The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-23
NOTES ABOUT ATHLETICS.

Some of the Candidates for the Football
Team-Captain Thorne and Fred Murphy
Two Old Observation-Disclosures Strong
Man-The Track Team o be Some Base
ball Practice This Fall.
The candidates for Yale's football
team include the few men left from
last years team, most of the members
of last years freshman eleven, but no
new men. They will not be given
chance till after college opens, Thurs
day. 1t is an interesting fact that nine
of the members of last years eleven
graduated from Yale last June, and the
task of putting champion team in
the field this fall is the most colossal of
it's kind that any captain has expert
enced in years. Captain Thorne him
self and Fred Murphy, both veterans
of two years experience, are the old
men who return, one of them line
man. the other a back. Murphy as
tackle, will be relied upon by Captain
Thorne to keep the line steady this
year, while, as full-back, Captain
Thorne himself will do his best to steady
the men behind the line.
Yale's most promising hopes are be-
hind the line. Club Morris, for three
years substitute quarterback has now
a great chance to gain a permanent
| position on the team He has been
| out to the field all the week, and his
| passing the ball has aided the drill Of
Captain Thorne a great deal His only
rival seems to be Clarence Fincke, who
| was substitute last year. Fincke has
been gaining in both height and
| weight, and the chances are that he
will be given a trial as half back, a
| position he always plays well, but not
effectively, owing to his light weight
| Other candidates for the team are
| Clifton Chadwick '97, Jim Rodgers '9S,
P. B. Mills SO, Clarence De Witt '96,
and A. N. Jerrems '97. Chadwick, who
| played tackle last year for Yale after
| Murphy was forced to retire, has been
here to reinforce his claims to a place
at guard. He weighs nearly 1870, and
is stout as an OK. He is one of Yale's
strongest men, and in the strength
| tests in the gymnasium recently beat
| by wide margin the figures made by
Klein and Lane, the Tufts and Am
herst champion strong men, whose mus
| cuFar feats were chronicled widely last
| winter
Fred Murphy has not arrived. and
! IS not looked for till the last of this
week. Louis Hinkey, too, will not come
the opening of college. The best
| line work that has been done by the
| forwards here was by Murray, the big
fellow who played the first half of last
| season as tackle, and Bennett, center
| of the freshman team last fall
Captain Thorne says of the new rules
| adopted by Yale and Princeton: 81
am thoroughly in favor of those adopt
ed by Yale and Princeton. l think that
the old-fashioned game will make the
playing more open, more free from ac-
cidents and plea santer for the specta-
tors and players alike There is prac-
| tically an endless variety of plays pos
| sible under the rules, and I hope Yale
and Princeton will be able to convince
the public of the superiority of the
rules before long"
TRACK TEAM TO ARRIVE THURS
| DAY
The track team candidates who are
now at Travers' Island in training and
| from whom the team to meet the
Cambridge team will be selected are
expected to reach New Haven Thurs
day and will at once go into hard train
ing. The two teams, the English team
and the Yale team, will practice at diff
fereTt hours at the field, so as not to
conflict with each other.
Captain Sam R. Quimby of the Yale
baseball nine arrived here SATURDAY.
and stated that the candidates for Chs
| team would this year do a little fall
practice in order to locate the promis-
ing material in the freshman class
His call will be issued some time this
week and a eoupls of practice games
will be played with mines from this
vicinity. Walter Carter. pitcher Of the
nine for three years. will also arrive this
week and coach the candidates for q
short time. Only Captain Quimby and
Trudeau of last years team will return
to college this year.