The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-11-25
Il Has Been the Most Successful In
History Of The College,
FOOTBALL TEAM A STRONG ONE.
Nine Games Were Played, OF which tho
Brown Team Won Ska Review of
the Work Done During the Season.
The Players.

just closed has been the most successtui
Ia the history OF the college. The move
ment started last year to obtain a team
worthy to uphold old Brown, has culmi-
mated In the present season, and football
has been played on . firm basis. The team
has made record for itself which may
compare favorably with tho football
team which has always been re-
garded of late years as the
shining side OF Brown athelstic'A The
deve opment of the team and the game
they play, as shown In the fret game on
Thursday, the playing of that team on a
firm basis and the int reduction OF . true
fottball spirit into the college is due to
one man. aud hat man 10 WIN. Is. Hop
kins the captain of the Brown football
eleven.
or Hopkins's work and his talents as a
player much has been said but ii any
thing he has not received enough praise.
lie has been the soul aud life OF the team.
lie has taught them modern football and
shown them what team work means. His
fine tackling and interferencs have been
constant example to the candidates for
the team.
As a strategist he has proved himself
n model captain. His inventive brain
has brought forth more plays which may
compare favorably with the much-talked
# tricks OF Mr.. Deeland. The wedge
play, familiar To supporters OF the Brown
team-and to all opponents to their sor
row--the adaptation Of the Woodruff tr ck
and other innovations too numerous 10
mention. are all the results OF Captain
Hopkins fertile resources. With the
thought Of the success OF the team mus.
come the thought OF the cause, aud IL Is
found in the teams captain.
Won Six Ont of Nine.
A review of the games played shows
ut OF nine played six were won and three
tost which, considering the teams play ed,
Is fine sho wing. The season was unfor--
tunate in many ways on account OF the
number OF games caucellei, Exeter, Dart
mouth, Amherst, Bowdoin, Trinity. Wes-
leyan and Orange Athletic club, failing
to fill their dates. The season began Oc-
tober z, when Brown beat Worcester
Polytechnic Institute 800. The game
was loo ely played and the team work OF
,he men seemed to be utterly lacking. Il
this game Captain Hopkins was Il jured.
On Oc ober IA. Brown opened the season
on Lincoln field and was defeated by
Boston Athletics Go This game was
played with substitute backs aad substi-
tute tackle. The men seemed TO miss q
presencs OF Captain Hopkins aud showed
tendency 20 get rattled. Notwithstaud-
log the ragged playing in this game
Brown should have won even with the
substitutes, and only succession OF
misplays at the very beginning of the
game |, st it. On October Is Brown met
Yale at New Haven for the frs time and
WAS defeated 1870 Only twenty minute
halves were played and at times
the men put up an elegant game. Weak
tackling aud inference were the main
points OF the game. though Brown took
the ball several times on four downs.
Towards the close of the Pame the ball
was within ten yards Of Yale's line but
the was called before Brown could
carry 1t over though another five min-
utts would have crszel the silent"
Hinkey. The work OF Capt. Hopkins in
tiis game is worthy OF special u ention,
aud il of en- seemed as IL he was playing
the whole game.
Tho Game with Trinity.
o. Oct. 81 Brown played Trinity on
Llucoln field and scored eight touch
Towns. The inability to kick goals kept
the score down to $40. The effects OF
good coaching here bean to show and
,he snap with which Captain Hopkins
kept the men at work resulted IN the
ABOVE large score.
The next game was with Andover and
rroved an of day for Brown, though the
final score was 100 In her favor The
Apdover men put up the best game OF
the season and Brown seemed to have for
gotten how to play football. Superior
weight and training told, hut the game
was by no means credit to the team.
o. the Goth he team met Harvard on
Jarvis field ana were beaten $50 the
largest score Harvard rolled up during
the season. The crippled condition Il the
Brown players mt that time readily ex.
plains the large score and it should be
said to Browns credit that she gained
more ground against Harvard than the
.hree preceding teams put together. in.
,luding Dartmouth aud Amherst. Twice
Brown mad the ball on Harvsrd's ten
yard line and Captain Waters was made
very uneasy. There was no game Nov. /,
but on Nov. Brown defeated Msssachu-
setts Institute of Technology 500 on Lin
c In field. Tech" was not In tie game
f,ra moment aud only once did the ball
ie ch Browns lwenty-yard line, so that
never was her goal in danger. The
men put up n rattling good game and as
tonished themselves and everyone else
The team did not play again until the
18th when the same team was met IN
Boston. Tech this time succeeded in
scoring but Brown took the game 2s-6
The halves were shorter than In the pre-
cedinu game but the men did not play as
we'll The game was very loosely played
and this was the cause of Techs scoring.
The FINAL Victory.
The final victory over Tufts on Thurs
day was a fitting end to such a successful
season. The c1uddent air OF the Tufts
men quickly changed TO deep st gloom
when they saw the pace Brown set. The
game from . Brown standpoint was
above criticism, aud b ,d the second half
been finished the score would have doubt
less reached hfty or more
The universal criticism Of the team has
been that no New England team outside
OF Harvard aud Yale could beat Brown,
md ni the fearna that haye MI yed ..Iechn