The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-09-09
s Sport
81 Wags
BY Chuck Rattle

Football Scene-The call to arm
issues in earnest this week as Har
vey trots his crew out full strength
into their routine practice drills
Harv in his sweat shirt, his oil
pants, his whistle screaming, ant
his best mad face and deepes
bawling voice is already gettin,
himself into shape and has put OF
the coach's air. This week he ex
poets his squad to jump from tn
Is or 20 who came out during tn,
past three or four days to about 8
to 40 men all eager to play tn,
game. It's a tough row the boy
have to hoe this year. The situa
ton calls for development of a nev
quarterback, some new spots OF
the line, and above all develop
ment of the new plays Harvey hal
dug up.
These new plays that the
boys are learning nOw-well I
won't tell you much about
them. But I watched the boys
running through them the 9TH
or day, and when I say they're
homes, I don't mean q lulu.
Football moves each year more
into the scientific, timing, de-
ception. Harvey Is q sticlkler
for the perfect execution Of his
plays and timing IL one of his
outstanding factors. And there
I'm lies q football team. In tim
ing and I'm form. If you've won
dered why high school teams at
times do not click on their
plays, you've no cause. For it's
difficult Not only does every
man have 10 click like the tiny
C0gs i'm q highly developed
piece Of machinery, but every
man must time his touch and
60 TO the split second. A per-
fectiy timed play is like a bud
ding fOwer-h I may say so.
The bud is there and suddenly
at the proper time-pOp-and
the flowers in bloom. Not
many can say just when the
flower blooms. So it Is with q
football play. The bud, the
embryo is there, the play clicks
and suddenly a man is in the
open and Is down the field for
the scoring punch -. watch
ed those boys trot through a
few plays. And the biggest OBJ
lection Harvey raised on the
whole business was that the
boys didn't have form nor tim
ing. / saw them sweating like
hard working troopers running
through plays time and again.
Walking, trotting, speeding
them up to get the desired ef-
feet. Yep, it's tough going to
make q play click. And then
YOU get It out on the field In
the heat Of the battle-and
some darn team smears the
whole thing up. No, no coach
es Life for me!
If anybody's in condition it ough
to be Rich Hoffman, who Is to fl
the fullback slot this year. That Il
If ice hauling is the gruelling worl
I think 1t is Add Junior Van
desteeg to the list of well-condi
toned athletes. A candidate for thu
line position, possibly guard o.
tackle. Van has been on tn,
farm all summer sweating in thu
hayfields and working long hours
with threshing crews :. And there
is Bohn, filling the pivotman posi-
ton. Bohn, who played REGULAR!
for the first time last year, Is biz
fellow. He's mastered fairly well
too, that one hand shovel back t.
the ball carrier :. Back on TIT
lineup too is Hilary Egan "a!
tough an hombre as ever picked
I'D a fumble). He's back in to ram
BILE this year If red hair ha
the significance that persons at
tach it it, we're not setting so bad
Two of the lads have red thatchet
tops: Captain Ray Walker, at end
and Cokely, halfback. With Coke
ly and Ethun at those half bacl
slots the locals have two Of thu
toughest little backs in the confer
ence And boys coming up arr
Kringen, Hunt, Berggreen, Rath,
:. Well, I almost forgot Rivette
A little Sank boy, Rivette Il