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WESTERVILLE, OHIO, NOVF,MBER 21 , 1921.

VOL. 5.

No. 9.

DOES FOOTBALL NECESSARILY MEAN LOW GRADES? READ THIS (H . V . Miller, '23 .)

A et o f stati tics, compari son , and esti ma te recently compiled proves co ncl u ively that Otterb ein athletes, especially football men, sacrifi ce more time and effort for th eir chool than Qny other group; th a t tho e persons are connected wi th ath leti c inter­ e is. either as actual pa rtici pants or a mana gers. are th e social a nd intellect­ ual 'leader of the college; that last yea r's footba ll letter me n made an av­ erage grade hi g her than th e other men of th e three college cla se from which th ey were elected who did not repre­ e nt their school in intercollegiate ath1letic conte t .

Varsity Men Spend 5 Hours a Day. Men of this year' football squad pent on an average 5.28 hour each day (Sunday excepted) at footb all.

The figure inclu e practi< ion by actual co unt totaling 1415 hours, chalk talk , ("skull practices") total-

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VARSITY FOOTBALL SQUAD, 1921 Left to ri ht. top row: Coach Ditmer, ·tudebaker, Beitz, Keim, Knight, GiJJman Ienke, taat , Gib on, Mana •er Dellinger, thl etic Director Mar­ tin.

Middl e row: • Toe!, Franklin, Bradrick, We t, toltz, Ander on, Shreck, Lehman, Adam , Howard.

Bottom row : prout, !br ight, Capt. Peden . Howe, Geo r ge, T roop, Barnhard. oilier.

GRID SEASON IS REVIEWED

DITMER CHOOSES ALL-OHIO

FROSH SQUAD GREAT ASSET

iilg 28½ hour , and games. T he three home game are e timated at 8 hours each becau e the morning se sions plus the menta l condition o{ the partici­ pant rendered th em u ele s dur ing the entire day. By actual co unt jt was found that the fiv e games played away from home con umed 103 ho ur s.

Thus, the time actually expended by each va r ity man totaled 301½ hour for the eason, 31. 7 hours per week, and 5.28 hours per day. T he figure does not take into account the time spent at "rub outs". either does it t 4 ke care of the time wlien football men were r endered unfit for tudy due to fatigue and injurie .

T he cry of the modern laboring man i : " Eight hour fo r work, eight hour for leep, and eight hour for recreation I' Tell me, critic! Where 1 the. 1o tball man to et h" eight ho ur pe ri ods fo r work o r recreation (Continued on page four.)

0. C. AND HIRAM GQ SCORELESS

Peden Put- at End, His Normal Posi­ First Yea~ Football Men Will Greatly Strepgthen Next Year's tion. Shifty L ine and Fast O tterbei n Gets Away To Bad Start Backfield.

Game I s Played In Downpour on Varsity.

But Comes Back In Last Gridiron of Clay Each eason finds a live in terest on Coach Ditmer' All-Ohio ConGames.

Mud. fer ence football election is giveu the part of the followe r and direc­ herewith. Ditmer's, along with the tor of ,football toward the performance OTT E RBEIN NOT CONSISTENT selection of all other conference of the freshman quad.

Everyone BOTH TEAMS FUMBLE BALL ~ coache i being ent to The Associ- rea ljze that the future of Otterbein' Season, Though Not Entirely Satisfac- ated Pres where a composite selec- athletic re t upon the new matetial Hiram Shows True Hospitality­ that come to the cbool each year.

Seven Otterbein Men Play tory, Is Decided Step "J:oward 1:ion will be made.

Last Game.

Ultimate Success.

It will be noted that Peden i put Thi year the enthusia m has been in­ at end. Thi i undoubtedly Peden' s creased becau e of the fine work 0£ In a ea of clay mud Otterbein' normal position, but he simply could the quad.

(By H . W . Troop, '23) The work of the squad bas b en of gridder battled Hfram to a O to O 11ot be pared from tne backfield. lu attempting to review a football incalculable worth to the coach and to core la t aturday. Playing in a down­ a on like th e one ju t pa t a writer Peden in hi prime would ·have been. the var ity. ome of the membe rs of pour 0£ rain on a field already taking econd to n.one in the we t as a i confronted wit h a very difficult ta k. the squad had sufficient experience to on the appearance of a slough it wa defe1isive end.

