The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-01-23
THE FOOTBALL FIELD.

Frank Hinkey has been elected captain of
the Yale team.
1t is reported that stillman, the Yale center,
has lett college.
San Francisco is to have a charity game on
next Saturday between teams from the army
and ex-collegians.
serious accident has befallen August Porter
Thompson, '95 Shelf, who was a member of the
freshman football team at Yale. He had both
legs broken while coasting on New Years day
at his homo in Honesdale, Pa.
The right tackle of the team at Western Penn
sylvania University, of Pitisburg, was q
Japanese named Sokitaro Murayma His father
Is q nobemen. Sokitaro used to captain the
football team Of the American college at Toxic.
At last accounts Lee McCiung, who coached
Berkeley for its match with Stanford, was in
Southern California on q pleasure trip. He 10
as much at home in society as he is on the foot
ball field. and recently lead german at the
Redondo hotel
Capt Harry Maekey, of the University OF
Pennsylvania football team, recently delivered
an address before the faculty and students of
| the Alabama Polytechnic University and Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College. and the citi-
Gems OF Auburn, Ala, on 'The Relation of
Athletics to Education"
Miss Adelaide Schroeder, Of Brooklyn and
Mr.. Knowlton Lyman Ames, OF Chicago, were
married last Wednesday in Brooklyn The
SEooEl Is KNOWN III tue 6tntetlc WoriQ
as SNAKE Ames. the famous ex-Prnceton
fuil-back, than as Knowlton Lyman Ames, mil
lionaire mine-owner and lumberman, of Chi.
cago.
The return game OF the Seattle and Tacoma
high school elevens will be played at Madison
park next Saturday. This time the fight will
not be between picked teams, as in the game at
Tacoma The line will be strictly drawn, and
none but those having certificates from their
! principals of their attendance at the high
| schools will be permitted to play.
Col Charles X. Greenleaf, deputy surgeon
| general OF the United States army. has q new
| system of athletic traning& Its superiority is
| said to have been practically demonstrated in
the recent football game Utween the Naval
academy aud West Point. In that game several
OF the future generals we're almost helpless with
exhaustion when carried OFF the field, while the
commodores were comparatively fresh. The
system has been in use at Annapolis for q year.
The Corinthian Club. of England, is to send
club of football players to this country in the
latter part of July. Tho team will include
eighteen players, and also some of the best
cricketers in England. 1t is the intention to
play cricket and football, and a couple OF ex-
pert tennis players may also be brought over.
The visitors will be very strong at association
football and are expected to illustrate the real
science of the dribbling game. At the close of
the tour they are willing TO play Rugby match,
but not under college rules.
Princeton is having loads of trouble to select
a football captain. Again last week was the
election postponed. King cannot either play or
captain, owing TO Prnceton's recent stand
about graduates, and Vincent, next choice, is
not on sufficiently intimate terms with the
faculty to be allowed to be a candidate.
Trenehard, one OF the youngest members of the
team and a varsity player Of a single season.
has the best chances of an election matters
now stand. Wheeler is a possibility. Neither
Ballet nor Harold can play under the new
rules 1t looks rs if a captain will be chosen
from uuderc!ass men. Presidents for this are
few, but not entirely wanting. bland" Bal
lard. 70. chosen in his sophomore year, was one
OF Princeton's most successful captains.
movement is on foot in the intercollegiate
Football Association TO exclude all but under
graduates of the academic departments from
playing on the association teams in champion
ship games. 1t is said that Yale 10 at the back
of this action, and that is aimed especially a,
the University of Pennsylvania, whose team
would be badly crippled under such a rule.
The team for 1892 was composed of but four
from the academic course, four from the medi-
cal school. three from the law department and
one each from the dental and veterinary
schools. BY combining the membership to the
academic department Capt. Mackey and most of
the other good players OF The team would be e1-
cluded. Singularly enough the restriction pro-
posed would not, according to the plan now
understood, extend to the Sheffield Scientific
School, from which Yale draws many of its best
players
Great arrangements are being made for
match between Stanford university and the
Olympic Club at San Francisco on Wsshington's
birthday. The proceeds are to go TO charity.
Stanford is TO have a horn fifty feet in length
and twelve feet six inches in the fange, aud
the sound producing power will be- furnished
by a thirty-twO horsepower boiler The Berke-
ley boys VIII also have horn of the same
dimensions and there will be three smaller
horns of thirty, twenty and fifteen feet in
length. The parade. which Will be "A big feature
OF the day, will include seventeen tally -ho
coaches. accompanied bv three brass bands. One
division of the parade will be loo stanford boys,
mounted upon asses and dressed entirely in the
colors of the university. Thirty Of the "Co-eds,"
dressed in pure white, will ride in hay wagon