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THE CADET PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE CORPS OF CADETS VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE Vol. XXV LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, MONDAY, NOV. 23, 1931 No. 11 Col. Wise, '02, Gives New Facts Regard-ing Indians CIVILIZATION PRIOR TO CO-LUMBUS MAIN THEME Slides Supplement Lecture of Former Commandant In J. M. Hall Last Monday. Lt. Col. Wise's lecture evidenced a careful and thorough study of that part of American history of which very little is known. A great deal of this information, he says, is in the book rooms of the Vatican at Rome and in the Library at Copenhagen, Denmark. In these Libraries are documents and relics which indicate a civilization in North America in the eleventh and twelfth centuries that was in many respects superior to the European civilization at the same time. The outline of the history of the American Indian from the time of the coming of the first white men up to the present time was traced. A great many "facts" of American his-tory were shown to be mere legend, among the more interesting of which were some of the stories concerning Columbus and later John Smith. Hia-watha, says Wise, was not a child of the brain of Longfellow, but a real Indian and probably the greatest Red Man who ever lived. This in-telligent and forceful "savage" is really the author of a great many of the principles incorporated into the government of the United States. By way of showing the patriotism of the real American, the Indian, Lt. Col. Wise said that not one Red Man sought exemption during the World War and that 18,000 of them volun-teered for service at first call. Those who remained at home subscribed more per capita for Liberty Bonds, etc., than did any other group of peo-ple on the continent. Lt. Colonel Jennings C. Wise, a graduate of the Class of 1902 and former Commandant of Cadets, spoke to the Corps in the Jackson Memor-ial Hall last Monday night on the subject of his recent book, "The Red Man in The New World Drama." The lecture was fully illustrated with slides and evoked a just amount of Little is known, said Colonel Wise, Gobbler • Keydet Banquet Reviewed by Miller V. P. I. Seniors To Be Hosts To V. M. I. First Classmen. By J. G. Martin, IV, Special Envoy to The Catacombs. In a special interview granted to The Cadet by Louis N. Miller, spokes-man of the First Class Interinstitu-tional Thanksgiving Banquet Com-mittee in his office in the V. M. I. catacombs Saturday morning an at-tempt was made to eke out some straight dope on the annual V. P. I.- V. M. I. banquet to be celebrated in Roanoke following the Turkey Day game. For fully ten minutes Mr. Miller refused to make a statement. At last, however, he weakened and requested to be interviewed on the prohibition issue. "Ask me," he said, "whether I believe in the prohibition amendment or whether I believe the dry law should be enforced." "Do you believe in the prohibition amendment or do you believe the dry law should be enforced?" he was asked. "I do," asserted Mr. Miller, as snickers became audible in adjoining offices. "Now, about this banquet, Mr. Mil-ler " "Ask me," he said, "who I think will win the Thanksgiving game." "Do you think V. M. I. or V. P. I. will win the Thanksgiving game?" he was asked. "I do," was the reply. "Now ask me about the O. D.-O. G.—as you were, the O. O.-O. D. — football game." "I do," he replied, not waiting for the question. "Now, about this banquet, Mr. Mil-ler " "Come around to my room," said the great man curtly. "But your office, sir, should be the place for interviews " Abruptly the Moose magnate broke into a fast and fluent discussion of the banquet. For a full half haur he opened on the issue, his prejudice against the press, the weak points of commissioned officers, the Chino- Nipponese war, the art of routing C. M. T. C.'s with tomatoes and the V. M. I. plumbing system. President Chrisman of the Gobbler First Class, H. L. Maheffety and "Bunt" Ottley, the latter to act as toastmaster, compose the V. P. I. banquet committee, while Messrs. Playing Last Game Saturday V.P.I, and V.M.I. Sports Editors Review Thanksgiving Day Possibilities MILITARY CLASSIC TO BE FIGHT TO FINISH FLYING SQUADRON PRE-PARED TO MEET HIDDEN STRENGTH of the American Indian because cen turies of misinformation have woven Miller, Moore and Wood form that of around him tales of barbarism that j the Keydets. The banquet is to be-are grossly false. The white man gin at 6:30 at the Elks Club, with V. who came to civilize the savages has P. I. as the hosts, and will conclude had to clothe his own inhuman con- j with the exit of the last man. Stuffed duct in the stories of the terrible; celery will be the feature food. Be-cruelty and treachery of the savages, | yond these details the interview was when as a matter of fact the Indian]a complete failure, was not only more civilized than "You can quote me as saying," ad-those