The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-03

tackles, Edwards, Beam and Mills
guards, Booth centre, Watkins and Ho-
sengarten quarters, Reiter, Pell and u.
Lathrop at half and MATHS, sopho-
more, at fullback. The latter Is the.
| find Of the week, for he has been kick
ing in such form that Ayres, now on
the hospital list, will be obliged to hus-
tie for his place when he returns. The
team is rounding to nicely and did well
Saturday. When Lathrcp returns
from the army for end and King"
Kelley puts on the jeans for half back,
the Tigers will have very fast team
1t will be a much better team than
last years, owing to the fact that al
though 1t was not apparent to the cas-
ual observer 1t was none the less true
that many Of the men were cripples
and unfit for hard work
| Old Pennsylvania once more rolled up
an overpowering score against Gettys-
burg, Saturday. 1t is problematical,
however, how much this early playing
against weak teams helps the Quakers,
but 1t certainly gets their interference
to running well. On the other hand, 1t
Is very disoouraging to a team, after
successfully using q system of inter-
ference against weaker elevens to run
up against strong teams and have the
interference fall down like card houses
before ones breath. The Qlrakers
should improve very rapidly now as
Trainer Murphy has got together a
strong scrub and one that outweighs
the varsity. One day during the past
week. the scrub succeeded in tying the
varsity score, and even led until the
L last few plays. Woodruff sees the fool
ishness of having no center to take
Overfields place in case Of injury, so
Carvett is being worked into the points
of the pivotal position. The team that
will probably represent the Quakers in
the big games will be Overfleld, center;
McCracken and Hare, guards; Carnett
and Goodman, tackles; Folwell and Nc
Mahon, ends; Gardiner, quarter; Rut-
land and Harrison, halves, with Walker
at full back. The Quakers will have a
wonderful team, even though Morice,
who is now dangerously Ill in Porto
Rico. does not return for half back.
| Saturdays games showed the various
coaches their work for the weeks to
come and gave the public an inkling of
the probable way in which the games
would be played this year. Attention
was drawn in this column a week ago
to the likelihood of weakness in the
Harvard line, and so it proved.
Against Williams, the crimson showed
a weakness very nearly approaching
| that of the fall of 95, when matters
were in such a chaotic condition. Will
Jams men had no trouble in ripping
| open big holes through Lawrence, Bur-
nett, Burden and A Sargent, who took
Boals place in the second half. In fact
BoaPs position appeared to be the only
non-vulnerable place in the line. Coch-
rane played good end, but Lewis was
easy. Back OF the line the crimson en-
countered difficulties in getting the in
reference started we'll together. Dib-
blee and Daily did the best work, es-
pecially DAILY. After watching him play
in the Williams game, it seems as
though he ought to develop into Har-
ward Charlie De Saulles. Harvard is all
right in backs with Capt. Dibblee,
Ellis, Warren, Sawin, the two Ken
dalls and Reed. But the line is very
poor and must have several new men
before anything like first class college
eleven can be gotten together.
Yale also showed up weak against
Wesleyan, and made very poor show
team in the first half, and scored but
one touchdown. The backs showed a
great tendency TO tumble, and the for
wards did not open UP any big holes
The weather was simply frightful at
Cambridge, and undoubtedly was
equally torrid in the City of Elms
Thus there was but little inducement
| to play hard In the second half, Yale
substituted nine new men so as to give
her host of candidates chance to
| show their abilities as well as saving
! the strength of some of the best men.
The Wesleyan game shows what Yale s
play is going to be. She will rely on
MeBrides long punts and then resort
to Chamberlain or Sullivan to kick
goals from the field
Pennsylvania played a snap team
against State College, and ran
! up a true Quaker score-40 to
10. 1t is impossible to give just es-
innate Of PENIS work. because State
! College never has a team which is bet
ter than those of Phillips Andover and
Exeter. All that can be said is that
the Quakers' work was, in general
very fine, although their interference
was ragged.
OF the big four, Princeton showed
ND the best of the lot. score OF
| 81 to o against team like Lehigh, on
| a day like Saturday, shows very good
team for the orange and black. me
work of the new linemen was very
good for this period Of practice. espe-
cialIy that of Mills, Geer ana Mattlss
| liReTS
snite of discouraging reports, and VIII
bsar watching. Some one has criu-
oised Yale's new policy in playing Har-
ward after Princeton this year. But
| Il seems q wise move, as from pres
emit indications, Princeton looks much
stronger than Harvard, and Yale Will
| get the weaker team last
| 6,o.neu ran up a big score against
4 rrS.,s
how the average. From Cornell's style
Of round-the-end game, very open af-
fair, 1t seems certain, that however
| prosperous she may be at present,
| there will be an entirely different story
when she runs UP against the big
teams.
Dartmouth looks bit weak in allow
| ing Exeter to score on her while Am
herst is no stronger than last year
Williams is much better than In '97,
| West Point showed up remarkably
we'll Brown Is weaker than last fall
and must develop some backs to sue
coed Gammons, now coaching in Wor-
cester, and Dave Fultz, the profess
sional ball player, before she can cope
successfully with the big teams in her
schedule. And last, but not least,
mention should be made Of the Indians
who will bear watching. They have
a veteran team, with but three new
faces, so that they will surely furnish
their opponent heap of trouble 1t
promises to be a great year in foot
ball all around.
THE FLIES" WE'RE ALL RIGHT.
How q Volunteer Explained Away a
Little Discrepancy.
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(San Francisco Argonaut)
Some of the volunteer soldiers who