The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-13
NEARING THE END.
Local Foot Ball
Teams Have Few
Games to Play.
RESUME OF The SEASONS WORK.
Holy Cross Has Yet to
Meet It's Bitterest Rival
on the Gridiron.
RESUME OF The SEASONS WORK.

For local foot ball teams, the season
is practically ended Holy Cross, Wor-
cester academy and Worcester high, the
three teams in which everybody took
more or less interest win play but few
more games. Worcester high has no
more games scheduled. but the man
ager will try to get one for the
middle Of the week. If he succeeds, it
will be the last game, and if he can't
get one for Wednesday, he will call it
OF for the season.
Worcester academy has one more
game scheduled, ana Holy Cross has
yet to play Boston college. which is
the big game of the year for the wear
ers Of the purple, as Boston college is
more OF a rival than any other insti-
tuition the team has played this season.
The only game on the academy sched-
ule for the remainder of the season is
to be with Friends school of Provi-
dence.
Worcester Tech has finished it's sea-
son as far as the Institute team is
concerned. There may be one or two
class games. Highland military acad-
envy hasn't anything on the schedule.
but will try to arrange a contest or
two before the season is closed.
independent teams will have a few
warm battles. The NEST important
will be one between the Bra4fords and
w. A. G. efevens, which is scheduled
for Sutton lane grounds THANKSGIVING
day. Another, which is on the card
for that day, is game between the
Washburn d Moen teams, to take place
at Grove street grounds.
Holy Cross VIII wind up a season
which advances the school several
points in foot ball standing. The game
is a recent innovation at Holy Cross,
and has taken rapid strides. Only a
few years ago, Holy Cross was not
heard of in college foot ball
Base ball has been the favorite out
door game at Holy Cross for years. the
fruits Of which are apparent, for Holy
Cross is always up at the top of the
heap in that sport. In foot ball it has
been unusually backward But in
few years such. a aVancement has been
made that Holy Cross is being heard
from. Considering the entire absence
Of prestige which Is absolutely neces-
sary in foot ball world, Holy Cross
has made rapid development
The college continued this year to
put its best foot forward and the ad-
vance was steady. Holy Cross is
farther up than it was a year ago, and
has laid another stone to the founda-
tion on which it can build even better
next season.
Holy Cross still labors under a hand
leap which colleges of a greater foot
ball reputation have passed. With a
good foot bail reputation, good players
IN preparatory schools are attracted, so
that at the beginning of the year there
is material with which to begin work
res1l 10 iair CT
will come to Holy Cross by ana by,
but for the present it must labor un-
der its handicap making its way as
best it can. While the game has pro-
crossed finely at the college, and the
proper spirit has been shown in the
last few years, this seasons team should
be better than it was. 1t. isn't GER
tain but a better management of foot
ball affairs would have brought about
this result. From a financial stand
point, or arranging games with good
teams or the proper management of the
team from the college standpoint, moth
ing more could be desired. But taking
the squad there has been a woeful mis-
management somewhere The eleven
has not shown the knowledge of the
game that it should Several men knew
little of the fine points of their posi-
tions, or if they did, would not play
db lIey naQ DGen instructed.
There are men on the team who have
labored faithfully and hard and their
work shows it. For on the Holy Cross
team there are few players who would
make star foot ball men on stronger
team. But without assistance from the
team as whole there wasn't much op-
portunity to shine. There are others on
the team who listened to advice on how
the game should be played and then
played as they felt disposed. Their work
on the field showed they paid little heed
to the directions that had been given
them for a proper way of playing the
game. This spirit may be INDUCED in
with a team like Holy Cross on account
of the lack of suitable material at the
college. If several good players were
trying for one position as is the case In
nearly all institutions, the man selected
for the regular position is kept keyed up
to his best work all the time. With no
such incentive to drive them on, Holy
Cross men can take things easy if they
choose. To the credit of most of the
eleven it must be said that they played
as hard as II dozen men were striv-
ing for their places but with the few the
opposite was true, and that interfered
with the playing of the eleven as a
team.
The disregard for discipline was
shown by McTigue and Murphy when
the season was half way through. They
refused to obey orders of the captain,
for which they had to surrender their
uniforms. The position taken by Nc
Tigue is peculiar. He is captain of the
base ball team and. of all the men in the
foot ball squad, he should be the great
est stickler for discipline.
Capt Kenney deserves the greatest
credit of any athlete the college has
turned out. F. labored under great
difficulties, yet was not discouraged,
and worked as hard as If he obtained
assistance on all sides. The onerous
duties of captain did not detract from
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