who came to civilize him but j mitted Mr. Meller, "that all things much more religious and temperate point to a 100 per cent perfect bull in his actions and habits. session and gutfeqfc" With slides Lt. Col. Wise traced the history of the contact between Commanders Will Furnish the Indians and the white race. He I gave proof to show that whatever barbarism and treachery the Red man may have been guilty of was Heine Woodson's Melody Boys PaulTremaineTo Play For Thanksgiving Hops Gen. and Mrs. Lejeune To Lead Second Class Ring Figure. HARRY STARK. Gobblers To Concede Nothing Despite Disappointing Season. With the eyes of the Institute fo-cused upon the Second Class Ring Figure Friday night, the social ele-ment will be in its glory this week-end when maidens from all over the East will pour into Lexington for the Thanksgiving dances. All day Fri-day the highways leading into the Rockbridge County seat will be swarming with cars bringing girls to brighten up the occasion, and each bus and train will bear its quota. Activities will begin in earnest Friday night, with Paul Tremaine holding forth in Ninety-Four Hall. The figure will begin at about half-past ten, and it will be unique in sev-eral features. It will start off with a sort of Pershing Formation — the kind that was so successful at York-town. General and Mrs.. Lejeune will lead off, and they will be followed by Epps and Siegel and their partners. By C. W. Ruble Sports Editor, "The Virginia Tech." Blacksburg, November 20 (Special to "The Cadet")—After three days of much needed rest following the startling game with the University of Virginia, V. P. I.'s crippled Gob-bler eleven closed the record book, which contains the scores of the sea-son's games, and began a week of intensive practice for the Thanksgiv-ing battle with V. M. I. Despite their rather disastrous season, members of the football squad and the corps of cadets feel that memories of the earlier defeats will be wiped out with a victory over the Flying Squadron. The once abundant football mate-rial with which V. P. I. was blessed earlier in he season has now been re-duced to almost a handful as Old Man Injury has laid his disabling hand on a large number of varsity perform-ers. The Gobblers have been forced Music in Roanoke taught him by the white man. He criticized the government of the United States severly for the negli-gence and stupidity which has char-acterized its dealings with the In-dians. Wise himself has been in-strumental in effecting reforms in this work. One of the highly interesting parts of the address was the story of the first white men, long before Colum-bus, who lived in America. The first land fraud in America, says Wise, was Lief Ericson's naming the bleak shores of what is now New England and New Foundland "Vinland" in or-der to encourage the Norse to settle the land. The implications was that the country was well adapted to the cultivation of great vinyards. The idea had been first put into effect when the island of Greenland was named. (Continued on pag« 4) Rank Among the Best. Talk about your Cab Calloways, Wayne Kings, Paul Whiteman's, and Guy Lombardos, V. M. I. has them all rolled into one in Heine Woodson's Commanders. They can play a hot-cha mooch like Cab, a dreamy waltz like Wayne King, can make White-man's Rhapsody in Blue turn green with envy, and when it comes to smooth, sleepy fox trots Guy must step aside and let Heine show how it must be played. The versatile Heine takes an old barn dance tune such as Steam Boat Bill, the drummer covers his drum with asbestos, O'Brien, at the piano, gets a death grip on the keys, the sax section picks an old grudge fight with the brass, and then we have mu-sic. Music which makes one's feet start dancing of their own accord, (Continued on page 4) , ,to take things easy in practice to Behind these leaders will come the j(, b e c a u g e t h e c r i p p l e g h a y e b e en entire personnel of the figure massed in a column of eights. At the end of the hall, they will break up and form the figures V. M. I. and 33, after which they will pass the favor table, where the girls will receive favors from the leaders. Passing through the arch, they will receive their rings and drift into a waltz. As announced before, the girls will all be dressed in white and carry arm bouquets rather than the customary shoulder corsages. The bouquets will be of red aond yellow roses. Gener-al Lejeune will receive his class ring in the figure, being the first man of '33 to pass through the arch. Saturday there will be a dansant in the afternoon, and Saturday night Tremaine will play for his third V. M. I. dance in the Gymnasium. The immense popularity of the radio pro-grams presented by Tremaine at Yoeng's Chinese American Restau-rant in New York last season assure the fact that his orchestra is an ex-cellent one, and the V. M. I. Hop Com-mittee was fortunate in obtaining his orchestra for this engagement. The orchestra is on its first southern tour, and