The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-16

I 1UrzeS ! 1e Fs-y fact. hoEsTsr, -EsE TIE
team This year = s. much lighter than II
previo1s year,. has I'D Capt Poe % depend
nto-s CO team Play % 80 I'm thrOuga
tna1 On heavy r71sa lie work-
And w1st do you think q your Pros
! pSctsF Ee Uas asked
Tx TEAMS ABILITIES
That Is Mt for re = ssy. vas TIE
| answer, stili more noie<-iT than before.
! for l an q rev man II tEs team. and
/ have done nOtLlEg yst % warrant ne IL
! comparing myseli 18th sny Of last year 5
giant Sui Capt Poe. Who can Judge 6
! teams ABILITIES Il y one car. has expressed
biG-sef Is bei-g highly u-easst with or
Torx thus far, and = confident tta- we can
Wiz. We are working maZuif,s1.ly
togetnsr, and that. you k-oE, IS
more than hsf the bat.ls Tnea. to-.
tie record sc have already made this
season has strengthened OR c5nfids1ce in
or abilities. o. CO 1rse, Yale, Is vel q
ourselves, VIII have . deps1d On lnuca
new material
CAPT. Poe, Il Is understood, dos nat care
10 exposs either his hops or his fes-s % the
e1eny, bat il Is fact that Re Eas great
c5nf1encs II tols years team. and believes
that their unity H. action - without par
alIel II tie records Of football playing.
The captain IS only ~ years cd. but he cap
tanned last year 5 phenomenal team % VIC
NAAA - hA4yHf III AAsA- La-A1 AsA4Afr
wherever football Is known. His full name
Is Edgar Allen Poe and It bslongs
TO him BY ties Of kinsaip. for be
CONES from the Raven family
of BGltimcre. For SINE reason
MS colisgs associates have dubbed him
Peter" and Peter Poe be Is now % ali Of
them. Although short and thickset, be is
very active and l. tns life Of the team His
position - that Of quarter back aid u
n n - .-s conceded - ~ or
no peer On the football field IN know edge
Of the game and its tactics, II running with
the ball or IN coaching his men With the
face and expression Of an innocent boy. he
captains ms team like & veteran, aud mas
the requisite skill. pluck, and cool, far
seeing Judgment 20 meet any emergency.
de graduates IN 81.
is the captain" l asked one of bis
friends and football players, disposed TO
encourage or countensncs the somewhat
vigorous tactics, 70 pu- II mildly, employed
by last years teamF
"Well." was the reply, 81 think he likes
Us 70 be what we call little tart At any
rate we are little tart in cur play. II by
your question you mean smuggling, / can tell
you that Peter Poe never believed ia slug
giug, except, perhaps, in self-defense. and
never practices it, although / know at least
one member Of the team VINO Eesns to think
that little smuggling now and then adds
zest 10 game. As rule though we Just
like to be a little tart OF course If our
opponents insist on having genuine rough
play we're able 70 supply 1t 70 EN-. II isn't
50 long ago since a team came here Boosting
openly that they were going TO get the
game even if they had 20 disable every
man Of US. They went home without the
game and they didn't disable US very much
either"
He dsclined TO name the team he referred
10, but he meant that Of the Pennsylvania
University, whose memorable contest with
the Princeton boys on their own varsity
grounds last month will long remain the
talk Of both college students and townspeo-
pie, all Of whom unite in glorying in the
pluck aud endurance displayed on the coca
sion by the home team.
A STRONG MAN.
Another good man on the Princeton team
this year is Jesse Bright Riggs, also Bait
more boy. The name Riggs in itself is al
most a synonym for football player, for
the family has had representatives in sew
eral champion teams. and there is more
material ripeuing for future teams. Jesse
is a big, strong rusher. and is, in fact, looked
upon as the coming star rusher OF this year.
At present he is playing center, but there is
some talk Of placing him opposite Heffie-
finger in the Yale game, to give that notable
gentleman little worry.
IL Jeremiah Sullivan Black. the right
balf-back Of last years. champion team,
can get badly injured knee well in time TO
play on Tha ks giving day, he will I'M
doubtedly be found in the Princeton rush
line. Training for the tug-of war team has
brought his weight up to slch degree that
this move was deemed best "Jerry,n as
the boys call him, understands the game
thoroughly, and it IS predicted that as left
tackle he will keep Capt Rhodes Of the
Yale eleven about as busy as possible.
Ralph Herbert Warren. always called
Pop in college. completes the quartet Of
the old team. lie is lJoksi upon as one OF
the best end rushers now playing. A sure
teckler and always we'll down the field on
punt he is always an inv iluable man. He,
too. however, has disabled knee. and If he
does not recover in time for the Yale game
it will be hard to I'll his place. When he
began playing last year he was only fresh
mau.
Joseph Motley Thomas, or Long
Tommy" Is one OF the big guards. A sub
stitute lat year, and playing in the Yale
game, his experience gained then will bene-
fit the team now.
Robert Eliot Speer, an 80 man, at present
taking theological course in the seminary,
and hence called Seminole" will cover
the position of right tackle. He runs with
the ball at times and always makes his five
yards.
Radcliffe Furness, Philadelphia's repre-
sentative GA the team, covers the position
Of right end. He is u hard player aid al
ways reliable.
IL had been intended in case of Warren's
inability to play to FIJI his place at the left
| end with William Lanedon Hayden, q
quick and steady PLAYER, on whom much
reliance had been placed. Hayden, how
ever, broke his COLA bone on Nov. 6
while at play on the Varsity grounds, taus
still further weakening the team.
Pringie Carlisle Jones of Ohio will. if be
returns to Princeton in time, probably play
center-rush. He is strong, hard player,
and. in the estimation Of Hanson, who was
Yale's center last year. is one of the strong
est centers Princeton has ever had.
THE NEW MEN.
behind the line all the men, excepting
Capt. Poe, are new. William G. Spicer
Of Harrisburg, Pa, the lett half-back,
will probably be- expected to do most Of
the "bucking" He is taller and heavier
set than any of the othor backs and not
quite as swift runner, but when Capt. Poe
needs yard or two to make the fir { down,
Billy Spicer is the man expected to do il,
and, depend upon it, he does do it, He is
devoted to the interests of the team, his
head is always clear, aud he never in a con-
test gets ''rartled," all qualities Invaluable
in football player.
Sheppard Homans. Jr., of Engiewood,
N. j., is the man who will fiji "SnelSe'
pncition a ft,l1- hark T{o &c