New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-01

could not have fallen into better hands than
those of Captain Edgar Allan Poe. 1t was his
first year the team, and yet with the assistance
of the Graduate Advisory Committee, he put
team into the field that the championship
The Princeton team averages in weight "a pounds,
and the rush line ~. Captain Poe plays quarter
back and holds the key to the game. lie Is the
hghtest man the team, weighing only 100
pounds. but he is a bundle Of wires and the
embodiment of pluck and GOODNESS. he passes
sharply, runs in the wedge strongly and comes out
clearly. He is clever tactician, changing the
play as rapidly as circumstances demand. MT
Poe is a junior, and win be captain another year
He is grand nephew of Edgar Allan Poe, the poet'
and is good student.
THE PRINCETON FULLrBACK
The most valuable the Prince
ton team, and probably the most Drill
liant football player this country ever
saw is K L. Ames, Princeton's full-back
lie is senior only twenty or twenty-one years
old: a bright fellow and picture of a handsome,
1.-THE, graceful athlete. He looks to be about I'VE
feet and nine or en- inches high when standing
and an Undesirable streak OF yeIlo"
with a halo of fuzzy hair when he is making
run along the edge of the field he has mastered
all the arts of the game as everybody knows VINO
saw him play on Thanksgiving Day. Inc crown
and sharp kicking He lodged like snake
| In fact he is dubbed Snake" Ames, and pro-
| PEELED the leather sphere with as much seeming
ease and speed to the unintlated as ne would
Princeton will lose her jewel this year when Ames
graduates and goes into business IN Chicago. lie
| is the son of wealthy parents. lie has played on
| the Princeton team four years.
The most central figure in the Princeton rush
line is Hector Cowan, left tackle. Every football
enthusiast has heard of him. lie has been
| NIT haip tha etr0p
| est and best rusher in the country. This is his
| fourth year on the team and his second year in
| the Theological Seminary. He was graduated
from Princeton in 1888, but has continued for the
| last two years to eXpound football for Nassau.
| He weighs l "a pounds, which. with his immense
| strength, enables him to plough his way through
| among them. He gallops around the ends well,
| too. and passes we'll with Ames and Poe. Cowan
plays rough game; he does not always realize
| his great strength. But he is q fine, honest fell
low, and would not hurt his opponents purposey
| They have to learn 10 get out of the way. He
will not play next year.
| WHERE THE BLOCKING is DONE.
| W. j. George, 80, and now post graduate
student, has played a steady, trustworthy game
| ON the Princeton team at centre rush for three
years He of the props of
The team, perhaps the central piece
| in the line arch centre rusher
does not play STAR game, but he has work
| to do OF Il uellcate ana Important nature. He
must, snap back accurately, block and tackle we'll
A poor centre rush will play the mischief with the
best team the field George has all the oualiics
of "A frst-clasS ccntre-rush, and PERHAPS he tx rho
best Princeton has had in some yeas and the
tiger men were delighted to see him bnclS
at his old place this fall. He is an excellent
student, and is a candidate for the degree of
| Doctor of Philosophy.
II. II. Janeway, 80, the left guard, is called
house. because he weighs 2O3 pounds i'm train
| ing. lie il the largest football PLAYER that has
| been seen on the field for some time Uc il
powerful and steady, and can wear out his
| opponent. Janeway knows how to make Cooj
openings for his little friends, Poe, Claiming and
| Ames Sometimes he makes gaps in the opposing
| rush.line ~ big as himself, and the backs then
| get through with vengeance
| J. s. Riggs, %, was a substitute In the team
| last year This season he developed into n
| superb right guard. He is strong and guicls
| blocks and tackles well. He weighs / q hounds
| w s Cash the right tackle, came from The
play football Poe developed Cash into sharn
| and accurate player. He did good work in The
| great game. Cash is taking special course in
| engineering He weighs 60 pounds
| NEW MEN WIN HoNORs
B. s. Donnelly, the left end rushcr and a special
student, is a new man in the football field
He is about eighteen years old, clever light
weight boxer and one OF the quickest men on
the team His work at end rush has hardly been
surpassed ut Princeton. The other end-rusher
r. H. Warren, 49, like Donney played a
phenomenal game for novice. He Is hard
man TO handle and played remarkable game
against Captain Cumnock, OF Harvard. In the
Yale-Princeton game he seemed 10 know always
just WHAT Was expected from him. lie madG