it is reported that Tre-maine is enthusiastic over playing for dances at V. M. I. and other southern schools. His large reper-toire embraces all the popular dance selections of the day, and he is to play several special numbers for the figure. [unable to participate in anything so fa rexcept signal practice. Following of football here in Blacksburg have noted with ever-in-creasing apprehension the marked improvement in the V. M. I. eleven as the season has progressed. The writer warmed with admiration as he watched the Keydets battle the Uni-versity of Kentucky last Saturday at V. M. I.'s homecoming game. It was a sterling exhibition of true fighting spirit pitted against odds that against another team might have been over-whelming. V. P. I. knows that its football team is in for a real battle Thanksgiving, but- what Thanksgiv ing game hasn't been a battle from start to finish? It is the general belief here that V. M. I. has the best coach in the state in Bill Raftery, and that it may be this factor that may give the Lex-ingtomiano a slight edge in Roanoke. But V. P. I., with all its disappoint-ing showing to date, concedes noth-ing in this game and many supporters believe the team will come to life next Thursday and play the brand of football they have been expected to play all season. Coach Orville E. Neal is expected back at the drills the latter part of the week from his sick bed. Mean-while, his assistant, Coach Lyal Clark, has been carrying on. It would be dangerous and perhaps mislead- (Continued oo P a s * E i g h t) By F. F. Finklehoffe, Sports Editor The Cadet. When the setting sun envelopes the dust strewn and barren football sta-dium in the "Magic City" on the night of Thanksgiving, many thou-sands of erstwhile spectators ' who have been so fortunate as to have been able to witness the "Military Classic of The South" will be slowly treading their weary ways home-ward, and no matter what the tarn-ished scoreboard may have for its story, those fortunates will be re-turning from a real, honest-to-good-ness football encounter. The comparative performances of this year or any other year are toss-ed to the winds, when the Flying Squadron of the Virginia Military In-stitute and the Maroon Jerseyed Gob-blers of the Blacksburg School meet face to face in their annual struggle on the gridiron. Both Institutions use as a criterion of a successful sea-son— a Turkey Day victory. In spite of a not too auspicious start this year, the V. P. I. boys can boast of a team of no mean ability. From all rumors that the breezes have wafted Lexingtonward—and on the wings of students of this great American game of ours—V. P. I. has got the stuff for one smooth football team. Whether their erratic per-formance has been due to lack of co-ordination, or mere inability to get started, is not ascertained, but if any-one has any qualms of conscience as to the power of the Gobblers on this coming Thanksgiving, he may rest on that score, because after the pre-liminary marching and martial mu-sic has culminated on the field, the Big Red Team is going to line up against one of the most powerful outfits in this part of the Southland. There are three men in the V. P. f. line that need not bow to anyone, when it comes to effective meander-ing in a forward wall. These are Harry Stark, mammoth tackle; Gene flite, super guard, and Captain Gene Brown, who has proved to be a tower of strength in the center of the line. These three men have been a bul-wark of strength and have stood out as more than able performers. Sea-mon, Palmer, and Chandler make a trio of excellent wingmen, with Pal-mer being able to cope with the best of them. Dyke and Grinus, on the right side of the line balance off a most efficient advance barrier. In reserve there are Swart, English, and Betts, three performers who can be referred to only as alternates rather than substitutes. For ball toters, the Blacksburgites boast of eight fast backs who have caused considerable trouble to many opposing outfits. Heinie Groth has been getting the call at the number barking post, due to his agility, and superb ball carrying ability. This young Iowan is a sophomore, and be-fore many a moon has set, the pig-ikin followers in these parts are go- -ig to wake up some morning with .he realization that this 180 pound speed king is a real star. He's a triple threat man of the "old school" -ype, and his cavorts on the broken field has already proved a nemesis to many a prospective tackier. This is >ne man the Cadets are going to fear—no question. Then there is the lighly touted Casey. This boy has shown some artistic ball carrying on -he open field and he carries a con-itant threat inasmuch as he is the ype of ball player that is apt to get lose for that old heart rending touch-lown at any instant. Hardwick is another halfback that packs a punch, le's not one of the sensational boys, ut he's the kind that they can slip he old apple to anytime they need (Continuad On P a g . Four)
