, 1889-11-06
AS TO FOOTBALL.
Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Union
of Pennsylvania, Wesleyan.
WHO'LL WIN THE CHAMPIONSHIP

The annual season of the college football
mans" greatness Is upon US
Once more hat worthy Is a power In the
land While his groveling fellows who pre-
fer mathematics to athletics are plotting i'm
sginary curves and angles and calculating
theoretical velocities, on paper. he is describ-
ing actual curves and angles and becoming
acquainted with extremely matter-of-fact
~velocites, on the field
His bookish companions are plodding along
In the hope Of achieving fame at some distant
day. The football man may make a national
though, perhaps, ephemeral-name for him
self In the next two months Shakespeare
says ''some men have greatness thrust upon
them" The 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 the sudden 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 the dull bookworm
Is 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 devotees
OF the game at Yale, Harvard, Princeton,
Wesleyan and the University OF PennsyL
vania are the chief objects OF interest to
lovers Of the sport, inasmuch as these col
leagues compose the intercollegiate Football
association And, although the season Is not
yet fairly under way, the all absorbing ques-
ton, "Who will win the championships Is
already a mooted question In the eastern col
lege world.
1t Is too early yet TO draw accurate conolu-
sions, but on the basis of precedent Yale
should carry of the championship Gags.
Since the introduction Of the Rugby game In
1876 her representative kckers have scored
something like 500 goals to all their oppo-
ncnts' combined total OF less than half a
dozen goals, and but once In these thirteen
years has the pennant wandered away from
her keeping. Hence precedent would seem
TO name her as the champion OF 80, but her
wonderful record is sure to be broken sooner
or later, and very likely this may be the "otf
year"
Whether or no the championship remains
at New Haven, 1t may be pretty safely as
sumed that the actual struggle for the PEN
nant will be confined to Yale, Harvard and
Princeton. Wesleyan and the University of
Pennsylvania oftentimes put very fair teams
Into the field, and their opponents play foot
ball as hard as they know how.
They have never come within cannon shot
of the championship, however, and crack
football players naturally ally themselv es
Will n Couckc III WuOso ser NlCo tnelf proves
may be rewarded by victory. 80 1t Is that
Yale, Harvard and Princeton always have
and nave had better football material than
either of their rivals. That being the case,
their successive teams have more expert ad-
vtsers In the persons Of former members of
the varsity elevens. Then again, at the
three leading colleges, football has been re-
duced to a science, the traditions left by
previous football stars are more carefully
i 1.t,tyt.-t or tv.,.rnu.t ..Aa-n- - "
terest In the game, and, hence, encourage
ment for the players, are manifested by the
college at large. Thanks to all these advan-
tages, Yale, Harvard and Princeton have
forged ahead of their rivals in the game.
This year Yale Is more unfortunate than
any of her rivals In the loss OF members of
her last years team by graduation That
team was made up in this way;
Rushers-Wallace, 80; Rhodes, '0I; Hefie-
finger, '9l s.; Woodruff, 80; Gill, 80; Cor
bin, 80, and Stage, T. G.; half backs-Graves,
81, and McClung, 'o2; quarter back-Wur-
temberg, 80 s. full back-Bull, P. G..
As appears from this showing, five of the
eleven graduated last June and Bull, who
was taking a post graduate course, has com-
pleted his studies. One of the five graduates
glib has returned this fall for post graduate
study, SO that the team loses but five old men;
but the i've men lost were the mainstays OF
the team, all being old and experienced
players
or the old team there remain as u nucleus
for this years eleven Gill, Stage, Hefleinger,
Rhodes, McClung and Graves. All of these
men will doubtless play this year, so that but
1--we new men will have to be broken In. Nc
Bride, 70 g., who was a substitute on last
years team, will probably mako the team
this year. Hartwen, Harvey and Newell,
also substitutes last year, are still In college,
and may get on the team, though 1t is scarce-
ly probable that more than one of them will
attain that honor. 1t is too early to tell what
football talent may be hidden In the OBSCURE
ty of the freshman class, but Capt. Gilla-
heady has his men at active practice and the
coming men Of might will soon be discov-
cred. Judging from the practice games So
far played at New Haven, the team for 1889
will be fully as heavy as that OF last year.
Some Of the new corners at Yale who have
% far showed up well in the practice play are
Barbour, who captained the Exeter team last
year; Bliss, who halls from Andover, and
Fallows, who was formerly an instructor in
the Exeter gymnasium. As yet no one who
has got drop kicking down to the fine art to
which Bull of last years team had reduced il
} has been found, though Mcbride may possibly
I'LL the bill. Football lovers will remember
that but for Bulls magnificent work In the
field at last years Yale-Princeton game the
wearers OF the blue would probably have bi,
the dust Another unpleasantly big hole to
be filled is that OF center rusher vacated by
Corbins graduation Substitute Newell
played center rusher against Corbin in the
practice games last year. and may train up
TO Corbin's place. Corbin was a very steady,
reliable and cool player, however, and Newell
viii have to improve a good deal II he wants
, to ill 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 80 will probably be
fully as strong as its predecessor, II not SUI
perior. The eleven last year was:
Rushers, v. Harding, Davis, Trafrord,
Cranston, Carpenter, woodman and Cum.
mock; quarter back, G. Harding; half backs
/; Porter and Lee; full back, Sears
A majority of these players will be missing
/: this year when the crimson s~tockinged mer
slime up" against their football adversaries,
Full Back Sears, Half Back Porter, Quarter
Back Harding and Rushers Harding and
Davis being among the a5sentees. Last year,
center rusher, Cranston, has returned. HI
Is a capital center rusher and snapper back.