Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-16

of.foot-ball playing. The Captain is only
nineteen wears old. but he captained last
YEARS phenomenal team to victory and
IA known throughout this country
wherever football is known. Ills Iun
name is Edgar Allan Poe, ana IL
belongs TO him by ties OF KIN,
sbip. for he comes from the "hayen
family. OF Baltimore. For some reason
his college associates have dubbed hlm
"Peter." and Peter Poe be IS now 70 all
Of them. Although short and thickset,
he is very active and is the HE OF the
team. His position is that OF quarter
back, and it seems to be generally con
coded that he has no peer on the 1901,
hall field in knowledge Of the game ana
lis tactics. in running with the ball or IN
coaching his men. With the lace anu
expression of an innocent boy, he cap
tains his team like veteran, ana mas
the requisite skill. pluck, and cool, lar
seeing judgment TO meet any emergency
He graduates in 81. 80.
ais the Captain" ] asked one OF ms
friends and fOot-ball-players, disposed
TO encourage or countenance the some
what vigorous tactics, to put 1t mildly,
employed by last years tearnf
"Well," was the reply, 81 think
he likes US to be what we cal
q little tart At any rate, We are
a little tart in our play. If by
your question you mean slugging
/ can tell you that Peter Poe never
believed in smuggling, except, perhaps,
in self-defence, and never practices
it. although know at least one member
of the team who seems to think that a
little smuggling now and then adds zest 70
a game. As a rule, though, we Just like
TO be little tart. OF course If our
opponents insist on having genuine
rough play we're able to supply it to EN-.
II isn't so long ago since team came
here boasting openly that they we're
going to get the game even II they had
to disable every man OF us. Ibey went
home without the game and they didn't
disable us very much either.
MEMORABLE CONTEST.
He declined to name the team he re-
ferred to, but he meat that OF the Penn
sylvania 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 townspeople, all OF whom unite IN
glorying in the pluck and endurance dis
played on the occasion by the home
team.
Another good man on the Princeton
team this year is Jesse Bright Riggs,
also a Baltimore boy. The name Riggs
in itself is almost synonym for foot
ball player, for the family has had rep
resentatives in several champion teams,
and there is more material rlpenlng 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 centre, but there
is some talk of putting him opposite
Eefiiefinger in the Yale game, to give
that notable gentleman little worry.
If Jeremiah Sullivan Black, the night
half-back OF last years champion team,
can get a badly injured knee well in time
TO play on Thanksgiving day he Will
undoubtedly be found in the Princeton
rush-line. Training for the tug-of-war
team brought his weight mp to such a
degree that this move was.deemed best.
"Jerrv," as the boys call him, under
stands the game thoroughly, and 1t is
predicted that as left-tackle he wall keep
Captain Rhodes, of the Y9e Eleven,
about as busy as possible.
RUsHER.
Ralph Herbert Warren, always called
"Pop" in college, completes thequartettt
of the old team. He Is looked upon as
one of the best end-rushers now playing
A sure tackler and always well down the
field on a punt, he is an invaluable man.
! He. too. however, has disabled knee
and if he does not recover in time tol
the Yale game, it will be hard to fill hi
place. When he began playing last yea
he was only freshman.
Joseph Motley Thomas, or "Lonf
| Tommy" is one of the big guards. 4
substitute last year, and playing III tn
Yale game, his experience gained theI
Will benefit the team now.
Robert Eliot Speer, an 80 man, a
present taking a theological course IN tn
seminary, and hence called a Semi
mole" will cover the position of night
tackle. He runs with the ball at time
and always makes his five yards
Radclyffe Furness, Philadelphia's rep
tentative on the team, covers the posi-
ton of right end. lie is hard playe
and always reliable.
| Ii had been intended in case OF War
| rens inability to play to fill his place q