The morning times., 1896-10-26
ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD.
Doings of the Week Abroad and in
Local Circles.

The past week has been by all odds the
most interesting or the football season, both
among the big colleges, and in local football
circles. The biggest kind of IA surprise was
sprung on the football world in the defeat
oftne Universityof Pennsylvania by modest,
unassuming, Lafayette. II came like Il
thunderboiJ to the over-coniidcnt Quakers,
and they are tasting to the full the bit
terDcSs of defeat administered by a col
lege which has hitherto ourn. only . lar
reputation in the football world. Penn
sylvania's game was a miserable one, but
nevertheless all possible credit should be
given To the Lafa yetta team Tor its notable
victory under most adverse circumstances,
Capt WalDrlge, their famous halfback, be-
ing Ill and unable to play. The contest
Will undoubtedly go down as one of the
most memorable games in the history of
football in this country.
The other large colleges had no walkover
in their games with the less famous teams
of the smaller colleges. Yale had a hard
fight to win from the Carlisle Indian
team, the game being by far the hardest
the Blue has pla yed this year.
Harvard only won from Cornell by the
superb kicking of her fullback, Brown; the
Ithacans giving very fine exhibition of
football.
Princeton was the only college of the
Big -Four which succeeded in piling up
good score; State College of Penns ylvania
being defeated
Three games, all OF Considerable local
interest, We're played during the week.
On Friday the PotornaCs went to Hampton,
Va, and met defeat at the hands of the
heavy Hampton Athletic Club. The lat
ter team is probably the strongest ath-
letic eleven anywhere south of Washing
ton. '.Broncho' Armstrong, the famous
Yale halfback and oarsinan, is captain
OF the team, and he has succeeded in
getting strong collection of athletes
together. This team defeated c. A. C.
Ia st fall and is confident of doing 1t again,
but c. A. C. men think otherwise. The
question of supremacy will be decided
next saturday, when the c. A. c. team
goes to Hampton for a game.
The most important game up to the
present was the one between c. A. c..
and the Army Officers team from Fort
Monroe. 1t was the first appearance Of
the C. A. c. eleven, and although the
game resulted in tie score, there is
| small doubt that the Winged Arrow kickers
can defeat the Army men when they meet
at Fort Monroe next Friday. The team
is strong and heavy, but lacks experience
The c. A. c. team will undoubtedly put
up stronger game from now on. Reeve
Lewis, the well-known haIfback, has
been chosen captain, and under his coach
ing the team improves rapidly. The
| number Of candidates, will be about like
this: Gapen, center; Dickinson, left guard;
Saunders, right guard; Rollins, left tackle;
McGow an, right tackle; Curtiss, right
end; Humphreys, left end; Parsons, quar-
| ter; Sins, left half; Maupin, right half;
Lewis, fullback
Central High School journeyed to Alex
| andria last week and met defeat at the
hands of the Episcopal High School The
| heavy line rushes were too much for
The Central boys, although the contest
was in doubt to the finish. Eastern High
School plays the same team next Saturday,
SO very fair idea of the strength of the
two high school teams can be gained by
4 comparison of the results.
The Massachusetts Institute of Tech
noloSy football team has been disbanded.
Lack of interest and scarcity of funds are
! given as the causes.
Phil Draper, the famous Williams Col.
lege- back, is playing fullback Tor Chicago
Athletic Association.