| Show COLORADO STATE BANKS ON SO PHS Inexperienced Grid Team i. i Greets Vet Coach Hughes p. p Squad May fay Win Two Tilts Note Note ote This Is h the sixth Lith article of a series b by The Telegram sports editor Who ho l I Is making his fifth annual tour of Rocky Mountain football camps to size elze up tip prospects for the forthcoming campaign In the Big Seven Se conference These ar ar- will appear In this spare space usually reserved for his Backseat Driving col- col Unto until lie returns to the of office By FRANK l K Ic BAKER Telegram Sports Editor t FORT COLLINS Sept 22 Sophomores 22 have fallen heir heir to toa toa toa a big share of the assignments as Colorado start the long climb back to the athletic supremacy th thy they y once enjoyed q After last season in which the foot- foot f f ball team scored only one touchdown n by I way of beating Colorado college in m the schools school's only gridiron vic victory ory the Aggie players and supporters will not be hard to satisfy In fact they do not expect to make the step from the cellar to the Big Seven pinnacle in a single season 4 1 Prospects are bright enough however how how- tf t h ever for or the gies to start dr dreaming aming of i. l becoming a a gridiron power again agam one of 11 these days Right now though Coach W tJ Harry Hughes who is beginning his x po Lt eighth twenty eighth year as as director of the theS t S j Aggie athletic dy dynasty dynasty- asty would woul be e tickled 0 if If he could could confidently ly anticipate two Big Seven victories this fall t A I d Three tri triumphs would be cause for I I I. I i great celebration FRANK K BAKER AKER Twenty of the teams team's first 32 men are 0 sophomores Only four or five sophomores are expected to start Saturdays Saturday's opening game against Colorado Mines but the majority of replacements will be first year men Besides being inexperienced many of these sophomores were not overly overly over over- ly Jy outstanding in high school foot foot- ball In fact four or five of them did not play scholastic football There is a lively battle for al al- al- al 1 most every position however and Coach Hughes is hopeful that he will be able to develop a stubborn defensive club out of his young stalwarts stalwarts stal stal- warts before the season is over List lAst st of Outstanding Players Includes Quine at Fullback Post The outstanding men inca Include Sherman Quine at fullback Don Kennedy a starting fast-starting tailback who has been showing much promIse promise promise prom prom- ise as a passer Paul Gira pound end who was a reserve last year and Phil Martin Larry Miller Bud Lyons and Re Rex Edwards in the line Edwards perhaps is destined to become another star similar to Frank Barnhardt Earnhardt the Greeley guard who graduated last spring He is only 17 years old but he weighs pounds and apparently will take on still sUll more weight as he matures Surprisingly fast for his weight and youth the youngster appears to be endowed with a fine pair of legs Kennedy to Gira may become a lite Mellar lIar passing combination with more experience Kennedy who came to Fort Collins from New NewYork NewYork York state to study forestry shoots A sharp pass and according to Ag Ag- gie coaches is rapidly improving his accuracy Giras Gira's pass snagging was wasP impressive here in practice yester yester- day The got up wellin wellin well wellin in the air and took half a dozen sharp tosses both short and long despite bruising defensive play by some of the halfbacks on the siu squad d. d Quine was tossing a few passes too but he was far more impressive impressive impressive sive as a runner He won his letter last year Kennedy Q Qui Quine u I n e and Jasper French the left halfback will handie handie handle han han- die dle the teams team's punting French his letter last year will call caB signals Two seniors Bill McKellar McKellar McKellar Mc- Mc Kellar and Dexter Lilley who were injured last year are top choices for the blocking assignments al although although although al- al though Sigurd Mattson a pound sophomore was socking here yesterday yesterday yes yes- with a gusto which indicated that he too will see service at that post i Stalwart Line Material Adds To Hughes' Hughes Hopes for Good Season Actually Coach Hughes is quite hopeful for some ome of his line material materi materi- al which will average better than pounds Green as they are most of the newcomers still are alert and aggressive enough to crowd ahead of half a a. dozen men who earned letters letters letters let let- last season I It all means that with the addition addition addition addi addi- I tion of a few more promising boys from this years year's freshman squad we can hope to be even a bit better next year Hughes said 1 You know he continued I couldn't even see daylight this time timea a year ago Why Glen Collor CoBor the pound end is the only man who started against C. C C. C in our only victory of 1937 who is still at his old position A couple of the boys have dropped back to second or third- third place holes Four of ot them graduated including McEwan the pound tackle McCracken the blocking halfback Frank another halfback and Hughes the quarterback Three others arent aren't even out for the squad now Yes sir last years year's experience was most painful u |
