Morning journal and courier., 1893-09-19
ARE TRAINING HARD.



The Outlook for the Yale Football
Team-The Men Training Hard at
Travers Island-Tho Schedule of
Games.
The football season is nearly on us again,
and soon the public will be treated to ex-
hibitions of this sport, which to the IN
trained eye seems the very personifcation
of rudeness, roughness and disorder, but
which to every collegian represents the
height of skill and science in athletics
For several weeks already the elevens of
Harvard and Princeton have been praotis-
ing, and the three leading teams seem to
bid fair to enter the season pretty evenly
men to get into shape, and large backing
of veteran coaches have promised to stand
by each college.
The Yale men have done very little pre-
liminary work this season, and 1t is gener-
ally conceded that the old college has a
pretty poor lot of men to pick from this
year. Yale usually gets her men in shape
SO, however, that she comes up strong on
the finish.
captain frank hluk6y aas 6bbhDlbuoo q
reputation for silence. Yale's football cap
| tains have always been disinclined to talk,
but Captain Hinkey outdoes all his pre-
decsssors He has played end rush for the
past two seasons on the varsity team. He
collected the vanguard of the Yale players
at Travers' island nearly two weeks ago,
and the full bscks, half backs and quarter
backs have been exercising for several
hours day in running. passing, kicking
and falling on the ball. To-day or to-mor-
row all the men from the center to the
quarter backs will arrive in New Haven
and begin hard practice on the Yale field
the arena on which the fall battles are to
be planned and fought out.
Five vacancies will be filled, places which
| were filed last year by the pick of the
| team, Wallis and Winter, the tackles; Nc
Cormick, the quarter back, and the Bliss
| brothers, half-b backs. McCrea, Htokok and
| Stlllman on the center, the two end rush
| ere, Greenway and Hinkey, and the full
| back, Frank Butter worth, form the nucleus
around which the new team will center.
These men ere certainly bound to dc
some excellent work. They have had 6
the center, although 1t averages more than
| 200 pounds In weight and has strength In
| plenty, averages hardly nineteen years In
| age. Hinkey and Greenwsy will do thei,
work well on the ends, for Hinkey 1.
| not man who will let the duties of the
| captaincy interfere with his individual
playing. He Ia too cool and knows the
game too we'll. There have been consider
| able doubt expressed this season abou
Butterworth's ability to play. He injured
his arm severely last fall, 30 badly than ar
| operation had to be performed in the win
ter, but he Is in splendid shape now anc
1 to = a i've ot a. Tel
For the vacant tackles there are no fire
class men in college. The only men avail
able now are Armstrong and Messler, thu
two "subs" of last year. Both men rowe6
last season, Messler as No. on the uni
| versity crew and Armstrong as bow on tn
freshman eight. Messlsr il wonderful,
developed and strong, but has Away
lacked life and quickness. Armstrong 4
lively enough for eleven men, but Is no
| quite heavy enough.
George Adee Ia practieing for quarter
back and Ia the best man In sight. He
light and wiry, has good head and las
| year osptained the second eleven. 81
looks like light weight successor to tn
stocky Mccormick and Barbour, but b.
should turn out pretty fair man.
Dewitt, the half-back who was 30 wei
liked last year, will not return to colleg
this fall on account of the death of hi
father, who WAS killed in the accident o.
the Boston and Albany railroad at Chester
Mass. Harmon Graves, who was the reg
ulsr half back until he was hurt last year
will not play this fail, as Captain Hinks
will hold to the undergraduate rule, an
Graves Is in the law school.
Tom Dyer and Lilly, "subs" last yea
Eaton and Thorne, who was the freshms
full back, are now at work as half-bRcks.
There are no players of any reputatIo
who are coming from the various pfepari
tory schools, but unless the freshman elias
turns out some extra good men, Capital
Hinkey will begin to feel disturbed.
Walter Camp has his hands so full {
business that he will not bs able to coac
much this year. He will stand ready I
advise, however, to case of need.
There will be the usual number of We
eran players and ex-csptains on hand
, different times for the coaching. Howar
Knapp, "Pa" Corbin, Rhodes, Gill, Nj
Cormick, McClung and Bull are expecte
to help along matters for the dark blue.
Manager Hotter has nearly complete
his schedule of games. Fourteen will /
played, half of them on the home fielt
The first game is with Wesleyan on ii
Yale field, October z, and the second wit
the Crescent Athletic club at Brooklyn.
Yale will stand by the undergradus
rule until official action Ia taken at til
intercollegiate meeting in Octobe
Princeton has decided to set the rule asid
but Captain Hinkey has shown his intel
tions by not summoning Half-Bac
Graves to train.