His art icl e may . cund like a beautifol Such a team a Ditmer chooses make it pos ible to u e them a quite impossible to make any real a libi or an attempt to admini ter a would have a pair of e.ll.Ceptional cout and of cour e the whole bunch headway. Time after time some play­ little oothi.ng y'rup to the followers pu~te, Jn wen and Munn . It ga ve the var ity some valuabl op­ er would come up from a ubmer ion of the team but in thi particula inblinded with oozy mud, and. before th~ w-0uld have a wonderful pair of position on the crimmage njgh_ts. tance it will be :rn hone t endeavor to Seven men played -their la t game p\ay could proceed it wa nece ary McPhee and offcn ive halves in call attention to be th th plea ant and (Continued on page seven.) to lend some first aid in th e form of a F uller. nd it would have the hardest unplea ant. damp tow I before he was able to re.­ kind of a line ma her in Wolf. The The pre eat sea on opened with two Franklin Elected Captain. gain his eyesight. Fumbles we re li ne _would . be welt balanced, shifty, ery decided ilisappointment both to numerou on both ides, line plung­ and faitly heavy.

Just a#er the Hiram game, Coach ' am and to student body. · They were .Ji.nds-Peden, Otterbein; Owen, Ditmer called the football team to­ ing wa quite impo ible, runnjng di appointment hecause on both ocD enison. gether for th e purpo e of electing a wa uncertain, and. forwatd pa ing ca ion the team wa not at it best.

Tackles- tailing , Oberlin ; Wal­ leader for r,text year. Captain Roy wa almo t out of the qu tion al­ A 13 to 0 lead and then being nosed ker, Woo ter.

P den, w,ho had played hi last game though 0 . C. succeeded in complet­ out by on point · ometbil,)g to make Guard: -Jeffers Ofi10 University; for th, old scho0l had the honor of ing one for about 25 yard .

1 the Wilmington g~me long remember­ First Period. nolllinating Wilbur Franklin. Th~re ed. The follov ing game with the eigel Ohio orthern. wa unity in th<; calls for acclamation, CenterStanbarger, Wittenberg.

The only bright pot in the fi r t hland crew is even more to be r e­ Quarter-back-Munn , Miami. and in short order "Tillie" was elected quarter was an end run by Peden gretted. Four down to make a half Half-backs-McPhee, Oberlin ; Ful- to captain the squad in it attempt to which netted 25 yard~. Otterbein yard and we failed to core while A hmake a dee.i;>er impre sion on the Ohio ucceeded in making two fir tdown ler, hio University.

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Conference next fall.

Full-back- Wolf, Miami. ( Continued on page three.)

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ALL HAIL THE COACH !

that he is, he struggled on.

He took eleven men and made Coach D itmer Proves H imself One of "fig htin' fools" o f them. His efforts, too, we r e bril)o-ing finanacia l support the Foremost Mentors of from the a lumni. Bis frank appeal

Ohio.

Coac h Merlin A. Ditmer has finished his second ea -on a Otterbein's foo~ball mentor. 1 n that time he has

Coach Merlin A. D itmer ecured the unwavedng loyalty of every tudent and is one of the mo t highly respected figure about the campu .

J n eptcmber 1920, oach Ditmer came to Otterb in from Springfield, Ohio where he wa erving as coach of a.'thletic in the Hi g h cho61. rior to hi scn·ice at prjngfield, he had for everal year directed athletic at Piqua High School. In both of these place , Ditmer developed organ­ ization t hat were feared on every gridiron and ba ket ball floor. lie be­ came known as one of the leading Hi g h Schoo l coaches in the state.

During all this time, however, of actual coaching experience, Dinner wa - not allowing t he practical pha e of the game to eclip e the theoretical, nor wa he allowing uccess to let him abandon further tudy. on­ sequently, from time to time. he took work under the fa r-famed Zuppke at Illinoi s and also stndied under the inimitable Wike of Ohio tate.

Thu oach Ditmer came to Otterbein with recommendations "par ex­ cellence." Thi had been hi Ima Mater and tirring tales of hi grid­ iron and tra ck day wer e still pre­ valent. The men who had been hi <:las mat e and team mates, the men who knew him best, were th e ve.ry men who were most eager to see hun at th e head of Otterbein athletics. hat better reco mmendation could

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to the tudent body were being an wered by s tau1Jch suppo rt of hi policie . In hort, though hi team met with repeated defeats, his reputa­ tion grew, r espect for him increased.

