The morning times., 1896-09-13
FOOTBALL SEASON IS HERE
New Rules and New Players
on the GridirOn.
GAME WILL BE LESS ROUGH
8y the End OF the Week Nearly All
the Candidates viii Begin Work.
Gossip of the varsity Elevens Who
VIII Soon Enter the Field-Men
Who May Make Regulations.

New York, Sept. 2.-1he experiment VI
GUNNER training for football teams ba'
been found wanting. Good as the theory
seemed, it was found in practice that the
men were apt to get stale after sew
eraI months OF diet and hard exercise
This wear nothing like systematic wori
WAS anywhere attempted before last
week: indeed. nune of the teams except
PENNSYLVANIA have yet got down Ia bust
ness. At first, anywhere from twenty te
thirty men are put in rraining for each
eleven; by the middle OF October the i'm
possibies will he pretty well weedcd olt
OF all the teams and thereafter oniy the
selected players, the trainers, ana ie''
substitutes will feed at the crib
The players and candidates for The Big
Four 'Pennsy" Harvard. Yale ana
Princeton much of Their llsht pre-
limiuary work at Il distance from the COL
legc. bat this does not include the pracuce
of new signs and Signals. In order 10
have few in the secret as possible, These
are never fully developed until The team,
narrowed down to something like its flnaI
size and organization, is practising. on ITS
own grounds.
In aiout Il month the series OF piactlCc
games with teams of smaller colleges
and of the big athletic dubs Will begin.
These contests are looked 10 for hints
upon the condition and prospects of the
clubs. but the former really afford no
test The smaller colleges are apt TO be
crratic in their playing, one day putting
up a terrific game, the next playing list
les>ly: this is due in part no doubt 10 their
less perfect training. As for the big
athletic clubs. their elevens are no cinch
even for the Big Four, for their athletic
committees spare no effort or expense TO
make a good showing ON the grldiron, ana
often have the advantage of the zeal and
the experience Of eX-collcre players en-
rolled III Their clevens.
Stin another element of uncertainty is
introduced into the problem Of picking
winners by the changes in the rules, rs
pecially those designed to break up mass
play and momentary tactics.
No more will il be possible for a flying
wedge of big fellows TO go hulking down
the field 10 make hole in the opposing
line. for some little eel of back 10 slip
through No player can take more than
single step before the ball is put in play
except nnr man moving toward his own
goal The rule forbiddipg five men 10
bunch inside of tackles will discourage
mass plays. while not altogether prevent
ing them The rules regarding interference,
flair CATCH and throwing have all been
made more stringent.
Not to enter into teChnicalities, the
rules are expected to enforce less brutal
game, not so very far removed from
association football. This cha nge will
suit everyone, parents, spectators, col
legc faculties, and even the players them
s<lvcs. An open game is as much finer
spectacle than one wherein mass plays
and iuch- by-inCh driving rule, as stick :
work In baseball is more interesting than
a nonotunous succession of three strikes
and OUT
The University of PENNSYLVANIA was
the first to get in line last week, With
something like thirty players anxious for
a place, at Mecox, L. l., where Trainer
Nike Murphy, who had charge of the
Yalensian athletes until last June, wi.
help Coach Woodruff and pearless George
Brooke TO get the men into condition.
There's a good deal of ill-feeiing be-
tween Peunsylvania and Yale on account
nf Murphy's change ofbase and the charges
of professionalism made against Pcnnsy
last season The Quaker candidates in-
rluae Woodruff orbinson, Warner Megar-
gee. oppenheimer, Farrer, Wharton, Stan
nard. Callahan, Jackson, Minds, Boyle,
toodman, Stearns. Harrison, Hedges. Gel
bert, Dartc. Rucgenberg, De silver. Dunn,
Rice. and Dickson. In Brooke they have |
lost their best man, but there are good |
oncs left. |
10 to .,,,r,
Is a blessing to Pennsylvania. This win |
I've his fourth year i'll the team, and he |
will undoubtedly captain the eleven and |
plry as one of the guards. Other of the |
nId PLAYERS are Dickson and Boyle, ends. |
and Minds and Colbert, backs, all star |
ayers Minds will probably take the |
place of George Brooke as full back. as |
well as he can: but it Will be years be- |
fore another fullback like Brooke is dis |
covered. Minds can punt well and keeps |
his head.
Pennsylvania's season opens early with |
a match at Lancaster with the Franklin
and Marshall team on the Both. After
that they Will play in his order: Colum-
hian University. Bucknell, Carlisle Indian
School. United States Naval Cadets, La
fayettc. Brown State College, Harvard and
Cornell
Candidates for places on Yale's team
cau apply until late this mouth Most
of last years team will play again this
year. however. as FAR as can be seen in-
Guiding Cross and De Witt. If Yale
should meet PENNSYLVANIA there would
he the game Of a lifetime, owing to the
feeling between the two schools. hut this
Is not ISely. The Yale faculty has the
matter under consideration, and Will not
nllow the game unless strongly urged TO
do SO by Walter Camp and Prof. Rich
ards, the advisory committee. Yale viii
meet Princeton Oh Manhattan Field ON
November 81.
Coach Waters and Capt. Wrightington
will have charge of Harvard'S kickcrs and
ike Yale's, their men VIII lie slow about
getting to work. A little go-ds-you- please
work has been done at Newport and Bar
Harbor by some of the men, but the road
team training will be done in Cambridge.
The Harvard L Princeton game will Ia Ike place |
in Cambridge on November =: the game with
Pennsylvania November 81 Harvard will
have TO build team OF almost entirely new
timber, as many OF the old players are now
out of ii, fact which justifies rather
gloomy predictions. Still, football is not
yet an exact science, and Wrightington and
the younger Newell are towers of strength.
Capt. Cochran OF Princeton will put his
sturdy Nassaucrs at work on Monday |
Three great eX- players, cx-Capt. Lea. John
Poe and Alexander Mofratt, Will keep an
rye on the colts in training. There is good
material in plenty. Next to Cochran come
the veterans Riggs, Galley and Rosen-
gartcD, all good men. Then there are A rm- |