ATHLETIC.
iCOOTBALL prospects are very
Jl bright for this year. The boys
are taking a greater interest in
college sport than ever before.
Every evening there are some
thirty odd contestants on the field
trying for places in the team with
the grit and determination that it
takes to make a football veteran*.
Mr. W. A Murray, who will
coach our team this season, is a
graduate of the State College of
Pennsylvania. fie has played in
his college team the past four
years, captained it during the sea
son of ’98, and succeeded in plac
ing his team among the leaders of
our nation, at the same time win
ning for himself the fame and re
nown as a football player that
shall ever make him beloved by
his fellow students and respected
by all football enthusiasts.
Mr. Murray weighs 200 pounds
and is six feet, three inches tall.
He is a perfect specimen of a col
lege athlete, having a splendid
physique, solid muscles and that
ease and rapidity of movement
which completes a perfect man.
During the short time he has
been with us our team has im
proved greatly. He certainly un
derstands football in its every
phase and spares no pains in im
parting to us that knowledge of
the game which is sure to make
us the champions of the state.
We find him ever ready, willing
and competent to answer all our
questions and explain in detail
every play—how it is made, its
advantages and the proper way in
which to stop it. We certainly
expect much of our team this
year under the able coaching of
Mr. Murray.
FOOTBALL PROSPECTS.
HE season of ’99 opens very
brightly for old A. M. C.
Never before has there been such
an array of high-class football
material upon the gridiron the
first two weeks of preliminary
practice, as there has been this
year. Among those who had uni
forms issued them the first day
are: Shult2, the sturdy little Ger-