Thi alone i tribute to any man .

Thi fall aw a different system of thjngs prevailing. Athletics were put on a firmer basis and everyone was co-operating in making a great year.

Of course, many individuals were repons1ble for this improved state of affairs, but to Ditmer goe a goodly hare of the credit.

Away from th e Otterbein camp us, as well as at home, Ditmer is a man admired. Recognized a a keen tu­ dent of th e game and as a master strategian, be commands universal r e­ spect in Ohio football circle .

Otterbein can well count it her lu cky day when Merlin A. Ditmer a urned his duties here, for with such a man at the helm Otterbein athletics, taken over a period of years, canno t help but be a powerful factor in hio onference circles.

great deal of attentio n. The battle re- I suited in a scorek s tie as did th e Ot- i terbein-Hiram tilt. Deni on had the I hardest kind of a time in beating low- i ly H eidelberg 7-0. j·

Oth er Turkey Day contests will be: \i oo ter vs. Mt. Union.

Wittenb er g vs . Northern.

Ohio vs. Ma ri etta.

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Muddy Fields.

I. S. Dellinger Serves As Every Ohio game was played in a Head Football Manager. proverbial '' ea of mud". This fa cto r A manag er's life i a hard one at be t and to keep even temperecl' in the held scoring down. thu s th e co r ele games. nidst of co mplaint, reque ts and orThanksgiving Games, der is 110 ea y ta k.

Miami meets incinnati in what will D e llinger , howev er, has served to eason. A be the mo t important conference t he be t of hi ab ility thi game next Thursday. Whil e Miami football manager hould hav e no other ha won every game by a safe mar gin, . r e ponsibilities during the gridiron ea­ and Cincinnati has fa il ed to t ake a on a nd in t hi s r c·spe t D ellinger was conference truggle, yet the Miami handi capped.

Kaving many oth er men are not over confident a the Bear- du tie on hi hand mo t of the time, cat alway play at top speed again t m uch of the m a nageria l.work wa dele­ the Oxford men. A n up et would gated to assista n ts. give Obe rl in th e championship .

De ll inger wa well a ided by hi two 1 The ase-Reserve bat t le is a lways a a sistants, A. 'vV. E ll iott a nd J. H. fea ture at Cleveland. A lthough Ca e Ruebu h The e two men both de­ ee m s to have the edge a hard fight serve thank for th e effort th ey put will re sult. forth.

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The Formal Time of the Year Is With Us; Horace Troop. ("Horse") "Horse" ha had tp be contented . in holdi ng down the bench for the mo t part th i year, althou h be ha had everal opportunitie to take up the work wh en ome fellow tea,mmate uccumbed to an extra onslaught.

"Horse" is a con istent trainer and alway on the job. He ha another year with u .

CONFERENCE DIGEST Case Humbles Kenyon-Miami Must

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any man hav e ?

Only five Conference gam1:s were La t fall Ditmer began hi college played la t aturday. With the excep­ coaching under inau picious circum- tion of Ca e chool' 28-0 win over tance . Nothing wa in hi favor. Kenyon, low scores were the ru le, and He was given a handful of men, most two coreles tie featured the day' of them w1 killed in even the rudi- record. Oberlin fini hed her season ments of the game, and he wa ex- und feated, but managed to make only pected to turn out a machine capab.le one touchdown over We tern Reserve. of matching the leaders of the Ohio The game next in importance was the Conference.

Financially, athletics Ca e-Kenyon scrap. Kenyon expect­ were on a rather treacherous footing ed to at lea t hold Case to one of her and Ditmer was constantly handi- · famou tie . The Ca e victory assures capped for want of _proper equipment the Scientists of third place. The Wit­ and uppli es. However, grim fighter tenberg-Wesleyan game commanded a

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to Hiram 's 1 m th e fi rs t ba,f. The d • half ended w ,th the ball in the m iddl e § of the fie ld, ;;: , : Thi rd Period. l n the openin g of th e seco nd ha lf 0 . C. ma de a hrs t do wn a nd Staats hu rl e<l th e only co mpl eted pass to _ J o hnn y Geo rge wh o ma de a di s tan ce of 25 yard before he wa downed . : T hi s wa the best chan ce th e team had to sco re, but it los t th e opportun- ~ it y. \ Four th Period. ifll 11111111111111111111 lllllllllllllllllllllll 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 I 1111 lllllllllllii (tho ug h the player s seem ed to have taken on new life in the ope ning of the second half, during the last JJIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII§ q uarter the ball became so slippery that it wa almost u eless effort to try to gain.

