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Show iSTIEIi FOOTBALLTEAM TO LOSE STARS Loss of Eiaht Regulars and Several Substitutes Will Be Felt This Season NF.W YORK. Bept, 11. --We't Vir-gl Vir-gl ii unlvers'ty's -vill team, whlCi 1 in such n wPie swath last pear in pe.rformancfs against the great Bast- lerp elevens, will uoi be nearly so 1, .11 iii. 11 in,- ir.11.1n whi' !i have agreed to again Iry the Mountaineers will have no cinch is evl-der.l evl-der.l from the optimistic statements i.eip'-, -i l hy persons cohnested With Wrt Vlrgltiln football I The eleven win n ,t be wholly Inexperienced, In-experienced, but it will be weakened to a ralhei woeful siat through lov? of eight regulars and several substitutes substi-tutes who (1 lil a great share of the work for the VTest Virglnlnni Ins: fU. Captain t.mu. h halfback, who I welf hs 193 pounds, will be th" m-'lri-, : prlng of the p.e(w mic '.ne. Jpe Her-' Her-' rich, a hr.z" tackle who wei chs 19" pounds ami who did splendijd work l.iKt vear. and Cob Kay. a big guard. form (he others of t)ie trio of regul irs I who hold over from Inst venr's eleven. RATH1 R TOI .ll This sounds rather tough for the I Mountaineers for the 1 f 2 n season, but I coaches and mnnagers point out that. ; In addition to th"Fe men. there will be ; Neale, a brother of the famous Cin-Iclnnattl Cin-Iclnnattl outfielder; Hill and Martin. ' nil of whom were good enough as ' substitutes a year ago to win letters but not good enough to displace the stars. Mu-h is expected of Setron, a guard weighing pounds Mullan, n 218-pourid linr-man: Gmsweller s center; Klger. Courtney. Palnes and Rankin, and a bun"".i of others wio hie h.nd experience as members of scrub or freshmen teams. The West Virginia eleven already has gone into preliminary training. Every fear a squad of about thirty men is brought on to Morgantown in advance of the opening of school and taken to Mountain Lake Park, where preliminary work is gone through. This consists mostly of cross-country walking and running, rigid adherence to a training table menu, setting-up exerciser,, plentv of swimming and lot? of sleep. Very little actual football foot-ball practice Is taken until shortly before time comes to break camp and return t Morgantown. By that tlm-the tlm-the team Is hardened and readv to go into the real game football. That it gets results Is evidenced by the record of the team last vear. DEXU s CB LRGES. Tubby Mclntyre lo ad coach of the eleven, denies that the team's chances this year are poor He believes the new material he will have to work With combined with experienced players play-ers who will return, will give him .hi nicleus of a team practically as good as last year's. Ira Rodgers, the plunging fullback, who made last year's all-America team, will be an assistant to Mclntyre this year, as will Clav Elite, auarter-back auarter-back of that great team. Much Is expected of them In whipping the new eleven into shape West Virginia only lately has begun to cut any figure in collegiate football considered ns compared with the big Basti rn schools, but const. nr. attention to development of students into football foot-ball players has workeil a mirarle to j others, considere.l pirrelv from num-, bers In attendance. Center college, gave the team a beating margin. In , fact, in tho later stages of the game! it appeared as though West Virginia1 would win. |