New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-10-23
FOOTBALL is BOOMING.
THE COLLEGE TEAMS ALL SHOW STEADY
IMPROVEMENT
,prpAEISG FOR TIE DIG ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
ING GOSSIP REGARDING PUBLIC FEEL
ING on A PROFESSIONAL LEAGEE

rootba, is In full sway. and until the wndup Of
,h season on Thanksgiving Day. when Yale and Prince
.n and Harvard and Pcnnsyva come together for
,scy annual games. little else will talked by
,h followers field sports. The great college teams
-, slowly surely getting into condition for their
annual battles and all that (, needed is little cooler
reahcr 81 make the players enter the game with all tho
>,,.t and abandon peculiar 70 the sport.
IN games played Saturday by Yale, Princeton
Harvard and the University Of Pennsylvania showed de-
dcd Improvement all around Harvard and Yale played
their best games OF the year. the Crimson defeating
dartmouth SO Dartmouth did past the forty
ward line at any time during the game.
The University OF Pennsylvania also showed up In par
ucuary good form In the az Eastern Park Brooklyn
where the cnnsys defeated the local champions 40 TO o,
the Creccnts defeat OF the season, although they
have played both Yale and Princeton There l. already
lively speculation the game Mannheim with Prince
o Oh November and II PrincetCN wins that game, the
coanccs the friends the Tigers VIII carry
away many Of the dollars present the property OF the
pl,lsdelphians
Yale lartsans also we'll satisfied with their team,
that undcrc rule seeming be about the only
thing at present which bothcrs the followers OF tac Blue
IL looks II the Undergraduate rule VIII cut no
Ngurr at future football controversies. at least during
hi, year. and the win probably be ignored In the
yocPrncctOn game in the Nacliarvard game.
Scoty MeMasters. the veteran trainer at ola Nassau
was after the Plincct0nC Cornell game at Miulhatal
FIELD the veteran nusce-doctor was in excellent
humor over Tigers emphatic victory Our boys are
not in good shape YETI said he land hardly expect TO
hive tie in perfect condition before the game wh
the University OF Pen>y lvana on November A. nave
not a sick man list. Our team Is shade h aver
tran year and. think, Is stronger IN several I'M
pof,aa. positions. To shut Cornell was our amb-
ton ana did 1t easily than at least eNpccca
PEOPLE who saw Saturdays game at Manhattan Flcld
could not help noticing that there wa considerably more
rough play than the occasion seemed to demand hhS
struck Cornell back OF Cornells line; and even
the excuse that such pay could help Princeton was
sb.olutely wanting Even Captain "Dosgc" Trcnchard
handled his rivals rather roughly at times.
The remarkable growth of football during the last Few
years is responsible the suggestions that professional
Football League b. organized. John VI. Warl ,he man
eger OF tho Ncw.Yort Baseball Club. an int Posted
spcctator az Manhattan Field saturday. aid acr the
game the reporter asked him what lie thought about u
professional lcacuc OF foorha. payers.
"a professional football league may eventually come. "
said Ward but MANY obstacles lie IN It's path before
such a gain the confidence and popularity OF
the public There plenty OF men who could play
football ofesslonalv and play well hut there com
raratvcly few who would 90 II. There is certain
romantic halo lowering the college football PLAYER