The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-09
A BUSY WEEK.
Local Foot RallTeams
Have Good Games
Scheduled.
TECH WILL MEET HOLY CROSS.
The High School and Acad-
envy Teams Have Hard
Contests.
TECH WILL MEET HOLY CROSS.

The local foot ball season begins in
earnest this week. All school teams
of this city have important games. The
most important of the week is sched-
uled for Saturday, the contesting teams
being Holy Cross and Tech. Worces-
ter academy has to play one of it's most
important games of the season We'd
nesday against Groton academy. The
game will be at Groton.
Worcester high school had a busy
week before it with three games ar
ranged, but two of them have been
Cancelled. 1t had a game for today
with Wesleyan academy at Wilbraham,
and return game with the same team
in this city Wednesday, but
BOTH HAVE BEEN CANCELLED
by the Wesleyan academy eleven. The
latter evidently fears the strength of
the Worcester high school team. The
other game of the week for the high
school lads comes Friday, and will be
played IN Springfield against the
Springfield high school team.
Worcester academy has a home game
Saturday, the opposing team being En-
glish high school Of Boston. That
game will be played at academy oval.
The main interest of the game be-
tween Holy Cross and Tech will centre
on Techs ability to score. Holy Cross
won easily from the Tech team of last
year, rolling up big score. The OBJ
5ect Of the Tech team in Saturdays
game will be to make a better showing
than last years team. Tech has
mapped out big undertaking in this
The Holy Cross team showed unex-
pected strength in the game at the oval
Saturday, when it polished off Trinity
by score of 80 to 0. Although Trinity
was decidedly weak, such score shows
that the other team is a strong one,
regardless of the weakness.
The chances are greatly in favor of
a big score for Holy Cross, and Tech
will do well if 1t gets a touchdown,
unless there is a big improvement in
it's play.
Tech will institute a change for the
better In training today. Hitherto it
has been the custom of Tech foot ball
men to take a day off on the Monday
following a Saturday game, but Coach
Putnam is greatly
OPPOSED TO SUCH A PRACTICE
and had a serious difficulty with the
players last week on that account The
men will be out this evening for prac-
tice The team did we'll Saturday in
scoring against Amherst All they
hoped for was a touchdown. None of
them thought for minute they could
beat Amherst. 1t was doubtful if they
could score, so that when they did, they
were content. They will be satisfied
with the result Saturday if they can
score against Holy Cross.
Holy Cross will probably stiffen UP
its defense to prevent Tech going the
length of the field. Judging by the
work of the Tech lads when practicing
aggressive plays against the high school
team and the defense which Holy Cross
put up against Trinity, Tech does not
stand any too coed chance of reach
ing the Holy Cross goal line The
backs will have to do better work than
they have yet shown In practice, as
Holy Cross men are showing a great
ability in breaking through and an
improvement in tackling. If the Tech
backs continue to run far out as they
have done in every game thus far they
will be easy victims for Holy Cross
tacklers.
The improvement which Holy Cross
players showed in single week is really
wonderful. For the first time this sea-
son the men showed something like
team work. The old faults which were
utterly inexcusable such as
HIGH TACKLING AND FAILING TO
HIT
the line low have been remedied. The
change of positions of several men has
done much to accomplish the good work
Monahan is q big improvement over
Powers at full back, except in one par
ticular and in that he is about Powers
equal. That is in holding the ball. Mona
han showed a tendency to tumble with
out reason which was one of Powers
failings. However Monahan is a new
man in the position and when he has
had as much practice there as Powers
he may hold the ball all right.
On the other hand, Powers certainly
plays at tackle as well as Monahan did.
His tackling Saturday was far better
than when he was back of the line. Ken
ney is an excellent back. O'Reiily, who
played with him Saturday for the first
time, gives evidence of being able to
take care of the position. He has
happy faculty of
FOLLOWING THE BALL
closely as was shown by getting it after
several fumbles. He showed a weakness
in failing to pick his mole properly,
humping into his interference several
times when the latter was checked by
opposing players He ran a trihe high
Saturday, which wasn't a noticeable |
big holes his forwards opened in the
Trinity line, but which would have been |
apparent had he been against SITTER
argument. However, O'Reilly is speedy |
in starting and does not stop easily, SO (
he is valuable man.
The line was strong in breaking
and Teen will have to brace up
greatly to hold the Holy Cross rush line.
Worcester Academy is unfortunate
just before its first important game.
one of the best men on the
team both for defensive and aggressive
play, is at home for a week. His absence
will greatly weaken the line, as nobody
can fill his place satisfactorily The
team picked up well and is now playing
q strong game. The main fault of the
team is slowness Of the backs and ends
The latter have been drilled continually
and are just beginning to come around L
rhe team fumb,cd badly in Saturdays
game with Williston but will doubtless
overcome that fault this week. Practic-
ng with an old ball which was soft
,aused the fumbling. The men will be
1racticed with ball fully inflated this
week and they will be able to hold it as
veil as an old ball in a day or two
Worcester high school team is show
ng good strength and ought to i'm
prove. The men are hard workers and
PLAY FAST FOOT BALL.
md when they tackle an opposing play
n they do it with view of having that
'layer know 1t. The team has been sub
ected to criticism in the last few DAYS
or which there has been no cause. It
S alleged that boys who do not attend
he school were run in against Gardner