Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-11-19
Daily eagle
AS TO FOOTBALL.
Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Union
of Pennsylvania, Wesleyan.
WHO'LL WIN THE CHAMPIONSHIP

OF pennsylvania, wesleyan.
WHO'LL WIN THE CHAMPIONSHIP
The Leadin: Clubs Have Lost Good Men
by Graduation - Re-enforcements from
the Freshman Classes-Points About the
Players and Their Positions.
The annual season Of the college football
mans" greatness Is upon u.s.
Once more that worthy is a power in the
land. While his groveling fellows who pre-
fer mathematics to athletics are plotting inn
aginary 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
velocities, on the field
His bookish companions are Flooding along
In the hope of achieving fame at some distant
Gay. The football man may make national
though, perhaps, ephemersl-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, IL
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svoirdupois greatness Of the opposing ''rush
line" La the language of the familiar phrase
he may awake from the state of coma caused
by the sudden descent Of his opponents bodies
upon hiIn-to find himself famous
Now that the ten months Of chrysalis ex-
ktence 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 s.re the chief objects of interest TO
lovers Of the sport, inasmuch 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 championship" Is
already moOted question in the eastern col
lege world.
1t Is too early yet to draw accurate conclu-
sions, but on the basis of precedent Yale
should carry OF the championship flags.
Since the introduction Of the Rugby game in
1875 her representative hckers have scored
something like 500 goals to all their oppo-
nents' 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
70 name her as the champion of SO, but her
wonderful record is sure to be broken sooner
or later, and very likely this may be the ''off
year"
Whether or no the championship remains
at New Haven, it may be pretty safely as
sumed that the actual struggle for the PEN
nant viii 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 themselves
with college in whose service their proves
may be rewarded by victory. So it is that
Yale, Harvard and Princeton always have
and have had better football material than
either OF their rivals. That being the case,
their successive teams have more expert ad-
visers IN the persons of former members of
the varsity elevens Then again, at the
three leading colleges, football has been re-
duced to science, the traditions le:t by
previous football stars are more carefully
studied or improved upon, and far more in
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:
finger, 81 s. Woodruff, 80, Gill, SO; Cor
bin, so, and Stage, P. G. half backs-Graves,
~, and McClung, 90, quarter back-Wur-
semberg, '69 s. full back-Bull, P G.
As appears from this showing, five Of the
sleven graduated last June and Bull, who
was taking post graduate course, has COM
pleted his studies. One of the Ave graduates
glib has returned this fall for post graduate
study so that the team loses but five old men;
but the five men lost were the mainstays of
the team, all being old and experienced
players.
OF the old team there remain as a nucleus
FOR this years eleven Gill, Stage, Heffiefinger,
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, 20 s.. who was a substitute on last
years team, will probably make the team
this year. Hartwell, Harvey and Newell,
also substitutes last year, are still in college,
and may get on the team, though it is scarce
iy 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
far played at New Haven. the team for 1889
will be fully as heavy that of last year.
Some of the new corners at Yale who have
so far showed up well in the practice play are
Barbour, who captained the Exeter team last
year; Bliss, who hais 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 it
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-Prlncston game the
wearers OF the plue would probably have bit
the dust Another unpleaSantly big hole to