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Show different Tale From Wisconsin , , ' I. ( 4 W'T TlSCOKSIN'S football team was able to defeat only one Big ; I VA Ten PPnent lttBt faI1 DUt !t wlu cntlrely different J I i, V V tale this season. The Cardinals have an abundance of expei- ' !I enced material, and wise ones around the conference predict a big ! I year for Wisconsin. J J 3 ! Rube E. Wagner of St Paul, whom Glen Thlstlethwaite regards as the best tackys prospect in the Western conference, will captain the Wisconsin team. He la a senior this year. ; t Wagner has been one of the outstanding football and track stars - J I at the Badger school for the last two years, despite the fact that he J J has worked his way through college since the day he enrolled. He ! I intends to coach after graduation, and for Jhat reason has confined bis 1 1 activities to athletics. t Glen Thlstlethwaite will coach the Badgers. It will Je his second , , season in eharce there, and he : 4i i ' I VV t$ f j: fBii-i: thinks it will be a far. more successful one than last season. ThlBtlethwalte graduated as Z an honor student from Earlham college lu 1908. After coaching at Illinois college for two years J and for four years at Earlham college, he went to Oak Park high school in Chicago, where the teams under bis tutelage established such a remarkable record that Northwestern unl-) unl-) I varsity hired him as head coach. " While at Northwestern, bis teams made the best showing of any eleven In the country against the powerful Notre Dame ) I teams of that period, losing three games, it is true, but by J I very close scores. He Is regarded one of the sue-J sue-J ! cessfui younger Big Ten coaches. Here We Have Glen Thlstlethwaite. |