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Show MARRIED MAN IS TO TRY FOOTBALL Was Named by Late Walter Camp on All-American. That an all-Amerlcan end Is trying to round into shape for play with the University of Wisconsin football eleven was revealed the other day. He is John Iiassmussen, Oshkosh, Wis., who in 191S was named by the late Walter Camp on his nil-American service team, composed of stars who had forsaken university gridirons at the call of Uncle Sam. Eassmussen, now thirty-seven years of age, played a year at Nebraska in 1915. He enrolled at Wisconsin in February, 1917, but left school to join the engineering corps when war was declared in April. After the war Eassmussen entered the contracting business in Oshkosh. He is married and has a son five years old. Fordham would be interested in knowing just how Head Coach Frank Cavanaugh is to be pleased. The Maroons ran up a 48-0 score on Westminster West-minster on Saturday and got only a severe tongue lashing from Cavanaugh as a reward. Conch Lou Young of Pennsylvania also tinkered with his lineup to find out why it hadn't functioned properly against a fighting Franklin and' Marshal Mar-shal team. Swarthmore is next on the Penn list and Young is hoping for something more than 14 points. Finding the 15,000 seats at Ohio field insufficient, New York university has transferred its Saturday game with West Virginia Wesleyan to the Polo Grounds. More than 17,000 fans, jammed into Ohio field to watch the Violets crush Vermont in the opening game. Notre Dame's three "home" games will be played at Soldier field, Chicago, Chi-cago, while work continues on a new stadium which will replace historic Cartier field. Drake, Southern California Cali-fornia and Wisconsin will be met on Soldier field, and Northwestern will be engaged at Evanston. As was to be expected Tommy Loughran will not admit that he was beaten by a better man when Jack Sharkey knocked him out and Tommy wants another match. Ty Cobb couldn't resist the temptation tempta-tion and will return to baseball next season after a year's vacation from the game. Home again after a summer sum-mer in Europe with his family, Ty announced an-nounced that he had been approached with offers from major league clubs, both executive and managerial. He never will play again. Hank Bruder and Bill Calderwoed will be the chief dependables in Northwestern's kicking game. Coach Dick Hanley has been giving them special attention after each night's workout. Walter Holke, who made good In his first year as manager by winning a pennant for Quincy, may manage a club in a bigger league. The Coldstream Stud's Main Mc-Elwyn, Mc-Elwyn, driven by Ben White, won the $7,000 Kentucky Futurity for two-year-old trotters, as the fall Grand Circuit meeting opened. The time, 2:03, 2:03 and 2:0C, was the fastest three heats record for a two-year-old. Dr. Clarence W. Spears made an- . other big change in the Minnesota No. 1 team, sending Bronko Nagurski back to fullback. Nagurski has worked at tackle since the first of the season and Spears wished to use him there, but was not satisfied with the work of several sophomore candidates for the fullback post. Les Pulkrabek, veteran vet-eran guard, was shifted to Nagurski's tackle. Donie Bush, who has been signed to manage the Chicago White Sox, is in a hurry to go to work on his new task of attempting to boost the club back to Its former eminence in the American league. One of the problems prob-lems confronting Bush is the disposal of the case of C. Artl'--'r "The Great" Shires, cocky first baseman, who is under suspension for engaging In a fist fight with Blackburne at Philadelphia. |
