The morning times., 1896-10-19
FOOTBALL TEAMS ARE IDLE
But Two Games of Interest
Played Last Week.
AGRICULTURALS' FINE WORK
Local Elevens win Have Their Hands
Full To Hold 4 hem Down II I'm prove
m-nt Cuu,inues-C. A. Z. .Canuidate.s
neutrality-suspicious. of Inter High
Scnuoi GI.a t',unsnip SERIES.

There has been little Work of import
ance during the Iasu week in local ioo'-
bail uIcies. Ony Two games OF niuch
Interest were play ed. ON Wednesday Ihe
-..u>-.-ns uc.ua,ou ..e Eis.efn .si6h s.hooi'
and Saturday Maryland Agricultural Col
Iege pIiyeu a tie rtAne Win Kendall.
.,., ,.u,,., .,t.ty vas he besu JuuL has
been tlayed TINS season, and was chiefly
ui Inuercsu us ueulous, rating the RAPID ih,-
pIuy elrnv OF lie Agricultural eleven. lhis
team VIII lie seen III several games here
| nuAU n.uu,n, anu II the ln-pio\einciit CON-
| Times, I'M. local cIeyeus Will have plenty
| 10 90 IN nuiu,ng them DOWN.
tlu,.,,h N.i,nNIiIr Lewis IS one OF TIE
| best aIi-aiouna IlaScrs III Tins Vltlmly ana
| MS wurk Is Conspicuous III every game
| ne ylaS>. Al Lrrt, tne Weii-knomn Y. A.
| e. .na, is coaching the Maryland boys
| and their oorlinucd Improvement, i'll team
| work especially, is assured.
C.,ANUIDATES PRACTICING.
The c. a. c. candidates are practlcing
| regularly under tnc direction OF Capl.
Mvns, but holding ueiIIn.c can tie saId
as yet VIII icsaiu 20 the personnel OF
the team. The ,raining table Will not
| be started un,ii November and the best
men Will hardly .un.n.cnce active practice
,,.ulc OF .,4,o n,un,iI. Inc l.usJ
promising new man who has appeared
III practlce is Curllss, an old Swar.nmore
end. He is good aii-around athlete,
| naNinS MON Tie interchangeable Lole NauIu-
ing championship some years ago. He is
sure To he seen at one of the ends.
Fred Sims, the weIl-knuwn ticS clIst, and
another old SWarlhuIorc player, IS lrelty
sure ol a place on the team cl.ner ut tackle
or hall lack. Jonn 'SiIIIIus, heeve Lewis,
Frank and Adam johnson, '.Tubby'' Dick
"a, lt A
thelr football logs ana commence work
preparatory 10 Tie University OF Virginia
| game, Which viii come OFF early in Noyem-
| ber.
game has been arranged for next sat
| urday with IA team composed of Army OIL
| fcefs stationed at Fort Monroe. This game
| WILL be more in the nature of a social
| event, although the soldiers are said 10
have pretty far team. The game Will
he playeu mere and VIII doubtless attract
Il large crowd, as brass buttons and sivIl-
der straps are always popular.
The henc alls We're unfortunate in hav-
ing their reliable quarterback, Rosson,
| Injured in tie game with Eastern High
School. He was hurt in u scrimmage carly
| III the game, but continued to play until
| the end. After the game it was round
that one OF hns lower ribs had been rrac-
| tured The injury is not bad one, how
| ever, and he VIII doubtless resume praC-
| tee about the end or the week. The
| hardest game Kendall Will have this year
| is the one which will he played with Uni
| versty of Virginia, at Charlottesville, next
| week
the Potomacs are some what behind in
their practice, but preparatory work for
the game with Hampton Athletic As
sociation, at Hampton, Va, on Thursday
| next. VIII commence tomorrow. Manager
| Schell is an old football man. and his team
| is going to be good one, he says. Sew
| eral other games have been arranged with
| out-oftown teams.
lNTER-HIGH SCHOOL SERIES.
meeting of the various high school
| football representatives will be held Tues
| day to arrange schedule of games for the
| Inter-hign school championship series. The
team of Columbian College will play seq
| eral games with the high school elevens
| before the championship series starts.
The first game in the series of the inter
| class teams of Georgetown College will be
| played next Sunday between the classes
| of '99 and 1900. other games will follow
at the rate of two a week, the final gam
being play early in November.
| IL as very likely that lovers of the game
will have the rare treat of seeing Yale,
| Harvard and Cornell play here during
| the early part OF November. These teams
| VIII take southern tour, and negotia
| tions for games are in progress with the
| managers of the c. A. C.'s. 1t is TO he
hoped that the games will be arranged, as
the local patrons of tie sport are very
anxious to sch the big teams play.