The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-09-25
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The Advantages OF n Preparatory School
10 n Foo.brIt Player.

| 10 n Foo.b,u Player.
AZ the football season slowly gets under way
| the various preparatory school teams settle
down to work. 1t is a wcll-known fact that
the men who have made the greatest records
on college elevensin the past had the first rudi-
ments Of football pounded into them during
their days at preparatory schools. IT is a
source OF great advantage to college athlete.
and especially to a football player. to enter the
tight for place on the team strengthened by
previous experience and training. He Is ia
miliar with the points OF a game. where q green
man. who may be- stronger and better fitted
physically to play the game. does not know
what to do.
There are four great preparatory schools In
the East which yearly turn into the colleges q
quota OF men who develop so successfully in
athletics that all others fall back. These
schools are Phillips Academy at Andover. st.
Pauls School at Lawrenceville, N j., and Phil
lips Academy at Exeter. Yale turns to Ando-
yer for her best men. and she is seldom disap-
pointed. She got from there Pop" and Lau-
In years. gone gone By Andoxer a sem. to Yale such
men as Kid Wallace. Pop" Morgan. Lon
a2wrsy and Bob Dssermap She turned .to
strongest men and best aiI-around athletes
that ever went to college She sent to Amherst
, Lawrenceville, sends the pick Of her men to
Princeton. Snake Ames. House" Janeway.
Lille. Poe. Adams, Vredenbnrg. Pendleton.
and scores OF others prepared for Princeton
there. She also sent to Princeton Zabriskie
Whitehead.
Exeter ia regarded as the feeder for Hsr-
ward; The hardings. John Cranston. Stick;
ney. Mason. Soule and many other Haryard
men are Exeter graduates. She sent McCluny
20 Yale at the time Andover gave Balm to the
New Haven college.
1t is interesting to watch the. work Of the
preparatory school eeyens during the fall.
The closest observers Of their work. however.
are the college men. They study the individ-
ual work Of every player. They single out the
good men and bring every honorable infu-
ence to bear to induce them to enter their par
ticular college. The struggle for these pre-
paratory school celebrities becomes hotter
and hotter every year. There IL no doubt that
this interest in the athletics OF the prepara-
athletics
The elevens OF tho preparatory schools this
fall viii send many valuable men to college
next year Old players cannot fail to recall the
Andover and Exeter teams Of 1883. when
Andoyer numbered among her eeyen Pop"
and Laurie Bliss. Sprague, Joe Upton. Lon
Owsley. Coke, and Gilbert, Hinkey was sub
Stickney, Trafford. Soule Beatty and others.
The yearly contests between these two schools
are OF the sharpest description.
, me rivalry among the preparatory schools
is greater this year than ever before. All over
the country these schools are engaging college
graduates to coach their eevens. Andover and
Exeter are fortunate In having the closest
pertains to athletics. DR.. Bancroft and Prof
Comstock the Andover stand ys. do all in
their power to promote physical exercise. At
and st. Paul's 1t Is the same.