The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-21

undergraduate department of the school into a
football team.
Minneapolis 10 all stirred up over the match
OF the University of Minnesota with Cornell in
that city on Thanksgiving day.
Capt. King. OF Princeton, has put away his
crutches aud will likely be able to play in the
Yale-Princeton game on Thanksgiving.
Cornell il mentioned on al, sides as the sue
cessor to Wesleyan in the intercollegiate league.
The latter team 10 altogether too weak for the
other elevens.
The cry OF the Seattle Athletic Club is: "Rah-
rah! rah-rah! rah-rah! Hikah Seattle! Boom,
A-a-a-a-hv' There will be abundant oppor.
tunity to hear it on next Thursday.
The football public is awaiting with eager in.
terest the great Yale Princeton match in New
York on Thanksgiving day. 1t is expected that
5000 or 1000 people will see the game.
Before her defeat by the University of Penn.
sylvania Princeton had never been beaten By
team outside Yale or Harvard; it was the
first time that any team excepting these two had
taken the lead of her in q game.
Princeton cancelled her game with Cornell on
November 16, in order to save the team for the
Yale game. This was q great disappointment
for the Cornell boys, who expected to beat
Princeton.
The report from Tacoma that Seattle was try
ing to coax away Capt. Sturtevant by the offer of
good position in this city seems to have been
cut out OF whole cio.h. No one here knows
anything about such an attempt
Sanford, Yale's big guard, who tore loose a
ligament of his ankle IN practice game, will
probably not be able to play again this season.
McCrea, the freshman, has been taking his
place, and did well in the Harvard game.
In 1879 the safety touch down was introduced
In 1883 scoring by points was introduced. A
goal from a touchdown counted two q touch
down tour, goal from the field five, and a
safety touchdown TWO agains. the side max
ingit.
The championship of the Northwest College
League has been won by the University OF Min
nesota. The deciding game was played at Min
neapOlis, November 8, between the Minnesota
and the Northwestern university, the former
winning by Is to Il
The Athletic Club is getting out a beautiful
souvenir for Thanksgiving day game with Ia
coma. 1t is in pamphlet form, containing about
twenty pages, on glazed paper, with cuts of the
teams and plenty of valuable reading matter
relative 70 the game.
The University of Pennsylvania Football As.
ISOLATION is $4,000 richer a result of last Sat
urday's game with Princeton. Ten graduates
told the directors that If Capt. Schoff would
beat Princeton they would give the association
the above sum for the erection OF q club house
for Pennsylvania athletes.
DIZZY Dull, the Gu 1ai0 D0ck, VINO mas OCen
playing with the Chicago Athletic Club team,
came near winning the game against the Uni
versity OF Pennsylvania. He only failed by a
few feet of getting in one of his famous drop
kicks for the goal from the field. On the whole,
Pennsylyania had a very narrow escape
Capt Vance Mccormick, who has succeeded
McClung as captain OF Yale, is only 20 years
old. He is regarded as the best fulI-back in the
country. Mccormick has been playing the
great game for seven years. At ID he played
quarterback at the Academy of Harrisburg.
At Is he was a member OF the Andover eleven
Leland Stanford university is reported to have
engaged Walter Camp, the celebrated Yale
player and coach, to coach the team. Berkeley
university is leaving no stone unturned to offset
this big move on the par. of their opponents
and has teiegraphed East for a crack coach
The annual game between the two universities
takes place on December H.
The defeat OF Princeton's team by the eleven
OF the University of Pennsylvania is an event
unparalleled in the history of football. Prince
ton has beaten Yale and Yale has beaten Prince
ton, and both have beaten Harvard. But never
since 1873, when intercollegiate football really
began, did any one ever dream of the orange
and black or the blue being trailed in the dust
by the red and blue of the University of Penn
sylvania.