The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-12

The Anaconda football team has clos
ed its season and a majority of the
men who were members of the club
have scattered. Most of the best play
ers have gone to Butte, where they
have found berths in the rival clubs of
Captains Benson and Hooper. There
were some mighty strong and clever
players on the Anaconda team. as has
been well demonstrated by their work
during the fall Everybody here hopes
that they will make a mark for them
selves in their new field.
So far as the season went. the Ana
conda team was, success. Manager
Kilroy says that spite of the fact Of
small patronage, the treasury is in
such condition that all accounts can be
met, which is a thing that no football
team ever did before in Anaconda. AS
for the spring season. the time is yet
too far away to hazard any predictions
as to what will be done.
There will be big game in Butte to-
day between the teams of Captains
Hooper and Benson. Both these clubs
have been strengthened by the acquisi-
ton of some of the best men of the Ana
conda team, and redhot contest is OK
pected.
Not much talk has been heard lately
regarding the proposed trip of an all
Montana team. but the probabilities,
according to the opinion of football
men, are that the swing around the cir
Gle will be made. There is material in
Montana for an invincible team, and 1t
seems a safe prediction to say that,
should the tour be made, the Montana
boys will bring home the scalp locks of
ever team they meet.
In football game week ago be-
tween the classes of Berkeley univer-
ing student, While tackling an oppos-
ing player, broke his neck and died
shortly afterward.
What the ultimate standing of the
leading varsity football teams will be
to as much conjecture and apprehen-
sion in this country as the Boer war
is in Great Britain. One thing seems to
be certain, which is that if the big
four remains a classification for the
four teams which have shown the best
results on the gridiron this season. Co.
lumbia is likely to be in it. and Penn
sylvania university is not likely to be
far from being the absentee. will Co
lumbia succeed Pennsylvania in the
big four?" is the question that is now
agitating the minds of all enthusiastic
football players.
Since the defeat of Pennsylvania by
the Indians her position has been re-
sarded as especially shaky, and with
the acquisition by Columbia of Coach
one of the best center rushes and
guards that Yale ever had, Columbia
has been showing remarkable work.
From practically new material San
ford has managed to evolve a football
team which is fit for tackling the, big
gest opponents that it can be pitted
against. With the exception of pos
sible weakness at the ends, the play of
Columbia is up to the average of that
of any of the star teams. In defense.
which Sanford is making a great point
of, Columbia is as strong as any of
her rivals and her lineup presents an
aggregation of talent most remarkable
when its brief experience is considered.
1t is true that the men are not all new,
but until a few weeks ago they had
never played together.
Her most sanguine Well wishers did
not dream that the Yale veterans were
going to bite the dust in such fashion
as they have done and the sight of old
Eli crushed and hopeless after the on
slaught of her once almost contempti-
BILE foe has revolutionized calculations
as to the final results of the inter-col-
legiate games.
1t is said that some q years ago a
Columbia university team obtained a
victory over Yale, but the records of
the game do not include such an event
these showing that down to 1884 Column
bia was included in the big four, but
that not having won a game in that
time, she was dropped from the list and
has remained out ever since. A special
match may, however, have been ar
ranged in 1878 and have resulted as
claimed.
There is considerably more doubt
over the ability of Pennsylvania to hold
her own in the race for. supremacy than
in that of Yale. Old Eli simply had his
breath taken away by the vim and
nimbleness of his moderated opponent.
The play of Pennsylvania has been
gradually approaching condition of
stagnation and indications point to rad
zeal defects in it which it seems doubt
full can be overcome before 1t is too
late in the season to retrieve the losses
suffered. 1t is certainly true that many
of Penny's cracks are or have been on
the hospital list, which counts for a
good deal bur there are, other and
grayer reasons for the misgiVings OF
her friends. There are fundamental
shortcomings with which individual
playing has nothing whatever to do.
The principal of these it is conceded by
all of the critics is the stubborn ad-
herenee of the university team to the
famous guards back style of play
10 which everything else is made sub