The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-19

STEVENS CRIPPLED.
Its Team So Badly Mauled
by Rutgers That 1t
Will Disband.
FOORBALL BATTLES TOMORROW
Klikow Bowlers Had a Celebra-
bration-Jersey City Clubs
Tourney,
FooRBALL BATTLES TOMORROW

New blood in the shape of another
quarter back appeared in the n. j. A. c.
team at Wednesday nights practice.
James Terry, brother of the famous
Willis Terry, will play in that position
from now on.
Manager Walter Masterson who form
erly passed the ball, will play on the end
Terry's shouldering the New Jerseys
back through the line last Wednesday
night was a revelation to those players.
The regular team will line up against
the Rutgers College team Saturday.
The team consists of Captain Ellsworth
and L. Davis, half backs; Evans, full
back; j. Terry, quarter back; Roderick
and Masterson, ends; Beandine and Trait
EN-, tackles; Mertens and E. Couch,
guards, and Lehman, centre. The COM
bined weight of the centre and guards
is a little over 800 pounds. Harry Bar
clay may play at half if the ruptured
tendons of his right thumb will permit
him.
He received that peculiar injury in the
Stevens game on October 10.
The Greenvilles will play a High School
team Saturday on the Greenvilie Y. M.
C. A. grounds. Harry Harms is play
ing q n excellent game at centre.
St. Peters College has a representa-
tive team among the students. They
will play a Passaic team in that city
next Thursday. The following week
they will play the Invincibles of Ford
ham College at Fordham.
Company A will not play, in all prob
ability for some weeks to come. The
challenge to Company B will be for
Thanksgiving Day instead of Election
Day as proposed. Out of good material
tain In al team. Among the good
material are Privates Hughes, Hall and
Norris. Sergeant RIM is a good half
back.
Yale and Orange A. c. teams will
meet at the Orange Oval, South Orange
tomorrow. The Orange team has been
playing a fine game and hopes to score
against the visitors or do better than
their rival for the championship of the
American Football Union, Crescents of
Brooklyn, which held Yale down to ten
points.
EDWARDS LONG KICK.
The Princeton team practiced yester-
day under the direction of Mofat, as
sisted by. Janeway and Walter Cash.
thuse and he said sharp things to the
backs who were slow. The scrub eleven
compelled the regulars to make a safety
touchdown in the second half. Dave
Edwards of this city, who played full
back for the scrub team was response
BILE for this remarkable work. He made
Burt ~misjudged. 1t went over their
heads and rolled for their goal line.
There was a lively scramble for it and
Burt succeeded in falling on the bali
but it was behind the goal line and was
a safety and counted against the Varsi-
ty team.
Professional games yesterday:-Bos-
ton, A; New York, 8; Brooklyn, 8; Phila-
delphia, l; Baltimore, 5; Washington, L.
STEVENS MAY DISBAND.
The Stevens Institute football team
will probably disband. The team is in
a deplorable condition. Barely a player
escaped severe injury in the game with
the Rutgers Giants, and it will be
weeks before they can again get in
shape for play. The team is discouraged
Over its reverse, and at a meeting held
yesterday it was decided to cancel en-
lgagements. Stevens had an excellent
lteam this season, and was confident
of winning nan honors. They did not
ticipate being mercilessly mauled
ID crippled by a team of big fellows
+ te Rutgers pItted against them.
The yale News" in its issue last
lght, declares the faculty will prohibit
ne Thanksgiving Day game, because
a lot of rowdies, arrested for misbe-
havior, claim to be students, and thus
imperil the good name of the university.
Princeton has not received any official
communication from Yale, but Princeton
is determined not to play later than
December 1.