Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-10-26
AS TO FOOTBALL.
Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Union
Of Pennsylvania, Wesleyan.
WHO'LL WIN THE CHAMPIONSHIPS

Players and Their Positions.
Tho annual season Of TIN college foot ball
mans" greatness Is upon ".
Once more that worthy b power In the
land. While his groveling follows who pro
fer mathematics TO athletics are plotting i'm
aginary curves and angles and calculating
theoretical vclocitics, on paper, he II describ-
Ing actual curves and angles and becoming
acquainted with extremely matter-o f-fact
velocities, on the field.
His bookish companions are plolding along
In the hope OF achieving fame at some distant
day. The football man may make national
though, perhaps, ephemcrai-nAme for him.
self In the next two months. shakespeare
Ways ''some men have greatness thrust upon
them" Tho modern college football player
Is sure TO have greatness thrust upon him, II
greatness OF no more pleasing kind than the
avoirdupois greatness Of the opposing 'rush
line" In the language OF the familiar phrase
he may awake from the state OF coma caused
by tho snddon descent Of his opponents bodies
upon him--to find himself famous.
Now that the ten months OF chrysalis ex-
istence Of the "football man" In the bookish
atmosphere is over and tho duh bookworm
IN ready to bud into the athletic butterfly,
the football players and would-be football
players In all the great institutions Of learn
ing are bestirring themselves. The deyotees
OF tho game at Yale, Harvard. Princeton
Wesleyan and the University OF Pennsyl
vania are the chief objects OF interest 70
lovers of tho sport, inasmuch as thesc col.
leagues compose the Intercollegiate Football
association. And, although the season IL not
yet fairly under way, the all absorbing ques-
tion, "Who will win the championships Is
already mooted question In tho eastern col
lcge world.
II Is too early vet 10 draw accurate conclu.
should carry OF the cbampionsbip flaps
Since the Introduction OF the Rugby oa,ne In
1870 her representatiye kickers have scorcd
something like 300 goals to all their opno-
nents' combined total of less than half n
dozen goals, ami but once in these thirteen
wears has tho pennant wandered aw.v from
her koenipo H.nco nracedont ,vo,ij ,.o,,,
10 name her as the champion Of ,sD, but ber
wonderful record Ia sure to be broken sooncr
or later. and verv I,Lelv tb,s ,n.v ho Tho ..o,p
year.o
whether or no tho cbamnIo,.h,, re,r.,r.
NJ New Haven, Il NAV no nrattv .ossIv .s.
nmed that the actual str,,role yor tho nan.
nant will le confined 20 Yaie Harvard AMI
Princeton. Wesleyan and the JJnivers,tv 81
PennsyIvanio oftcntime. mt vorv ,.ir ta.,,.
into tho field. and their ernononts NAV fnot.
hall MS bnrd ns thew Lnow how
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ns,o ne,o, oon,e "i.pih cannon shot
s,he,, 'po'n'p, nv"evvr, nno craeR
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~ ooko ~ "noso seIvlco 'nen Prowess
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md havo b,d better foo,h.II uot.riol ,h.n
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o,even Graduated last Inno apJ p',n ,.h. .n.
was taking a nost oroduata conrso haS o,,,'
,e,ed bis stpdl.s One - ,ha Sv, rraS,,ota
uuD has returned this fall Tor ,,ost arod,'a,.
stndv so that the team ices h,t n .. IA ,',a,'
but the Ave mon lost were the maInstays of
the team, all being old and experienced
players
or tho old team there remain as a pucleu,
for this years eleven Gill, Stagg. Heflle0npsr.
Rhodes, McClung and Graves All of these
men will doubtless play this year. no that bu,
five new men will have to be broken In. Nc.
Bride, NW s., who was a substitute on last
years team, will probably make the team
this year. Hartwell, Harvey and Newell,