The age-herald., 1899-08-27
healed before the opening of the fall cam

Hedleu DeIOre the opening or the fall cam
 paign.
 In the meantime the other varsity elev-
 ems are hard at work preparing for the contests of the fall. W. A. M. Burden, the son of A. T. Burden, of New York, has
 been elected captain of Harvard, and Ben-
 Jamin H. Dibble, captain of last years winning team has been appointed head coach. W. H. Lewis, the famous center rush, will act as his assistant while B. G. Waters, one of the eX-captains of the Harvard eleven, will again look after the tackles. Burden, who is also president Of the class of 1909, is one of the most prom 1Slng young men on the team this year, having come up wonderfully during the past season. Last year he was substitute center but this year he will play right guard on the team. Last season was a
 most successful one for Harvard, the eleven showing a profit of nearly 1000,
 and it is safe ito say that with equally good work on the part of the team the
 coming season will be just as successful
 The schedule is a good one for even the early games will prove no walk overs,"
 Bowdoin and Wesleyan alawys managing
 to put up good fight. In the latter part
 of the season the team will have to face Wisconsin, Carlisle and Pennsylvania in succession, and, as the climax will come
 the final struggle with Yale. The prospect of having a game with Cornell has been dropped and Wisconsin has been substi- tuted.
 While Yale is doing no organized work
 this summer Captain Mcbride has sent football to each candidate and all are doing the individual practice necessary to fit them for the positions they desire to oc- cupy. The date on which they will report at New Haven has not yet been decided upon, but as the first game of the season is to be played with Amherst on Septem- Der 30, three days after the opening of the college term, the preliminary practice can- not be postponed much later than the 20th. The question of head coach is still an all- I absorbing topic in football circles, and while it Is possible that Walter Camp will take charge of all branches of athletic sports at the college, Frank Butterworth, | the famous fullback, has been prominently mentioned in connection with the football team, and Jim Robinson, who was former | ly with Princeton, will probably be selected l as physical trainer As to the team itself | the prospect for successful season is I most encouraging. Captain Chamberlain | is the only player to graduate whose ab- l sence will be keenly felt for there is an | abundance of material to fill all the other | positions.
 Princeton has arranged for but one | really big game this season. this to be | played with Yale on November 25. Captain l Edwards has already made his plans for
 the team work and he is satisfied that with 1 the assistance of Trainer Christie and I Freddy" Smith, the '96 quarterback who | has been coaching the eleven. the team Of | 1899 will reflect credit upon the college. l Pennsylvania plans have not been fully l developed but the schedule that has been | arranged is a strong one and calls for I games with all the clubs against which this | team has long made such good showing. | Very few of the strong men of last year I have left the college and Coach Woodruff l has plans to knock the team into shape l that may result in some rather surprising | developments when they make their ap- l pearance upon the gridiron.