The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1899-10-21
LOCAL FOOTBALL PLANS
Many Games Arranged by College
and School Elevens.
The Georgetown University SEIZED
ule-CoIumbian Men Become Menu
hers of Other Teams-The Outlook
for the Season-The Situation i'm
Maryland-Championship Chances.

The local football season practically
opens today, and a number of changes in
the various teams is its special feature
In fact, a revolution has taken place in
the football teams. This has been brought
about by the Columbian University and the
Columbia Athletic Club, which have this
season refused to support a representative
team These two organizations have al
ways been represented by the best players
in the District. Now that the club and the
university are not supporting football their
Old men are playing on other elevens.
This dividing up OF the good players
among local teams has equalized their
chances, and the fight for the District
championship will be closely contested.
The Young Mems Christian Association
| for TIE last five years has not bsen repre-
! scented on the football field. After the new
| clubhouse was purchased, under the man
2gement of the present directors football
was again taken up, and this year the as
sociation has succeeded in placing one of
the strongest elevens in the South on the
| local gridiron.
The Young Mems Christ an Assoc cation
| team is made up almost entirely OF the
best players of last years Columbian
University and Columbia Athletic Club
teams. In getting a good manager, the
y. Nj. c. A. was exceedingly fortunate
Leonard Nicholson, the old Columbian
Varsity manager, viii this year attend to
the business transactions of the Young
Mems Christian Association team.
When the business of organizing began
there wore many obstacles IN ha ovarenma
Grounds had TO be secured, equipment for
the team purchased. and schedule ar
ranged. As ii was late in the season when
Mr.. Nicholson accepted the management,
good schedule was particularly difficult
TO make up. However he has been very
successful, and by the latter part of next
week he will have one completed. TIE
captain of the team is Robert Eaton, an
old Williams College man. He is perfect
ly fitted for the position. After three
years OF college training and coaching, he
has become seasoned footbal.er and
good, valuable coach.
The Georgetown VARSITY Team.
The success of the '9s team at George
town caused the students TO enter the
gridiron this year on a much larger scale,
and the services Of Coach Church, of
Princeton, were secured Under him the
team has developed into one of the strong
est college elevens in the country In the
early part of the season some sixty candi-
dates appeared upon the field. With all
this material to work on, Georgetown has
now two teams, the Varsity and the scrub
The management this season has not, il
is said, been what II ought TO be, and in
stead of a number of large games, the
schedule is confined mostly TO local teams.
J. Long, the captain of the Varsity
team. is well known in the football world,
and is the coolest and headiest player in
this part of the country. Mr. Long is
native of Hawaii and he learned the game
while at college at home.
In this country he played two years Oh
California college teams and last year ON
Georgetown.
The schedule of games for this season is
as follows: Today, 81. Johns, of Annapo-
lis, at Georgetown; Wednesday, October
%. Baltimore Medical College at George
town; Wednesday, November /, Gallaudet
College, at Georgetown; Saturday. No
Yember 4, University OF Maryland at
Georgetown; Saturday, November IL, Vir-
ginia Military Institute, at Richmond; Sat-
urday, November is, University of Vir-
ginia, at Georgetown; Wednesday, No
vember p. open date, and Thursday, No
vember 80. Virginia Military Institute, at
Georgetown.
Galiaudct College.
Under the most promising conditions the
Gallaudets footballers began training this
season. Nearly all of last years men re-
turned to the college this fall and there
was but very little breaking-in to be done
For the past two years the Kendalites have
won the Maryland Intercollegiate cham
pionship, and from the present outlook
they will capture the banner for go. The
Maryland Intercollegiate Association almost
went TO pieces about two weeks ago, when
the Maryland Agricultural College with
drew from il, and had it not been for the
excellent management of the Gallaudet boys
there would have been no association this
year.
The teams composing the Maryland Asso-
citation are the Johns Hopkins University
st. Johns College, the Western MARYLAND |
College. and the Gallaudet College Prof !
Hall OF Gallaudet has acted as the teams !
coach since September, and under his direc- /
toTship the slowness which has ALWAYS been |
prominent fault with the team. has al. !
most entirely disappeared and the Kendall |
Green boys are without a doubt the strong
est college eleven in the Maryland associa- /
tion.
The schedule for 1899 is as follows: To-
day. Gallaudet- University of Virginia at
Charlottesville, Va; October 25, Gallaudet-
Central High School, at Kendall Green:
November l, Gailaudet- Georgetown Var
sity, at Georgetown; November II, Gallau-
det-Johns Hopkins, at Kendall Green; No
vember is. Gallaudet- St Johns. at An
napolis. Md; November %, GalIaudet
Western Maryland, at Kendall Green. and
November 30, Gallaudet-Y. NJ c. A., in
Washington.
The School Teams
Among the preparatory schools the foot
ball rivalry is fast bringing out new teams.
The high schools, the Friends Select
School, and the Emerson Institute are the
leaders of the District schools AS the
larger part OF their teams are filled by bows
Who Will enter college next fall they play
almost as hard a game as the collegians
These school teams are arranging series
OF games among themselves Probably
the best OF the schoolboys teams is that
Oh the Emerson Institute. They PLAYED
their first game yesterday afternoon at
Georgetown College with the Western High
School. After two fifteen minute halfs the
Westerns were DEBATED by a score of 80
There are also a number of youngsters
whose love for the gridiron has led them
TO forming clubs, and the Monument lot is
their training grounds.
The Olympias and the Gonzaga College
teams are undoubtedly the Monument lot
leaders, and the fight for supremacy be-
tween these two elevens this year is the
Lalk of all the Monument lot enthusiasts.