The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-10-11
BROWN FOOTBALL.
sharp Competition Among Candidates
for Pos tions on the Eleven.

Every effort has oeen put forth during the
past week 70 develop a strong team at Brown.
The men have been trained faithfully on the
signals and all the individual weak points
have been remedied as far as possible. The
condition OF the team during the season VIII
depend much on the individual training ana
care that each man gives himself. The train
ing table has been much bettor than IN former
years. and the men seem 20 express general
satisfaction about ~. The training 1000 IN
previous years has been rather poor ana mas
been considered one Of the weak points.
There have been enough men out every after,
noon 70 have two quite strong eievens nnea i
X up against each other Even at this period or
the practice IL IL not ut all sure VINO viii
make the positions Of the team. and indeed,
il Is very doubtful who VIII make wat quarter haSs
been practirlng there and IL ~ rather dlinoult
10 choose among them. as each have dinerent
strong spa and weal ta uh rest for week or two
His work at quarter has been very commend
able. also has Owens. 80
Captain Mott has been very cautious with
his men during the season. and as soon as
they were all under the weather in any way
he has released them for few DAYS: FOR
the last few days Matteson. who Is suffering
with a weak ankle, and Thayer, who has a
bad muscle bruise on bis leg, have been rest
ing. Murphy, Chase. Mccarthy and Coombs
are recuperating themselves before the games
again begin. J G. Chase. who has been play.
ing full-back on the second eleven, has bad
muscle bruise on his leg ana VIII rest few
days.
In all probability before the Harvard game
| on Oct 10 there will be ~ strong payers In
hrst-class condition. The following men are
| Dennison, Chase, Murphy. and Matteson.
| Maiteson and Dennison are the last year ends.
rapidly. He played end in the Yale game and
| did himself great credit. He Is steady,
| plucky, follows the ball well and tackles
besides Captain Mott are Emory and Casey.
! Emory will probably I'LL his old position.
Casey is n new man and has not the experi
| H. g. IL Arnft
| Thayer and Dyer. The former two are prac-
! tieally sure OF their position, both OF them
being larger. stronger and more experienced
tVae tween % 6oombs al and wbeeier. Probably il the
former practices faithfully no will fill bis old
| position. The candidates for ouarter-bacik
| have been mentioned previously in this
article. For half the candidates are
| Robinson. Hall, Gammons, Colby, Watson
and Ealtz Robinson win play isf, hsfSs9s bal r,sS,
| half. Fultz is probably the best all around
player. he is pluclSy runner, assure tackler
ence as sub-back Mccarthy will play full
| back These are by no means all OF the candi-
dates. but they are most of the promising
| ones.
Captain Mott and Coach Moyie have devel.
| oped number OF new men for each position.
| They have also bettered the practice 10y put.
ting men Of nearly equal strength against
Manager Murdoch has finally completed the
schedule. which is as follows: Oct. ~ Brown
vs.. Tufts at Providence; Oct. ~ Brown va
Harvard at Cambridge Oct %, Brown vs.
NJ. !. T. at Boston; Oct. 20, Brown vs.: Lehigf
at Providence: Oct. 30, Brown vs. Pennsyl
vania at PHILADELPHIA; Nov. 2. Brown vs.
Boston University at ProvIdence Nov, 9
Brown VS.. Wesleyan at Providence; Nov.
Brown vs. Yale at Providence; Nov. lS, Brown
vs. NJ. I. T. at Providence: Nov. l6 Brown vs.
| Cornell at Ithaca; Nov 20. Brown W.. Bow
doin at Providence; Nov. 28, Brown W.. West
Point at West Point: Nov. 2S Brown VS. Dart
mouth at Providence.
BY the schedule 10 will be seen that the mex
game &C mes tomorrow with Tufts on Lincolr
Field. The Tufts eleven have not as strong :
team as in somo previous years. Neverthe
less. they ought TO make an interesting
match TO watch.