The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-09-29
YALE OPENS TOMORROW
As USUAL GREATINTERE MANI
TESTED IN FOOTBALL CANDIDATES..


Campus business of the City Picks Up
with tho Boys Return-Yalo Meets
Trinity at Hartford To-day-Art School
Opens Next Friday.
Ola Yale is waking up after her long
summers sleep and the awakening is
arousing all the business interests of New
Haven. Merchants wear smiling faces
nowadays, for they know that the re-
turn of the Yalensians cannot fail to
help them out and create a demand for
almost every line of goods dealt in by
them. The eXpressmen are busy, the
carpet renovators cannot keep pace with
what is coming their way, and the res
Chapel street of an evening is pictur-
esque indeed Knots of students mean
der up and down and in and out of the
stores, meeting their fellows at every
turn. Upon the campus all is hustle,
with no time for noise. The colored
sweeps hurry and scurry in every d.
rection, carrying all manner of house
hold goods from one hall or entry to
another, and thousands of books, small
libraries of them, are moved across the
campus with the rest of the student
impedmenta.
Over at Alumni hall from 9 o'clock in
the morning on through the day
changing crowd of sub-freshmen and
preliminary candidates stand about the
Goor waiting for the examinations IN
which they may have conditions or wish
to qualify. When the boys are through
for the day they join the tide that flows
daily toward Yale field to see the Var
s:ty football practice. Yesterday after
noon there was q host of candidates on
the field, and in squads they were put
to tackling the dummy. -Four upflSht
posts are sunk into the ground and guy
ropes hold them firm \ sort OF pulley
arrangement is used in the tacKllng
process. At one end Is heavy weight'
and at the other an armless ngure III d
canvas suit with dangling legs filled
with sand A rope attached to the head
is tied to the weight and the tackler
makes a running leap at the dummy,
aiming to embrace the legs at point
half way between the knees and hips.
A broad blue stripe on the legs guides
the tackler in his leaping dive While
one squad would be engaged in the
tackling exercise other squads would be
going through other drills under the
coaching of veterans. Finally two elev-
ems We're lined up and hard practice
game was,played. Gluten, the new man
being tried at center, played on the
Varsity side against Hall of last years
freshman eleven and showed up in
great form. His legs are veritable
'.piano-stools, as one fellow remarked,
and his strength is phenomenal. He
played through the opposing line and
tossed his blockers aside as though they
were small boys. Foster Sanford and
Ray Tompkins s5 coached the center
men, Captain Rodgers the tackles, Ly-
man Bass and Louis Hinkey 81 took
care of the ends, and ButterWorth 80
kept the backs working as hard as men
can work. Every man had chance
frequently to change enabling each
candidate to show his mettle. The
playing was fast and spirited so as to
get the men in shape for to-day's game
with Trinity in Hartford "Old Pop"
Smith was on hand to size up the new
men and seemed greatly pieased with
them. He declared that Yale's chances
We're much brighter this season than
last year ana Sdlu lie lett UullS SHCoui-
aged The student body seems to share
the old mascot's opinion. Yale has this
season a goodly number CT great big
beefy candidates for positions in the line
and some very promising men back of
the line and to-day's game in Hartford
should crystalize things enough to give
Captain Rodgers and the coachers a
chance to see what their men are worth.
In, LOT, 1act y C
back, and is being tried behind the line.
Marshall played so strong on the scrub
team that Monday he was transferred
to the Varsity and Captain Rodgers de-
voted much of his time to him as a most
promising player. Sheldon is again
eligible to play, and will have a trial
at guard; he has all the necessary
weight and strength, besides being re-
markably agile for big man. McFar-
land is making strong play for center,
but his style of play is hardly in favor
with the coachers. and Gluten, Hall.
and Chadwick will all be tried at the
places Cutten is, perhaps, his strongest
opponent at present Ely is the leading
candidate for quarterback, but De
Saulles may replace him later in the.
season.
BENJAMIN and Ffine, last years half
backs, will again be found there in the
lineup against Trinity, and Mcbride
will probably play at full-back. The
latter is large, heavy man, strong,
quick punter, hut untried as a tackler,
n necessary qualification for full back
in defensive work. The coachers may
see fit to play him there, sending Ben
iamin or Ely back in defensive play as
they did Fincke last year. Abbott is
developing very fast at tackle, while AL
len, new man this year, is showing
up strongly, having qualifications for
either guard or tackle He rowed on the
university crew and weighs 1856 pounds,
is active and a most aggressive player.
Reports state that up at Trinity
every effort has been made in the pre-
lminary practice to put team in the
field to-day that can hold Yale down
to small score, as was the case last
year The eleven lost several of it's
best men by the graduation of '97, but
the incoming class has developed some
good material, and there are two or
more candidates in training for each
position. Captain Woodle, aided by
Lake of Harvard and Langford, cap
tain of the go team, has worked dill
gently with the men. and everything
points to a strong team. Captain
Woodle and I.ittell Will again he foun5