Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-26

Oak and Council Bluffs on the one side and
Omaha, Lincoln and Tekamah on the other.
Red Oak entered yesterdays game with &
percentage Of 1000. Council BLUFFS having
lost to both Omaha and Red Oak, scores a
cipher. Omaha's mark is 500, having won
from Tekamah on forfeit, and lost to Lin
coin; Lincolns is 500, having won from
Omaha and lost to Tekamah on forfeit, and
Tekamah's is likewise 500, having won and
lost two games, both on forfeit. Lincoln
had the least number of points scored against
it and was accordingly qualified to meet Red
Oak for the interstate championship in spite
OF the equality in the percentages of the Ne
braska teams.
Delegates to the annual meeting OF the
Interscholastic league will assemble in
Omaha on December 2. A schedule OF games
will be arranged for next season, the cham
pionship will be awarded and officers will be
elected.
1t is definitely announced that Omaha and
Council Bluffs will meet a second time in
this city during the Christmas holidays.
The Omaha Medical college eleven feels
new confidence in its prowess after its easy
victory over the Creighton collegians one
week ago and expects to accumulate other
laurels before the season closes. The team
shows UP for daily practice on its oval at
Tenth and Pierce streets and has sufficient
bulk to make 1t dangerous adversary, now
that it's team work is being perfected. A
generous proposal has been received from
the Young Mems Christian association Of
Salt Lake City for a game there and sufii-
cient guaranty is offered to cover the ex-
pense of the trip. The students, however,
contrary to the usual custom of their kind,
begrudge the time from their studies. An
other proposal has been received from the
Kansas City Medical college team, one OF
the strongest aggregations in the west, and
a counter proposal has been made inviting
the Missourians to this city. Negotiations
are also under way with Tabor and Doane
colleges.
A great deal of interest centers in the
game between the two great government
institutions at West Point and Annapolis
on December 2. This is the first meeting
Of the naval and military academies since
1S9S and their comparative merits are there
fore an unsolved problem. West Point has
had the advantage of playing with Harvard
trained vigorously under alumni coaches
while Annapolis has depended upon resi-
dent instructor with outside assistance.
West Point is not up to its usual weight
this year and its backs have not displayed
the dash Characteristic in the past. An
napolis, on the other hand, has been for
tunate this season in it's original material
and has faithfully developed it's team play.
The four games played previous to 1893
resulted in favor of the naval cadets, with
one exception. The first meeting, in 1890,
took place at West Poiut, when the visitors
won by score Of "a to 0. The soldiers, bent
on retrieving themselves, turned the tables
the following year with a score of sc to 16.
In 1892 and 1898 Annapolis developed rapidly
in strength and generalship and won by the
scores of 12 to 4 and to 4. In the latter
year the authorities at Washington felt that
the annual game was interfering in some
u.,imaginable way with the duties df the
cadets and forbade the custom No objec-
tion was made, however, to the cadets play
ing with other elevens, and they have ac-
cordingly kept abreast of the times. The
game will be played on Franklin field Phil
adelphia, as objection was made to meet
ing on the local ovals.
The game between Harvard and Yale one
week ago was probably. the most scientific
exhibition of foot ball ever set before the
American public. Harvard pressed its
adversary hard and was only prevented from
scoring on three occasions by the desperate
rallies of old Ellis sons. With its inimitable
interference and team work the crimson
players advanced the ball to Yales two
yard line, but were unable to push it over.
An attempt to gather in points was
also made by place kick from the twenty
ive-yard line and drop kick from the
twenty ave-yard line, but neither passed be-
tween the posts.
Yale accomplished in large measure what
it started out to do, namely the disruption
of the famous Harvard interference, and its
backs sifted through the line and reached
the runner with amazing agility. In its
kicking game Yale also excelled, Mcbride
gaining an average of fifteen yards on every
exchange of punts. The Yale ends, however,
could not prevent the Harvard men from
carrying back the ball more than far enough
to make good the deficiency.