April 15, 1927 WILMETTE LIFE · Grid Frenzy Seizes Town at Springtime Game in Wildcat Den The popular game of football got . a jump. on the seasons last Saturday afternoon when 5,000 dyed-in-the-wool fans attended an exhibition game between two Northwestern elevens at Dyche stadium. It was an ideal football day despite the fact that it was . staged six months ' ahead of the regular season. Coach Dick Hanley has been work- . ing with the footh a 1 1 candidates Waiter Holmer during the 1 a s t Photo by Toloff month and Saturday's game w a s held to get a li,ne on just how the boys were picking up his system of play. The teams were called the Purple and the Green, the former being more or less composed of last year's regulars and the more promising of the freshmen. The determined defense of the Greens, which were coached by Pat Hanley, Dick's brother, held the regulars to a 7 to 0 score. So11'lc of the changes introduced by Coach Hanley were readily observed by the fans. Among the se was the sh ifting of "Yatz" Levison from half hack to quarterback. The way the I Evanstoi1 boy !>arkcd out his signals showed that he could do something besides act a s interference. The Purple I l'levcn did not usc the huddle but \ called signals from a regular scrimmage formation. Neither team attempted the lateral ! or .backward pass seriously. It wa : , 1 used several times for -small gain s but ! I Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Scheidenhelm of did not prove to be of much aid to the in the Puple lineup. Among these offense. Coach Hanley does not favor were Fisher, Ruddy Schuler, Hazen, 704 Lake avenue returned last week the new play and will probably not de- Rosie, Levison, Ritchie, and Holmer. from California. They were in Chandvelop it to any extent. All 'these boys helped bring the cham- ler, Ariz., for a month before going to See Reverse Play aa Weapon pionship to Northwestern last fall. California, where they spent a month e na and a month in Riverside. Considerable usc was made of the Some ~romising newcomers were ob- in Pasad. reverse play by both teams. It usual- served m Kent, Berg~erm, Cotder":Yood ..- - - - - - - - - - - - - · · ly worked successfully and will prob- Haas, Kot~hevor, Smkler, Anderson; Telephone Wilmette 1147 ably be a strong offensive weapon of Penza, RoJan, F. Hall, Graske and the Purple next fall. The question of 1 Mundy. VETERINARIAN whether field goals after touchdown SJ·eelnllzlng In the treatment o' would be haTder to make with the goal ~~iss Eleanor Thayer is spending the your best friends the posts ten yards back was ·answered by spring nrati0n with her pClrents. ~h. "Do.r nnd Cat" All-eullti rec-ehe my personal Holmer who booted a goat from place- and ~Ir s. X. C. Thayer, Jr., of 500 attention ment following the touchdown. . Fifth street. She is attending the 1Cl00 Rht~e An. Wllmtttte. IlL A number of familiar players were I Cnh·ersity of Illinois. DR. FRANK B. ERWIN You Can Be in Two Places! I cannot be in two places at the s· a me time. EW equipment · nowbeingadded to our plant costs much · more than · equipment installed a few years ago. This addsgt eatlyto the average cost of our enfire plant and ntakes the - average invest.ment per telephone nzuch greater. Rev.. enues derived from the business must keep pace with this condition or the com· pany cannot meet the demand for expan· sion and maintain the quality ofservice. 4 I T is often said that a person N Literally, thi~ is true. To all THREE TIMES A DAY! There's one food item, and only one, that can be served at every meal, in one .form or another, and not offend the ap .. petite . . And that's good fresh milk! purposes, however, business tnen, confronted with the necessity of being in two or several places at the same time, ,vill find the long distance telephone a good proxy. If you cannot go in person, the next b. est thing is to go by t~lephone. ·Often it is just as satisfactory. Bell long distance lines reach every':'-.· _~1ere. ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY BELL SYSTEM One Policy One S)'stem Universal Service