Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-12
Plans for Foot Ball Here This
Season.
C. A. C. Will HAVE A SGROkG TEAM
The Crients Are Expected to Line
Up in Force.
AMONG THE HIGH SCHOOLS

AS a result of the new life and energy in
fused into the Columbia Athletic Club, and
also on az count of the improved financial
condition of the club, it has been formally
decided to place a foot ball eleven on the
gridircn this season. A meeting was held
Wednesday evening, at which a gratifying
interest was shown in this branch of ath-
letics by number of members, there be-
ing present all of last years second team
and some of the memt ers of the first.
Thursday evening foot ball unif orms were
donned, and the prospective candidates
practiced falling on the ball, and also run
ming with it. The team which will result
from these efforts will not, however, he as
strong or as beefy as the one which wore
the winged arrow asst Thanksgiving day;
but, Notwithstanding this fact Washington
will be Treated to some fine exhibitions of
foot ball. ard, above ALL will not be de-
prived of her annual Thanksgiving day
game.
No arrangements have been made as yet
toward finding an opponent for this latter
that no manager has been appointed. The
gentleman who will act in this capacity
VIII probably be Mr.. Townley A. Mckee,
clerk of the club. MIR. Mckee won an en- :
viable reputation from the way he handled
the immense crowd last season, and there
is in fact. nobody belonging to the club
better qualified to fill the position than he
Is. With the question of manager disposed
of. the next position in order is that of
captain of the eleven. AS in the case OF
the manager. the captain will, no doubt, be
the same as the one of 1S3i-Capt. Lewis
s. Wells, jr. In forming the team 1t was
understood that no expenses were to be in
CURED, such as hiring grounds for the sea-
son and securing the services of coach,
and providing training table, and with
the exception Of obtaining a few necessary
lncidentals this plan will be strictly adj
hered to. All the games. except possibly
the big one, will be played on Columbia
Field. The goal posts and the lines have
already been marked out there
Mnkc-Up of the Team.
Just who will compose the team has not
been fully decided upon, but some positio
are, however, about settled. Capt. Wells is
expected to fill his old position as tackle
Stuart johnson will be seen running with
the pigskin in his old love-half back
Johnny Shields has definitely decided to &C
cept the offer of the Orange Athletic Club,
and 50 full back will be vacant in a way.
If, however, as good a substitute could be
who will fill Shields shoes, there would be
very little trouble in completing the per-
sonnet Of the eleven. c. C. Clark, last
years captain and full back of the second
team and one of the best players in WASH
ington. is booked for full. Gapen is ex-
pected to show up at center and possibly
Beiknap as guard. The latter man
broke couple Of ribs last year early III
the season and was thus prevented from
playing, otherwise he would have been a
likely candidate for guard at the Thanks
giving day game. Stuart Johnson has his
eye on several good men for other Places in
the line who are said to possess good dead
of weight, and with these and the whole
scrub to choose from Capt Wells should
nave no difficulty in securing plenty of
available men. The probability is that
t,ac ENl, II, L,ll
in the person of Harris, captain of last
years Maryland Agricultural College ag-
gresation. Harris has had a good deal of
experience at the game and is pretty GER
tain of getting place. strong factor in
organizing foot ball at the c. A. C. Is the
presence of the local championship foot
ball cup in the rooms of the club. 1t would
have had to go by default this season al
most certainly had there been no team, and
may possibly, anyhow, if a certain organi-
cation now collecting material for an eleven
succeeds in its present plans. Though the
season has nearly reached active work, it
Is expected that the C. y. c. management
will arrange to play several games in
Washington with some of the big colleges.
The Orient Team.
The organization just referred to is the
Orient Athletic Club of Capitol Hill. The
Orents for the past year or two have been
purely a social club, though there have
been two or three feeble attempts in the
athletic line, which never got any farther
than the attempt stage" One reason why
the Orients have not had foot ball team
of late to amount to anything is because
there has been no good person to act as
captain. Thomas a. Alton, we'll known as
the captain and quarter back of the
champion Eastern High School team of
1892, is to be the man for the position. Mr..
Alton attended Princeton last year, but is
now a student at the Columbian Law
School In addition to being a thoroughly
experienced player he has the valuable
quality in captain of being able to en-
force strict discipline among his men. He
is expected to play at quarter. Frank Geog
hogan. the tennis crack, and every bit as
good as j ohm Shields at the punt, will act
as full back. In the game played between
the Eastern and Central High Schools in
1872, in which the former won, Geoghegan
performed a feat seldom seen, namely,
drop-kicking the ball. with the result of
two goals, from the field. Two other East
ern men of former years, Avis and Buck
ingham. are also booked for their old
places-Avis at half back and Buckingham
at end. Brock is the other half, and has
played on both Y. NJ. c. A. and c. A C.
teams. The Hilton brothers are trying,
one for center and the other for guard.
Brown and Erkley are the men for the
tackles. Bright for the other guard, while
it is a toss up between Jean Gooding and
Compton for the other end. OF course, none
of the positions are definitely settled upon,
but those at the helm think that the per-
given. If carried out the eleven will aver
age between 100 and 1G5 pounds and ac-
cording to Full Back Geoghegan, there is
a strong likelihood Of the O. A. c. challeng-
ing the c. A. c." Practice has so far been
INDUCED in back of Lincoln Park, but it is
the hope of the management to secure the
old Capitol Park.
High School Teams.
The game played in the High schools
should possess more interest this year than
last fer the reason that the annual cham
pionsl ip of the High schools is to be played
this year, after an. interval of one season,
between the Centrals and the Easterns,
they having the best teams. from present
prospects, of the four schools Last year
the Easterns put up a scientific game but
they were too light to cope successfully
with the heavier elevens. This year the
case is different, and the Centrals and the
Easterns are about equal in the latter of
weight, with possibly the latter having n
shade the advantage. For the Capitol Hill
people, Miller is by all odds their heaviest
man. Miller has 210 pounds to his credit
in active training and has his weight well
distributed ever his body. He will prove
at right guard veritable rock for any man
who tries to get through him. Mckenzie
the other 81 ard, is up in the air to the
extent of six feet two, but only has a hun
dred and sixty odd to his credit MeigS the