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Full Text Search | THE CADET PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE CORPS OF CADETS VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE Vol. XXV LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA, MONDAY, NOV. 23, 1931 No. 11 Col. Wise, '02, Gives New Facts Regard-ing Indians CIVILIZATION PRIOR TO CO-LUMBUS MAIN THEME Slides Supplement Lecture of Former Commandant In J. M. Hall Last Monday. Lt. Col. Wise's lecture evidenced a careful and thorough study of that part of American history of which very little is known. A great deal of this information, he says, is in the book rooms of the Vatican at Rome and in the Library at Copenhagen, Denmark. In these Libraries are documents and relics which indicate a civilization in North America in the eleventh and twelfth centuries that was in many respects superior to the European civilization at the same time. The outline of the history of the American Indian from the time of the coming of the first white men up to the present time was traced. A great many "facts" of American his-tory were shown to be mere legend, among the more interesting of which were some of the stories concerning Columbus and later John Smith. Hia-watha, says Wise, was not a child of the brain of Longfellow, but a real Indian and probably the greatest Red Man who ever lived. This in-telligent and forceful "savage" is really the author of a great many of the principles incorporated into the government of the United States. By way of showing the patriotism of the real American, the Indian, Lt. Col. Wise said that not one Red Man sought exemption during the World War and that 18,000 of them volun-teered for service at first call. Those who remained at home subscribed more per capita for Liberty Bonds, etc., than did any other group of peo-ple on the continent. Lt. Colonel Jennings C. Wise, a graduate of the Class of 1902 and former Commandant of Cadets, spoke to the Corps in the Jackson Memor-ial Hall last Monday night on the subject of his recent book, "The Red Man in The New World Drama." The lecture was fully illustrated with slides and evoked a just amount of Little is known, said Colonel Wise, Gobbler • Keydet Banquet Reviewed by Miller V. P. I. Seniors To Be Hosts To V. M. I. First Classmen. By J. G. Martin, IV, Special Envoy to The Catacombs. In a special interview granted to The Cadet by Louis N. Miller, spokes-man of the First Class Interinstitu-tional Thanksgiving Banquet Com-mittee in his office in the V. M. I. catacombs Saturday morning an at-tempt was made to eke out some straight dope on the annual V. P. I.- V. M. I. banquet to be celebrated in Roanoke following the Turkey Day game. For fully ten minutes Mr. Miller refused to make a statement. At last, however, he weakened and requested to be interviewed on the prohibition issue. "Ask me," he said, "whether I believe in the prohibition amendment or whether I believe the dry law should be enforced." "Do you believe in the prohibition amendment or do you believe the dry law should be enforced?" he was asked. "I do," asserted Mr. Miller, as snickers became audible in adjoining offices. "Now, about this banquet, Mr. Mil-ler " "Ask me," he said, "who I think will win the Thanksgiving game." "Do you think V. M. I. or V. P. I. will win the Thanksgiving game?" he was asked. "I do," was the reply. "Now ask me about the O. D.-O. G.—as you were, the O. O.-O. D. — football game." "I do," he replied, not waiting for the question. "Now, about this banquet, Mr. Mil-ler " "Come around to my room," said the great man curtly. "But your office, sir, should be the place for interviews " Abruptly the Moose magnate broke into a fast and fluent discussion of the banquet. For a full half haur he opened on the issue, his prejudice against the press, the weak points of commissioned officers, the Chino- Nipponese war, the art of routing C. M. T. C.'s with tomatoes and the V. M. I. plumbing system. President Chrisman of the Gobbler First Class, H. L. Maheffety and "Bunt" Ottley, the latter to act as toastmaster, compose the V. P. I. banquet committee, while Messrs. Playing Last Game Saturday V.P.I, and V.M.I. Sports Editors Review Thanksgiving Day Possibilities MILITARY CLASSIC TO BE FIGHT TO FINISH FLYING SQUADRON PRE-PARED TO MEET HIDDEN STRENGTH of the American Indian because cen turies of misinformation have woven Miller, Moore and Wood form that of around him tales of barbarism that j the Keydets. The banquet is to be-are grossly false. The white man gin at 6:30 at the Elks Club, with V. who came to civilize the savages has P. I. as the hosts, and will conclude had to clothe his own inhuman con- j with the exit of the last man. Stuffed duct in the stories of the terrible; celery will be the feature food. Be-cruelty and treachery of the savages, | yond these details the interview was when as a matter of fact the Indian]a complete failure, was not only more civilized than "You can quote me as