The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-02
THE FOOTBALL FIELD.

Savage, the big guard of the Portland team
holds the Pacific coast record for putting the
shot.
Association football men at San Francisco are
enthusiastic over the prospect of . series Of
games with the Seattle team.
The general opinion in California, outside OF
Berkeley men, is that it was q fiuke that en-
abied Berkeley to play tie with Stanford.
Gaelic football is becoming very popular with
the Irish American and Scotch-American resi-
dents OF New York sunday games are OF fire.
quent occurrence, and there are good crowds in
attendance.
Center college, OF Danville, Ky, is claiming
the football championship of the South. Her
team has played nine games this season and
won all OF them.
The Stanford university team put in the holi.
day vacation in q trip to the lower part OF the
state. 1t easily defeated the Los Angeles Ath-
letic Club team and Chaffee college.
The Olympic club, of San Francisco, wants a
match with the Multnomahs, of Portland, on
Washington's birthday.
The faculty at Yale has decreed that the fresh.
man class, as q whole, shall be prohibited from
engaging in any intercollegiate contest in base
ball during the coming season, as a punishment
for the disorder at the football celebration of
December at New Haven.
At reception given the University of Penn
sylvania football team on December 10, each
player was presented with gold watch charm
in the form OF football. On each was the date
o. the victory over the Princeton team and a
small "P'' in red and blue enamel.
The men who are pretty sure to captain the
big football teams next season are: Yale,
Hinkey; Harvard. Waters; Princeton, Vincent;
University of Pennsylvania, Mackey. Yale and
Princeton have not yet held their elections, bu,
Hnkey and Vincent are practically sure OF
being chosen.
Capt Mackey, OF the University of Peunsyl-
vania. announces that he wants at least seven
substitutes for the varsity and scrub teams, be-
sides at least thirteen men, so that the old
players on the team can have plenty of rest,
and in order to test more thoroughly the etf-
cheney of the new plays. Every class in the
university will be represented.
The Interstate League. OF Connecticut. has
been organized. The League will include
elevens representing Hartford, Bridgeport New
Haven and Norwich high schools; the Hopkins
grammar school. of this city; the SGtfield Liter.
AIRY Institute: Kings school, of Stamford. and
other school team not yet decided upon.
The champion team will receive q silver cup
from the Yale eleven.
The Wesleyan Football Association has re.
ceived its share of the receipts Of the Wesleyan
University of Pennsylvania game on Thanke-
giving day. Wesleyan gets S,259.5S her
share. aud this will leave profit of about $500
Financially, Wesleyan men satisfied with
the seasons work, ana they believe that they
have reason to rejoice over the record OF the
team. They had hard luck all through the sea-
son in the way OF accidents 10 their best play
ers, and they think that If their fortune had
bsen bstter their record would have been cor
respondingly better.
Week before last Captain Mackey. of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania team. for the purpose
OF testing the material in the different classes
arranged series of games. The members Of
the winning team were presented with silve
footballs The first game was played on Tues
day between the college classes of "a and 80
and resulted in victory for the former by a
score of l. 10 4 On Wednesday the "a and '95
medical classes played. '9j winning by score of
S to 0. On Thursday The Juniors won the cham
plonship OF the college department by defeat
ing the freshmen by u score Of q 10 6 On Sat-
urcay the law team defeated the a3 law by to
4. On Monday the deutals won from the veter-
mary by 10 to&