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leics-toa!‘hinfteyTWELVE III MTICE TODAYgfillITwo More Members of Red and White Eleven WillArrive this Morning—Initial PracticeSquadThis Afternoon—More Players to Arrive DuringVntVWaekWallace Will Play Murphy on the Line..1f ■! -t* IiI• IED. J. MURPHY OF W. AND J. UNIVERSITY, AND HALFBACK STEIN BERGER OF SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, THE LATEST ADDITIONS TO THE CANTON FOOT-15 ALL TEAM, WILL ARRIVE INTHIS CITY THIS MORNING.WITH THESE MEN THERE WILL BE TWELVE MEMBERS OF THE RED AND WHITE TEAM IN CANTON READY FOR PRACTICE. TEN. INCLUDING COACH WALLACE,Massillon to see the Tigers open the season. He is a big fellow, as are most of the Canton players, and if he plays like he did at Carlisle will be one of Canton’s stars.Riley, the big New Yorker, who with Ernst will be a guard, is about the huskiest member of the football crew. He tips the scales at something like 250 pounds. He is a close personal friend of Maxwell, the 275 pound j member of the Massillon Tigers. Center Sweet is not as big as some mightIHAVE ALREADY REPORTED, AND expect, but he is there with the gouus PRACTICE WILL BE STARTED j and ready to deliver them at Wallace’sTHIS AFTERNOON.call. He has outplayed Shiring of the■IWith the close of the baseball sea- Tigers more than once and althoughson everything now is football; every- much lighter, will be able to morebody is commencing to go crazy on! than hold his own against the Massil-tl.e subject and the bulky aggregation; ion man, gathered together by “Blondy” Wal- ! lace is now the chief attraction in the i4city. More players will arrive this! week and by Thursday or Friday Canton fans will be able to get a line on the team they are going to root for this fall.The following men have already reported to Coach Wallace:. nyder, of Ohio State, end.Not a better quarterback than Stevenson could be desired, he being the universal choice for the All-American team in that position for two years, it afterwards going to Eckersall of Chicago because of some trouble ‘•Stevie” had with the Pennsylvania faculty. He will be able to play rings j wee] Reem- j around “Peggy” Parratt or Jack Hav-!MKlein C M chili Mon rela Mi itedwhose, den, Massillon’s pair of quarterbacks, tome is in Canton; Thorpe, Columbia, | Townsend and Thorpe are speedy men, jwhile Steinberger’s reputation has gone before him. Everybody remembers Eddie Murphy who played with the Red and White last year. Hetackle; Riley. New York university, and Ernst. Lafayette, guards; Sweet, Pennsylvania, center; Stevenson,Pennsylvania,Carlisle, andquarterback; Sheldon,Townsend, Columbia, played back position then, but it ishalves: Dave Cure, Lafayette, fullback.;Jach Ernst is still with the Canton , baseball team, but by the end of tne! week will forsake the diamond for the' gridiron. Sheldon, the Indian, last-year’s captain of Carlisle, arrived in Canton Saturday and with the rest ot ! the Red and White eleven went to jCoach Wallace’s intention to place him on the line this year.Davidson, the University of Pennsylvania fullback, will arrive in Canton in a few days, while Fullback Smith, who played in the Thanksgiving day game with Massillon last year, will arrive later on.MiPhil;few C. in CMiherMrDoveday.Mil Cana Mr i« vis M i He Mrs
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Canton Morning News
Canton, Ohio, US
Mon, Oct 01, 1906
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