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Show if Sophomores jiihI Juniors Only Arc Eligible. Owing to Four-Year Kulc. COACH STAGK KWft'S MTM 01- H JS OliCAGO TKAM Wisconsin Keels Confitleni, of ! ' a Victorious Season on 0 rid iron. Tribune Special Sport 'rg e..:ic: i CWllCAGO. Sept. I. The Xootibal! rooters of the West are looking forward for-ward willi some misgivings to the approach ap-proach of 1 ho grid iron season; for this fall the reform legislation of the west- j ' cm conference will hit the majority of ' the. former "bijr nine5' teams full force, ' and the coaches find the supply of avail- i abie men for tho "(cams nut down just I about one-half. I "or The first time iu j western football hisrory only ihc soph- ; 1 . omores and juniors will be ol ijrililo A'or places on the teams, owing to the four- ! year rule, which the cunlercnec has enforced en-forced this year, and this leaves many pood , players, now seniors, on the sidelines. side-lines. The u ndor-graduates became fairly accustomed to the lack of freshmen fresh-men in the games Inst season, but they 'put off the evil day wherein I hoy must, realize the deprivation of tlio seniors, and now that it. is upon tbeni they grieve sorely. Notwithstanding the handicap, the coaches of the various teams are men--tally arranging their forces and they hope for tiie. "best. Coach Alonzn L St.agg of the University of Chicago says that he has lit :1c idea how his team will shape up, but with a few first-class j men remaining as a nucleus the others may be worked up into form more easily, easi-ly, lie has two veteran halves in Capl. Tray and Harold hidings, and there are a number of prospective backs " of good ability, chief of whom is Taylor, who has spe-?d enough to play at end with advantage. The quarterback position po-sition left, vacant by Walter Uoker-sail Uoker-sail will probablv fall to the lot of Waller StcfTen. New Plays for Maroons. ' The Maroon team will have a large number of new plays to master this eason, for after the 'game with Minnesota Minne-sota last fall. Coach Stagg still had several sev-eral left over which ho had not brought into use. and for the past month he has boon doping out more nianocuvers' calculated cal-culated to worry an opposing team, lie is confident of formulating a plan of jfTense and defense before practice begins be-gins on September 23. (hat, will insure a string of victories for Chicago. Capt. Da Tray is as confident of tho success of these new plays, but both he and his men w-ill find the task of mastering the details of each far from easy. Signals for 100 or mor different piays must be well studied. Jest they be confused and bring woe instead of triumph to an pleven. However uncertain the outlook is at .Chicago, the footbnll men of the L'ni ' versity of Wisconsin feel confident of a victorious season. The Badger toam will again be coached by Dr. C P. UuteliinG, who returned recently from the East, and hq will have us an assistant assist-ant a man who is as yet unknown to the nndcr-graduat.es, but who is said to be a well-known football star. All but four of last year's team will re-' re-' urn to college, and all will be available this fall if "two or three of them work off their study conditions successfully; The official traiuiug.- as allowed by the conference rules, "will begin on September Septem-ber 20, but several of the men who have been atteuding the summer school have been training on their own hook and will be in good trim when they get. out to fall on the pigskin. The first game . of the Badgers ' "season will be plaved on October 26 with tho Vniverisly o" Illinois. Speedy Toam. Illinois, by the way, will very likely .produce a speedy team this ye:ir. The alumni has decided to get to" work and help in the coaching line this year in order to try aud get out a team better lihan the rallier mediocre eleven which has represented the Blue and Orange ('luring the past two seasons. Artie Ihv1 a. former captain of the. team and one of the four coaches who turned out tho strong 190-L team, will" be tho head coach, and hi3 permanent assistant will be Jus Lindgren. Also Hall oxpeeia .nany of the alumni to descend upon the practice field before the first same with Chicago, on October 19, and give their advice to U. players. There' Is much interest felt, in t.. j game with Chicago, for it. will rje the first time that the aroon players have anpoareil at Ur-ibana Ur-ibana since 1897. when Chicago won. IS ' to 32. Coach Hall is confident that this year he will be able to give Stcgg's men an even closer rub if he in not able to conquer them. |