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UNIVERSITY MISSOUBIAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1908. s $ KS kja && m xha. & I 1 II NEWS ABOUT ATHLETICS AMES IS STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE Team of Veterans Will Meet the Tigers on Rollins Field Saturday. EXCELS AT FORWARD PASSING Missouri Will Depend on Line Plunging and Trick Plays. The Ann--, team that fates Missouri tomorrow afternoon will le much htronger than the one which played Minnesota to a .standstill three weeks ago. Not only have the Aggies im proved since their first big game, hut they have been strengthened by the addition of two veterans, Bruegger at light tackle, and Hubbard at right half, who were barred from the game against the 'Gophers" because they were play ing for their fourth year, a contradic tion of the three-year claue in the Chicago Conference rules under which the two teams had contracted. The addition of these two old men to the line-up makes Ames a veteran eleven. Only one man on the team has not played at least one year, and si of them are playing their third and fourth season. Teams Well Matched. Aside from the fact that the "Aggies" are more aged and have played to gether longer, there is little to pick between the two elevens that will bat tle for supremacy on ltollins Field to morrow. They are of about equal weight, Missouri having a heavier line and Ames a heavier back field. Doth teams, as a whole, will average slightly over 175 pounds to the man. In forward passing and punting, the advantage is apt to be with Ames, but in aggressiveness, speed, line-plunging ability, and trick formations, the Tigers seem to have the edge. The game promises to be one of the best ever played on Rollins Field. The line-up for toiuoriou probably will be: Name Position Weight Driver Left end 158 Anderson Left taekle '202 Carothers 17S or Roberts. . . Left guard ... 184 Histinc Center 175 Miller (Capt.) Kight guard ... 185 Pluck Right taekle ...220 Nee 17C or Williams Right end 168 Gilchrist Left half 105 Alexander Right half 104 Kwing 173 or Wilder Fullback 170 Deuthcrage 142 Trowbridge, 135 or Saunders Quarter 147 The officials will be: Referee Bonnifield of Kansas City. Umpire Bryant of Coe College. Field Judge Hamilton of Kansas City. Head Linesman Purckhalter of Columbia. Take your Watch and Jewelry Repairing to WHEELER'S There's Quality in Our Work DOUGLASS PHOTOGRAPHER Forth Student and thm People They Simply Lead NEW INVISIBLE MlNTCO IMVlSlBLt BirOCAl Oculist Prescriptions Filled Broken Lens Duplicated VloJt Broadway DR. R. H. ELLS CANDIES MADE FEE8H BVEET DAY KOLUMBIA EANDT KITCHEN Fancy .Boxes. Try Our Candies No. 11 North Eighth Street SWAK. TheLeacock y ..... v, c TRAGI Athletic Goods are standard for all fames a. ' The Beit and Lowejt Free Catalog! R. J. LEACOCK SPORTING GOODS CO. 608-810 PINE ST., ST. LOUIS (K &) mm GAMES IN WEST TOMORROW Missouri vs. Ames, at Columbia. Iowa vs. Nebraska, at Iowa City. Minnesota vs. Chicago, at Chicago. Drake vs. Washburn, at Topeka. Washington vs. Rose Poly, at St. Louis. St. Louis U. vs. U. of Tcnn., at St. Louis. Illinois vs. Indiana, at Champaign. Purdue vs. Northwestern, at La fayette. Michigan vs. Vanderbilt at Ann Arbor. Xotre Dame vs. Ohio Northern, at Notre Dame. Wisconsin vs. Marquette, at Madi son. Griunell vs. Coe, at Grinnell. TO SEE DRAKE PLAY Tiger Representatives Will Watch the Contest With Washburn Saturday. TOPEKA, Oct. 30. Topeka football followers are expecting to see the best game of the season Saturday, when Washburn college and Drake University mix. it up on the Washburn checker board. Of course the Washburn- K. U., game will 1, a hummer, but that game will be at Lawrence, so that those who cannot go to the university town or to Kansas City Thanksgiving are whetting their teeth for some lovely football this w eek. Drake stands in about the same posi- tion in Iowa as Washburn does in Kan sas. Both put up strong teams each year and each one makes a hard fight against the state university teams of their respective, sta es and win every few years. Neither team has played a game with any other team this sea son from which dope could be figured, but from the games played the enthu siasts figure that both teams will be very evenly matched in age, weight and act ion. The Washburn management has been notified that several Missouri men will come to Topeka to see the game. The Tigers play Drake next week and repre sentatives of the Missouri team will be on hand to watch the style of the