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CAMBRIDGE, Sept. 2s.-The formal opening Of
the college year last Thursday gave the arst
| real chance 10 size up the Harvard football ma
| terial. Capt. Emmons called on every able
| bodied man in the university 10 offer his SER
| vices TO the coachers and the result has been a
| large increase in the number Of candidates
| As the new men, however, are for the most
part light and inexperienced, IL is not likely
much varsity timber will be found in 1.-THE lot.
The most discouraging feature in the work Of
the men so far has been the weakness shown for
the centre positions. There are heavy and
strong men in the lot, but with two exceptions
they have not shown the readiness TO compre-
hend what the coaches tell them that Is a char
acteristic OF the born football player. The two
most promising men are Holt and Frank shaw,
but Holt has failed In the requirements for ad-
mission. and his playing on the team is now out
OF the question. He will probably enter ss a
special student and try 20 work into regular
standing before next year. Shaw played on the
freshman team last year. but was rather below
the average of freshman centres. This year he
acts like a new man, and Is playing with a great
deal Of dash and snap. The rest Of the candi-
dates are hardly the sort Of men to meet the
players who will oppose them In the Yale, Penn
sylvania, and Princeton games.
One old Harvard player said this week: "If
Mackie and Waters come out Harvard will
have such team as she never had before. |
Otherwise II is going TO be hard task to make
last year, has been moved in to guard, but he |
has hardly the. weight that the position calls |
tackle He Weighs ovsr % 5000 pounIs wprs spd m psys e
as careful and conscientious game as any man
on the field. Gould, the other tackle, hardly |
looks at present like fixture; He is strong and
Barring accidents, the final choice for the end
men will be Emmons and Arthur Brewer.
nj But Wrenn began playing quarter back on
played for two years, his work was encouraging
everything points TO q fast, snappv game, as the
design Of the coechers, and the man who acts
as snap back will have to be able to his brain
quickly. That is where the friends of the tennis
claim he is going to outstrip the other
ee 9Re ss
now pick to, do the rushing. Among the new
candidates. for back is q brother TO Marshall
~ varsity material
Most of the play so far indicates a return to
Moore says there will probably be no more secret
practice this year than Is required to learn new
'odes & Of signals before the big games.
,alled out last Wednesday. Seventy five men
responded. twenty of whom have had experience
m preparatory school teams. They will be
oached oa ny two old class captains Bancroft ss,
Jim Lathrop began last Thursday to train
men for the freshman and varsity athletic
october. Some forty men have already ap-
omers. On Monday Capt Whittemore will
ght practice until cold weather sets in.
The Harvard Tennis Association has about
hirty new courts on the old Jarvis Field. The q
ent the college at the intercollegiate tourna-
lent at New Haven began last Thursday.
renn VIII, OF course, not play on account OF q