Ba cks were thrown for lo ss es, fum b le after fumble wa made _ and con i tent football was im­ poss.ible.

Hiram did not comp lete a single pas .

"Tillie" Franklin is to be commended for hi handling of the ball at center never making· a · bad pass during the whole game, in spite of the fact that BOB DEW, Agent Headquarters B. W . Wells' Tailor Shop : the ball was smeared with clay and : Phone Citizen 360 Corner State and Main Sta. § oaking wet the entire game.

Kefker wa Hiram's best man, iillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllHlllllllllllllllllllllllllllljlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllfi arryino- the ball on most of their gains.

Captain Roy Peden. .

Fine t~eatment wa accorded th e Roy Frank lin Peden. Just what player by the Hiram tudent .

Ho· t does that na ·n e mean to the student body ' of Otterbe n ? A ny thin g we co.ffee was given out between hal ves, . . tudents helped might ay in I< y' behalf wo uld be and after th e game. the men pack their suit cases and the mere ha sh in, com ari on fo his real J worth to the col lege.- ]t has been team was f d bot h noon and night at the Mens' Commons. said that Otterbei n is known in Six Otterbein men played their last athletic circles as "t he sc hool that game for their Ima Mater. They P den. attends.'' w re P den, prout, lbright, George, Roy ha I lay d hi last var ity foot­ Lehmall and Howard, Howe i also ball gam e f r ttcrl;J ein and the re ­ a senio r but did not play aturday cord he ha left could well be envied du to death in his family. by any youth of the t ountry. I nor.

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el cwhere, Ro y ha com back year Hi ram O • , Otterbein O after year and given his be for the Reis, I. e................... .............. ..Stoltz, I. e. old school. Bonored re pected, and Gore, I. t ......... .... .................. L ehman, I. t. fear ed by conf rcnce team he has Bates, I. g ............................. oilier, I. g. gained th e admirati n of eve r y team, Leamon, , c............................. Franklin, c. every coach and eve r y official in the Hall, r. g ............................. Howard, r. g. conference. E,·en though hi prowe.

Vincent, r. t....- ................... Menke., r. t. may be for gotten in the next few stud- huma.ker, r. e..... - ......... ~ nder on, ,. e. ent generations. hi name will go Lawrence, q ........ - ..- ..........- .....Sprout, q. down in the athletic history of the I Kelker, I. h............- ...............Staats. I. h. in titution a one o f the greatest, if j Bunn, r. h ..............2 .....:....... George. r . h. not the g r atest. .athkte that ever j Day, f. b ............................... Peden f. b. d nned an Otte.rbc,111 uniform. ubstitutions-Hiram, Srail for · · · .. -; .. Hall; Tin kcom for Day ; Day foi: 0 . C. AND HIRAM Tinckom ; Badley for Srail ; Chase GO SCORELESS for Vincent.

Otterbein Bradrick (Continued from pag one.) for Stoltz, Stoltz fo Bradrick, . .

T roop for Menke; Menke for Troop· m :his p ri.od but_ could not make any Albright for Staat ; Staat for Al­ ?ec1ded ga111 ow111g to th,: fact that bright. it wa impo ib)e to hold th e Refere -Weyant (Wooster) . , mpire-Towne (Bates). ball. The backs could not get off fast\ enough to ge.t through the hole in the line before the. B:iram linemen could Athletic Editors Edit Issue. gauge the play and kill it in the bud.

