New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-23
THE FOOTBALL SEASON.
urorr,,n cor1rcr GAMES pROMIsED.


This YEAR than ever before and tho indications thus
far point TO more interesting contests. better play
ing and brighter prospect That football teams VIII
came ont at the end of The season with more broken
arms shattered limbs and bunged eyesihan III years
past. No change III the rules having been mace
since last wear with view to lessen the danger aud
diminish the chances Of brutality in the game, II %
safe to predict FOR this an unusually large
crop of or pples The interest in the game IS largely
confined to the colleges. Almost every ~
stituton of learning that has cart
prs or backward largo enou4i
q toss pennies in can boast of FOOTBALL te"ip'
Next to the ambition 10 be scholar Is the s'u"o"V'
desire to bend an oar. swing bat, or punt IVY
ball. Tie first two of these important branches %
n COLLEGE curriculum having received sufficient az
tention during the spring term, the exercises Oh TUG
fall term consist mainly in football, oatmeal eat
ino. chapel exercises and aforementioned OF
course in the order of their importance.
There has been thus far this season very little
weather favorable to football practice. This, how
ever. has net been allowed to damnen tho
ardor or lessen the practice OF the football
PLAYERS. The ball was started rolling on Dc
tober If. whom Yale rolled the ball and the WeS-
leysn Team il the mud in New Haven. Since that
time several teams have taken to the mud Prince
ton scraping the ield with the Rutgers team scor-
ing goals and tOuchdOwns to rutgers " ana
Harvard making the team from the Boston School
OF Technology bite the dust. though defeating them
by only one goal. No games for the college cham
pionshp have yet been played the members OF the
college league. viz: Yale Harvard, Columbia and
Princeton occupying their time in getting prac-
tiee ont of the college teams in the leagu'. The
desire To- have the grounds in good condition before
the championship series is opened is, no doubt,
another reason why the league teams nave not yet
met III III, field. And il looks now as II the league
teams were intending 10 use the other teams nor
only for the purpose OF pTacuce, but also 10 lcye! oil
the grounds and clear on the mud ms
is. OF course, c0ndescen>l0n quito praise
worthy and which VIII be appreciated
The four colleges represented IN the league, or as
IL i. technicaIl cal .ed, The American lnter-Coi-
legiaie Football Association" sent delegates to
convention called to meet in this city on October
II for the purpose OF making some changes I'D the
rules and also to arrange the dates for the cham-
plonsnip games The following schedule was agreed
upon: Yae and Columbia, November ~, at New
Haven; Harvard and Prime etOn, November IS at
New York; Yale and Harvard, November 20. at
Cambridge Princeton and Columbia, November
So at New York Yale and PRINCETON, ThanksglY-
ing Day, at New-YOrk; Harvard ana Columbia,
not yet decided.
city Will &c played the Polo Grounds. Other
games, not for the championship, have been
arranged as follows: Amherst aud Yale, OSt0Der
rs at New-Haven Rutgers and Yale. October %.
III New Brunswick. Yale will also play on game
with the University of Pennsy lvania, another win
noiOgy but the dates nave not been decided upon
If Aun ArbOr sends a team to the east this year,
other games with hat college Will follow.
At the close of the season last year the result as
to the championship was somewhat mudded. Yale
had beat n Harvard and ColGmo9 and PRINCETON
had only been able 10 defeat Columbia, while her
games with Harvard and Ihe resulted
IN ties But by tho written agree
ment al the members OF tho ASSOCIATION
the championship was awarded 10 Yale AS
champions of the last two years the Yale Team Will
make desperate effort TO retAa the coveted uiIe
Yale stand, more III fear of lrIncctOn than Of HaI-
yard or Columbia. The interest IN the lale ana
Harvard game Is cOmpdrat lvey slight, grow ing OUT
OF the fact that ever since the Rugby rules nave
been IN vogue Harvard has never defeated ale.
The feeling OI rivalry between Yale ana harvard III
boating and baseball amounts 10 almost nothing III
football, and Harvard always votes with Yale III
the football meetings against Princeton ana
Columbia
Yale comes on to the football field this year with
Farwell. Knapp, Beck. Hyndman, Camp and
Richards. these men VIII undoubtedly
play in every gauo this year. Inc
resi- of the team cannot now be named, the full
team is never chosen until The Gay before the
match, and 1t undergocs some changes usually be-
fore another game Is played. inc new men VINO
ar training with Others every day auu whose
chances good lOr positions on the team III sOue
of the games are Dawes BeuirOn, TWOmbly and
Ferry. About forty men practice every day at
Hamilton Park, and theIe Is ia consequence an
abundance OF material Out OF which Yale Npect5 10
Select "a good team.
Harvard realized the advantages last year, after
the game Win Yale, OF having a heavy rushng
line. That .cssOn had the c1ect 10 call Out Inc
heavy men this year, 30 Hary@id has taken
her biggest Doatmg men-ha nmond (csp-
tam OF the university crew. Clarke and
Cabot, al o1 whom iJwed III last yea's creW-aud
put then trainIu.. Tor the football team. Inc
members Ot last years team WHO VIII aI,O play inns
season arc kenCaii, CABOT, Appleton, Edman4s and
Mason. The other members ale " eoscIAOei. Brad
toru, Goldman, hammond, Ul1rho ana Ayers. The
Harvard team Is III regular practice, and has played
several practice games.
The Princeton can, which began practice carly
and done much WOr6. VIII have az least four of
last years team Tor TINS season They Riggs,
HaxaIi Da.cr and Harlan. The remaining seven
VIII PROBABLY be Flint bird, Wanamaker, Conovei.
himOau Baker anu Clark. Inc Columbia team
has not peen definitely announced yet
The Wesleyan team CONSISTS % tie following men ::
Gordy Blame, ABBOTT, sutherland. Thompson,
Brunuagc, SAKE Uphan, }. judd. o. Judd and Car
Son. lie boston school OF technology has a strong
team consisting OF the following men Du '0nt.
BALDWIN. Niusor, NJ. q. HaugnrOn, L. Haughton.
Pearce, Steele, Pratt Park. hartman and 1iaines
tcaptaln).
Inc Rutgers team is as follows: Meyer Blauvelt
DAVIS, ". ChanDerlln, &. ChamDern, Liburn,
jenkins. Paterson, MORRISON Scudder and Rogers.
Al the convention he'd on October IA at the + tth
Avenue Hotel some changs III the rules OF the game
made, and other Important business was at
tended 10. il was decided that yearly assessment
of $l0 should be made on each college represented
III the ASSOCIATION, to DO expended III the purchase
OF q championship football pennant. IL also
declded tuat no man should play on the college
team III the mplOnshp games for more than five
years, the rule 10 take elect ~ 1888 considerable
time was consumed al the meeting III an
endeavOr to provide rules which would pre-
vent what Is known "a block" game
A rule that partly covers the was finally
adopted In case Of very high wind however, Ii
is stI.l possible TO play blOck" game. Inc US
ISOLATION also adopted constitution prepared for
II and offered al the convention by Yale. One OF
the most important changes made in NE rules was
Will reference to the decision of game. The part
of the rule, d chang ed, is follows
" match shall DC decided by majority OF touch
downs. goal shall be equal 20 Tour tOuchdOWns.
But IN case OF tie, a goal kicked from touch
down shall take precedence over touchdOwns, or a
goal otherwise kicked. Four touchdOwns shall
take precedence over goal Kicked from the field"
OPENING or THE LIEDERKRAyz FAIR