The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-10-11
TACKLED BY SCHOOLBOl,S.
The Various Elcv~ns Have Begun the Foot
ball ScusOn In Earnest.

| One Of the greatest evils in scholastic foot
| ball is the playing on school and academy
| elevcnS OF instructors About four years ago
| Brooklyn school team playing on Thanks
| giving day had on its team no less than five
| old-time players. Last year this was carried
on to Il great extent outside Of the Inter-
| scholastic Athletic League Especially was
| this the case when Il school team played an
/ out-of-town eleven, or Il local eleven composed
| of others than school fellows. The l. S. A. L..
| in ito constitution. aimed to do away with this
growing habit. and it is pity that the league
is not now in existence. Several teams in this
vicinity having lost Il number Of their players
by graduation last June. are trying to get boys
from outside the school 10 complete The teams.
A more aggravated case is that of cX-collcge
players. under the guise of INSTRUCTORS playing
on school teams. Corbn and Gill are promi-
ncnt examples Of the mon who have done So
Corbin played on Il school eleven in the north
ern part Of the State Boys Of ~ OF II years
Of age could do little against giant Ike Cor
bin. Gill played back Of the line on the Kings
School team Ia 81 year until his nose was bro;
ken. No nndcycloped. unframed lnh could
stop Gill when h. Was running with tn" ball.
SO general is the custom 81 putting cx-rol.
lcganS on school teams that managers in
max ing arrangements for games. are cnrctnl
to stimulate. that only school players shall play
The custom Is not coalncd to 100; bail alone.
On the haScball mines ii Is nnit" the thing To
get an old-tim" pich"r /" g" int.ti box when
oui -of-tOWn tcans NJ" p!aSrd. \ case IN point
!; that Of thr. Sing SIM; stars IT A. Pleasant
Military Arnlnmr. ,ahnrc!. and iy'i.rr "om-
old. and rcpu:ed 10 be the l"s; pitcher in thu
Hudson River League, while Eydrr by HI, own
mathcmaiics. The ether carries The hasedrunl
wh"n TN, tn" n1ys navG h ,ner ny"n"I ar, no
management decided t. "wort in some old
PLAYERS. nyi Their" was some objection. and
used. Good SHARP ,rractir" has resulted IN
showing the boys what they can do; and. al.
team viii in't i" " its M cvs E"st Vim 'o "r I'D
Adelphi: 0ttcrson., frll lack; Eichmond and
Ferris h1ii 1aGks; Iohn iIrati quarter Pouch
Van Every; ordss., For n practices ground the
tute tennis courts on Steubcn street. They
have started in to play practice games with
the Prattitcs to the mutual advantage of tho
THO Brooklyn High School eleven will be
made un in part as follows: Ndridg"r, TIE PRO-
ilris powerful nan. and III, ,,%iyl:ing is cS:
,Ssilcnt Groham lpmn"rt and BiIly REF. or;
slated Tor centre, Frank SolinGer ana Siehert
s"H S snd E ana ir left fn"s
=, The Polytechnic Institute lads haye elected
Incr Of II. d. Berrcsiori. resigned. The
"P4lys' have fully as strong an eleven as they
had last year. In som. RESPECTS IL is even
stronger. Asusual, theline is heavy, Burt, at
III! basS made IneibreakSng, MS Iom nG Las lat
ming to his ACCOMPLISHMENTS. .Cowporthwat
has improved a great deal in his playing. and
is q, slippery customer. Crosby, at centre. is
had much chance to show what he can do. He
docs not seem fast enough for position back
Of the line. Zimmerman makes good quar-
tor. and his Interference tactics are fine for so
smal fellow. Ormsbee and Harrigan make
good ends OF the new men. Grosvenor tS the
best Langdon tackles in great shape, Young
and Van Every show lack OF practice. but they
Will make. with Crosby very strong centre;
The Poly" Banjo club. which always helps
out the atlletir association lygvng concerts.
Is about tn rcorganze. a. e.. Henderson is tho
present secretary.
Cutler School. one OF the old stand-bys in
this city for preparing good football players
this fall James Ietealfe Polk. '03. who played
half back on the 90 eleven. 10 again trying for