The bulk of thP. work of editing thi~ Second Period. week' paper w.< performed by the In thi quarter traight football wa Editor . . W. Elliott and used for the mo t part. Hiram at­ AthJetic H . V. Mill r. tempted two forward passes but they An additi onal number of. copie will were grounded by our men . There be printed o that every Vari ty foot­ were fumble galore, each ide fin ding ball man can ecure extra copies. it impo ible to hold the slip­ pery- pill. Hi ram succeeded in making Heard at Hiram. one fiir t down in this period and O. " Perk" Collier with hi eyes full of

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f · ld and body \ year·s foo tball letter men worked a t o mu · But it do esn' t stop th ere, it goe : lea t _four h ou r s eac h day, the fo~rth one step beyond the physical and put in two hou~s per clay workm~, mental man and develop s the moral while the maionty of the sq uad dtd Publl. shed Weekly in th e intere st of man. Perseverance . in t h e face o f d e- so1ne work "on the ide" . The sa m e OTTEROi~IbeiP-&'BtfsHING feat, courage in spite of overwhelm- hold s goo d thi s year. It is the "street BOARD ing odds, self control in the heat of corner loafer," not th e elf-sustainWesterville, Ohio p combat all th ese qualities. in va luable ing student. who set up th e well M ember of :t:so~f:tionCollege ress in afte; life, are the direct res ult s o f known howl. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ football.

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The figures ar e based up o n a comf f b II I tt r parison of the grades o oot a e e men pitted against th e grades of men of the senior, junior. and sophomore classes who did no t represent the (Continued on page five .)

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• What other college sport, what col)\ ow for the bigges t urpris e of all, The kind that wear, and satisfy.

STAFF Editor .............. J. Gordon Howard, :22 lege study, cares for th e man 's th ree a sc holar hip com parison. The per­ Sty'Je and dura bili~y considered first.

Assistant Editor •····-· J. W . Seneff, 23 fold natur e as does thi s great gam~? \ so ns who investigated la t year's Let me show you my line. I also re­ Contributing EditorsH H·tt , Is football worth the candle? It i ! I g rades wer e ab olutely unbia ed. They ceive subscriptions for the Country Grace . 1 , 23 Horace W. Troop, '23 I wanted to kn ow the truth for truth's Gentleman, Sat u rd ay Evening Post Business Manager .... J. P. Schutz, '23 Does Football Necessarily sake. In their compari on they ig- and Ladies' H ome Jour nal.

Assi tant Bu iness ManagersMean Low Grades. nored the freshman class, whose T. E . ewell, '23 St uden t Agent. grades would pull the average down Clifford Foor, '24 1 (Continued from page one.)

Cir. Manager ... ... _Harriet L . Hays, '22 because of a number of failures whose when he has sacrificed more than five A si tant Circulation Man_agers- , Lucile Ewr:t, 23 hours of one period for your chool reco rds would disturb the reliability Katherine Pollock, '24 and mine? He must keep up in his of a comparison. Likewi e they did Both P l:o nes Athletic Editor -······ A. W. Elliott, ' 23 studies, and he does. He must carry not count girl's records, or the re­ As istant Athletic Editor- M'll , cord of tho e who represented OtterH. V. 1 er, 23 on the ocial life of th e school, and he bein in an intercollegiate contest or Local Editor -··-······ M. M. C~llins, :23 does. con tests, but fai led to win a letter.

Alumna! Editor - ····. Al_m_a Guttner, ,97 ~thletes, the Student Leaders.

Exchange Editor,.V1rgm1a ~navely, 23 East College A venue The minority group, men carrying -Cochran Hall Editor-.

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Citizen 26 Bell 84-R inety-three and eight-tenths per cent arietie -to meet your Address all comrounicatjons to The of last year's football letter men were Otterbein Tan and Cardinal, 103 W. active in a literary society, while only requirement.

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DEN TIST cla ses who did not represent the col­ Entered as seco nd class matter lege in intercollegiate sports were ac­ Excellent 15 W est College Ave. Varietie of September 25, 19 17, at the postoffice tive. var ity man is President of B ell Phone 9 Citizen Phone 167 at Westerville, 0., under act o f pple the Y. M. C. . Twelve of th e six­ ,Eating March 3, 1879.

Accepta nce for mailing at specia l tee n men composi ng la t year's Asso­ F or all that is g ood to eat see rate of postage provjded for in :5ec. ciation Cabinet were connected with & 1103, Act of Oct. 3, 1917, authorized the athletic life of Otterbein.

April 7, 1919.

Surprising as 1t may seem, half of the Glee Club members wer e athletes.

EDITORIAL ix of the eleven men on the debate quad were either o ut fo the teams, or were manager of teams. Of the Is Football Worth the Candle?

