The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-03
FOOTBALL.
Work
of Week.
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ITS FEATURES.
Princetonand Pennsylvania
Show Much Improvement.

| The past week has been one OF i'm
provement on all the college foot bal
gridirons. This is especially true al
Cambridge, where eleven men have
been moulded into a mass that is now
assuming the shape of foot ball ele-
ven, Notwithstanding the small score
the boys in crimson were able to roll
up against the Williamstown delega-
ton in Saturdays game. 1t has also
been week of accidents at Harvard
ana In consequence several good men
as Heed and Hallowell have been laio
on for repairs. Besides these two, the
three varsity tackles of last year
swain, Mills and Donald, are still or
the list Of the cripples and the indis-
posed. A third feature Of the week
| foot ball practice down at Cambridge
has been the coming out of a good
deal Of old and new material, so that
all the men from which the coaches
may hope to evolve a team have ap-
peared.
Among the new faces seen on the
field during the week were H. j. Brown
OF st. Pauls School, Dave Campbell
and Spear, both well known in Worces-
ter as members of last years Academy
team. and now varsity candidates for
tackle; Butterfield. from Andover, who
VIII try for quarter back berth; ]. H
Lee, the colored tackle, who played in
the Princeton game two years ago; ]
u. Lawrence and Taylor, ends on last
years freshmen eleven LiyerInore
who subbed it at half in the game with
Pennsylvania two years ago; w. A.
Scott, who comes from the Brown foot
Dali squad and would like to snap back
the ball for the crimson players; Fair
banks, SO, who played a star centre
in his freshman year, and has since all
lowed himself to grow into a condition
much resembling a jelly fish, and G.
| Clay Of the Delaney School of Philadei-
phia, where he played an end, and a
man much thought of by Coach Wood
ruff of Pennsylvania
The men were taken to the training
| table Friday night, and from the list
1t is easy to see the personnel Of the
early seasons eleven this year. The
men whom Capt. Dibblee decided were
sufficiently promising to have care
taken in their dieting. were Mills, Co
chrane, Richardson, Boal, Burden,
Warren, A. r. Sargent, Gray, Halo
well, ]. Lawrence, Burnett, Ellis, w.
Kendall, Reid and DAILY. During the
past week the lineup of the first team
has been made up from these men, and
they were the players who went in
against Williams Saturday afternoon.
| This is at present a weak team, and
nowhere as promising as was last
years team at the same stage in the
seasons training. AS was predicted in
| The Spy would be the case, Cochrane
continues to hold down one end, and
| in all probability, in spite of his light
weight, will continue to do so. For the
other end the contest will be between
Hallowell, Richardson, Gray and Lewis
with the chances In the order named.
1t is safe to say that the tackles will
have to do much hustling before they
| can be reasonably sure Of their places
Mills should get one berth If he car
keep up in his studies. The other posi-
ton is uncertain, with Lawrence
| Brown, Spear and Campbell all having
their eyes on 1t. The chances favor
Lawrence, as a previous trying out
upon other Harvard elevens does much
| for a man at Cambridge. 1t is no rash
! statement to make that Boal will hold
his place throughout the season. and
equally safe to say that Burden will
be lost in the hustle Of promising men
| 1t is hard at the present writing tt
pick out a man, but Brown, freshman
from ST. Paul's School, Garden City, is
about as promising as any that have
taken the preliminary practice. He is
| big and very active and would make g
capital man to travel with Boal. Al
centre the work Of trying to round c
Sargent into a foot ball lineman goes
merrily on, but with little success. II
really seems foolish to keep on devot.
| ing time and attention to a man sc
full of cookies and so clumsy that he
can hardly get out Of his own way
1t would be much simpler and much
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active man, even though he should be
| lighter. The centre problem is as great
at Harvard as at Yale.
| At Yale, the past week, it has been
a period of experiments owing to the
discovery of several weak places, and
to the return to college of several old
men. Marshall came back Wednesday
| from camp and went into his old place
at guard. This fixes Yale up for the
pair who guard the centre, for Brown
and Marshall are as good a. pair and
work as well together as any two men
since the days Of HetFlehngeg and
Morrison. Captain Chamberlain and
ex-Capt. Rodgers. will look after the
| tackles, after all, and tor subs there
will be MCGEE, Durston and Allenj all
seasoned men of experience, who will
| fill in well in case of accident to the
|
| of trouble, as neither candidate is UP
| to the highest Yale standard Coy
| Schweppe, and Walker seem to be the
most favored at present. Eddy seems
| to have dropped back little, and Con-
nor Is so erratic that his chances are
very thin. Some hope is still held that
Hall, the star of last year, and al
present coach Of the Carlisle Indians
may return and Fish Benjamin, the
old half, may be worked at ar end.
Back of the week the surprise al
Yale was the attempt to play Charlie
| DeSaulles, the star quarter, at right
/ tackle, and to put Sullivan, q lively un-
derstudy, in at quarter. The attempt
/ does not seem worth while. as it makes
but crude possibility out OF a sure
thing. Corwin and Dudley at halves
with Mcbride at full back, has beer
! the most favored arrangement of the
| backs. Dashiel Townsend, Benjamin
and Beard have also played on the
| first. It would not surprise me bit
however, after having witnessed the
Yale practice, to soon see Durston, The
/ tackle, put in at one back. He is toe
good a man to let grace the side line
| because there are better men in the
position that he wants to fill
! Inc greatest weakness at Yale Is
| centre, where 1t is difficult to fill the
sbll. The much heralded return Of
/ Cutten has ceased, as this young mar
| of the robe has not shown up as was
expected from his years experience
Evidently foot bali does not mix with
theology in the young mans brain tc
the determination Of theology and the
Yale coaches are much disappointed ii
consequence. In fact Walton has beer
the most regularly played man in thai
position. The coaches have tried theii
patience on several large and rotun6
boys, whose lack of strength is more
remarkable than their foot ball knowl.
edge and agility.