saying," ad-those who came to civilize him but j mitted Mr. Meller, "that all things much more religious and temperate point to a 100 per cent perfect bull in his actions and habits. session and gutfeqfc" With slides Lt. Col. Wise traced the history of the contact between Commanders Will Furnish the Indians and the white race. He I gave proof to show that whatever barbarism and treachery the Red man may have been guilty of was Heine Woodson's Melody Boys PaulTremaineTo Play For Thanksgiving Hops Gen. and Mrs. Lejeune To Lead Second Class Ring Figure. HARRY STARK. Gobblers To Concede Nothing Despite Disappointing Season. With the eyes of the Institute fo-cused upon the Second Class Ring Figure Friday night, the social ele-ment will be in its glory this week-end when maidens from all over the East will pour into Lexington for the Thanksgiving dances. All day Fri-day the highways leading into the Rockbridge County seat will be swarming with cars bringing girls to brighten up the occasion, and each bus and train will bear its quota. Activities will begin in earnest Friday night, with Paul Tremaine holding forth in Ninety-Four Hall. The figure will begin at about half-past ten, and it will be unique in sev-eral features. It will start off with a sort of Pershing Formation — the kind that was so successful at York-town. General and Mrs.. Lejeune will lead off, and they will be followed by Epps and Siegel and their partners. By C. W. Ruble Sports Editor, "The Virginia Tech." Blacksburg, November 20 (Special to "The Cadet")—After three days of much needed rest following the startling game with the University of Virginia, V. P. I.'s crippled Gob-bler eleven closed the record book, which contains the scores of the sea-son's games, and began a week of intensive practice for the Thanksgiv-ing battle with V. M. I. Despite their rather disastrous season, members of the football squad and the corps of cadets feel that memories of the earlier defeats will be wiped out with a victory over the Flying Squadron. The once abundant football mate-rial with which V. P. I. was blessed earlier in he season has now been re-duced to almost a handful as Old Man Injury has laid his disabling hand on a large number of varsity perform-ers. The Gobblers have been forced Music in Roanoke taught him by the white man. He criticized the government of the United States severly for the negli-gence and stupidity which has char-acterized its dealings with the In-dians. Wise himself has been in-strumental in effecting reforms in this work. One of the highly interesting parts of the address was the story of the first white men, long before Colum-bus, who lived in America. The first land fraud in America, says Wise, was Lief Ericson's naming the bleak shores of what is now New England and New Foundland "Vinland" in or-der to encourage the Norse to settle the land. The implications was that the country was well adapted to the cultivation of great vinyards. The idea had been first put into effect when the island of Greenland was named. (Continued on pag« 4) Rank Among the Best. Talk about your Cab Calloways, Wayne Kings, Paul Whiteman's, and Guy Lombardos, V. M. I. has them all rolled into one in Heine Woodson's Commanders. They can play a hot-cha mooch like Cab, a dreamy waltz like Wayne King, can make White-man's Rhapsody in Blue turn green with envy, and when it comes to smooth, sleepy fox trots Guy must step aside and let Heine show how it must be played. The versatile Heine takes an old barn dance tune such as Steam Boat Bill, the drummer covers his drum with asbestos, O'Brien, at the piano, gets a death grip on the keys, the sax section picks an old grudge fight with the brass, and then we have mu-sic. Music which makes one's feet start dancing of their own accord, (Continued on page 4) , ,to take things easy in practice to Behind these leaders will come the j(, b e c a u g e t h e c r i p p l e g h a y e b e en entire personnel of the figure massed in a column of eights. At the end of the hall, they will break up and form the figures V. M. I. and 33, after which they will pass the favor table, where the girls will receive favors from the leaders. Passing through the arch, they will receive their rings and drift into a waltz. As announced before, the girls will all be dressed in white and carry arm bouquets rather than the customary shoulder corsages. The bouquets will be of red aond yellow roses. Gener-al Lejeune will receive his class ring in the figure, being the first man of '33 to pass through the arch. Saturday there will be a dansant in the afternoon, and Saturday night Tremaine will play for his third V. M. I. dance in the Gymnasium. The immense popularity of the radio pro-grams presented by Tremaine at Yoeng's Chinese American Restau-rant in New York last season assure the fact that his orchestra is an ex-cellent one, and the V. M. I. Hop Com-mittee was fortunate in obtaining his orchestra for this engagement. The orchestra is on its first southern