Highland Park College - Piper Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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i Ihr Svvevann ng IGI-ILANID Park started the 1915 football season with a new I coach, tour veterans, and a dark brown taste, due to the re- membrance ot the disastrous record ot the previous year. For-- tunately, Coach Hyland, atieetlonately termed Mike, was a good one, and the remaining regulars were the men who had proved to be the mainstays of the preceding yearis team. The task, therefore, confronting the coach, was to build a team with only four men of known quality as a nucleus. How well he succeeded the records show. In order to get a flying start, and to let the new coach get acquainted with the candidates, a two weeks' eneampment was held at Camp Dodge. Here, twice daily, strenuous workouts were given, and the men in- structed i11 the fundamentals of the game. Soon there was a tentative line-up, and by the time school commenced the players were in line shape for a hard season. t It was early seen that our resisting power was the main source ol' strength. Accordingly Coach Hyland proceeded along the line that a good defense is the best oltense, ' and that to beat us, a team l1lllSl first score. His theories were borne out by the fact that only four touchdowns were made against Highland Park College in seven games, two of these being of the Nuke order. Only two earned touchdowns all season, and not a point scored against us in the last four games. It is a record ot' which we can be justly proud. The success of the eleven was a tribute to Coach Hyland. Hyland for Highland, was a phrase on every lip, the students enthusiastically supporting a team in which had been instilled the dogged never say die spirit ot' Fighting Mike. H. P. C., 29-CENTRAL, 7 Highland Park's football season was opened by a 29 to 7 victory over Cen- tral College at Pella. A special train was chartered and the College band to- gether with over two hundred rooters accompanied the team. Highland played straight football almost entirely, their only attempt at using the forward pass being intercepted in the fourth quarter and resulting in Central's only touchdown. Central was unable to penetrate l'Iighland's line, and all their gains were made on wide end runs and a few completed forward passes. l'lighland's line proved their strong point, the heavy linesmen tearing holes again and again, through which the backtield plunged for repeated gains. To pick any individual stars would be hard to do, for their success was due to team work and the fact that every man was in the game all the time, rather than to any spectacular individual playing. Callaham, Woodrow, and Ebers probably starred in the line, tearing holes through the center and breaking up Central's

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MICHEL, l'lali'baek Mich One ot' the lC2llll,S l'astest men. Always played well and made some ol the most speetaeular runs ol' the football year.-Last, year. LAYMAN, Guard Pinky Pinky eould always be depended to fill any vaeaney on the hne and do it well. One ol the best prospects for next year.-'l wo more years. GHIQIENWOOIJ, Iind Benny A fast, gritty man, who made an exeellent show- ing lasl year. Wateh hun Ill ltllti.-'l'wo more years. VON LINIJICMAN, Guard or Tackle Clml'ley Never played the game until this year, but sur- prised us all by his quickness in grasping lllll1QS.-- Two more years. CL7Nllllfl , l'lall'baek Bill The disabling ol' Cundill' in the early season was the hardest blow struck at our ehampionship pros- pects. Ile was a vicious taekler and the best in- terference runner on the squad.-Three more years.

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plays bet'ore they were started. In the backfield, Ferrell was the most consistent ground gainer, while McCauley got loose For several long runs. H. P. C., 16-DRAKE, 13 In the first football game ever scheduled between Drake and Highland Park, the Purple and White team came out victorious with the score of lti to 13, and won for themselves the highest position in I'lighland's hall of fame. Outfought and outclassed at every stage ot' the game, Drake put up a much poorer fight than is indicated by the score. lt was plain from the time that the team came on the field that Coach Hy- land's efforts to turn out a fighting bunch had not been in vain. They went at it with that grim determination which never fails to win l'ootball games, literally sweeping Drake ofl' their feet from the start. Highland won the toss, and chose to receive the kickofl' at the south goal. Drake kicked to Highland's 25-yard line. I-lighland was forced to kick, and gained yards by an exchange ot' punts. This seemed to take the heart out ot' the Blue and White, and Highland began a consistent march down the field to Drake's 20-yard line. Here a penalty ot' fifteen yards l'or holding prevented a touchdown. NVith one down left, Wampy McCauley dropped back for a drop kick, and he placed the ball squarely between the goal posts with a pretty kick, for the first score of the game. Drake then received, but fumbled on their 20-yard line, Highland recov- ering. The Blue and White line then held, but a t'orward pass, from Mctlauley to Hardy, carried the ball over, and the goal was kicked. Highland then plunged through Drake's line to the 40-yard line, where the quarter ended with the score, 10 to 0. ln the second quarter, Highland crossed the goal line again after Ferrell made a long gain through center, a forward pass was completed t'or twenty yards, and Hardy carried the ball over on a five-yard smash through the line. Drake's score was made by Smith, who raced through a broken iield t'or a spectacular seventy-yard run on the kickoff. McCauley also got loose for a seventy-five-yard run for a touchdown, but the ball. was called back by an offside play on High- land's part. During the third quarter the game was about even, neither side being able to score. In the l'ourth quarter Drake showed the first evidences that they had a football team, and consistent line plunging, in which Bunz bore the brunt ot' the work, together with a completed forward pass, brought the ball close to High- land's line. From here Smith carried it over on a short end run, but they failed to kick the goal. Highland excelled in the use of the t'orward pass, four attempts at the over- head route each being completed, while out of nine attempted by Drake, only two were successful, five being blocked, and two intercepted. McCauley was the hero ot' the Purple and White team, getting loose for gain at'ter gain, and it proved to be his drop kick from the 35-yard yard line that