Purdue debris . Kicking for Goal The Season of 1904 To the loyal supporters of Purdue athletics, to the coach and tn llic remaining mem-bers of the unfortunate 03 team, a more gloomy outlook could iiardly l)e depicted thanthat which presented itself at the beginning of the season of 1904. When the squad firstreported for practice there were only four of tlie Oo team, and one man from the 02 teamamong the large number of candidates. With these few veterans for a nucleus we startedto build up a team, and everybody from the head coach down to the rawest substi-tute, entered into the work with a v
Purdue debris . Kicking for Goal The Season of 1904 To the loyal supporters of Purdue athletics, to the coach and tn llic remaining mem-bers of the unfortunate 03 team, a more gloomy outlook could iiardly l)e depicted thanthat which presented itself at the beginning of the season of 1904. When the squad firstreported for practice there were only four of tlie Oo team, and one man from the 02 teamamong the large number of candidates. With these few veterans for a nucleus we startedto build up a team, and everybody from the head coach down to the rawest substi-tute, entered into the work with a vim. Out of the hard preliminary jjractice a team was developed that made an excellentshowing against Chicago—our first big game. After that game we knew that the team hadthe right spirit, for it put up a hard, stubborn, uphill fight during every minute of NuiKt Dame Gami-: 197 I he next hi^- ^-ame was played with the underestimatedininnis team, and we were again defeated. The rooters, how-ever, realized that we were playing against men with years ofexperience on the gridiron, and they stood by the team through-out the game, and at the end showed their loyalty by carryingthe ])layers from the field on their shoulders. After this game the coach gave the team a long, hardworkout every night to prepare it for Indiana, the next andmost important game on the schedule. Each member of theteam was determined to do his utmost to win at Indianapolis,and the team spent hours in hard, persistent the twelfth of Xovember arrived they were trained tothe hour, and they sent I. U. back to the woods with theshort end of a 27 to 0 score. This game brought joy to the hearts of the Old Gold andBlack supporters and the hope that Purdue would be StateChampion gathered strength. Notre Dame was the onlyobstacle. We knew that the Irish always fo
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