The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-11
FOOT BALL GAMES.
Holy Cross and Acad-
envy Have Hard
Contests On.
YALE FRESHMEN PLAY HERE.
The Purple Battles at Mid
dletcwn-0ther Games
of Interest.
FOOT BALL GAMES TODAY

FOOi BALL GHmE Ed WIN .
Worcester Academy VS.. Yale freshmen,
at academy oval
Tech seniors VS.. Tech freshmen, at
Worcester oval
Highland military academy VS.. Millbury
high, at academy campus.
Holy Cross VS.. Wesleyan, At Middle
town.
Holy Cross second vs.. Gushing acad-
envy, at Ashburnham.
Harvard VS.. Dartmouth, at Cambridge.
Yale VS.. Pennsylvania State college, at
New Haven.
University of Pennsylvania VS. Univer-
sity of Michigan, at Philadelphia.
Cornell VS.. Lafayette. at Ithaca.
Williams VS.. Amherst a. Williamstown.
: Columbia VS.. West Point, at West
Princeton VS.. Carlisle Indians, at New
York.
Colgate VS.. University of Vermont, at
Albany.
Georgetown VS. Virginia Military acad-
envy, at Washington
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
VS.. Brown, at Providence.
Exeter VS.. Andover, at Exeter
TRINITY VS.. Naval Cadets, at Annapolis.
Today will be the beginning of the
end for local foot ball elevens. Holy
Cross will play its most important
game of the season to date in Middle
town, Ct. against the Wesleyan team.
The Connecticut Methodists have fooled
some Of the fastest in the collegiate
bunch, and they would be likely to
turn the same trick today if Holy Cross
had serious thoughts of winning, but
the Mt. st. James team hasn't
Holy Cross Will have its strongest
eleven n 1a RI Of
viii make bid TO cross the goal line.
Dartmouth has fallen before Wesleyan,
and as the New Hampshire eleven is
admittedly notch or two higher than
Holy Cross, not much room for doubt
is left as TO the outcome Of todays
game.
Holy Cross will line up as follows:
LIE. Ryan; Iii, Powers; Lg, Connor;.
c. Hogben: r.g., McCabe: TT, Toohig;
re-, Ruddy; qb., j. A. Sullivan: LII. b.,
Datters; r.h.b., Kenney; f.b., Monahan
Kelly. OReiIly, Eagan and Shine will
be subs
When Worcester academy lines up
against Yale freshmen at the academy
oval this afternoon, the spectators will
see the local eleven's strongest front
Little is known of the Yale freshmen
The academy has played in hard luck
since the opening of the season, and
today the students look for a chance to
shake the streak which has been a
Jonah in the elevens games Yester-
days practice at the academy showed
that the boys are keyed up to concert
pitch. Capt. Norris injured arm has
improved rapidly in the last few DAYS.
and hopes for a victory have been en-
hanced by the announcement that he
will play today
Taylor, left tackle, entered the game
yesterday, and will play today in his
regular position. He and Capt. Norris
nave been the mainstay of the team in
attacks on the left side of the academy
line. Taylor's sprained ankle did not
show itself a thing of life yesterday
and he entered practice as though he
liked it, Last night Capt Norris an
nounced the following line UP for to-
days game:
LIE, Kruse; 1t, Taylor; Lg., j. Da-
Wis; C., Nelson; r.g., Harrison; rt., H
E. Davis; re Russ: OBJ, Marshall;
RIB, Wheeler; LII. b., Sanderson f.b
Capt Norris.
Local elevens will figure in game at
Worcester oval, which has all the ear
marks of being whooping good one
Tech freshmen and Tech seniors viii
play, and since the disbandment of the
Tech team, the class elevens have COB
bled up all the good players who have
not been in foot ball togs this season,
and hustled them out for practice.
With men from the regular eleven dis
tributed in each class team as the nu
cleus, strong elevens have been turned
out
The seniors have every reason to be
confident of victory with Capt Walsh
and Brooks behind the line and the
regular Tech ends, Wood and Birge. in
the game. Nutting and Trail viii be
the guards, and with strong talent fill
ing in the other places the seniors are
well seasoned for victory. Yesterday
the eleven had light practice on Bliss
Held, and trick plays were tried The
team has developed a smoothness i'm
play during the past few days. which
makes the freshmen vince a bit.
the freshmen team win not be badly
off for good players. Spence. who has
played the season at quarter for Tech.
Will captain the class team Norcross,
X. Walsh, Meslor and Hobbs from the
Tech squad will give backbone to the
team. The freshies put lots Of ginger
into their practice yesterday and played
straight foot ball every minute of the
hour they were on Bliss field. Harry
l.. Dadmun will act as referee today.
and H. G. Irons, Tech special stu
dent, will be umpire.
The lineup of the teams will be:
Tech SenIors-L.e., Capt Wood 4. t.Ath-
erton, Johnson; |. g.. Trail; C.,
Jacobs; !. g., Nutting; r. t., L. Jacobs;
r. e., Birge; q. b.. H. T. Walsh: !. h. b.,
Allen; r. h. b., Williamson; f. b., Brooks
Tech F'reshman-L. e., Norcross,
Waite; 1t, Emerson; l.g., Lane, Foote;
G.. Reed; r.g., Dennis; TT, Parsons; re,
Eames, Brooks; OBJ, Capt Spence;
LIB, f. Walsh; RIB, Hobbs; fb.,
Mesor
Holy Cross second eleven, which has
received good practice in its daily line
ups against the college team, will play
Its first match game of the season Man
ager Peter E. Hand of the college team,
who has had the interests of the second
team in charge, has arranged a game
with Cushing academy at Ashburn-
sE,-- s-,s-,s- $50.