New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-29
THE FOOTBALL YEAR BEGUN
PROSPECTS OF THE BIG COLLEGES
YALE WILL HAVE GREEN" TEAM HOW

ary of football has kept with It's steady scientific
! development, and this should therefore DO
The most successful in the history Of the game in this
country. Nearly all tho Eastern colleges, preparatory
schools and many public schools support teams and
are also members OF associations The associations
are not only reported 10 be In hourishng condition.
| ont signs Of development are noticed at this
early day. The principal leagues this year the
intercollegiate Football Association and the American
Association. The former and the better known in
cludes Harvard, Yale. Princeton the University OF
pennsylvania and Wesleyan. The latter is generally
! composed Of Amherst. Brown Dartmouth, the Massa-
chuSetis Institute Of Technology. Tufts and Williams.
Public interest Of in the Intercollegiate
Association. not only because It ls composed of larger
| colleges. but also because its games the most
brilliant and also because it shapes the game. The
sport first introduced at Harvard Yale and Prince
ton years ago. and these colleges have since watched
over II with which is almost equal to that
which they bestow even on baseball More than that
the old football players of these colleges like
| Brooks and Sears of Harvard; Camp and Richards
| OF Yale; r. Hodge and Cuylcr, of Princeton, and
| Others. are constant students of the game and
! always trying To devise means for b"nefting the
sport and increasing its popularity Much credit Is
due also to the Graduate Advisory Committee Of the
| association a body, aud also TO Mr. Camp, who by
| the way, takes keen an interest in the game as
| he did when be was In COLLEGE.
| 1t is hoped that the good work which the Graduate
Advisory Committee carried on last year
VIII be supplemented this year by
other important change in the game
The rough and Objectionable features OF football
were somewhat softened last year. Dsinterested
| people believe however, that great championship
football matches can never be satisfactorily settled
until they conducted by professional referees and
umpIres. College baseball met the same difficulty
that football is encounering and It's troubles
we're finally adjusted by the employment of pro
fesslonal umpircs The graduate advisory committee
Is to meet I'm few days to arrange the preminarfes
for the championship matches this fall, and It is
pected that another effort will be made accomplish
| this longneeded reform.
II IA not possible at this day to give more than a
general outline of the prospects of the and the
teams that VIII participate. Yale holds the cham
plonship Princeton stands second. Harvard third the
University Of Pennsylvania fourth and Wesleyan last
Yale IS unfortunate in having lost five veteran players,
who have been the team long that It VIII be
extremely difficult to ill their places. Woodruff, Cor
bin, Wallace. Bull and Wurtcmburg have been gradu-
ated. The first three anchOrshects in the rush
| line. Bull superior full-back an unsurpassed
drop-kicker and cool field captain. His place will
he hard to fill Captain Gil, who was graduated last
spring IS in college STILL taking graduate course.
The other players who bave returned Stage effel
finger and Rhodes of the rlsh-lne: McCung quarter
coached for Bulls position. There are also
some substitutes IN college Of the last years team, and
| also some promising men In the freshman class. who
played a good game at Andover. Walter Camp and
| Wallace will coach the team.
Princeton has lost only three Of her old
! players by graduation. Captain Ames is back. and
! If he makes as good captain he has fulback
| Princeton should be favorc for the championship.
! Tie men reported to be IN training include Bovaird,
! Hodge, Janeway, Cook, COwan and Irvine. all OF
! Prhcet0n's famous wall rush line, Black ana
! Claiming half backs and Ames, ful-back Il. Hodge,
who for years the head Of the team at quarter
bach and thus held the battery wires of tho fight.
wIlbe greatly missed. There plenty of substitutes
IN collegc however, and it is expected that the fresh
man class which Is the largest that ever entered the
COLLEGE will supply good players.
Harvard is more fortunate than Yale and not so
lucky as Princeton in retaining old players this year.
Captain Sears. probably the best halfback Harvard
ever had and brilliant captain has graduated
Captain Cumnock is man to take his place. lie has
played In the three years and Is powerful and
plucky rusher He Is also fine student and a man
who IS greatly respected by his collegemates. IIar
wards strong rush-line may be weakened by the loss
OF its solid centre piece, John CranstUn, who was
married recently. lie may not play. Victor Harling.
the why end rush. IS not eXpecred 10 return To college.
but his brother George may resume his old place at
quarterback. Captain Cumnocl will play end-rush
| Brooks and Allen, of the freshman team which de
| fcated the Yale freshman badly last year,
expect TO try their hands the Yale Varsity team
this year Jim" Lee, who played such wonderful
game half back last year for freshman, will take
his Old place. Strong efforts Will be made 10 induce
Porter Of the Medical school, to resume his place
alongside Of Lee. They were the best half-backs in
thc association last year.
Last year Harvard instituted the InterschOastc
Football League. This has produced several promis-
ing players I'm the persons Of HeDdrlcken Gallvan,
quarterback and centrcrush of the Boston Latin
school team last year, and several others. They may
get places Last summer Captain Cumnock gave
each of the candidates for the team
a football with orders TO practise kick
ing. Harvard has played strong rushing
game for the last two years, and has not done
enough Kicking. Captain CumnOcks tactics may
revolutionize the game at Harvard. ~,
The University OF Pcnnsy lvanla ana Wesleyan VIII
have about the they had last year on their
toams, according 10 present indications. These
colleges have rapidly improved IN playing iootDani
during the last two years. In leo4 they BON
defeated Harvard. But they have not been able
repeat their victory sine, the big boom ia FOOT
ball get In az Cambridge.
II VIII be generally regretted here that none OF
the great championship matches may tahe place III
this city this fall Princeton and lale are 10 NEE.
al Princeton unless ne general undcrsanalng " a.
70 the pace is mistaken one. Harvard and faIe
will play at Springfield, Mass. and Pllncc'Oh anu
Harvard Cambridge. Thl, VIII De goOd year
for the football student study systems and methods
Yale begins tho season with team of Youngsters.
but the chances are, II history repeats lselt that
the young and enthusiastic fellows who will take
The vacant places on The team VIII MAKE Tor ave
m, AT Yalc and Princeton than al Harvard which
makes their students more loyal TO their athletic
;eams than the Harvard boys are to their athletic
organizations. YAH, furthermore; Is greatly as
,ised by her society system. which results in bring
ng ont ali her best ath letes. The elective system
AZ Harvard divides the classes at the outset and
class feeling and loyalty. in the sense that they
are known az Yale and Princeton. do not exist at
Cambridge. 1t often happens. also; mat students
who promised well in athletics during their fresh
man wear elect courses in after years that entirely
1rcclmde their taking para I'm athletics. Courses In
chemistry physics and natural history, FOR example.
fics keen students at work in the a5orai cries
and on the field until evening Bil the Harvard
athletes who do get the field could. nevertheless,
emulate Yale and Princeton in one respect: They
could work with all their might in practise As
n Vale athlete once said THE secret of our sue
cess on land and water Is hard work."