Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1920 — FOOTBALL FODDER. [ARTICLE]

FOOTBALL FODDER.

Despite the extremely warm weather of Tuesday night a goodly number of aspirants for the city football team reported to Coach Parker and were, put through a snappy signal drill which lasted about an hour and a half. With, the coming of cooler weather greater interest will no doubt be manifested by the candidates, and once the first game is played all will have regained their old time enthusiasm. A Mr. DeLong, who came to this city this week to make his residence, has notified Manager Ross that he will be a candidate for a position on the team and the stock of the team has risen considerably over his addition to the squad. DeLong was an All-Missouri Valley Conference backfield man while attending lowa State. Hugh Kirk also reported* for practice and will probably be found at one of the halfback positions or at quarterback when the season opens. William Eigelsbach, who would have handled the quarterback position, is to leave for Oregon soon, hence will not be a candidate for the team. In addition to Captain Nowels, Don Beam, Howard Royster, Owen Simons, Harry Moore, Worth McCarthy, Lee Myers, Ergus Timmons and Paul Collins reported for practice.