The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-09-27
YALE GRIDIR0N ATHLETES
THESONS OF ELI WoRKING HARD TO
GETA CHAMPIONSHIP ELEVEN.

GET n CHAMPIOSSHIPE LEPEN.
A Batch of New Candidates but Dearth
Up Well-schedule of Games Soon to be
Announced-Yale Meets Trinity on We'd
nesday.
After several days of light preliminary
practice at tackling the dummy, passing
and falling on the ball, and short runs
to condition the men, the candidates for
the Yale varsity team lined up Satur-
day for the first time this season, play
ing two short halves of a regular game
The coaching was under the direction
of ex-Captain Murphy of last years
team, and he made the men play a
quick, sharp game, that resulted in the
so-called first eleven making two touch
downs against the scrub. All the candi-
dates played with snap and enthusiasm,
as they realize, as well as their coaches,
that hard and persistent work will alone
develop strong eleven from a body of
players only three of whom have played
in championship games.
The Yale football schedule will prob
ably be issued the last of any of the
New England or larger colleges. AS
college year does not begin till Septem-
Der 30, and the schedule must be sub
mitted to the faculty at regular meet
ing after the opening Of the school year,
1t is certain that the playing games will
hh " n II.
ratified. 1t is understood that Dean H.
P. Wright has given the football man.
agement power to play the minor games
before the faculty meet, and it is also
understood that the faculty has ratified
the choice of November 13 for the Har-
ward game and November 20 for the
Princeton game. This leaves only half
| dozen games to be debated by the
faculty. ~ '.
Nearly everybody at Yale, however,
knows about what games the eleven
will play by the announced schedules
of the other colleges.
According to these schedules, 1t ap-
| pears that Yale will play Trinity at
Hartford, September 20; Wesleyan at
| New Haven, October Q; Amherst at Yale
Field, October G.; Carlisle Indians at
New York, October 90; West Point at
West Point, October 80; Brown at Yale
| November 6; Harvard at Cambridge
| November 10; Princeton at Yale field
| November 20, closing the season the
| Saturday before Thanksgiving day.
Yale tried to get a game with Lafay-
cite for November, but that college was
disinclined to accept. Yale follows the
example of all the large colleges, and
plays only two big games. The match
with the Carlisle Indians is the only
contest to take place in New York. The
| college begins, the first game taking
! place here October g.
When Manager David C. Twitchell Of
the Yale eleven was at Cambridge or
1 Friday, discussing with Manager Fuller
of the Harvard eleven the plans for thu
game in Cambridge, November Is, hi
made an effort to find the Boston boy:
who should be candidates for the clever
this fall. They. are George Callahan
I and Henry g. Clarkson. Mr.. Callahan
was Amhersts center last year, but lef
college soon after the football season
closed, although he had been elected
captain of the team for the coming year
He entered the Yale law school directl,
4 after the Thanksgiving recess, and com
I pleted the year in that department o
i the university. The Yale management
was very anxious to have him practic
| with the team this fall so as to be read.
y for another season when he would b
in regular work as Wales center, AM
the sturdy lad has proved himself on
of the best that ever faced a Yale team
He is, of course, not eligible this season
but will be another year. Manage
Twitchell did not understand when h
went to Boston that Mr.. Callahan wa
to play center for the crack B. A. A
: team, but perhaps Mr.. Callahan's plal
will keep him In first class condition
; and will make him thoroughly sount
candidate for the Yale eleven anothe
year.
Clarkson will be welcomed as a candi
date for the Yale team, although h
has not made football so much a spe
cialty as baseball He has been in
J vited to begin training at Yale as sool
as he can get here. 1t was due to al
oversight that he was not invited to be
come candidate at the Yale prelimin
ary practice, which began here Novem
Der 20.
, Fred WAllen is the third Boston bp.
; to begin training for the Yale football
| team. He played guard two years TO
Andover academy before coming t
Yale. Allen weighs 200 pounds and i
hard as a rock.