Oratory "0" A ociation, half were notber football s a on i 11 over the United tate college athlete .

La t year' editor and the present per cent on per cent men have been pending time and 31 W. College A ve. editor ot the Tan and Cardinal won en rgy perfecting football team . their football "0". Of men on the T . & W E ST ERVIL L E , O H IO They have been pending afternoon . taff, all but one were engaged some of gru lling phy ical exertion and Bell Phon·e 190 Citizen Phone 110 way in athletic . The ame is true ev ning of mental concentration over with this year' taff. Ten men of ig.nal . They have been risking in­ last year's ibyl staff had an athletic jurie , taking chance , enduring hard­ duty, while three did not. This year hip that they would hun but for the the editor wa on the football squad. sake of the premier college sport,­ trange again, the men on the Quiz ' I, football. and Qwll Club are athletes one hun­ .,.ot 011ly i the game played at the dred per cent trong. Male member co t of great per onal acrifice on the of the Publication Board were divided GOD BLES S O T T E R BEIN ! part of the player , but i likewise a equally b tween athletes and non-ath­ great financial burden on the institu­ lete . At pre ent all officers of The For her splendid history and her tions upporting it.

Thou and of International Relations Club a re con­ glorious future. dollar are expended annually in the nected with Otterbein's athletic interG LEN-LEE CO AL CO MPANY name of footba ll. Carrying teams e t , while five of eight men wear tbe over the country, hiring ·pert, high Var ity "0 1', and the ixth will be ba priced coache , providing equipment, ket ball manager.

We are 100% up-to-date in the tran porting rooter , all tbi take O ther Sports and Work. machinery to do the work. We also money, quantitie of it.

It wa up to la t year's football guarantee the work can not be beat.

Con idering the e fact , i football men to carry on to a large extent, We appreciate your work and a trial worth the caJ1dle? There i only one oth r port . Three letter men played will convince you. an w r, it is. • in three other ports making four in In the averag merican college all. Two participated in two other Shoe Shine for Ladies and Gents, one finds a variety of port . Some port , while ix were found on one All Kinds of Shoe Laces. require _peed and agility, other n­ other athletic team. Four of tlce re­ durance, still other require an ex­ maining eight whose individual pic­ DAN CROCE pert knowledge of th e science and tures appeared in the Sibyl tried out tec hnique of t he game. Football i the for another team but failed to make it. 25 0 . C. students and faculty members game that include all sati factorily.

Do I hear the cry-"Other men are use the Corona.

0 team can reach success without working their way through school"?

Easy Terms. all these attdbutes. In · other words, Yes, and if you will but inve tigate a RAY M. J O HNSO N football i a port developing every bit you will find that three of last I Bell P~one 82-R 'i

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Paul V . Sprout. ("Sprouty") We don' t know what the "V" tands for unles it is "Virile" and he is all of that. " Sprouty's" ability to pilot a team was only recognized in his junior year when Coach Ditmer, in trying to get a wo rking machine to­ i ether, ga ve him a trial. He has been. the regular va rsity quarter ever since.

With . only 132 pounds of flesh and about ix hundred pounds of g rit he has da hed the old al ibi to th e ground that a man m u t weigh 200 pounds in order to make any impression as a player.

Edward Stoltz. ("Eddie.")

While thi s was Eddie's first year on the varsity he ha had quite a bit of experience in High School, ha.ving played at Greenville High. He play­ ed a half back on last year 's freshman team and made quite a name for himelf as a li ne sma her. His playing at end thi yea r has been very com­ mendable: Hard as nails and possess­ ing that quiet confident way that mark a player with ab ility to deliver at all times, he has made good on th e quad and merits th e distinction of a B, . ' 5; C, .7 ; D , .70; X, .60 ; F, .45 the foot ball man. following resulted :

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Robert Schreck. ("Bob.") J. W . George. ("Johnny.")

Althoug h J o hnny has only played Bob is a junior and played regularly foot i> all two years he has gained a at end until injured. reputation for his clever work. He has shone especially on end runs and run ning back punts. J ohnny has al­ so been on the en d of several forward passes that have netted some· large gaim. " Hard as nails" is about as good a way of expressing just what "Johnny" is. Rarely ever injured and always on hand for the hardes t scrimmage. If be 1'.ad a couple more years in which to develop bis wares his name wou ld be a common ight in the head­ line!.

