The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-10-12

THE FOOTBALL GAME
1t Has Absorbed the In
terest of Local
Athletes.
PRINCEToN's STRONG TEAM
Hard Practice Is the Rule for the
Varsity-Hoboken High School
Has a Strong Eleven.
PRINCETON'S STRONG TEAM

The past week in Princeton's football
practice has been marked by rapid i'm
provement in all departments of the game,
and it can be safely said that the tigers
We're never in better shape for a season
than they are at the present time. W
games have thus far been played in which
the Princetonians had everything their
own way, and have swept their opponents
from the field with such ease that the Wis
iting teams have been bewildered by the
rapidity of play and the furious on
slaughts of the tiger backs. Captain Coch-
ran has invented one of the most useful
methods for drop kicking that ever exist
ed, and it is thought that the Princeton
method will be adopted by many when It's
effectiveness is thoroughly demonstrated.
Captain Cochran has been studying the
several ways of dropping the ball from the
field. and at last hit upon a method which
proved to be most useful and effective. In
reality it is a placed kick instead of a reg
lation drop, for the ball is passed by the
centre rush to Cochran, who Immediately
places it for the full backs kick Coch-
ran gets behind the line about fifteen feet
from the centre rush on his knees, with
hands outstretched ready to receive the
ball. The centre passes the ball directly
to him without being touched by the quar-
ter back, Who protects the line while the
play is being executed. Upon receiving the
leather, Cochran places it and Baird
kicks. AT first all of the attempts were
unsuccessful, but gradually Cochran and
Baird became accustomed to each others
style OF playing. and now Baird is general
ly able to place the pigskin directly be-
tween the goal posts.
Wheeler has also developed considerably
as a drop kicker, but he kicks by the old
method. Captain Cochran's reasons for
thinking that his style of drop kicking is
better than the old method are in the
first place, that if one man places the
ball and another kicks it, hen there will
be greater accuracy than if one player
did both. Also time is saved by the new
method for the ball can be placed quicker
by Cochran than it could be dropped by
the full back. 1t is argued that a strong
line will break through and block the
drops, but such was the case last year
when Yale by a mass play was able to
block Baird's ordinary punts. The
dummy is still used in practice and it
is a much abused dunn j too, for the
players go at it feet first and in every
I GOLCOltdOl0 7 Z aiAA -
animate player it would have been a first
class candidate for the grave yard long
Ago.. One of the games of the past week
proved the efficiency in training with TINS
sawdust feet ballist.
Rutgers entered the game Wednesday
with dash and enthusiasm, but at the
end of the second half several of their
most reliable ground gamers had been
carried from the field and the remainder
of the team left the gridiron in a padiy
crippled condition. Their many injuries
roaaixyad 4IIrino tha game were DaTrly
owed to lack of football knowledge and
the way to fall when tackled, but the
fierce plunges of the tigers were the dread
of the visitors. The line up OF the ilrst
eleven during the past week has renamed
much the same as 1t was earlier IN the
season. All of the good players VINO
have shown any ability whatever have
been given a good chance by Cochran.
The team as it now stands Is as follows:
Cochran and Craig or Lathrop, ends,
Holt and Hildebrand, tackles; Crowds
and Armstrong, guards; Booth, centre;
Baird, quarter back; Kelly and Barnard,
half backs; Wheeler, full back, The flrst
Kinney, guards; Lloyd, tackle; Hay,
ward and Ogglesby, ends; Palmer and
Pee, quarter backs; Reater and Suter,
half backs, and Ayres, full back. Some
times the Varsity backs are placed on
the scrub and made to. tackle ana play
against the first eleven. A large number OF
coachers are on the field each day ana
every player receives the careful atten-
ton of some graduate star.
Now that it has been definitely decided
that Princeton and Pennsylvania are not
to play this year. the coaehers and cap
tain will -develope the eleven slowly SO
that by the time Yale and the tigers meet
the Princetonians will be in the pink OF
condition. 1t is to this end that many
of the substitutes are allowed to play IN
the minor games while the regular play
ers remain on the side lines and Watch
their lesser lights fill the places on the
team. During the coming week Prince
ton will play several games, of which the
one with the Carlisle Indians will be the
hardest. Thus far this season the
games have been with minor teams but
when the tigers and the redskins meet it
is believed that a good estimate OF the
former's strength can be made.
The Hoboken High School has developed
d strong eleven, and although defeated IN
Saturday by the HaSbrouck Institute OF
this city,, the members are not the least
discouraged. They were hardly in condi-
ton to do good work, having only recent
ly organized, and the work was not up to
the standard. This week, however.
things will be different, and the team will
be put through a series of hard practice
cut out for them. Tn team ls:-Erank
Desmond. I%centre: Howe, right guard;
Taylor, left guard; Miller sand Kahn,
Cruden, captain, left half back; Let's.
right half back; Fisher, full back; Hart,
quarter back. The substitutes are Gill
kerson, Brandt, Donaldson and Mercke.
The team has arranged one of the finest
kin of a schedule, and their games will
deserve the patronage Oh the 1flendS OF
the game. The schedule is
Oct. 1e-H. H. S. A A. VS.. Pacific A. C.
of Brooklyn, at Hoboken.
October Pill. H. S. A. VS.. Garfield
Field Club, at Hoboken.
October. 30-H. "a. s. a. A. VS.. East
Orange High School,, at Hoboken.
November Phi. III. S. A. A. VS.. Saug-
critics A. C. at Saugerties, N. Y.
Nov. 13-H. H. S. A.. A. VS.. Dread
nauilgt A. c. at Saugerties. n. 7.
Nov. 2O-H. H. S. A. A. VS.. Columbia
A = Of Dotorcou af lHOh0EeD
November 26-H. H. S. A. A. VS.. East
Orange Field Club, at Hoboken.
November 2f-H. H. S. A. A. VS.. Oritani
Field Club at Hackensack.
a game with Stevens Institute is being
arranged, but there is some doubt, as the
Institute boys do not seem to be very
anxious.
The Gregory Football team will meet
all teams made up of players averaging
play Sunday and holiday games only.
Their manager, William S. Watson, can
be addressed at the postoffice slb-station.
The Gregorys are said to be in excellent
shape and capable of putting up the game
of their lives.
The Myrtles were defeated yesterday by
School No. II by a close score. The game
was a stubborn one from beginning to
end. The line played hard and the backs
scored a touchdown in the first half, but
in the early part of the second, by a
run of 50 yards, Moore made a touch
down for Myrtle. The remaining time was
spent in forcing the ball back and forth
and finally through a tumble by the Myr-
ties the schoolboys got possession of the
ball and by good work round the end