Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-01

this season than they have been for years.
Our team will consist mostly Of new ma
terial but will be strengthened by several
of the old players of last year. Our team
will average about 145 pounds. AS we have
not yet arranged our schedule or determined
definitely the positions for our players we
cannot at present give them. Can do so
and will give schedule by November 1 or
sooner. ROSCOE GREENLEAF,
Manager of Tekamah Foot Ball Team.
Foot Hall Notes from Chicago.
CHICAGO, Sept. 22.-To the Sporting
Editor of The Bee: The two varsity
elevens between which Chicago divides its
sympathies are already in the field in par
TALLY matured condition, though the college
year has barely opened. Stagg has had the
University OF Chicago squad in more or less
faithful training since the middle of August,
and 1t is already showing good form The
Northwestern men began active work more
tardily, Captain Hunter only arriving at the
university yesterday, in time for the open
ing recitations.
Chicago will apparently continue its open,
running game, and the clever lodging in
the practice contests this week was feature
which had evidently been carefully culti
waited. The line, and particularly the center,
appeared weak and mass plays were not fire.
quently attempted. In the game with the
Engewood high school on Wednesday HAM
i'll and Henry, the speedy halves, and Slack,
left end, made repeated long sprints, the
latter in one instance clearing seventy five
yards through broken field. The score
was run up to 45 to against
the high school boys, Captain Kennedy
III nlyi
accuracy.
Stages revolutionary experiment of
putting a 1SO-pound man at quar-
ter has proved a success, as Ken
nedy gets into the plays with the agility
Of a man two-thrds his weight The ex-
pertinent naturally is not conclusive, as it
all depends on the man.
What gains Englewood made were through
right tackle and guard, where the varsity
showed to poor advantage, and at one time
the youngsters promised to work through
this weak spot to the goal line At center
also Webb failed to hold his man, and the
entire line looked decidedly insecure. In all
other ways the varsity did good work, the
punting being exceptionally strong. Ken
nedy frequently sent the ball fifty yards,
getting 1t away quickly and at a good
height which enabled the ends to get down.
usual to the beginning of season, but the
men show a vigor and fire which must be
encouraging to these who wear the maroon.
+. B. Barnes of Omaha, physical director
of the Young Mems Christian association,
acted as timekeeper in the game with
Englewood. He was on his return from
vacation trip to Boston and New York.
Athletic affairs at the Northwestern uni
versity are in state of confusion. Prof ].
Scott Clark, after five years leadership, has
resigned. leaving the control in the hands OF
DR.. Hollister, the eX-Pennsylvania athlete
and Beloit foot ball coach, The latter's posi-
tion will be similar to Stages at Chicago.
except that he will exercise more complete
power. The Evanston squad shows an abun-
dance Of heavy material and the purple ad
herents hope for reversal of the triple
defeat Of last year at the hands Of Wiscon-
sin, Minnesota and Chicago.
A new plan has been introduced which it
is felt will put the eleven on a far more
effective footing. The remoteness of the
law, medical and dental schools, which are
located in Chicago, has hitherto made it i'm
possible for them to compete for places on
the team, but this year players from the
professional schools will eat at the Evanston
training tables and Hollister will have his
pick of 900 men instead of 400. The dental
| school has produced numbed of capital
players and three OF them are expected to
| make the varsity. They have an advantage
in age and weight
Local collegians do not take kindly to the
| recent decision to locate the Michigan-Wis-
consin game in Chicago on Thanksgiving
day and promise that 1t will be hopelessly
overshadowed by the home contest. Wis
consin is to play Illinois in Milwaukee on
| November II, however, and the management
| feared that the brewers could not support
two games so close together.
WILL B. WELSHANS
In general, It may be said that the best
| foot ball material to be found in any of the
eastern colleges this season will be found
| at Pennsylvania. This is a comparative
| statement. Never before has Pennsylvania
had so many men at the start of season,
and they are good men, too 1t should
have no difficulty at all in turning out a
line OF unusually strong caliber Its ends,
though hardly likely to be up to the stand
| ard of recent years, are still likely to be
first class. while behind the line its pros
poets at this time are much better than
| last season. This means, OF course.
stronger eleven than 1t had last year and
unless signs fail or accidents intervene, a
| successful team.
| Next to Pennsy Harvard seems TO have the
| best outlook. Its line Of last year did very
| creditable work and this season remains al
most intact, and what vacancies there are
| can easily be well filled with the material
at hand leaving nothing but the problem Of
! fixing up the back field. This OF course
will be far more difficult, as there is little
chance of its replacing Dibble and Houghtor
with as efficient men, and while DAILY may
remain at quarter it cannot hope to have az
we'll rounded an eleven as that which wor
the championship last fall.
At Princeton the prospect is Indifferent
but not wholly bad. Although it won from
Yale last year It did not have a strong team
at ALL Princeton will lose Cowds from
the line, and also Gear and Blacks place
behind the line must be filled. There seems