Omaha daily bee., 1897-03-21

The attention of Speaker Gaffn OF the
Nebraska legislature, father OF the anti-foot
ball bill introduced into the present ses-
sion is called to the fact that James Mad
den, the well known fullback OF the Hills
boro, o., foot ball eleven, was killed on
Thursday morning. 1t took a large charge
Of dynamite to kill Madden of but that
fact will doubtless be overlooked by the
enemies OF the great intercollegiate game,
and the death Of another foot ball player
will be set down in the list of alleged evil
results of the game.
The base ball teams OF all the leading eastern
universities have about completed their in
door training, which has been in vogue for
the past two months and half From the
material in evidence it looks as though Yale,
Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Cornell,
Michigan. Georgetown and Brown would all
have good mines to represent them on the
diamond. One pleasing feature that Is COM
ing more and more in evidence with these
university and college teams is the free
dom Of the slightest approach to professional
ism. Time was when the mines OF many uni
versities were tainted with the suspicion of
professionalism, Brown and Pennsylvania
being, perhaps, the worst offenders among
the big teams. The amateur spirit has now
even extended to that point where even pro-
fessional coaches are tabooed. At Harvard,
Princeton, Cornell and Yale the coaching
will this year be done by alumni of these
institutions who themselves have In days
gone by helped to win glory for their uni
versities on the base ball fields.
The schedules of several OF the big college
teams have already been Issued and the
players will mostly get on the fields this
week to indulge in outdoor practice work.
For the first time since 1895 Michigan will
meet Cornell. This game was for many
years regarded as test game between rep
resentative university mines OF the eastern
and the western circles. The series was
broken off last year by the refusal of Michi-
gan to agree to certain amateur rules and
regulations proposed by Cornell which would
have shut out several Of the Michigan play
ers Since Yale and Harvard have made up
Cornell and Michigan have evidently thought
they could safely follow suit. The first game
will be played on Percy Field, Ithaca, May
%, and the return game will be played on
Michigan's diamond at Ann Arbor, June IL.
There is just one other notable feature con-
spicuous about the prospectus for intercol-
legiate base ball for 1897. An effort to have
the games between the various university
and college teams played on college grounds
has been honestly made for several years
past by a number of the leading teams.
This movement will reach climax this
year. when practically all the big games
will be played on the grounds of one of the
contesting teams. This movement to secure
home games for the collegians may not be so
profitable for the penurious base ball
lovers of true amateur sport, particularly to
college men everywhere who have long de-
sired TO see the athletic teams of their
respective institutions absolutely divorced
from anything resembling professionalism.
The schedules so far announced follow:
Princeton-March 81, Rutgers at Princeton
April g. Union at Princeton; April 7, Uni
versity of Vermont at Princeton; April 10,
Elizabeth at Elizabeth; April II, Boston at
Princeton; April IA, New York at New York
April 16, Baltimore at Baltimore; April II,
Georgetown university at Washington; April
20. University of Virginia at Charlottesville,
Va; April 21, University of North Carolina
at Greensboro, N. c.; April "a, Pennsylvania
State college at Princeton; April 2S, Lehigh
at South Bethlehem; May l, Cornell at
Ithaca; May 4, Lawrenceville at Princeton;
May S, Lehgh at Princeton; May 6, Brown
at Providence; May TO- University of Vir-
ginia at Princeton; May II, Lafayette at
Easton; May Is, Harvard at Princeton; May
10, Franklin and Marshall at Princeton; May
%, Georgetown university at Princeton; May
26, Cornell at Princeton May 2S, Andover at
Andover May 29 Harvard at Cambridge;
June 2, Brown at Princeton; June 5, Yale
at New Haven; June 8, Lafayette at Prince
ton; June 12, Yale at Princeton; June 10,
Yale at New York lin case of tieD
Yale-April z Wesleyan at Yale field:
II, University of Virginia at Charlottesville,
Va; 10, University of Virginia at Lynch
burg, Va; "a, Amherst at Yale field; 80,
Phillips academy at Andover, Mass; May 1,
Brown university at Providence tchange of
place possible) 5, Lafayette college at Yale
field; 12 Wesleyan at Middletown; 13, Brown
at Yale field (place may be changed); 10,
Amherst at Amherst a. Amherst at Am
herst; 49, Brown at Providence; June 2,
Holy Cross at either Yale field or Springfield;
5. Princeton at Yale field; ~, Princeton at
Princeton; 10, Princeton in New York, In
case of tie; "a Harvard at Cambridge; 20,
Harvard at Yale field; July 3, Harvard In
New York or Springfield, in case of tie In
the SERIES
Cornell-April Is, Rochester at Ithaca; II,
St. Bonaventure at Ithaca; 10, Syracuse at
Ithaca: 20, Syracuse at Ithaca; %, Rochester
university at Ithaca; "a, Union college at
Ithaca; 27, Syracuse university at Ithaca;
May l. Princeton at Ithaca; 7, Harvard at
Cambridge; 8, to be filled by some team near
Boston; TO- Holy Cross college at Worcester;
13, University of Virginia at Ithaca; 49, Uni
versity of Pennsylvania at Ithaca; ", Uni
versity of Michigan at Ithaca; 26, Princeton
at Princeton; 81. Fordham college at Ford
ham; 2S New York university at University
Heights 20, University of Pennsylvania at
Philadelphia; 81, Williams college at VIII
lianlstown; June 5, Lafayette college at
Ithaca; II. Oberin college at Oberlin; IL,
Uuiyersity of Michigan at Ann Arbor. There
also remains to be arranged game with old
graduates.
There can now ba no further doubt about
the presence of a large, abe-hodied and al
together vigorous hoodoo within the classic
confines of Yale. Just as though the loss OF
every important athletic contest in which 1t
has engaged during the past year was not
enough to fill It's cup of grief to the brim,
along comes the defeat OF its publicly pro-
claimed champion, James ]. Corbett, the erst-
while champion prize fighter of America.
Poor old Yale! That cup of grief must be
running clear over now.
1t was to be expected that Yale would
denounce the act of thirteen luckless juniors,
who sent a Yale flag for Corbett's corner
OF the Carson ring, and in letter told him
how he had won the heart of every true
Yale man on his visit there last fall and
further wished that he would be thoroughly
imbued with the spirit Of old Yale on the day
of his fight, and go in with Yale luck and
Yale pluck and win the battle. The denial
that this was an act to be charged up to
Yale was looked for and It came along In
due course OF time. Nevertheless Yale can
not get away from the fact that the flag was
presented by thirteen prominent upper class
men, not freshmen or even sophomores but
upper classmen, whose acts are always known
to reflect the spirit of their university.
Furthermore some OF these upper classmen
were members of Yale varsity athletic
teams and all were prominent in university
life and from prominent families. So all
attempts to excuse the act as that OF lot OF
obscure students whose opinions were not
all. fnh