The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-09-26
The Game is Taking a
Strong Hold On the
Local Athletes.
COLLEGE TEAMS PREPARING
Tommy White Fights Dixon to a
~Draw-Banging the Maple
on the Alley-Tomor-
rows Ball Game.

VIII White, LETT tackle; Henry Bright, left
guard; win Mason, centre; George Irvine,
right guard; Ben Andrews. right tackle;
Ernest Warren, right end: Philip Harri-
SON, quarterback; Andy Ellison, left half
back; Mervine Thompson, right half
back; George Earl. fullback. The man
ager of the team and captain will be
Ernest Warren. The players are prac-
formerly of Seton Hall.
The Rivertons and the Clovers of
Staten Island will play off their game
this afternoon on the st. George Cricket
| Ground. Hoboken.
Hasbrouck Institute players are doing
some lively practice on the institute
ground at the foot Of Duncan avenue
The team viii be more formidable than
| ever this year. They have booked a
number of games with strong out-of-
town teams and will meet the most prom
inent school elevens in this vicinity. One
Of their hardest games will be with the
Hoboken High School
Stevens Institute, after one seasons
idleness In football, will be represented
by an eleven this year which the mem
bers rely upon TO do some good work on
the. gridiron. The team has arranged
games with the Rutgers College. Lafay-
cite. Lehigh, Elizabeth Athletic Club and
others of Importance in football work in
this vicinity.
The New Jersey Athletic Club expects
to present a strong defensive line IN their
games this season and the men are fast
rounding into shape for the first game,
which will be played next week on the
ground at Bergen Point.
The Mayhowers will make a hard scrim-
mage for the championship among the
local ~elevens this fall and are ready to
arrange m with the Madisons. Clare
monts. Marions, Byrnes, or other cams
whose members are under II years of
age. TIL line up VIII be:-Jones, left end;
Wright. left tackle; Simpson, left guard;
Thomas, centre: Baldwin, right guard;
Morse. right tackle; williams. right end:
Hart, right ~half-back; Ennis, left half
back; Norris, quarterback; G. Simpson,
be tested by a game with the Unions on
the Central ground tomorrow.
The Nabob Athletic Club has developed
| several very clever players on their team.
which Is practicing steadily. and are be-
coming perfected in signals and the more
important points in the game. Charles
Kelly has been ELECTED captain and he
has selected these men for his line up
Williams, left end; Norton, left tackle;
F~itzhenry, left guard; Mcdonald. centre;
Giligan, right guard, O'Dea, right tacklei
Lynch, right end Cooper. quarterback;
Kelly, left half-back; Corridor, right half
back, and McCabe, full back. All teams
averaging 15 pounds should communicate
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1G4 Newark avenue.
Yesterday afternoon on The Belmont
avenue ground the Jewetts wen their
first game of the season by scoring three
touch down against the Fairmounts in
one half of a half hour The touch
downs We're made by Charles Lopez, 2
and Frank Donaldson.
The Claremont Athletic Club have placed
a team in the field which will be made
up Of the material that composed their
baseball team and did such good work
on the diamond. The team is getting in
proper snaps and will have some hard
games before the season ends. Their
principal games will be with St. Mays
Institute, whom they Will play November
3 in the morning and the cyclones of
Newark in the afternoon. On November
26 the Claremonts viii line up with st.
Peters School in the morning and would
like to arrange a game for the after
noon. The players and positions will be-
Ponder, right end; Bouker, right tackle;
Ertle, right guard; Woods, centre, OCon-
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Schriefer, left end; Ryon. Quarterback;
Handley. left half-back; Smith. right half
back; Gornlley, fun back. George Bond
of No. IA Belmont avenue is the man
ager Of the team and win arrange games
with all teams averaging 10 pounds.
Yale's football schedule has not been
completed by Manager Garrison, but the
remaining games Will not be decided on
Until much later in the season. The
games thus fac- scheduled are September
g. Trinity, at Hartford; 9, Amherst, at
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Haven; 10. Orange "A. G.. at Orange; a,
Williams, at New Haven; IL. Dartmouth,
at New Haven; q, Wesleyan, at New
Havens "a, Carlisle Indian School. at New
York: 81. West Point. at West Point;
November 3, e. A. A., at New Haven:
2 Brown, at Providence; q, Princeton,
at New York.
The Junior Football League, of Union
county, which is composed of the elevens
representing the Y. M. G. A. Of Elizabeth.
the Roselle Football Club. the Crawford
&. A.. have arranged the following !
schedule:-October 10, Elizabeth at Cram
ford and Roselle al Westaeld; October
II. Elizabeth at Westneld and Crawford
al Roselle. October "a. Westfeld at Gram
ford and Roselle at Elizabeth; October
81, Westfield at Elizabeth and Roselle at
Crawford; November 5. Crawford at West
field and Elizabeth at Roselle; November
Z. Crawford at Elizabeth and Westdeld at
Roselle.
that of the Kniekerbocker Field Club.
This Is reaily a new team, only playing
one game last season. Its scehude is
nearly completed and is composed of
first class teams only. It practises Mon
day. Wednesday and Friday evenings
every week under the tutorshlp of Alex.
Kelly, and from its practice work appears
able to go against the best teams. There
are about thirty men trying for positions
on the team, including some well known
players, viz.:-Bierwifff of N. Y. u; Top
ping. Terwilliger.E Graf, Evans, and Trier,
of c. c. N. K. Kriezer and McKeily, Of
Jasper, Hughes of Fordham, II. Reeder.
of Lafayette. Krager and %. Reeder of
Blair Hall, German and Mulcahy Sof
Fordham. Fowler and Bankey OF N. ".
u, WEIGH Of Georgetown. Barry of B. NJ.
S., Waliing of Xavier. and a few others.
Captain Cochran started his football
players working in earliest yesterday, when
he picked out the varsity eleven and lined
them up against q scrub team. The
varsity makeup was:~Galley. centre;
Armstrong;, right guard Edwards. left
guard; Tyler, right tackle, Church, left
tackle;- Cochran, right end: Thompson.
left end; Smith. quarter back: Rosengar-
backs Wheeler. full back. The work OF
the new men in Che first lineup was
closely watched by the coaehers. Wheeler
put up a fine game at full back. He Isl
a strong punter and hits the line with /
lots Of Vigor. He will prove a hard man
for Baird TO beat out. The other new
men who played were Edwards at left
guard and Swartz at right half back.
Both did fairly well. Crowds played at
centre on the scrub. Sutor at quarter, and
Holt at guard.