The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-11
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A Memorable SoasOn.


Brooks-Flanigan; linesmen. Peck-Wilson;
touchdown, Zang; goal Decker.
A Memorable Soason.
The foot ball season of 1895 will long
be memorable one in Scranton sporting
circles, as being the first season to fur
nish a winning foot ball team. Scran-
tons excellent showing against such
teams as Elmira and the University Of
Syracuse, gave the team great conf
dence in itself and the manner in which
Shamokin, LenIgh and Wyoming Semi
nary were taken into camp, shows that
the team has not overestimated its abil-
ity to play hard game from the begin
ming to the finish. 1t is fact, much re-
GREETED by the players, that they have
not been able to put the regular team
in the field, on the home grounds. This
Is due to the number of men that were
hurt in the Shamokin and first Semi
nary games and the lack of substitutes
to take the crippled players places,
makes 1t very difficult matter to line
the team UP in a manner conducive of
the best interference.
Owens, left end, has been playing at
left halfback, Ruddy taxing his place
on the end; and as Owens is an excep-
tional strong end and only fair back,
this naturally weakens the team to a
certain extent on that SIDE.
The next game to be played Is with
the Elmira A. A. and as the team will
expected that the cripples will be in
expected that the crippies will bein
shape and that the team will have Its
strongest eleven men on the field, to
combat with the long-haired kickers
from New York state. This will be the
game or the season. and will we'll be
worth the price of admission, which
will be slightly advanced owing to
bringing this team here.
They Played Fine Game.
1t will be remembered that this Is the
team with which the Bicycle boys
played tie game, early in the season,
neither team succeeding In carrying the
ball across their opponents goal. On
November Elmira played the same
kind of game with the strong Orange
Athletic team, team which scored IL
points against Yale. defeated Lehigh
and held Princeton down to zero. From
this 1t may be seen that Elmira A. A.
would naturally be in the same class
with the larger Varsity teams, and
using the same parity of reasoning the
Scranton Bicycle club would not fall
short Of giving all these teams a hard
game.
When the teams line up for the Ell
mira game there will be a noticeable
difference in the makeup of the eleven
and 1t is hoped that the new combina-
tion will be great benefit to the team.
Connolly, new hundred and ninty-
flve-pound man, will take Zangs place
at right guard, who will be transferred
either to half or full back. Owens will
play his regular place on the end, and
Thayer, providing his leg is better,
will play back of the line. This ought
to make the strongest team that can be
gathered together in the city.
A Change Made Necessary.
The team has gradually been grow
ing stale and this change has been
found necessary, owing to the fact that
SO many of the men playing back of
line have become used up in the last
few games. A noticeable fact In last
Saturdays game was that Decker,
Owens, COnnery and P0sner, to whose
lot It had fallen to advance the ball
in the last four games, were out of
condition, and unfit to play in the
ranRement the most Of the work will
devolve upon zang. Coggins, Allen and
Thayer, men who have had o compar-
itively easy time for the past month,
and who are in no wise stiff and sore.
This will not weaken the line any as
Connolly is big, strong fellow, willing
and anxious to do his share of the
work.. while back Of the line, Zang's
additional weight will do much to
strengthen the interference, which of
late has become rather ragged.
Noakes, Scranton's wonderful punt
er, will, no doubt, play In the games
as his kicks Of fifty and sixty yards are
Indispensable. and should game turn
into kicking match between the full
backs, his absence would be sorely
felt. Walsh at quarter back Is fix
ture, and unless some accident hap
pens to this young player, he will be
found behind Cleveland, for the rest
Of the season, and especially will these
last two men be needed in the Elmira
game on Nov. 20. as the team will have
to play the snappiest kind of game
to hold this team from scoring There
Is not q weak place on the line at pres
sent, and with the ten days practice
before meeting Elmira, the team ought
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