The sun., 1897-11-09
THE SPORTING WORLD.
Short and PitlIy Pointers From
the Turf.
BRIEF TOPICS OF THE DAY.
A Resume OF the Latest DOings in
Athletics, Indoor and Field
Sports That are
Legitimate.
FOOT BALL.

Inc lllpSl eNcltlHS Ieall1c ol tllc Sailt
of foot ball played between Wesleyan
and Trinity College on Saturday last was
the slugging Of the Methodist preacher
Townsend, who played left guard on
Wesleyan. He was sat down by the
spectators as a man who was training for
prize fight.
Hudson's great feat of kicking two
goals from the field against Pennsylvania
on Saturday is the most sensational piece
of work accomplished this year. When
it is considered that field goals are the
hardest to make and that very few col
lege players are experts at making them,
Hudson's ability appears all the more re-
markable. And his success was not an
accident, for against Princeton he missed
a goal trial from the thirty-five yard line.
Hudson was coached in goal kicking by
Billy Bull, the ex-Yale player, who, in
his day, led the country as drop kicker
and punter.
The results of the leading football
games Of Saturday bother the critics not
a little. Three principal questions con-
front them:
Is Pennsylvania stale and overtrained ?
Did Princeton play beyond its speed
against Lafayette
Is Yale rounding to rapidly enough to
prove formidable opponent to any other
eleven of the big four?
The success of the Indians against
Pennsylvania undoubtedly was the great
est surprise of the football season. On
form, as the Journal previously made
evident, Pennsylvania was easily the
best team on the eridiron. In all its
games against elevens which had played
with other teams of the big four Penn
sylvaria, if not showing overwhelming
superiority in scores, showed better alb
ility to score.
Princeton defeated the Indians Is to 0,
Yale defeated them "a to 8 and Pennsyl-
vania by 20 to 10. There is nothing in
those figures to cause Pennsylvania to ex-
ult. No wonder the partisans gathered
about Franklin Field lookedglum and
began to whisper selemnly that the
eleven men had grown stale.
1t is said Pennsylvania played a care
less game. Minds missed too many
goals. The ends were dilatory, slothful
and negligent. The former may be true.
If the ends were slow that may account
for the ability of the Indians to get to
Pennsylvania's twenty yard line, from
which Hudson kicked two goals. The In
dams made no tolchdowns, that fact
must not be lost sight Of by those who
seek to chide Pennsylvania. There is a
great deal of difference between goals
from field and scores by touchdowns
The wise man will not be convinced
without much more abundant proofthan
was furnished by Saturdays game, that
the Quakers are so much ont Of form as
some would have the world believe.
About Princeton:
Did the Tigers, stimulated by the Au-
tumn wind and the continued presence
Of the Great Father OF Mugwcmpcry,
slaughter Lafayette more ruthlcssly than
they might under other conditions? Did
that game prove that Princeton is the
best football eleven Of the four? Isn't t
Just possible that Lafayette, thoroughly
used up, exhausted, weakened-plucky,
true cnough-was simply borne away by
superiority OF strength? ? With
II confessedly weaker team than the
larger colleges, Lafayette has gone into
the most stubborn conflicts, and its men
have been asked to play the football OF
experts with none to relieve them. 1t is
not surprising that Saturdays game
should find them easily worn out after a
bit of a struggle.
There is not SO much in the argument
that Princeton is superior to Pennsyl-
yania because it won by 81 to 0 from
Lafayette, while Princeton made 46 to 0
against the same eleven, for Lafayette
was 80 physically iucapacitated that the