fowans. The Washburn team is in fine shape. Several men were injured in the Haskell game two weeks ago and thev have had all of this time to rest, as only hope of the injured list was in the game at St. Mary's last week. All of the men have recovered and are work ing hard every afternoon. Wasbutn In Good Trim. The Sons of Ichabod will present the strongest line of the season to the Drake team. The men are in good con dition to stand almost anything in the way of football. November 7 Washburn plays K. U.. and Coach Weede is drilling his men for that game chiefly. It is generally believed that Weede will have some real new stuff to try on K. U., and he may give some of his plavs a test during the Drake game. Drake has not been scored on so far this season and is playing a fast open game, hardly ever using the mass plays except when close to the goal lines. The Washburnites have been warned to look out for a peculiary formation which Drake uses for the forward pass. The on-side kick will be used often by Washburn in this game as the ends are very speedy and get down under the ball in good time, either for a forward pass or the on-side kick. The Washburn field will lie in fine shape. The practice for this week is being held on the cam pus and the ground keepers are working out the field. The managers of the two teams de cided on the officials for the game to-day as follows: Referee, Masker, Kansas City Athle tic club. Umpire, Hamilton, Harvard. Field judge. Watle, University of In diana. Head linesman, Griggs, Kansas Uni versitv. FRESHMAN TEAM AGAIN WHIPS THE SOPHOMORES The Freshmen defeated the Sopho mores in the class team series last evening by a score of 27 to 0. The first year men won by superior teamwork, the "Sophs" seldom making their gain and then usually on fumbles. Hackney, left halfback, starred for the Freshmen, and the linemen did ex cellent work. Touchdowns were made by Miller, Elmer Anderson, Pixlee and Hackney. Hackney also kicked a field goal from the twenty-yard line. Shuck, left halfback for the Sophomores, did good work at line plunging. The Freshmen previously defeated the Sophomores 18 to 0 and the Seniors 14 to 5. M1SSQUR ME GOSSIP ABOUT WESTERN TEAMS Coach Cole of Nebraska is Nervous About Iowa Contest. MICHIGAN'S PRACTICE SECRET Wisconsin Team Doing Light Work Rooters Watch Hawkeyes. LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. 30. Coach Cole expects a hard struggle on the football Ik Id with Iowa, and has warned his men that it may be fatal on their part to expect an easy victory. With that feeling in his mind, the coach has kept the squad at work right along, utilizing the state farm grounds for practice because of the lack of mud and unavail ability to curious spectators. It was pretty certain tonight that the regular back field would be in the game at Iowa City, save for Cooke at quarter, who will not make the trip, although his condition is improving. Miner will go with the squad tomorrow, and can be utilized either at quarter or half back. Michigan. Departing from the custom of having one open scrimmage a week, Coach Yost closed the doors this afternoon on the midweek scrimmage, and would not al low the students to see what he has cooked up for Vanderbilt. Using I'eniisy formations in the scrimmages, the scrubs have been able to score on the varsity at an alarming rate, and the truth is that the Michigan coaches are more fearful than they have been at any time this season. Although Dan MctJuigan, Vanderbilt's coach, said that he did not think the southerners had a look-in, Yost is taking no chances. Capt. Vaughn Blake of Vanderbilt, the last of the trio of brothers, is as won derful a place kicker as AUerdice. If Allerdicc is as off color as he was in the Ohio game, the Wolverines stand in for a beating. Wisconsin. Coach Barry cut down the work of the YS isconsin University football eleven, so far as scrimmage was concerned, by nearly half today, just giving the team enough work against the scrubs to keep it in shape without taking any risks of having any of the stars injured be fore the game with Marquette here Sat urday. The feature again was Moll's kicking exhibition. Twice when the scrubs punted the little quarterback heeled the ball, and then followed it up by Itooting goals. The first one was made from the thirty-five-yard line and from one side of the field. The second one was made from the forty-yard line. Minnesota. Dr. Williams' Gophers closed scrim mage work in preparation for the Chi cago game this afternoon with agruel