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Corbinb graduation. Substis1ts Newell
played center rusher against Corbin In the
practice games last year, and may train up
to Corbins plaza Corbin was very steady,
reliable and cool player, however, and Newell
will have to improve good deal 1t he wants
to ELL the shoes Of the departed great man.
Harvard has lost most Of her last years
players, but she has plenty Of trained men on
hand, and the team for u will probably DO
fully as strong Is its predecessor, 1t not su-
perior. Tho eleven last year was:
Rushers, " Harding, Davis. Tranord,
Cranston, Carpenter, Woodman and Cum
mock; quarter back, G. Harding; half backs,
Porter and Lee; full back, Sears
A majority Of these players viii be missing
this year when the crimson stocknged men
Zine up" against their football adversaries,
Full Back Sears, half Back Porter, Quarter
Back Harding and Rushsrs Harding and
Davis being among the absenteea Last years
center rusher, Cranston, has returned He
is a capital center rusher and snapper back.
Despite these losses Harvard will still have
her exceedingly clever end rusher, Cumnock,
who, by the way, captains the team; her no
less sprightly half back, Lee, who got over
the ground at an amazing rate last year, and
quarter back Harding In the way Of ex-
perienced players, who have not been in the
team, she has no end Of men. Baker, Allen
and Brooks, all Of '92, who often played with
the varsity last year, are all back this year
and viii probably try for the eleven. Young
Foxhall Keene. the dare devil poloist. will.
it is said, strive to gain honor for the rresn-
men class by making breaking for the uni
versity team. Dennison, 49, may come back
to college and take up football again. Ken
dricksn, who played quarter back on the
Boston Latin school team last year, center
rusher Gullivan and two other members of
that team are all in this years freshman class
and will all doubtless take crack at their
favorite sport.
Besides these more or less well known play
ers there are several candidates from the
preparatory schools in which Harvard's In
terscholastic Football league has been in
working operation for the last year. These
mems respective abilities are not as yet
known, but it would be queer if at least one
or two of them didn't turn out good men.
Take it all in ALL despite the gap made by
graduation, Harvard's chances for a strong
team this year are capital In q recent let
ter one of her football men writes in a very
hopeful strain and says that for the first time
since he has been in college he looks to see
the crimson get away with the pennant.
The Princeton footballists haven't done
any great amount of blowing as yet, but it
by no means follows that they have no hopes
Of the championship.
Princeton's 6S was composed of:
Rushers-Speer, Cook, Irvine, George,
Janeway, Cowan and Bovaird; quarter
back, r. Hodge; half backs, Charming and
Black; full back, Ames
OF this team bare majority have return
ed to college this year, and it is not certain
that all of them viii play. Among the losses are
End Rusher Speer and Snapper Back George.
Black, Janeway, Charming and Anes are
among the returned players, and all Of them
will doubtless return to the team. The Col
lege of New Jersey has done very well in the
way of capturing promising new men. and
out Of this stock may patch up a team that
will be up to her usual standard. Princeton
always does have good team, and the crack
players who don't go to Yale generally drift
down Jerseyward.
This year the influx includes Upton, one of
the most promising Of the young players; a
local 'crack, Mowry by name, and one or
two other New Jersey youths, who are more
or less expert at the game. Just how good
luc lie" Iucu duc prov WOu
the striped jackets meet their rivals in public,
as Princetonians are proverbially foxy" in
the way of hiding their light under a bushel
1t is rumored that Full Back Ames will
change his position for that formerly occu-
pied by Valedictorian Speer, of the class Of
1850, and play end rushea Edgar Allan Poe,
'91, has been elected captain, to fill the VA
cancy caused by Ames' resignation.
Reports from Philadelphia do not indicate
any particular activity in a football way at
the University Of Pennsylvania. The chances
are that her team will be very much like that
of last year, which was fashioned in this man.
ner:
Rushers-Ziegler, Bower, Savage, Dewey,
Sypher, Hurst and Wagenhurst; quarter
back, Church; half backs, Hume and Gala
day; full back, Hill.
Wesleyan's eleven In 1883 was:
Rushers-Crane, 80, Gibson, P. G., Eaton,
$50, Gardiner, 49, Heath, 81, Glenn, s9,
and Floy, 80; quarter back, Opdyke, 30;
half backs Mcdonald, 81, and Manchester,
80; full back, Stay back, 81
From this it would appear that she has
lost about half her team by graduation.
Still, her elevens never vary much In caliber,
and the college world will never look to her
to put in a pennant winning eleven.
1t will be Yale, Princeton or Harvard
The question is, VIII it be the blue, the red OF
the yellow and blacka