Show Our Football Team OUR football eleven comprises material for an excellent team that it is not yet an excellent team goes without saying That it is getting better everyday every day also goes without saying Our recent game with the Y M. M C. C A. A and andall andall andall all our practice games show splendid individual exertions but utter lack of team work Lack of unity is apparent everywhere and we have yet to see the first attempt at combination play There seems to be no variety In m the movements practiced It I t is right halfback halfback halfback half half- back around left end X Y Z left half-back half around right end and full-back full buck the center X Y Z and then it is the same thing over again If we hope to learn any of II Davids David's tricks for that Thanksgiving game study will have to begin v very ry soon Then the utter indifference with which a number of the men turn out for practice practice practice tice is greatly to be lamented At some of the practice games there have been as few as five men of the regular team present It It was given as reasons for their absences that the other members members members mem mem- bers were II knocked out had lame wrists or sprained ankles or something This may explain their not taking part in the game but it does not excuse their absence If a member of the team is slightly disabled and unable to play let him come out in ill his football suit and encourage the others by his presence If any success is to attend the team there must be just a Ii little more brain and muscle expended and quite alot a a. lot more interest taken in practices 1 Over had as much to do with 1 l losing the Y M. M C. C A. A game as as anything anything any anything thing and it is hard to explain that over-confidence over when we remember that thata a number of the men had not been near the football campus for a number of days preceding the game It is but fair to state that there is no overconfidence overconfidence overconfidence over dence regarding the Thanksgiving game in fact the boys think think a victory extremely dou doubtful We however think that even now our t team am could play the High School a close game and that if hard persistent team practice be done during the intervening time we will win the game on Thanksgiving day Our eleven as as before stated are weak in team work We have a remarkably remarkably remarkably re re- strong line but the Y M M C. C A. A by mass playing pushed through gh it and the High School will do the same if the backs do not learn to back backup backup backup up the line Our guards are strong strongmen men men but it has been noticed that they sometimes let men through It isM is M h hardly to to be wondered at however when we remember t that at the guar guards s are J about the most dilatory ory of all the men in coming out to practice Kimball as end is is the right man in the right place His tackling is almost perfect The other end is weak and too often gets rattled Our full-back full pays an excellent excellent excellent ex ex- practice game but in a contest he is sure to lose his head and fumble the ball The half-backs half are good men and when once started they are hard to tor r stop They are however slow in getting getting getting get get- ting started There will have to be a wonderful improvement in snapping the Rf ball back The present manner of doing it elicited the remark from a bystander bystander bystander by by- stander the other day Do Do they try to see how slow they can pass that ball In fact there is a lack of vim and snap in all the playing and it is a weakness i that with our material could easily be removed by practice Let there be vigorous application on the part of every member of the team let each one feel that the reputation and honor honorof 4 of the old U. U of U. U is in his hands and then let all go in to that Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Thanks Thanks- giving game with the pluck and energy that has always characterized the U University University Uni Uni- ni- ni in other undertakings and there i can be nothing but a glorious victory for us f The student body has not begun to find fault with the football team yet a. a but if there is not a complete turning over a new leaf on the part of certain y members in regard to practice games it will begin to find fault The football boys still have the hearty support of every student of the University It ought to 10 be indeed cheering to the boys to hear their stud fellow students fellow and especially especially especially es es- the young ladies shout their battle cry in in the face of so much defeat All the students are looking forward forward- to victory on Thanksgiving Let the t members of the team prove themselves worthy of this confidence and win back the laurel for crimson and silver I |