The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-09-02
Open
81 Football
Season Soon
Preliminary Drill Held We'd
MISUNDERSTANDING Opens
Sept. 18th
HAS A NEW ASSISTANT
Athletic Accident Benefit To
Aid Injured School
Pupils

Shoulder pads, heavy sweatshirts,
cleated shoes, and padded pants do
not sound like a hot weather dish
but it's not supposed to. It's the be-
ginning of the football season as
Coach Gene Harvey arrived in town
from two weeks vacation and in
augurated his first preliminary foot
ball drill yesterday. The boys have
little more than two weeks before
their schedule opens on the 18th of
September with Parkers Prairie on
the home lot.
Yesterday as hot weather dawned,
which is good to get the summer
beef down to the Drawn needed,
Harvey issued suits to about rs boys
who will get in on the early week
drill. Others will join the squad
when school opens next week. A
good many Of the boys who were de-
veloping last year were found in the
opening drill to be from 10 to Is
pounds heavier than last fall.
An announcement from the school
today Delayed doubts as to where
the games would be played this year
and further cast aside any hopes
that the field would be lighted this
year. The games will be played on
the plot just south of the golf
course. Meanwhile work has begun
in removing the quack grass from
the turf on the new field at the
Fair Grounds which next year will
sport the night lights.
Assisting Harvey this year will
be ]. N. Toftness, who came here
from Paramount, North Dakota.
Primarily a basketball man, his
qualifications as a coach fit him
for the position as assistant on the
football staff. In the six years at
Paramount he has won the State
championship in basketball in 1888
1884, found his outfit out in front
in the district, and last year he
barged his way to the consolation
state championship. He developed
four all state players. He will head
basketball this year. In charge of
Junior high athletics will be Mr..
Rasmussen, who is graduate of
Hamline University, and won two
letters on Joe Hutton's champion.
ship squad.
Drills in calisthenics and prelim-
mary workouts in fundamentals
will temper these early practices
for the rest Of this week, said Har-
vey on his arrival yesterday.
Athletic Accident Benefit Plan
AS the sports pendulum swings
to early football drills and the
opening of the high school athletic
program, an announcement came
from Principal E. w. Olson this
week that the school had adopted
the athletic accident benefit plan
now being developed by the Mime
sofa State High School League.
When school opens a bulletin
with complete information will be
given to each boy figuring on
athletic participation to deliver to
his parents. According to the an
nouncement the plan is designed
ITO give aid to needy athletes as
the Board of Control may deem
advisable and equitable in aiding
such athletes in their recovery
from injuries sustained as a result
of athletic pursuits"
The plan is entirely voluntary
and mutual, and it applies only
to bona fide students in high
schools that are members Of the
Minnesota State High School
League. The local school Is a
member Of the league. For each
boy who desires to participate in
the plan a registration fee Of rs
cents for all sports and rs cents
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