Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-10-22
HOwDY ON FOOT BALL
The Outlook for the Season SUITS
Howard Fielding.
YALE HAS NO SHOW, AS USUAL
Harvard Lcoks Like . Winner. Excep'
ca . Psophet---Dcscripsio OF
the Kilkenny Cats."

am pleased 10 observe that the at
tentlon Of the public has at last been
diverted from the monetary discus
ssons In congress 10 something of real
importance. namely. football For the
football, while il IL uTldeniabl fun 81
wind, has yet something tangible on
the outside.
No person can pretend TO be well in
formed who eannot tall. intelligently
about the game. during the months Of
October ard November For this
reason ] have collected few facts
concerning the prospects ami training
of he leadi..g teams. ". itch here lay
before the pssblic rsita tAe guarantee
that. though these statements d. not
come directly from tho men ia charge
of the teams. they are at least ~ reli-
able as anything which does.
The reports from Yale are very dis
couraging. I learn that all the men
who could play football have left Yale
BY death. graduation, or a change Of
heart The new material consists en-
tirely OF dwarfs and eripplcs There
Is great deal of feeling against tie
: faculty bccause Budds. the giant dis
covered in the Dry Tortugas by Yale
aEuTnnus last >umiaer. was not admit
ted 10 the freshman class. The facul-
ty excuses itself on the plea that Budds
could neither read nor write, but the
feeling among the coaches Is that this
should not have been allowed 10 shut
him out. lie has killed thirteen men,
and his paternal grandfather was "a
cannibal. Sufficient warning was Civ
en- the faculty a. To Budd's deficiencies
strongly asserted that examinations
should have been prepared from which
those subjects were excluded.
The wesrers of the blue are n good
deal stirred up by the action of Brown
in the matter of Jones and Robinson,
the two famous athletes Of Andover
Yale claims that these men were kid
napcd and brought TO Providence in
the middle of the night Each one of
them was handcuffed 10 one of
the professors. i get this story
pretty straight II comes from
two eminent football players among
the Yale alumni. They have been on
the lookout for Jones and Robinson all
summer, having the title deeds of sew
eral New Haven city lots concealed
about their clothing. They now claim
that Browns representatives kept the
two athletes in a cave among the Berk-
shire hills, and they ask with some
warmth whether such conduct Is cal
culated TO advance the cause OF educa-
ton or promote friendly feeling among
the colleges.
Prof. SHELTON, the distinguished
Psychologist, has been engaged to as
is pointing out the weak points in the
human skeleton. Old Yale men think
that IL he had begun work earlier in
the season, something nigh, have
come Of IL. As IL Is. the eleven has not
yet mastered the subject of simple
fractures of the collar-bone, and il is
feared that little can be done with the
vertebrate before the day of the
Harvard game.
Considering all of these disadyant-
ages. so the Yale coaches tell mesit is as
near a moral certainty as anything in
football can be that Harvard will win.
However, in spirit of pure devotion
20 Old Eli. few Yale men will take
any bets that are offered on the result.
IL the odds are satisfactory.
At Harvard things are different II
il easy enough to figure up sure
thing for the eleven. Graves. Coffin.
Hersey. Biers and Tombs Of last years
eleven arc in fine forTu land probably
will be till about fifteen minutes before
the Vale game when the best of them
will drop dead Grea; reliance is
placed upon the Deland tricks which.
last year. came - near 10 making the
game interesting for those who had
money mp II will b. remembered that
the ayinr wedge" gained twenty
threc yards for Harvard and would
undoubtedly have resulted In touch
down had no. Brewer who had the
ball and a clear field before him. run
against streak of hard luck in the
atmosphere which detained him long
enough for the Yale eleven TO arrive