Show Spears Provides Hope For Badger Grid Fans Wisconsin Supporters Are Pleased at COIning Coming of Oregon Mentor l Team Prospects Appear to Be Only Fair B Br Press Fro University of Wisconsin football partisans arc are extraordinarily optimistic tic this year yet they dont don't expect the Badger eleven to be above average The cause of this paradox is Dr Clarence W. W Spears Wisconsin's new grid coach who is expected to produce a fighting If not victorious eleven this fall Coach Spears declines to label his pro prospects as more than just ordinary ordinary nary but since his arrival from the University of Oregon hot stove league discussions indicate the entire state Is behind him regardless of the Badgers Badgers Badgers Badgers' Bad gers' gers standing in the final conference rating Long before he came to Wisconsin Badger fans learned to respect Spears' Spears teams From 1925 to 1929 his Minnesota teams defeated the Badgers four times and were defeated defeat defeat- ed once The 1928 Gophers ruined Wisconsin's chances for a Big Ten championship championship and and on this record Wisconsin bases blUes its football optimism Although Doc has not promised a winning team he has made clear his intention to have a team of men who like to play football He has put all candidates on their own own and and those not enthusiastic about the game wont won't be in the lineup lineup line line- up he says lays In the thc face of this policy one of the largest squads that ever turned out at Wisconsin greeted him for spring practice and an even larger turnout Is expected when fall faU practice begins Doc will have about 12 letter lettermen lettermen lettermen men for the nucleus of ot his 1932 End End- ger eer machine and on their form displayed displayed dis dis- displayed played last spring several sophomores sophomores mores are arc expected to carry most of ithe the work Two of ot Wisconsin's eight games this fall faU are arc classed as naturals Intense rivalry between Marquette and Wisconsin Wisconsin Wis will start the season here October October October Oc Oc- tober 1 1 while the Minnesota Wiscon sin game November 12 is expected tobe to tobe tobe be a classic because of ot Dr Spears' Spears relationship with the Gophers in the past ast |