The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-11-01
FOOTBALL GOSSIP.
The Outlook for the Season Suits
Howard Fielding.
Yale Has No Show, as Csual-Harvard
Looks Like Winner, Except to
Prcphet-Partial Description
of the "Kilkcnny Cats"
COPYRIGHT. 1897

1
am pleased to observe that the at.
tcntion of the public has at last been
| diverted from the monetary discus
sions in congress to something OF real
| Importance, namely, football For the
football, while it is undeniably full OF
wind, has yet something tangible on
/ the outside.
! No person can pretend to be we'll in
! formed who cannot talk intelligently
! about the game, during the months of
October and November For this
/ reason 1 have collected a few facts
cor ;erning the prospects and training
! OF the heading teams, which I here lay
before the public with the guarantee
that, though these statements do not
come directly from the men in charge
of the teams, they are at least as reli-
able as anything which does.
The reports IRON Yale are very dis
couraging, | learn that all the men
who could play football have left Yale
by death, graduation, or change Of
heart. The new material consists en-
tirely of dwarfs and cripples. There
is great deal of feeling against the
faculty because Budds, the giant dis
covered in the Dry Tortugas by Yale
alumnus last summer, was not admit
ted to the freshman class The facul-
ty excuses itself on the plea that Budds
could neither read nor write, but the
feeling among the coaches is that this
should not have been allowed to shut
him out. He has killed thirteen men,
and his paternai grandfather was a
canniba1 Sufficient warning was Civ
en- the faculty as to Budd's deficiencies
in reading and writing, and it is
strongly asserted that examinations
should have been prepared from which
those subjects were excluded.
The wearers of the blue are a good
deal stirred up by the action of Brown
in the matter of Jones and Robinson,
the two famous athletes of Andover
Yale claims that these men were kid
mapped and brought to Providence in
the middle of the night. Each one of
them was handcuffed to one of
the professors. l get this story
pretty straight. It comes from
two eminent football players among
the Yale alumni. They have been on
the lookout for Jones and Robinson all
summer, having the title deeds of sew
eral New Haven city lots concealed
about their clothing. They now claim
that Browns representatives kept the
two athletes in cave among the Berk-
shire hills, and they ask with some
warmth whether such conduct is cal
culated to advance the cause of educa-
ton or promote friendly feeling among
the colleges.
Prof. Shelton, the distinguished
Psychologist, has been engaged to as
sist in coaching the Yale eleven. He
is pointing out the weak points in the
human skeleton. Old Yale men think
that if he had begun work earlier in
the season, something might have
come of it. AS it is, the eleven has not
yet mastered the subject of simple
fractures of the collar-bone, and it is
feared that little can be done with the
vertebrate before the day of the
Harvard game.
Considering all of these disadvant-
ages, so the Yale coaches tell me, it is as
near moral certainty as anything in
football can be that Harvard will win.
However. in spirit of pure devotion
to Old Eli, few Yale men will take
any bets that are offered on the result,
if the odds are satisfactory.
At Harvard things are different 1t
is easy enough to figure up a sure
thing for the eleven. Graves, Coffin.
Jersey, Biers and Tombs of last years
eleven are in fine form land probably
will be till about fifteen minutes before
the Yale game when the best of them
will drop dead.) Great reliance is
placed upon the Deland tricks which,
last year. came SO near to making the
game interesting for those who had
money up. 1t will be remembered that
the flying wedge" gained twenty
three yards for Harvard and would
undoubtedly have resulted in a touch
down had not Brewer, who had the
ball and clear field before him. run
against streak of hard luck in the
atmosphere which detained him long
enough for the Yale eleven to arrive