New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-09-25
IN THE FOOTBALL FIELD.
INTERESTING FEATURES OF THE SEA-
SONS SCHEDULES-SOME OF
HARVARD'S PROBLEMS

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,onts OF the various candidates for the big
college elevcns. OF the throngs that go to make
M the football squads at the beginning Of each
season and of the hundreds Of men that are
mentioned in the newspaper dispatches as sure
IN develop into magnificent rushers and half
hacks the greater part swept away in the
drst few weeks. 1t will be time enough, there
fore to talk about individual players closely
uben the wedding out process is partly over,
and when the candidates that are left are really
the survival Of the ntest. At the beginning Of
the season. then. II is not the individuals that
coun; in making estimates of team as much
as II is the broader considerations. such the
general policy that is to be adopted the style
of coaches 10 be employed and the kind OF
schedule that has been arranged. Appended 10
this article will be found a fairly complete
schedule OF the games to be played by the lead
tng colleges in the Fast this season. 1t will he
added to considerably by games to be arranged
the coming week a glance over this schedule
as arranged may show some rather interesting
and significant features which old football men
will point out as having an important bearing,
perhaps. on the final outcome Of the season.
TIE whole theory of building up a schedule OF
games is gradually to work up a team by sitter
and sitter contests until IL reaches the top
schedules printed below Yale has followed out
that policy better than any of the other colleges
Next to Yale. Harvard seems to have been most
polite. Princeton and Pennsylvania are not so
well off In their schedules In the first place
they both play three four games more than
will Harvard and Yale, yet the teams that they
will run up against are not wei, selected.
Yale and Harvard will meet the more sturdy
New England blood, while many of PrinCeton's
and Pennsylvanias opponents though Of course
worthy, cannot a matter Of fact give these
varsity teams good practice as the scrub
eevens OF Princeton and Pennsylvania can do
This is a serious drawback. Another thing TO
be noted is that Pennsylvania must bring her
team up to racing form as early as November
3 for her game against Harvard which is by all
odds her most important one OF the season. Her
game with Cornell which closes the season.
does not come for an interval Of two weeks and
a half after that and every one remembers how
last season. with even a shorter interval elapsng
between her Harvard and Cornell games Penn
sylvania ran so stale that she was almost beaten
BY Cornell.
Take the Yale schedule, on the other hand, and
an one can readily see TO what superb climax
the whole season works up. from the game with
Trinity yesterday to the game with Harvard on
November 10. Yales game with Princeton. on
November l.. will be splendid practice for her.
Just last year her game with Harvard gave
her just the training that was needed for her
victory against Princeton week |
later. This question Of proper and skilful |
schedule forms just as important a part OF the |
whole system Of training as the diet and daily |
work OF the men. and l expect TO Princeton |
and Pennsylvania suffer for apparently ignoring |
this feature somewhat.
From the point OF view Of the onlooAer and |
lover of football games. the coming season will |
be full Of opportunities for the games are strung
along well from week TO week that begin |
ming with october ! until November ~, each |
will at least one football game |
that should be conspicuous for brilliancy. And |
with November the football lover in |
journeyng from college town TO college town
will have unexampled opportunities. on No
vember he may witness the heroic struggle at
between the Quakers and the Grim
son. week later by journeyng down to Prince
ton he will see the terrific rushes in the game
between old Nassau and Yale. on the 18th the
New Haven ems will welcome him for the con-
test between Harvard and Yale, while on
Thanksgiving Day quiet Philadelphia Will be all
afame with the rival coors Of Pennsylvania and
Cornell IL may thus be seen that each one or
the leading college towns, with the exception
possibly OF Ithaca, Will witness one or the Dig
contests.
Ignoring. for the moment the individual men
who have returned to Cambridge and New
Haven. and who are hard at work, IL may DO
we'll to point out some Of the general difhcultles
that the coaches are having 10 face. Mr.. FORBES,
fIarvard's skilful and strenuous coach, writes:
'Our plans are 10 go ahead largely on the lines
hat followed last year. without any funda-
mental change Of policy; 10 get out the best
avoiding injuries, and getting the team in condi-
lion as fast as possible. We have suffered very
severe losses in the line from last year, and II is
going to be hard 10 fill UP the holes. But there
IRE plenty OF good, lively men with whom TO
make up an eleven, which should be able 10 give
\ good account OF itself by the autumn" AS a
Cff hat N,rt.a hta hllA
nave to do is enough to stagger any men with
less earnest. aggressive and enthusiastic spirits.
Harvard's magnificent defence in the last two !
years has been her stronghold This defence has
now melted away with the graduation OF almost
the whole rush line. Not only. therefore. must
Mr.. Forbes develop an entirely new rush line
with defence equal TO that OF last year but !
ne must create an offence that il distinctly SUI !
perior TO that OF last year. whore Harvard was
rifle weak. Any such contract as that is
enough 10 indicate that there Will be lively times
IL Cambridge this fall and such seem 10 be the
signs. Another good indication IS that large
number Of last years freshman eleven are out
'or practice. There has always been complaint
hat owing 70 Harvards social system the
members of the freshman eleven frequently did
not have incentive enough to come out and do
hard work. beginning with their sophomore
year. That state Of affairs seems TO have been
done away with. Moreover little II anything
will be tried in the way OF tricks Good straight
football Of hard and vigorous kind and mo
,rpples," Forbes says are what the Harvard
team is after. and it will he, to my mind. cap
'dIHeu by the most enIlNenlnR, inspiring ana
popular leader Dibblee. that has guided Har-
Yards men since CumnOcks victorious era.
The schedule OF games is as follows:
SEPTEMBER %
Swarhmore We Alumni team, at swarthmore
lphigh Rutgers Bethlehem.
Pennsylvania Gettysburg. Philadelphia
SEPTEMBER so.
Williams Andover Andover.
OCTOBER l.
Cornell Trinity, Ithaca
Harvard vs.. Williams. at Cambridge.
Yale Wesleyan. New Haven.
Pennsylvania state College a PHILADELPHIA.
Princeton q. Lehigh. at Princeton
West Point Tufts. West Point
swarthmore Delaware College
Brown ". Holy Cross. Providence
OCTOBER g.
Yale al New-IIaven