The Portland daily press., 1896-10-02
NOW FOR FOOTBALL.
The Portland High School Teams Pros
poets and the Work 1t Is Doing.

Mr.. Charles Mccarthy of Brown Uni
versity, the new coach for the p. H. S.
foot ball team is rapidly whipping the
candidates for the school eleven into
some kind of shape. Yesterday after
noon, and for every afternoon this week
for that matter, Mr.. Mccarthy has been
out to the Deering baseball grounds
and has given the boys two hours of
hard work. Mr.. Mccarthy believes that
the Portland High school will have as
good team as 1t had last year after a
few weeks of hard work, but it will be
lighter team and will have to depend
more on it's brains and less on it's beef
which the new coach is struggling is
very light, but the boys all have a good
knowledge of the game and are working
hard to perfect themselves for the com.
ing battles with the other school team
of the state. There Will probably be
about half of the old team oil this years
eleven including several of the best
men. Capt. Devine will play one of tho
ends and possibly one of the other old
men will take the other end, althou oh
no definite assignment to team posit-
ions has yet been made The tack les
will perhaps be men from last years.
eleven, and Underwood will continue In
thesposition OF full back and on him the
tenn depends much for its success this
season. For the two halfbacks and the
quarter there is no lack of good mate
rial, but in the centre and the two
guards the team is very weak az yet.
Unless some one is found to fill these
positions in the way they should be filed,
Portland will find the seasons work
very uphill and difficult. 1t is hoped
that some of the men of last years. team
who did so much for our SUCCESS last
year may be put in to fill these vaoan-
clea. but unlcss this is done Capt. Deyine
and the coach will make the best of
what they can got and trust to the
strength Of the ends, tackles and men
behind the line to do the work.
Mr.. Mccarthy, the oonch, is an all
round good foot ball player, but chiefly
distinguished himself on the Brown
eleven in the position of full back. He
believes In the kicking game SO much
used by Yale and Brown in winning
their games and is accordingly giving
the High school team half an hours
practice every day in punting and
coaching. The new coach's methods of
instruction are of the kind that will
bear good fruit before the season is over.
He gets out into the field with the team
every day in uniform and plays in al
most every position on the eleven in
order to show the boys how to do their
work. A second eleven is usually on
the field and is used to give the first
eleven stiff practice game. As none of
the first eleven positions, excepting those
Of Devine and Underwood, in end and
fullbaok, respectively, have been fully
decided upon. all of the second eleven
are working hard to make the team
and 1t Is very probable that some of
them will do it if they keep up the
same gait they are now showing.
The team was to have played a game
OH Saturday afternoon with the Deerina
High school eleven, but this has been
called off and no team has been sci eotsd
for the date as yet. The Deering grounds
will be put in first class shape this sea-
son for the sport. The goals were put
up yesterday afternoon and the grid
irons marked out. A strong fence is to
be placed around the edge of the field
to keep the crowd off the field and this
will be found to be great improvem ent
over the old condition of things when
with a rope stretched around the field
the crowd was constantly pushing out
on to the field and interfering with the
game.
Mr.. MCCARTHY says he has seldom been
in town where more foot ball enthu-
siasm is manifested than is to be found
here in Portland.