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Show COLORADO "U" WILL HAVE FAST FOOTBALL TFAM BOULDER. Colo.. Sept. 16. Over two full teams of letter men have signified sig-nified their intentions of returning to the V. of C. and will don their football togs on Sept. 22, the day set for the starting of official football prnctice at the University of Colorado. Two questions are facing Ihe coaches today, and one. that of starting late practice, is claimed by several pigskin followers will defeat the varsity team this year. School does not officially open until Sept. 29. but all players Were called one week previOUC Three weeks after the U. of C. teams start for practice, they will clash with the Colorado Agricultura' college at Fort Collins The 'Aggii have been hard at work the pa.-t w I . k i rounding into Shape, and this game la eonsidered by several dopesters to be ihe hardest in the mountain conference. confer-ence. For the firt week Coaches Joo Mills and Howard Beresford will keep the men on a training table, and their present plan is to do nothing but eat, Lleep and talk football The finding of a reliable center is the only position that is worrying the coaches al the present time Two for mer tryouts, 1 Vie" Adams and Frank lin. will be on deck on the opening day and possibly one of these two will be developed lor ih center position. With the disadvantage of being the last school in Ihe conference to start practice. Coach Joe Mills Is fortunate in having two full teams to return. Whicb Will be the larccst sqund in the State From all indications the State team will have the fastest and rangiest men in ihe conference. Several old members of past teams who have been absent for the past year will return1 and attempt to bring the banner to j (the state school this season. "Dob" Breckenrldge, who for the I past two years has not entored the grid squad, due lo parental objections, will report on .ie opening day. "Bob" is considered by several of the old ' ( players and coaches as a reat asset lo the team, being 6 feet 2 inches in height, and with a high record fori playing in his freshman year He will i probably play one 0f ihe end positions. Will and "Vic" Adams, two broth- j ers. will answer Coach Mills' whistle for their last year on the varsity H sruad. Other buckets of the line who have earned Iheir "C ' in past ears and will return are: Jim Brown, Franklin Epplch Samuclson, Noggle, Will and ' Vic'! Adams. For the backfield. keen competition i will be seen by the bystander, as Ihere I I are more letter men for the position. than for several years in the history of the school Costello, also a Demer High graduaLe, and one of the clcver-t clcver-t -i nu n in the conference, will Irv out for a half Lee Willard, the varslty'H j inn yard sprinter and star football player, v. 1 1 1 also dip his fleet feel into I the spiked shoea and don the padded suit. Other backfield candidates are-savTieo, are-savTieo, Pulgham, Lilly and Schrep- |