The evening times., 1896-09-07
.MCk, IussLE AND BUSH
Football Season Is Now Well
Under Way in the East.
DEMONSTRATIONS ACTIVE
Teams of Harvard, Yale, Princeton
and Pennsy ivnnia Are Training Hard
for the Coming COntests-Change
of Rules May Make Scoring More
Difficult.

Difficult.
IL may be said that the football SEASON
among the colleges Is under way Thcteams
of Harvard, Princeton, Yale and Pennsyi-
vania are,training a the various points'se-
lectcd by their respective leaders, in prep
aration for the actual pla ying season, while
the teams OF many of theosnallcr colleges
VIII begin work al home or abroad in a wees
or more.
Lafayette, Brown and Cornell wiil-al
take a preliminary fortnight OF trimming
at home, while Lehigh, State, nartmo1th,
Amherst and Williams will cali their men
together for a brief preliminary play. 1t
is likely that the season will develop stron;
er minor teams than last year, for they .Sll
profit greatly by the advancement of the
game at the larger institutions, while it
does not seem likely that many radical de-
partures will be seen at any OF the lag cot
leges.
IN short, we may expect a series OF
close contests as last year, and to SEE the
bigger teams scored ON frequently.
The rules will have a tendency TO de
crease the scoring to any extent. The rule
which will be directly responsible for his
will be- the one which processes for its
object the elimination OF momentum plays.
amatter offact, momcntu um plays have
not been practiced by any team in the
country in the past two ycnrs. The RUE
changes in S9I crfectuall lyeiminated them.
The only effect oftbe rule adopted last year
will be to increase the labor OF the urn
pire, TO increase the number NJ decisions
rendered and TO correspondng'y restrict
the possibilities Of TIC game. .-.,-
PLAYS WILL NOT BE FAST
II was not desirah HE TO; start before the
ban last year any more than ]; was To start
after it. The endeavori ofevcry team WAS
TO start at precisely the same moment. II
any man did start before it was uuintcn-
tional and the result OF overanxicty.
The result is that whena rule PROHIBITS
and penahzes such starting, it puts a hard
ship upon the pla ycrs increases their anxiety
and mental stress and probably retar,ls
their starting considerably. Plays, there
fore, will not be SO fast. and in consequence,
il Will be impossible to score so frequently.
BY increasing the number OF fouls the
power Of the umpire, ir he be unfairly dis
posed, to assist one or other team, is much
increased. The game at Cambridge last
year between Harvard and Pennsylvania
was completely spoiled by just such
rule and such incompetent officials. The
rule was first tried then.
The result was. one team was kept on tile
constant qui vive for fear of starting too
soon Their play was much slower The
ball was taken away from them repeatedly,
and their scoring power further decreases.
nj hann for I'm
the result of the game might have been al
tered.
Tue other change respecting mass plays
vii. affect the game slightly also 1t pro-
vidcs that in the quadrangle formed 10y the
lines on which the ball is, the line five yards
back. and the lines drawn perpendicula rly
TO them through the tackles. there shall he
but five men. twill be impossible to play
six there. as Pennsylvania did last ia u and
her system viii accordingly he altered To
meet the emergency. However, Coach
Woodruff has a new system which win ans
wcr quite as well.
SOAE-OF THE PLAYERS
Penn will have a strong team. She has
six old men back, but very acceptable men
to replace the abseDtcPs. Yale also suffers
from graduation. Murphy, Hinkey nd Bass
are the only line men to return. while
Jerrems viii be the only hack field cand-
date who will be back. Yale, however, has
fund of good material upon which TO draw
and should have a strong team.
Harvard will have but six old men back
like Pennsylvania Wrightington. dunlop
and Beale viii be the back fiel d candidates,
while Norton and Frank Shaw and Cabie
vii! be the line men. Harvam alsc has
another squad OF substitutes who should fill
in well. She has Brown, Moulton, Cocn-,
,rapc, Richardson, Douald. Houghton. Jof-
fray and Holden on whom todraw beside th,.
new men.
Princeton will have. her Old team COM
plete. with the exception OF Capt Lea and
Ward :" Several of the rpep'gra duated, bat
will return TO college. ts.ilcy vii again be
on the field. though he has played two years
at Princeton and four at Lafayette. II.
was graduate OF the theological Seminary
last year, and Princeton has no further
graduases school. Mr. Galley. will not be-
gin again and retake his course. but will
do Y. n. c. A. work which qualities him 10
play Exactl ywhat. desyfs, is to betendered
him is not explained. asN
Cornell, Lafayette ;,syf 1fown kifould each
again have-stFong atnE while State and
the trio of New England colleges expected
strong teams. The Na1ai Cadets and West
Point wipsalso. be ulnsaallG strong.