Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-17
THE COLLEGE TEAMS.
Gossip About the Football Aspirants
for Championship Honors.
YALE'S ENCOURAGING PROSPECTS.
Great Interest in the Coming Battle Be-
tween Choynski and Godfrey.
ALE'S ENCOURAGING PROSPECTS.
GENERAL SPORTING NEWS OF THE DAT

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE pIsPArcH.l
NEW YORK, Oct 16-All is football now
and that sport is in full swing. Every team
in, the country is now at practice, and
many of them have played in contests.
Leading coaches all declare that it is too
early in the season to form an estimate OF
what the leading college teams are going to
be. There is truth in this.
Haryard's showing during the past ten
days has been an extraordinary one. She
started off the season so well with big
scores against Dartmouth and Exeter that
the admirers of her team began to 60 wild
with enthusiasm.
Their hopes were somewhat dumped by
the result of the Amherst game last Satur-
day. Harvard could only score 26 points
in two halves of 20 minutes each, and at
several times during the game Amherst
came very near scoring. One thing Is about
settled now, and that is that Harvard Will
play no more games with school teams.
Captain Trafford thinks such games do his
men more harm than good, and he began
new policy by cancelling the game with the
Phillips Andoyer team scheduled Tor
Wednesday.
Something About Yale's Team.
In one respect it is difficult to compare
the work of the Yale team at the present
time with that at corresponding time last
fall The training Of the team this year
has been undertaken on an entirely differ
ent basis. Last wear the candidates began
playing at the opening of the college year
with hard and regular practice games. This
wear a very different system has been used.
The preliminary work consisted merely OF
running, falling on the ball, kicking and
other light work. The difference In the
immediate result of the two systems OF
training is obvious The first, while fire.
ouently causing injury to the men, de-
velops them, under proper supervision, into
strong PLAYERS at once. The good results OF
the latter system are not so Immediately
apparent.
By it the men are developed slowly. They
soon learn the fundamental rules of the
game individually, but it requires long
period of time to bring out team work.
They do not, therefore, present SO formida-
BILE an appearance during the early part of
the season. What success Will attend the
trial of the new system OF training will be
seen later on. Those who introduced the
system believe that when the time for play
ing the championship games arrives the
team will be found to be fully as strong as
it would have been had the old system
been used, while fewer of the men will be
suffering from injuries. One thing about
Yale is encouraging. There is an unusual
quantity of good material, some of which
is already pushing the old men hard for
their positions Again, there is DISPOSE
tion on the part of the management, shown
last week for instance, to shift the men
about and get them into the places for which
thev are best suited, regardless of former
play or orprejudice
The Princetons Are Confident.
As Princetonians view the football prac-
tice from dsy to day on the University
field they grow more and more confident
that Princeton is in the race for the champ
ionship thissesson. There is q belief among
the players themselves, and this is quietly
sharsd by the football author1ties, that the
pennant will come back to. Nassau this fall.
And yet the season is not without IT'S mis-
fortunes and discouraging clements. Fiscus,
who had been regarded as a second Cowan
tackler, has rheumatism in both knees and
has not been on the field for two weeks. 1t
is possible that he may be unable to do any
thing more this season.
The second disabled man is Harry Vincent,
who had his ankle sprained two weeks ago
and has not played since. Vincent was the
regular left end last year. but had been
changed TO right this season, Captain king
desiring to have his best man play against
Hinkey, of Yale. Vincent is one of the best
end players Princeton has ever had.
was some days ago, and he fears il is going
to be winters sore. Captain King himself
has not played for some days, although his
injury is so slight that he can be on hand to
coach the players. Lee has an injured
breast Bartels, the promising half-back,
got his thumb sprained some days ago, but
he was able to play again yesterday.
As for the general work OF the team, 1t is
far superior to that of the same date last
year or the year preceding that. And while
the play is far from perfect. there are not
nearly so many ragged points. The coach
ing is splendidly managed, and there has
been more of il than usual. Last year the
coachers came without previous cons ulta-
tion with one another, and introduced their
own ideas of playing. There was, in C conse-
Quence, a never ending changing of the
style of game. The result that the
team had, so to speak, no policy. Instead of
assisting the players, the coaches were
simply bringing disorder and confusion
where there should have been order and
system.
There has been no unusual development
in the University of Pennsylvania team
during the past ten days The playing has
for the most part been characterized by
good steady work. In the game with the
Naval Cadets which resulted in the defeat
of the latter by Is to o, the Pennsylvanians
had a strong rush line, and the backs made
@ number of admirable runs.