ling two hours' work behind closed gates. With "Pudge" Heffelfinger be hind the second team, the scrubs fought the advance of tlie regulars like dem ons, and the result was perhaps the hardest session since the season's open ing. The men were driven almost to ex haustion in the scrimmage, but when darkness put a stop to this work Dr. Williams kept his men for another hour of signal work. Iowa. Iowa engaged in a final scrimmage practice prior to the Nebraska game. It was the first open practice in a week, and 1,500 enthusiastic students were present. Coach Catlin rebuked the eleven se verely for loose play. Hazard was the only man who played in form, making a sixty-yard run for a touchdown and forty-five yards for another. After crit icism by the coach the team braced and prevented the Freshmen from making further headway. They also used for ward passes and onside kicks for good gains, making forty-five yards and a touchdown and preventing the Freshies with Nebraska formations from gain in. Perrin's broken shoulder ha8 not yet healed and he will be out of the Ne braska game. Carberry will take his place, leaving Stewart at quarter, thus weakening this position. Fee played Capt. Kirk's post, right halfback, but Kirk will be ready to play in the Ne braska game. Hastings, right guard, may be sent back to center and Comly, routed as a "phenom," dropped ouL of the game. Conner has recovered from the injuries received in the Missouri Same, and will play right guard. The coaches are seemingly despondent about the Nebraska game, but the team and I its followers are confident. FLATS FLBST BIG GAME TOMORROW v5bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbs'I E. L. Miller. WHO WAS BEST FOOTBALL KICKER? Pat O'Dea, Former Tiger Coach, Shares Honors With John DeWitt. Discussion as to who is the greatest kicker in the last decade of college football is again warm. The principal argument is over the respective merits of Pat O'Dea, Wisconsin fullback of 181X5 and former coach of the Missouri Tigers, and John De Witt, star guard of Princeton in 1903. It is generally admitted that they share the honors between them. Pat O'Dea could drive the leather farther than any other player who ever lived. Time and again in games he sent the ball through the' air a distance of eighty yards, only thirty yards less than the length of the field. He consistently punted sixty-five and seventy yards. His punts were high spirals, that traveled so rapidly that no end on earth could get down under them. As a drop kicker he was good, but not the equal of De Witt or several others. DeWitt could not kick as high as O'Dea, but he sent a high floater that made it easy for his ends to be under the ball. He was absolutely accurate in placing his punts, and never had a kick blocked, no matter how badly the line was leaking. DeWitt as Drop Kicker. In drop kicking he shone resplendent. Twice his wonderful foot staved off de feat by the Yale eleven and won vic tory for the Princeton Tigers. In 1902 he scored a difficult drop kick from the forty-eight-yard line. The final score was 12 to 5 in favor of the Tigers. In 1903 he scored 11 points for Prince ton, sending a place kick over from the forty-eight-yard line and running the length of the field for a touchdown. Princeton won, 11 to 6. Malcolm McBride, who was a Yale fullback, was one of the stars of the kicking game in 1399. He sent a long, low punt that was exceedingly hard to handle. It usually struck the ground and bounded some distance before the backs could recover it. Other stars of 1899 were Al Sharpe of Yale, Poe of Princeton, Haughton of Harvard, Wheeler of Princeton and Hudson of Carlisle. Since the days of DeWitt we have had Eckersall of Chicago. Veeder of Yale, Burr of Harvard. O'Brien of Swarthmore, Carrels of Michigan, Har lan of Princeton and Capron of Min nesota, all stars, whose kicking was al ways dangerous. But 'the prize for kicking belongs to either O'Dea or De Witt. BOT SUFFERS FROM OLD FOOTBALL INJURY ST. LOUIS, Oct. 30. Archie Sommer ville, of St. Louis, 20 years old, who is staying at Vancouver, British Co lumbia, with his brother-in-law, Philip Wilson, has for three weeks been Buf fering from fainting and unconscious spells. Physicians are at a loss to account for this illness, but it is thought to be the resut of an injury received several years ago in a football game in St. Louis, which the physicians think caused a blood clot on the brain. The tales Store 1 BROADWAY GROCERY . 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