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...addition to the fact that his material is best suited to playing straight football, Coach Stiehm has been handicapped in developing any sort of intricate open play on account of the Western Conference rules which forbid any team starting gridiron practice until September 15. This means that the University players have a week's head start on the Westerners...
...which the University bucked up against last fall when it played Valparaiso, the western invader of 1920. Valparaiso was a "mystery" team about which the Crimson strategists knew comparatively little. Indiana is not. And unless Coach Steihm has pulled the wool completely over the eyes of this year's gridiron followers, his team this afternoon will display a conservative brand of football with trick plays and forwards reserved for a last-minute score-at-any-cost emergency...
According to the "New York Times" Coach Heisman of Pennsylvania favors "legislation to stop light men being pitted against heavy ones on the gridiron." He would apply the rule of the boxing ring to the football field, asserting that the fact it "did not apply was one of the defects of the game...
Rainy weather kept the University football men off the Stadium gridiron for all but a few minutes yesterday afternoon. Coach Fisher held his usual after-ter-game blackboard talk in the Locker Building, pointing out the general defects shown Saturday against Holy Cross. Later on the 18 players who took part in the game were given individual criticism by the various members of the Crimson coaching staff...
...appearance of three University coaches on the 1925 field yesterday was the first proof of the fact that the directors of Crimson football intend to make the liaison between the University and Freshman teams more complete this year than ever before. Other University gridiron specialists are expected to give time next week to Coach Campbell's squad...