The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-12
FOOTBALL SEASON OPENS.
1T BEGINs OCT. L AND TEAMS AMI
FORMING NOW FOR PRACTICE.

FORMING NOW FOR PRACTICE.
Fgorvard,s Great Crush" Promise.
The Colleges Uniting to Teach
Princeton Her Place" After Last
Years VictOries-Big Games That
Are scheduled.
New York, Sept 1O.--September Is the
preliminary season of football In TINS
month the teams are selected TO later
carry the pigskin to victory over the
goals.
IF base ball is the national game among
professionals football is the national
amateur game. IT has stronger hold
upon college life in this county than
cricket has in England, and for the three
months it lasts it is more of sport than
any other game.
There are so many football teams that
TO endeavor to name them would be en-
tirely out of the question, but the prih-
cfpal ones are conceded to be Harvard
Yale. Princeton. Cornell Wesleyan, the
University of Pennsylvania, Williams
Rutgers, Bucknell, Lafayette, Trinity
Annapolis, Brown, Dartmouth, Lehigh'
University of Virginia, West Point and
Tufts.
The football season proper begins Oct
/, and lasts just two months. During
these sixty days all the great games OF
the year are played and when Novem-
Der is over the football season quiets
down. Then the captains are elected for
the following year and the work of keep
ing in shape goes quietly on until vaca-
ton time. R.D as soon as the college
yell fills the air again in September foot
tan is taken up and got ready for its
! October work.
The great games of this year are not
| yet all scheduled, but as near as known
at this time Cornell and Harvard will
play at Cambridge Nov their great
annual championship contest. Nov 10
Harvard and Yale play al Cambridge and
Nov. 20 Yale and Princeton play al New
Haven and on the same date Pennsyl-
vana and Harvard compete at Cam
bridge. On Thanksgiving Day there are
always several important games. One of
the most eventful ones this year will be
the eamt between Pennsylvania and Cor
| nell. In Philadelphia.
Last year Princeton had the honor of
coming cit ahead in nearly every game
that it played, or at least it played some
| such victorious games that the honors Of
| the champion were Awarded It. For in
stance. in it's game with Yale Princeton
| scored "a tc Yale's 6; and when Princeton
| played Harvard the latter did not make a
| rtoint while Princeton scored IL. Foot
hail experts gave many reasons for this
| strange over, matching on the part Of
| Princeton. naming among other things
! the series of n,lsfortunes to which both
| Yale and Harvard had been subject But
at this the Princeton boys laughed and
said st was due TO their own superior
playing.
The captain of Princeton this year win
be Garrett Cochran, who played end
rush for Princeton last year. No single
| play OF Cochrans stands out, but 1t was
| universally conceded that he was the best
| man on the team When he was elected
it was by unanimous WISH and the early
work he did as captain In the spring
showed that he was not badly chosen.
| Cochran's best point is his versatility
! lie can do anything on the field.
| Harvard's captain win be Norman Ca
| bot who played end rush for Harvard
and covered himself with glory In a gen
eral way though he did nothing that
stood out as phenomenal. As an end
| rush however, he was considered the
best in tho country, and for feetness OF
foot he was without rival Harvard S
| outgoing captain favored him for a sue
| cessor and he was by far the most pop
| ular man in the choice of captains. His
personality is strong, and If any man can
lead Harvard on to victory this year that
man will be Capt. Cabot. He has a
rush" surprise in store that is to down
| Princeton every time It is tried.
Capt. James Otis Rodgers Of Yale was
| formerly the right tackle. He was the
man who did the remarkable work that
broke UP the interference in the game
| with Princeton. with eleven men like
Rodgers, Princeton would have stood no
show at all in that memorable battle.
Rodgers is remarkable for hts presence
Of mind. He takes In the situation at
a glance, sees what to do, and does II,
| shouting all the while his orders to hts
team. He is a bad man for a surprise,
and Princeton and Harvard viii have to
| get some pretty good new moves II they
want to catch Capt. Rodgers of Yale, off
guard.
The election of Hamilton Fish Benja-
! min as captain OF the Yale football
! eleven in place of James o. Rodgers is
the current topic for discussion here.
The news that Capt. Rodgers was III
| reached here recently and 1t was
thought that he would recover and be at
his post when college opened this fall. A
letter from Mr.. Rodgers himself an
nounced that Benjamin had been APP
pointed captain.
Benjamin Is a senior in the academic
department and played half back last
year. He halls from Garrisons-on-the-
! Hudson, n. Y, and is scion Of dis
tinguished metropolitan family. 1t now
looks as II Rodgers would not be able
TO return to college till after the season
begins His attack Of typhoid fever
was severe and he is lying very weak at
his home in Toledo.
Capt McISeever, of Cornell is the old
| left half-back of Cornell. What kind OF
a captain McKeever win make this year
has yet to be seen. He has made his
course. score powerfully al the close OF
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