The evening times., 1895-11-13
Is THE SPORT
Growing Interest in the Game
Among the Universities.
Old-Time Champions VIII Have TO
Lower Their COlOrS to Their
Smaller Rivals.

New York, Nov. 13.-Small scores and
hard football sums up the result or last
weeks effort by the players on the gridiron
field. The further the season advances the
more is it demonstrated that there are
many competitors in the racefor first honors.
In the October games the even showing of
the first aud second class teams was at
tributed to the fact that the former were
contenting themselves with mastering the
rudineuts, while the latter We're using the
more advanced methods OF strategy, which
bring fair results quickly, but never alone
attain the highest possibility OF the game.
No such explanation is any longer plausi-
BILE, however. for only two weeks remain to
the close of the season, and the rudiincnts
ought 10 be completely in hand by this time,
and so thoroughly understood as to render
unavailing any trick plays. And, further
more the teams who gave the Older univer-
sites their hands full on Saturday did 1t
for the most part BY straight old fashioned
football.
There is but one conclusion left. The
game rs becoming more and more the game
of every college and athletic club, and 1t
can be only n matter o II year or Two before
We will see the old time champions lower
ing their colors in defeat to their smaller
rivals From time to time there Will come
a game in which Yale, Harvard, Princeton
ana Pennsylvania will lose to some outsider.
but in general they ought to stand in II
higher class than the others for many years.
There can be no question but that the
athletic clubs under their present man
agements will soon be prime factors In
this, their latest branch OF sport.
Five years ago the Crescent team stood
almost unrivailed among the clubs. Now
Orange. Chicago, and boston dispute the
title with them, and many are coming up
rapidly. With the custom now III vogue
of collecting the graduate players from
the big univ ersity team and p'a yinS
them under the club colors, it can be only Il
question of time before these graduates
will prove too much for their young sue
ccssors.
No, only are the majority of club players
university team men, but they are men VINO
were stars on their alma mater fields. Brlhg
together some thirty or forty such men
and train them with care and science
and they are bound to make an eleven
that no underg raduate team can meet
on an equal footing. To impartial out
siders this condition of affafrs is deplcrabic.
The line must he drawn some where very
sharply or else the bright prospects of club
football must come To naught.
1t was announced last night at Cam
bridge that Capt. Arthur Brewer, or the
Harvard foot ball team, cannot play in the
ylvania game on the Sat
urday before Thanksgiving. This is be-
cause the faculty has been Obliged 10 place
nIm on probaiion, he being sadly behind
i'll his studies.
He has Gevoted SO much time 10 the In
terests OF the team this season that lie
has been unable TO keep up win hls
classes. 1t VIII be impossible for him to
IL lN.NfD haA
football season closes.
The Harvard players have begun their
last two weeks of work before the Penn
syIvania game, and a hard tussle Ii viii
he 10 get into shape. Several of the men are
slightly i'll. and worst OF them all is Frank
Shaw, who was badly banged up in the
Michigan game. If lie cannot regain his
strength his place VIII be taken by Doucctt.
as the latter is in prime condition and able
to stand all the punching center man is
likely TO get. Cabot was not badly IN
jurcd in Saturdays game, and he was out
again today as usual.
Marshall Newell, the Cornell coach. will
De with the Crimson eleven the rest OF the
season and will assist Mr.. Deland and
other men III getting Harvard into shape.
He will begin with the tackles, hut he will
have hard work in getting them to play in
decent form. as these two players in Har-
wards line are weak at present. Hallnwell.
al left tackle, is in miserable form. AMI Ste
vcnson, his understudy. has bad faults to
get rid OF. Donald, on the other side Of the
line. is not playing varsity form, and is
slow IN some particulars
The game with the b. A. A. tomorrow
will ne the event of the week. There VIII
be all immense crowd at the game, for Bos-
ton A. A has fought Yale to Il stapIstin.
and the game with Harvard will be about
he only way in which to compare the
relative merits OF the two college elcvcns.
The Princeton Varsity football players
will be ruuuircdt to report for regula prao tice
today. and the hardest kind of work will
then begin, in preparation for the contest
with Yale, on November 90.
Since Saturday the men have been given
a rest, after the hard games against Har-
tvard and Cornell. Dir. Bovi;frd decided
that the physical condition of the players
was too low for continued hard work. and
the mana cement decided upon sending the
entire team to the Delaware Water Gap.
This plan was nipped in The bud. however.
for the faculty would not consent To the alb
sence of the men from their college duties.
Capt. Lea therefore sent the men home over
Sunday, and n few went on their personal
responsibility to the Delaware Water Gap.
These were Poe, Church, Rhodes, Riggs,
Baird, Armstrong and Lea. All thescr men
returned last night and are much benefited
by their change OF air.
The other men have rested either at
their homes or at college, and all are ready
to get down to hard work again.
Capt. Lea is the only man who will
be unable to go into practice, and ii seems
very doubtful il he will be in the game
again this year. Gaily has broken nuse,
but will line up at his position today.
The students OF Yale are becoming some
what desperate over their football team.
Never before in the history of football at
Yale have SO many spectators tbronged to
thepracticeevery afternoon. Capt. Thorne's
plan OF opening the gates after the first
half of the practice has been gone through
in private has met with great favor. and
every afternoon about four-fifth CT the
students in the entire university turn out
togive the team encouragement.
The students are worried over Yales
chances and are eager to do everything
they can to help the players along. The
coachcrs seem To have lost considerable
of the faith they had In the team during
the past few days. They now base Yales
prospects On the fact that she has more
room for Improvement than Princeton and
SO ought to be in better condition by the
23d. DR.. Josh" Hartwell said last evening:
"Yale's chances for victory depend en-
tirely On the improvement she makes be-
fore she meets Princeton. She certainly has
more room to improve, for she has no re2ch
ell her maximum as yet. For this reason
Yale ought to have good chance TO win"
John Greenway, Yale's end rush for the
past three years, returned from AndOver.
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