Lyall Barnhart. ("Barney") "Earney" is a good example of jus t what a man can do when he makes u p -hi _mind. !!Barney" is a g ood line plunger and always dependable when give, an opportunity. Good-natured, Edward Newell. (" Ed") cheerful and always optimistic, Bar­ n ey has won the admiration of th e E d i a letter ma n an d served faith­ bunch. full y as a ub.

Foo tball letter men made an average grade of .7397.

1'on-ath lete mad an average grade of .63 9.

The non-athl etes had among their numb er eve ral exceptional tu den ts.

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Ju t this is prove d; that it i not th e athlete, but the para ite, the " do ~ nothing but kick" type of fellow who : pull college cho.Jar hip 'standards ' ~ It is the fellow who stay from the literary oc1et1e ,

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Dwight Statts. ("Chic") "Chic" bas been handicapped in everal way this fall. Coming back from an unplea ant vacation about ten pound under weight and being a victim of too much pub licity, he has taken advantage of the situation by continually plugging away and is fini hing a fair season. Although he ha not had the privilege of getting into aJI the games. "Chic" always play be t when he gets mad.

At the same time the poor, downtrodden athlete, the fellow who spend more than five hour each day trying to help effect Otterbe in' "come back," who i a member of the minority group which furnishes more Does Football Necessarily than half of the chool's leader h tp.

Mean Low Grades spend long hours at toil so that lk (Continued from page four.) may come to Otterbein, and i pro ud th chool in an athletic way. to be here,-he belongs to e clas Figuring upon a percentage ba i , which earns better grade than the "bookworm ," the " tudents," and the a'nd using an arbitrary percentage to represent letters as follow : A, .92; "loafers."

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thing that has kept him from bur ting ( into the first All-Ohio Conference list · a fi g ht er o f th e o Id o f center . H e 1s . . . school and can tn till more pep mto a line than a bottle of pep-gin. Here's t~ you ' •Tillie" and may you b~ the means of ditch ing t he o ld jinx that

No "T . and C." Next Week. his _share. of bump _and has lost quite D u e to t he fact t hat Thanksgi vi ng a IJ1t of tune on tht accoun t. But he likes tpe game and always showed vacation will greatly curtail the news, . . . rare nerve 111 tay111g 111 the game as and a l o due to the fact that there are long as he could keep from calljn g only 32 i sues of t his p a per a nd next time out. week i a logical time to mak e one omi ion, there will be no is ue o f the Tan and Cardina l next Mo nday.

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Estel Albright. ("Ex") "Ex" i anot her gridder that has een four eason of grilling. This year he has been shifted from half to quarter and to end. In each po ition be bas played a fine game when given an o,pportunity. "Ex" has had a Jinx following him in that he usually come out of a fray pretty well banged u,p.

Since football i only one of four Substitutes All Deserve Praise for Their Efforts spor t where " Ex" i found , we are expe_ctin g him to contribute to more A lthough G11lman, Gibson, Noe l, than one interesting scrap befo re he Adams, Heitz, Bradrick, West, leaves us next pring. nig ht, Studebaker, and K eim do not rat e any indi vid ual mention, to th em FROSH SQUAD GREAT ASSET must go a lion' hare of the prai e (Continued from page one.) for helping make the year what it ha been. While they may characterize for tterbein la t aturday a t Hiram th.em elve as "one who also ran", and as a natural consequence the they have been on the field each night followers of the team are asking,. plugging away against mighty odd "Doe th e Freshman squad contain a and each of them has won the admira- Peden or any of the other ?"

The work of McCarroll, the captain tion of the var ity player and the intere ted student pody for their efforts. of the Fro h, has attracted no little Thoug h they have ga~ned in many comment. He plays a defensive game way for what they have experienced similiar to that of Peden and is a

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Dash, drive, grit, determination, dogged stick-to-it-iveness and all th.e other adjectives that we can't think of, that's "Perk." "He like to win. He enjoys p laying the gam e every min­ ute. He thrills in knowing that he wa g iving hi man th e tu le of his life. oach Ditmer hift d "Pe,rk" from end to tackle then to guard , where it em that he rightly b~longs as this i one po ition where a p layer can " rare" to his hearts content. "Perk'' has another year \Vith us and can b·e coun ted on to make good use of. it. .

