The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-16
THE FOOTBALL FIELD.

Some OF the Eastern cities are trying indoor
football.
The Pennsylvania state college football team
mas elected A. c. Read captain Tor next season.
Birmingham, Ala, has organized q college
football league and will play until the LIST Of
May
"iiiism r. Cross, who was substitute left
guard In the Yale eleven, has been appointed
captain OF the freshmen crew
1.-THE Apostle of Football Reform" is the title
bestowed upon Lorin F. De,and, who devised
the flying wedge and other maneuvers used by
the Harvard team.
The Portland football men who were in Seat
tie on New Years day are enthusiastic in their
praise OF the hospitable manner in which they
were entertained here.
The friends OF the University of Minneapolis
team have remarkable confidence in its ability
and hope to see II pitted against Yale, Harvard
and Princeton next season.
Football is spreading all over the state. The
soldiers at Vancouver barracks are at ii, and
few days ago defeated a team of deaf mutes at
vancouver by q score OF Ia to 4
A suburban league has been organized in Bos-
ton for next season. The league will be com.
posed OF Newton, West Roxbury, Natick. Ded
ham. Needham, with one other team not yet
chosen.
A return game between the Seattle and Ia
coma high school teams 10 possible, although
the Tacoma boys will need considerable coax
ing on account OF their defeat last Saturday,
when they had strong material from the outside
to assist them.
At Pittsburg. January 2, football team be-
tween the Allegheny Athletic Association and
All College team resulted in a draw. the score
being TO 0. The college team was made up OF
players from Yale, Harvard, Princeton and
others colleges.
The Western College Football Association,
which includes the state universities OF Mis-
souri, Kansas. Nebraska and Iowa, has held its
annual meeting and decided to go ahead for an
other season. The Championship pennant was
awarded to the University OF Kansas.
Not only are the colleges in the South but
the athletic clubs taking hold of football. The
Birmingham tAla) Athletic CLUB eleven went to
New Orleans recently and played against team
picked from the state of Louisiana. Alter hard
fight in pouring rain Louisiana won by q score
OF 6 too
". ID. Osgood. who played haif-back for Cor
nell and was rated as the best man in that posi-
ton in the country, but who entered the Uni.
versity OF Pennsylvania the first of the year,
represented the p. A. S. C. in the A. A. Z. wrest-
ling championship and took first prize in the
15S-pound class.
II Is generally understood that Princeton is
determined to wage war on the disposition to
wink at professionalism in college sports. and
when the football club meets to eject officers
Tor next year it is probable that a demand will
be made that students simply taking pos. grad
yates course be debarred from participating in
college championship events
Capt Harry Mackey, of the University of
pennsylvania team, is making an extensive
tour through the Southern colleges. looking up
possible football material. The work of the
southern players is highly spoken of, and
Msckey hopes to induce a number OF them to
enter the University. The team there promises
TO be very strong one next season Capt.
Mackey's Idea is to have a team of sprinters
next fall, the chief fault of last years team be-
ing that the men were too heavy and SLOW
Ben Crosby, Yale. 1892, died in New York city,
December 70. OF typhoid fever. He was well
known here aud exceedingly popular. While in
college he was a well-known football player.
and was righteni on Rhodes team of 1890 He
also made reput ttion an oarsman, and
pulled on lis class crews and was varsity SUB
stitute. He Was mem5er of D. X E. in his
junior year, and n his senior year was elected
TO skull. aud Bones This fall he coached the
champion football eleven of the Annapolis
naval academy.