The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-28
no YALE-PENNsY CAME
Their Elevens Not Likely to
Meet This Year.
TEAMS ARE ALL AT WORK
Cochran's Injury May Trouble Him
This Year-EM's New Trainer Is
Hustler-What In Being Done
by the Big Teams-Gossip About
New Players.

,oI the grand stand playing" prelimnar
to buckling down to the noble old game a
football.
At the present moment sort OF day-t t.
day council is being held to deterrnin
whether any game VIII be played thi
year between Yale and "Peunsy" Tn
chances are all against such a game an
have been from the start. II it were I
take place it would be a show fit 10
Roman audience, q scrappiug mattel
from first to last, rules or no rules Yal
is angry with Pennsylvania for takin,
away her famous track trainer, Murphy
yet Murphy's successor, Keene Fitzpat
rick, is thoroughly good man who know
all about track and field athletics a,
they are played at Yale-who learned Ia,
trick, in fact, from Murphy himself Mos
trainers are rather JEALOUS OF football, OF
the ground that it breaks up finely TEN
pered men who might otherwise max,
famous athletic specialists, but football
Is such hobby at Yale that Fitzpatrick
is likely to be us energetically devoted Il
the team as Murphy ever was. He re
ported for duty about q week ago, ant
is said to be hard at work.
PAID COLLEGE PLAYERS.
1t Is matter of common gDssip that boil
Fitzpatrick and Murphy get about 81, SOC
a year for their services to Yale, and tia,
Murphy changed his base for big cash
bonus and Pennsylvania respectively; but
the place OF trainer Is worth much NOR,
than the salary. There are perquisites
from special training fees cut OF season
and from gifts; and when the training table
Is running, the trainer has no board bill
topay. So 1t is kind OF enga cement much
sought after by cunning athletes, who Dc
not object to becoming professionals.
Manager Garrison OF the Yalesans, ia,
been on hand fortnight. but his team i,
not finally made up, nor will it be for a
couple of weeks. probably. Yale is never
In hurry about beginning practice, Il
now indeed rather behind the other three
OF the big four, but many OF her men are
experienced and resoiute pia yers and vii
have no trouble in getting into the swing
OF the game. Capt. Murphy to be Cpn
founded with Trainer Murpiy-will prob
ably play a tackle again
NO YALE GAME
There is absolutely no chance of a brush
VI.
ribbon men are now mostly at work. Capt
wrishtipgton and Coach Waters have been
testing number OF heady sprnters for
half. fun and quarter backs. Behind the
line The gaps in the team will be filled
from these men: Beale, Cocbrane, Rich.
ardson. Dunlop. Brown, COzzens, Mills.
Warren and perhaps one or two others.
Young Newell will he in the rush line.
WrightiDgton himself should be back Of IL
but the whole combination will hardly
prove sensational.
In the contest between Harvard and
Pennsylvania. the latter team has the ad.
vantage II advantage IL is. of early prac-
uce at MecoX. L. L., and OF a considerable
number OF experienced hoid-over men from
last years team. Harvard's early re-
fusal 10 give Dartmouth a date is held
by some TO Indicate a team at present
rather weak. but may have quite differ
ent meaning.
PENNY's GOOD TEAM
or the Pennsylvania eleven, Woodruff.
Wharton, Minds. Dickson. Colbert. and
Boyle are all first-rate men and veterans
II Minds plays at fullback, Which is quite
likely, lie will probably be seen in excellent
form: his game as halfback against Cornell
last fall was a fine exhibition OF gility.
Still he is valuable at tackle a nd may be
kept in Ibis old place. The composition Of
the team will soon be publicly shown, for
it begins practice games next week
the first with Lancaster-earlier than any
other of the big four. This will afford a
good test OF the value Of loug training
season.
Capt. Cochran Of Princeton expects to
play, 10 spite OF his broken ribs. but he will
not be the man he was. Even il he feels
perfectly fit and gets into a tot game,
lie may get out Of it again sooner than he
likes, as 1t is hardly conceivable that he
can be in really good condition in time for
the big games. His loss would be a severe
blow to Princeton, and Of course Had
visers who care more for the glory Of the
college than. the welfare Of any one man,
will urge him into games whether he is in
good condition or not. But what a splendid
galaxy OF players Princeton has sa we'd from
its last years team! She looks almost
strong enough TO lose Cochran and still give
Yale plenty OF exercise.
y .s- ODDS ARE ON YALE.
As bet ween the big four, the Yale-Prince-
ton game should be the better OF the two
big matches, with the odds perhaps shade
better on Yale Harvard and Pennsylvania
present more uncertainty, but it will no,
be strange it the long practice and strong
team OF the Pennslvan.ans put them ahead
when time is called. But it Is all guess
work.
H,r to hax Poo ff<,s. f.,r
every college man who has ever pla ycd it.
Brooke, Trafford, Deland, Lea, Poe Hoffat
and other great generals OF the field will
assist in coaching their respective teams
this year. These men do not sacrifice
their sta nding as amateurs by so doing, as
they receive no reward except gratitude.
1t is different, Of course, when an ex-
member OF a famous team travels 5000
miles to coach another college, as Cross
has done. This famous Yale man. six feet
three inches high and weighing 81 8 pounds,
is to train the team Of Stanford University,
Cross is already on the ground,
The rivalry between Stanford and the
University OF California is intense.
Then there are the exreollege men who
join the big athletic clubs In the cities;
they almost always turn up on the field,
as Phil King, the ex-Princeton star. does
this fall in the team OF the Crescent a.
c., which he is to captain. A movement
Is in progress in several OF the prominent
athletic clubs about New York to check
the employment OF semi-professional track
athletcs and football players. 1t IS a
movement which deserves every measure
of success.
- HARD TIMES AFFECT IT.
1T was said last fall that one athletic
club spent $12 900 on its '' amateur''aps
Ball players and then for some reason
failed to send them up against the especial
rival whose scalp was coveted.
. won't saw that the hard times may