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J. Gotdon Howard. (Gord.) " Gord" has an enviable record in that he has pfayed in every game that ha been staged ince he came here in th e fall 0£ 191 . Only on two has he been unable to s a gua rd and center he - i hard to beat. teady and always on the job. o one ever aw him excited, and no one ever aw him mad un­ til the fall of 1920 when Coach Dit­ mer took charge of the quad. In a couple more years, " Dit" might have made an II-Ohio man out. of him.

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Merrill L . Howe. ("Levi") ·'Levi", ounds yiddi h dosen't But it i nt. Ju t an app ndage.

Levi has pla~d a "rarin'" tackle for four year and hi . "Let' drive gang," ha characterized him a one of the mo t optimi tic line men ·. on the quad. ' .

Levi s4 tained .an injury early thi fall that k'e1;>t him out of a couple of Harold' Anderson. ("Andy.") conte t , but he ca~e back trong and Andy came lo u {;om_ Akron where helped win th e Heide lberg game, He a , record in High i one of 'Otterbein b~sy men and his he made quit ~hool. Playing hi first year he has place will be hard to fi ll. g1ve11 a good account fo him elf. He ha been the vic tim of everal in­ core but mo t of all that last quarter jurie during t.he easo n and for thi when w tore through their line at will rea on ha had to be talj:~n from quite something that none of the teams they a _few game . Naturally a half-back, had played had been able to do.

Ditmer has had to hift him to end on The first half of the 'Wittenberg everal occasions. "Andy" handle game wa our but game are not won the ball well a n_d will be a big asset by halves. Wittenberg wa outplayed to next year' team.

Howard Menlte. ("Papa") wing to the fact that Ditmer had two experienced tackle Menke lias had to be ati fie d in filling in on the line. He is a big, good natured lad alway ready to get in a'hd do hi hare. igoal are no bug bear to him a his mathematical brain functions or ome other force eemed to favor automatically. This i Menke' first the army when in the face of defeat year on the var ity and he should be a Likewi e the football ea on. Three ucce ive defeat had harpened the bear on the line next fall. appetite of the team for victory.

'Fearn work and interference of the kind not een in Otterbein for many GRID SEASON the opening periods but he had IS REVIEWED sea ons caused the downfall of Heid­ inomething that our men did not have elberg and from thi point marks a CALENDAR the ability to play con i tent footbati (Continued from page one.) change closing a eason of no regret . for a whole game.

Tuesd'a y, November 22land - by · dint of fight cored seven tterbein' rec- hirted warrior peaking of core , perhaps this ea­ Fre hman-Sophomore football game. points. We we.re a better team than played the Kenyon team off its feet in 6:15 p. m.-Y. W. c. A. either of these two but w failed to the Home-co!lling game and only a on would not be counted a success but we mu t take i1uo account the 6:30 p. m.- lee Club practice. make good. break turned a Yictory into a tie. Otfact that thi eason marked an ad­ Wednesday, November 23The Denison game whHe a defeat terbein cored in the first three min­ vance in the kind of football exhibited 6:30 J>. m.-Choic practice. showed that the team could fight if ute of play and continued to outplay This ea on i one more step in th~ Thursday, N ovembcr 24it determined to do it. The score the opponent in every department of developme~t of a _ound athletic policy Thanksgiving. indicate an ea y time of it for Deni- the game for the remaining minutes at Otterbern. It I evidence that the Monday, November 28on but they could not score or make of 1,>lay. · coaching y tern will accompli h reScience Club. any gain through line on straight To ay that Miami expected to anihil­ ults. It point to an extremely bright I nternational Relations Club. football. Their uperior pas ing abil- ate us would be speaking mildly. They future, when_ a a result of conti ued ity and our inexped nee in _forward had defeated Wesleyan 56 to O and good coaching, cooperation on the part Friday, December 2-- , Footbal Banquet. pass defense i responsible for the de- were contenders fo r the conference of administration and students, and a title and seemed to feel that Otterbein fighting pirit in which all participate feat.

Week's Worst Joke. },.11 great wars have had clearly wa too small for erious cons~deration. Ottec.bein will take her place amon Tw<>"" little wori:n were d~gin marked points of change when fortune We remember of course the 21 to O the leader in the Ohio Conference. g_ away. They were digging in dead earne t-Poor Erne ti-Purple Cow,

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