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Show YEP! PURPLES SHOW COLOR 'iCoach McDevitt Puts Foo.ball on Upward Trend at Northwestern If. K. A. St.-ff Special.) KVANSTON HI . r,ct 29 If tb Northwestern football eleven dl.lni! win another game all season it has I gained fame as lh team that beat Minnesota Ki.r many ions years, decades in fact the Purple has been whaled bj Doc Williams' men At times the scores h,l'. r run OVOT TO points, It remained for a former assistant Gopncr Coach Elmer McDevitt to , drill the Northwestern boys into the 'team that downed Minnesota-TOI Minnesota-TOI GH Jt)Il With tho coming of McDevitt to Evanston this fall as head coach foot-I foot-I ill affair) there have taken on an upward trend. "Mac," as he Is known Vl mlmtmmm K.-lrrl tiirn). V n n - lies 1'...' r ..j , other former Tale star, teach the I'ur-plos I'ur-plos some years ai?o and when the authorities cast about for a coach to brtns the varsity out of the dumps tho choice unanimously fell to McDevitt His Job has been an nnucually tnuKh cne. The schedule has virtually been reversed. SURPRISES rRM Instead of windlnjr up with the two big battles, Minnesota and Wisconsin, the season opened with the Gophers and tho Badger game followed the qrt Saturday ITiat was enough to starrer any conference coach When Mdoitt started working with his material he found much of promise. As soon as th- opening gam.- was played the western football wnrld discovered w h amazement that Grausnlck, a clfunky lad. was a spectacular spec-tacular halfback, of All-Western calibre cali-bre Tho lad made two touchdowns against Minnesota M IKES NWTTCTTES Turner who had been a fair tackle was changed over to end and almost immeidal. I was a whirlwind His injury in-jury during practice was a great blow to the Purple chances. Nobody had ho:ir.l of Hathaway, end Now he has leaped into the arena as a splendid, rangy 'enter. He Is very short, much like Mose Btrathern of Minnesota, and full of fight. At quarterback Palmer, a South Chicago boy, who directs the eleven on the field, has developed ama.lnfr ' A COACH rif&E T7 possibilities as an open field general and forward passer. H1AVV RIVE Patterson, the fullback hardened by I Turning tin- trl. k of putting the I Pnrplcs on the conference map has been Coach McDevitt s Job. Rut he Ktt away wltR It, a summer in the wheat fields. Is a difficult dif-ficult man to stop The line heavy, fast and well drilled drill-ed by George Sawtelle, nn cx-lxhish, 'star, who put-s the old pep Into thei team I McDevitt not giw-n to Interviews The f.irthest he will go Is: 'Northwest.! ern will figlit to tho last. Rut I 11 n-. e'r predict a victory." Il K TO MtHlYI Ho in a coach of the A A Stagg type, rather silent, but aggressive. He understands men nd especially the football player. He can be stern when the occasion demands but never offends. of-fends. L'nder him players are a unit r.o jealousies or hard feelings among them. It looks ns if Xorthw estern was due to arrive in football during tho nevt year or two. ' HATHAWAY jja.rw Here ..re 111 three SortllWCWlcrn UnlVCrslts players whom COach McDevitt Mc-Devitt lux made Into stars. Until this yepp they wero nil mediocre players, |