The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-10

vania will not be as trong as last year,
but to a close student of the game it
is no secret that Pennsylvania has the
best material of any of the colleges
to choose from, and that Capt. Minds
team will be fully equal to the famous
team of 81
Although Yale has lost a great many
men by graduation, still the outlook is
not so dark as it would seem at first
glance. Many substitutes are back
who almost made the team last year,
and with the experience which they
have gathered should make very valu-
able men. The illness of Capt. Rogers,
coming at the opening of the season,
is indeed discouraging, but one cannot
but feel that in the long run it will
be an advantage to the team, for by
the end of the season he will be in
good trim, owing to the fact that he
has not had a chance to get stale.
1t seems almost impossible to tell how
Harvard's season will end. Year after
year has seen her start the season
with the most brilliant prospects, and
year after year, through series Of
most unfortunate accidents, have the
hopes of her supporters been dashed
to the ground. This year Harvard
seems to have learned lesson taught
by the last few seasons, and it looks
as though she would get revenge for
the many defeats suffered at the hands
of her old time rival, Yale.
So much for the leaders of the team
that everybody expects to see In front.
Now how about the little fellows, the
lesser f1eas as 1t were? There are Cor
nell, Brown, Lafayette and last but
by no means least, the Carlisle Indian
team. A radical change in football
policy will be seen at ithaca. McKeev-
er, CornelPS new captain, has this to
say of his team:
about forty men are practicing
every afternoon on Percy field for
places upon the Cornell football team.
| Most of the men are light and mex
perienced and it will take the hardest
kind of work to produce creditable
team. Tracy, McKeever, Reed, Ander
and Bassford, of last years team, will
return and an almost new line will
| have to be developed. Corne1Ps sched-
| ule this year will be harder than ever
before. Lafayette, Princeton and Har-
ward being played. in the order named,
| within a week of each other"
Brown this year promises to have as
| strong a team on the field as ever rep
| resented that seat of learning. Her
work at the first of the year is general
] ly of an unknown quality, but the sup
| porters of the brown and white are
positively assured that there will be
no reason to fear weakness in the team
this year. Although Capt Colby has
graduated. the men who are left have
imbibed his principIes7fof hard, fast
and tricky play.
! Lafayette will again be coached by
| Parke II. Davis, an old Princeton man,
by whose coaching the team was last
year raised to such a high position
| in the football world.li This year
| team promises to be even stronger than
last, as only two men leave-Rowland,
who has played guard bfor them the
Hast four years, and Barclay who, by
his magnificent running won for La
| fayette the Pennsylvania game last
year, and endeared, himself forever to
| the supporters of the Easton college.
The giant guard, Rhinehart, who play
| ed such brilliant game against Penn
sylvania, outplaying his opponent and
getting down the field under kicks as
| fast as the ends, is this years captain.
BIG SCORES PIED UP.