sch, Yost says, is a better defensive man |
|than last year. As for his plunging prowess, he is |
|probably just as classy as ever, but a man can't |
|plunge very far when two or three opposing linemen |
|are sitting on him, as they were in the M. A. C. and|
|Syracuse games. |
| |
|Catlett is a streak of speed, and since this is his |
|third year of varsity football, he is playing more |
|intelligently than ever. Roehm, the quarterback, was|
|one of Hughitt's understudies last season. He is |
|light, but fast and willing. |
| |
|Thus in the back field we have a good all round man,|
|a wonderful line plunger, a speed demon, and an |
|agile, hard worker. All of which assets won't be |
|worth a yesterday's transfer unless the line |
|holds....[35] |

[35] Ring W. Lardner in the _Chicago Tribune_,
November 6, 1915.

=250. Advance Stories.=--The details which one may include in advance
stories of athletic meets are innumerable. Some of the more important
particulars, however, are predictions of the outcome, the effect of the
contest on future events or on the rank of the teams, names of the
players and the officials, absence of important men, opinions of the
men, their trainers, or their followers, weak spots in their play, local
or national interest, time and place of the contest, ways of reaching
the field or grounds,--in fact, any details that will interest one's
readers in the approaching game. Such preliminary writeups require good
reporters--men who can observe closely and analyze carefully, and hence
can give their readers reasonable predictions of the success of the
teams in which they are interested. The following may be taken as a
typical preliminary story:

| =PROMINENT OFFICIALS AT GAME TO-DAY= |
| |
| +-------------------------------------------+ |
| |=Facts About To-day's Football Game= | |
| | | |
| |=Teams=--Army and Navy. | |
| | | |
| |=Place=--Polo Grounds.