tour, and it is reported that Tre-maine is enthusiastic over playing for dances at V. M. I. and other southern schools. His large reper-toire embraces all the popular dance selections of the day, and he is to play several special numbers for the figure. [unable to participate in anything so fa rexcept signal practice. Following of football here in Blacksburg have noted with ever-in-creasing apprehension the marked improvement in the V. M. I. eleven as the season has progressed. The writer warmed with admiration as he watched the Keydets battle the Uni-versity of Kentucky last Saturday at V. M. I.'s homecoming game. It was a sterling exhibition of true fighting spirit pitted against odds that against another team might have been over-whelming. V. P. I. knows that its football team is in for a real battle Thanksgiving, but- what Thanksgiv ing game hasn't been a battle from start to finish? It is the general belief here that V. M. I. has the best coach in the state in Bill Raftery, and that it may be this factor that may give the Lex-ingtomiano a slight edge in Roanoke. But V. P. I., with all its disappoint-ing showing to date, concedes noth-ing in this game and many supporters believe the team will come to life next Thursday and play the brand of football they have been expected to play all season. Coach Orville E. Neal is expected back at the drills the latter part of the week from his sick bed. Mean-while, his assistant, Coach Lyal Clark, has been carrying on. It would be dangerous and perhaps mislead- (Continued oo P a s * E i g h t) By F. F. Finklehoffe, Sports Editor The Cadet. When the setting sun envelopes the dust strewn and barren football sta-dium in the "Magic City" on the night of Thanksgiving, many thou-sands of erstwhile spectators ' who have been so fortunate as to have been able to witness the "Military Classic of The South" will be slowly treading their weary ways home-ward, and no matter what the tarn-ished scoreboard may have for its story, those fortunates will be re-turning from a real, honest-to-good-ness football encounter. The comparative performances of this year or any other year are toss-ed to the winds, when the Flying Squadron of the Virginia Military In-stitute and the Maroon Jerseyed Gob-blers of the Blacksburg School meet face to face in their annual struggle on the gridiron. Both Institutions use as a criterion of a successful sea-son— a Turkey Day victory. In spite of a not too auspicious start this year, the V. P. I. boys can boast of a team of no mean ability. From all rumors that the breezes have wafted Lexingtonward—and on the wings of students of this great American game of ours—V. P. I. has got the stuff for one smooth football team. Whether their erratic per-formance has been due to lack of co-ordination, or mere inability to get started, is not ascertained, but if any-one has any qualms of conscience as to the power of the Gobblers on this coming Thanksgiving, he may rest on that score, because after the pre-liminary marching and martial mu-sic has culminated on the field, the Big Red Team is going to line up against one of the most powerful outfits in this part of the Southland. There are three men in the V. P. f. line that need not bow to anyone, when it comes to effective meander-ing in a forward wall. These are Harry Stark, mammoth tackle; Gene flite, super guard, and Captain Gene Brown, who has proved to be a tower of strength in the center of the line. These three men have been a bul-wark of strength and have stood out as more than able performers. Sea-mon, Palmer, and Chandler make a trio of excellent wingmen, with Pal-mer being able to cope with the best of them. Dyke and Grinus, on the right side of the line balance off a most efficient advance barrier. In reserve there are Swart, English, and Betts, three performers who can be referred to only as alternates rather than substitutes. For ball toters, the Blacksburgites boast of eight fast backs who have caused considerable trouble to many opposing outfits. Heinie Groth has been getting the call at the number barking post, due to his agility, and superb ball carrying ability. This young Iowan is a sophomore, and be-fore many a moon has set, the pig-ikin followers in these parts are go- -ig to wake up some morning with .he realization that this 180 pound speed king is a real star. He's a triple threat man of the "old school" -ype, and his cavorts on the broken field has already proved a nemesis to many a prospective tackier. This is >ne man the Cadets are going to fear—no question. Then there is the lighly touted Casey. This boy has shown some artistic ball carrying on -he open field and he carries a con-itant threat inasmuch as he is the ype of ball player that is apt to get lose for that old heart rending touch-lown at any instant. Hardwick is another halfback that packs a punch, le's not one of the sensational boys, ut he's the kind that they can slip he old apple to anytime they need (Continuad On P a g . Four) |