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The University Courier.
of Eastern colleges is due more to the magnificent work of the preparatory schools than any other factor, our Western educators are fostering the love of athletics in our academies and high schools more than ever before. May the time be not far distant when these "feeders" will bear the same relation in physical instruction to our universities that Rugby, Westminster and Eton bear to Oxford.
We present to our readers this week an individual criticism of the men who will compose the 'Varsity eleven and substitutes. As will be seen, the make up is about the same as it has been for the last two weeks. Shepard, left end, is a sure tackler and excellent interferer; is always down on a kick and shows wonderful judgment in all his work. Matteson, left tackle, seldom fails to gain ground when the ball is given to him. His tackling is very good. Hamill, left guard, is slow and plays rather high. His size is largely responsible for this. He makes holes in the line well and is improving at interference. Harvey, center, is light but very active. He is very good in breaking through the line. Griffiths, right guard, is young and inexperienced. He tackles well and plays an excellent offensive game. Coleman, right tackle, plays too high in the line. He is somewhat unsteady, at times breaking through well, and again allowing his opponent to handle him with ease. Steinberger, right end, keeps his eye well on the ball and works hard. His judgment on an opponent's end play is not very good. Williamson, quarter back, passes well and is an excellent tackler. Champlin, half back, gains ground well either through the center or around the ends, and seldom misses on catches or punts. Shellenbarger, half back, is quick and speedy. He takes advantage of interference well and is a fair kicker. He gains ground well on end plays. Piatt, full back, though handicapped by a sprained ankle, is a fair tackler and runner. He is developing into a good kicker and catches and punts fairly well. Jansen and Prentice are rather stiff and slow. They are new at the game and do not know how to use their strength. Rothrock and Johnson are good runners and tacklers but
punt poorly. McMurray, at end, is speedy. He is frequently off side and pays too much attention to his man. Armor, at half, lacks experience but works hard and willingly. The team has been trained hard and is being well coached. The game with Minnesota next Saturday will afford a good chance for comparison with Ann Arbor, who was defeated by them easily last year. As far as we can learn M. S. U. plays a strong bucking game and has very heavy halfs. But none of our new men show signs of over training and there is no reason why M. S. U. should have any more wind than K. U., for a bucking game is almost as hard on the buckers as upon the opposing team. And as to weight we have a fairly average team, averaging 165 lbs, about the same as Princeton's '91.
The Baker Beacon exhibits something besides that quality of christian spirit that might reasnably be expected from a publication that emulates from such an institution, when it roasts the State University foot ball team. Kansas City Journal.
Now this is a mistake. The Beacon is hardly capable of "roasting" a team which can hardly be mentioned in the same breath with the Baker team. The only thing the Beacon contains, in its present issues, is the word "Substitute teams" and substitute players, as though K. U. men did not know what the word meant. But this, too, is a mistake, and with this issue we dismiss the subject and with it disdain to answer any of the invectives so harmlessly launched against the supporters of the crimson. But on the 21st of October we play Baker on the "Varsity" grid iron and incidentally with that same "substitute" team, and suppose we whisper it quietly to you Journal people, that upon the night following the game Baldwin City will be as quiet as the tomb.
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