The Sauk Centre herald., 1940-09-12

sons opening and coaches find that
either Cd their charges are COM
ing along all right, or CD that they
viii have to do plenty of revamp-
ing. In the life OF a coach
it's a hectic period. Either he's
started right or he's started wrong.
And only the first game can give
him a really true account OF his
actions. ..
Friday night opens Sauk Cen
tre,s first real entry into a con-
ference system of play. Confer
ence play means just one thing:
that you have to start right out
winning and no delay. This
year its like that. Benson Is
not only q pointer game because
it's the first; it's one to be de-
sired because it opens the West
Central Conference play and
with bang. -.
According to reports that filter
out of the Conference at some
point they are looking for Benson
to be one of the strong title con-
tenders. They expect Morris and
xslenwood will be strong as well. :.
Last year Montevideo and Morris
shared honors at the top of the
bracket while Benson won third
Of its games and Glenwood took
one of its roster.
While squad spirit Is high,
fan interest locally seems to be
ascendant In proportions too.
Coaches report 10 to 15 cars
out at practice every night. -.
And those who watch are not
q little bit impressed with the
way the new coaching setup
seems to be working. They
seem to like the way with q
unified system of five men
was q boon. 1t gave them q
Things are getting done.
Coaches too report that the
system Is working ably.
Under Garld Smith the Junior
high. while it works out as a dis
tinct unit in its drills, is using the
same system as the senior high
SQUAD. And the boys are i'm
pressed pretty favorably with the
youngsters moving up.
For local fans a peek at the 1910
SQUAD is not in line until October
4th. On that date Long Prairie
comes down to O-Sa-Ge field, OPP
ems the local season of four games.
In the meantime the locals are
out battling three of the West Cen
ference teams with Benson, Ltch-
field and Morris in that order dur
ing the month of September.
Q
While Junior College football
Is being planned fOr-the setup
Is all there If the Lads want 1t
tho idea isn't completely con-
crete enough to announce that
there will be a Junior College
team. But IL what we saw
Of the fellows who enrolled
Monday morning in the second
year of the college Is indicative
and II they have had any foot
ball at ALL then things look;
plenty rosy for such squad.
.. For Sank Centre the ad-
dition of the squad year ago
double portion of football thru
out the season. and It gave
them q look at some Of the less
or collegiate stun throughout
this section Of the state.
Besides that this I1-man squad
with IL players had q lot Of
color. We hope they can
put over the deal again this
season.
There's one thing I want to go
on record about before this foot
ball season gets underway. For
reasons that I believe obvious we'll
shy away from singing out indiv-
idual players on which to heap
praising comment. There will
undoubtedly be players who will
stand head and shoulders above the
others 50 far as ability and service
are concerned. In the objective
reporting Of the stories on the
games when those players contri-
butte in their abilities to situation
that results in some marked course
in the game 1t will appear in the
story. But just to make copy
we will not take off hats to in
dividuals. Reasons are that I
believe those fellows are out there
playing for the fun Of 1t and are
doing all they can-each Of them.
| A. ]. Arneson & Son