
BenzOn Will Report
Another back expected to report.
who gained his experience at st.
Cloud. Mimi, is Gilbert Benzon.
speedy Splinter on Bismarck's state
championship track and field squad
last spring. 1t is not known definitely
whether Lucas Harmsen, experienced
performer, will return here to school.
Mcleod said last night that he eX-
poets to call football candidates to the
locker room for the first time during
the first week OF school. which opens
Sept. l.
Missing from this years squad will
be John OHare. Wallace Green. Earl
Hoffman. Charles Whitley, Edward
Spriggs, and Russell Enge, all regu-
lars last season. Frank Smith, an
other letterman last season, also has
finished his high school work and is
lost to the 1880 squad.
Mcleod and his men face another
strenuous campaign this year, with
tough games against Williston, Minot, |
Fargo, and Mandan scheduled away |
from home. On the home schedule
are Linton. Mandan, and Jamestown
and the athletic director hopes to
bring another team here on one week.
end for which no game has yet been
arranged. Missing from this years
schedule is Valley City, which has
proved to be Bismarck's foremost rival
N all lines of athletic endeavor the
asst two years.
Campaign Opens Sept. 20
The schedule will open Sept. 20 with
Unions Lions facing the Demons
here and will close Armistice day with
the Capital City eleven facing the
Braves at Mandan.
The tentative schedule follows:
Saturday, Sept. 2O-Linton at
Bismarck.
Saturday. Sept. 27-Mandan at
Bismarck.
Saturday, Oct. 4-Williston at
Williston tentative.
Saturday, Oct. 11-Minot at Minot
(tentatiye).
Saturday, Oct. 18-JamestOwn at
Bismarck.
Saturday, Oct. 25.-Open.
Friday, Oct. 31-Fargo at Fargo.
Tuesday, Nov. 1l-Mandan at
Mandan.
Floodlights will not be installed at
Hughes field for night games this fall, !
Mcleod said last night. School au-
.horities for a time considered the
proposal to have night games, but de-
,ided the plan would not be an eco
lomic success this season as most of
Bismarck's topnotch games will be
played away from home.
Mcleod said that in view of this
act, installation of the electric flood
lights would be too expensive an
Undertaking this year.