The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-12

just the man to repeat Lamar's famous
run, II indeed that run can ever be
duplicated. McKeeVer is very agile ex-
tremely quick, and a man whom YOU
cannot beat in single combat Just how
ne VIII act on the field when he has men
20 direct and cannot always act with per-
rect Independence is an open question
But football men who have seen him in
command say that he develops surpris-
ing traits under the influence of the mo-
ment
An entirely different man is Capt. John
H. Minds Of the University OF Pennsvl-
Nanla' lie formerly played fun-baclx.
Snu Is the only man who never lost his
mead capt Minds is fun of the element
OF luck. He has a strange way Of al
ways being in the right place when the
paiI gets into dangerous spots and he
mas never been known to kick other than
s'ralght and true. His record is that of
pl'1e Iull-back which is one of the
most important positions In the game
l. C"Pt. Minds began early practice with
ms team Sept. 8, and will play his 6rst
game IN Philadelphia Oct g. Pennsylva-
ma VIII likewise take a New England
UP ana will so east and play Brown
University at Providence. This is con-
sldered a very doubtful move on the
part or Pennsylvania, since Brown Is a
sIIohs team and should not receive the
i'N''7N VI Il nome crowd, but Cant.
MINDS Is coufdoNt Of his ability to cone
with the New Englanders, and will meet
them Oct 90 -'''
The football fever is at its hight this
year because of the very unsettled stale
~ Whlch the games We're left last wear.
None or the beaten colleges were wiling
to concede that Princeton was ca ,nucb
their superior and this year thew are 90
ING 10 demonstrate that it was peculiar
eonoination last year of bad luck and
bad management
Inc most important members of the
team VIII be chosen this month from tho
CoIese freshmen These young men
come TO college bearing with them foot.
| pan record from the school at which tbey
| have just graduated They are vo,,ng
strong and over-ambitious. They ar,
| not overstrained ard their laurels lfe
! before them. The quarterback is gen
| orally chosen from the freshmen. and II
is 70 her freshmen ranks that Princeton
| looks this year for her ideal quarter.
| back
Eighty students have sent In tbei,
names for the vacancies in Yale's team
| or these 1eighty only three or four car
| be chosen. As soon as college opens the
! eighty begin to practice and the three
pest ones soon stand out prominently
| over the others.
Many of the best football players 20
] - NSAAN oN p4l PhlpuSt TO take part in
the great college games; and though
they keep up their studies, are mot re-
markable for their scholarship As long
! as they pass and are able to graduate
they do not care.
In former days football playing was a
! brutal sport, second not even to prize.
! hghting. One year there were six killed
on the football field; and at every game
! there were ambulances and surgeons ir
attendance. This year however, the ele
ment OF brutality is TO be largely elimi.
mated for good, scientific play, and tack,
ling is to be done lower than It was lasl
year. For practice there are severa
new tackling machines by which the mer
learn how TO stop another without kill
ing comrade in the practice play.
L There has never been a great deal a
gambling done upon football games. anc
as the sport is an outdoor one-thoroueh
| ly hygienic-it can be pronounced a,
"Old Jimmy McCosh said of it. wher
the intercollegiate Football Association
was organized in 1885, 1T is tina hes
thing we ha done yet for the boys"
c. 8. Russell