Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-12-06
Yale Men Still Believe Pennsylvania
Has Hired Players.
OSGOOD, WHARTON, GILBERT AND
Knipe Are the Ones Named as
Professionals-Say Gilbertis an
Iron Worker, Introduced Into
the University Only to Play
Foot Ba,lI-Yale Will Not Meet
Pennsylvania-General Sport
ing News.

New HAVEN, December 5.-Now that
the faculty of the University of Pennsyl'
vania have stated that all of the foot ball
players are bona fide students of the Uni
versity, Yale men do not cease to affirm
that their belief is that Osgood, Knipe,
Wharton and Colbert are still in the So
called class of hired players. The case oil
Osgood is an old one. Several years ago
the report reached Yale that Osgood was
coming to Yale University. He failed to
materialize, and turned up at Cornell, and
later at the University of Pennsylvania.
1t is intimated that he could not make
financial arrangements with Yale.
Harmon Graves, of Trinity, who studied
law at Yale has stated several times tnat
he had money offered him 10 attend the
University OF Pennsylvania Law School
instead OF Yale. He came to yale, and
played half back on the '92 eleven.
IL is reported that Colbert was working
in an iron foundry at Scranton, with
scarcely common school education, and
then turned up as a student at the UnlVer-
sity of Pennsylvania. Similar reports are
handed around among the Yale men re-
gardng Knipe and Reese OF last years
Pennsylvania eleven.
Whether these stories are true in whole
or part, or entirely false, there is a uni
versal feeling among al Yale men, be they
graduates or undergraduates, against hav-
ing anything to do with the University OF
Pennsylvania athletes. This feeling, Yale
men think, is Just, and is due largely TO
unfair treatment, which Yale men have re-
ceived at the hands of the Philadelphia
students. Last years foot bali players
have not FORGOTTEN the methods resorted TO
by the University Of Pennsylvania men.
These are matters talked Of, and have made
a lasting impression, and had much 10 do
with the refusal of Yale 10 arrange game
this season.
The scheme Of Hollister to force Captain
Case into third game of base ball TO be
played at Philadelphia is still fresh ia the
minds of Yale athletes, as is also the fact
that the faculty of the Pennsylvania col
lege made its students retract from their
eposition taken at the Yale field, and called
the action of the students little less than
Dlackmalling.
The matter of gate receipts does not en-
ter into the question of playing any game
of foot ball, Tor the sport was supported
largely by voluntary subscriptions when
the college was much smaller than II is
now, and would be again, as the crew is to
large extent ii necessity required II.
INDIGNANT PENNs.
PHILADELPHIA, December 5.-The main
topic of conversation at the University Of
PENNSYLVANIA, is the charge OF profession
alism preferred by Yale. The students
were wild with indignation at this charge,
claiming 1t was done for the purpose Of
diverting attention from the Springfield
game. in which the playing was so rough
as to merit the censure Of the press and
general public, and TO furnish new topic
of discussion, so that the subject Of Yale's
refusal TO play Pennsylvania in order 10
have the championship question settled,
dropped and forgotten, and something else
talked about.
There was some talk of holding an indig-
nation meeting, and one may be held before
the end of the present week. Many stu
dents are also in favor of calling college
meeting for the purpose of formally pro-
claiming Pennsylvania foot ball champion
for 1895.
ANOTHER FOOT BALL PLAYER DEAD.
RICHMOND, KY, December 5-Harry
Goodloe, a student of Central University,
at this place, died here this morning of in
iuries sustained while playing foot bail
He was a son of State Senator John ID.
G6Odloe, Of this county.