Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-12
HAS A REMARKABLE RECORD
Goal Line of High school Team Has
Not Been Crossed This Season
Surprises In Foot Ball World.

|
| looks upon the achievements and efforts OF
it's grizzled haired constituents only with
admiration. From the small, inexperienced
youths who donned the moleskins at the
l commencement of the season, Coach Whip
| pie has developed strong heady aggrega-
| tion that has left nothing but clean record
and is worthy opponent for any team.
| One hundred and eighty-five points scored
| against opponents and It's goal to be crossed
for the first time this season tells the story
| better than words. The boys have simply
played themselves out of the High school
| class; have played everything in sight and
are still victors. The team is lighter than
any in the gridiron history of the Omaha
High school. but fast, snappy play and ex-
cellently coached team work. and inter-
ference is the secret of the success.
The team started on its victorious career
early in the season by playing the heavy
Hastings college eleven to a standstill, and
then some two weeks afterward defeating
the same team by score of to 0. Fol-
lowing this victory, the team defeated
Bellevue college by score of SO to o, and
the same week sacrificed the alumni 81 to O..
Tabor college, an old time antagonist, next
appeared on the field of action, fresh from an
unsullied career and tasted the wrath Of
the purple and white by score Of 2S to
0. The Fremont Normal school was easily
defeated by score Of 65 to 0, but the cul-
minating point was reached when the High
school lads played the strong Tarkio col
lege eleven to standstill, neither team
being able to score.
Tarkio college has for years ranked fore
most among the large teams of the trans
mississippi country. They outweighed the
local youngsters about twenty five pounds
to the man, and every member of the team
plays foot ball that is foot ball, but the
High school lads are possessed of a goodly
amount of that Anglo-Saxon quality COM
monty denominated grit" and refused to
yield at the critical stages OF the game.
Although the High school team was unable
to score still the game was virtual VIC
tory, and is a big feather in the eleven's
headgear
The team has a few more games for this
season and all with first class teams. No
vember Is the team will play Sioux City
at Sioux City; November %, Council Bluffs
at Omaha, and on Thanksgiving day Red
Oak at Red Oak. The rivalry that has ex-
listed between Omaha and Council Bluffs
for years will be sufficient to attach in
terest to that game. Sioux City and Red
Oak both have strong teams and will rustic
the Omaha lads for supremacy, but the High
school boys are practicing regularly and
hope to play the season through without
being scored against, and If good, hard con-
ecientious practice and playing will avail
they will surely succeed.
AT no previous time in the history of in
for nn11a uiatn hall
SO upset as they have this season. For Yale
to go down in defeat before Columbia; who
las only just begun to play foot ball again,
is something entirely unlocked for and is
the first time Yale has ever been beaten
except by Harvard or Princeton. The fact
also that Princeton was beaten by Cornell
shows conclusively that the big four can
no longer reign undisputed in the foot ball
world. The future presents pretty prob
lem. If the minor teams are getting too
strong to be beaten easily by the larger
colleges in practice games that Is to say
games that regarded by the latter as
practice and by the former as their big
games, what can the larger colleges do but
refuse to play them?
1t is manfestly unfair to Yale to say
that Columbia is stronger, when Columbia
was trained to the hour and Yale was
thinking only of her games with Harvard
and Princeton. Take the two teams a
mcIth later and Yale would probably win
hands down. Yet the seasons results show
q defeat for Yale and a claim by Colum-
bia of superiority. The same may be said
of the rest Of the big four, for in all their
minor games their opponents have every
thing to win and nothing to lose, while |
with the four it is just the contrary. If
they win, it is simply a matter of course; If
they lose, Immediately the team is put down !
as weak Such condition Of things can |
not last long and as every year the |
minor colleges seem to be getting stronger |
1t is only a question of time when the big |
four will have to prepare especially for their |
small as well as their large games.
Especially is this so at those colleges !
where the material is lacking, as at Prince
ton and Pennsylvania, for If many accidents
occur it so crippes the team that only
mediocre aggregation can be put into the
field for the small games, as happened most
signally at Pennsylvania this year, Har-
yard is in the least danger in this regard,
or she has SO much material as almost to
De bothered with it. She has nearly three
men for every position and they are all
men Of good caliber and worthy of the
'TWUSOH ledlH' year, iol ihotdhStp shO
las three sets of backs, each as good as the
asst, and they are easily interchangeable.
Yale also has good material, though not to
,e compared with Harvards.
The wonders which can be worked by
,ood coach have never been more clearly
hown than during the present season in
he cases of Columbia and Cornell. Alone
nd unassisted Sanford has developed at
Columbia an eleven which, II all predictions
70 not fail, will rank this season second
My to Harvard, and very possibly on a par
,ith her. Justly is Coach Sanford proud OF
is own work and OF the showing made by
is team. By his great success in one
eason' Sanford has practically carved for !
imself a paramount place at the head OF ,
he coaching department Of the blue and
,hlte university. I
Percy Haughton, too, should come in for
considerable share OF credit in the coach ,
lg line. Two weeks OF his admirable in ,
truction so rounded the Ithacan eleven ,
lto shape that the Tigers went down in /,
loriously before the wearers of the cor
elian and white. 1t is true that Cornell !.
Uttered defeat at the hands of Chicago :
fter Haughton had coached the team for