The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-17

the coveted trophy, which was so stub
borny fought for last season.
Brown left for Chicago this morning
and while they have long journey be-
fore they play the game. there is no
question but wSat ,ney will acquit lem
selves I'm a manner crcdtable 10 them
selves and 10 their college. Here's hop
ing their luck is as great as their journey
is long.
Speaking OF the officials in the Brown
Penn game, Horace Fogel says: "Corbin
of Yale makes one of the best referees
20 be found anywhere. Dudley might
be a good umpire if he stood on a line
with the two teams, so he could see
when the players are offsido, instead q;
behind one OF the teams where he can
not possibly tell whetner the one side
charges before the other puts the bail
into play"
Douglas q. Crawford. captain OF the
Phillips Andover track team last spring
and winner OF the half-mlle In the New
England interscholastic championship
game on Soldiers field last June. is play
ing fun back on the Williams college
freshmen team.
A 75-yard run by Henry. one OF the
backs on Lon" S;agg's Chicago Univer-
sity eleven, scored the touchdown that
prevented Chicagos defeat i'm its game
with University Of Minnesota at Mlr-
neapoiis. The run was made late in no
second half after Minnesota had scored
one.
Now that the University OF Pennsyl-
vania refuses for financial reasons 10 play
Brown in this city every alternate year,
IL is rumored that Princeton will also cut
out her Providence trip after this year.
Some Of the stars VINO will play on the
Homestead a. G. eleven this yoar are
Hall OF Yale and Poe of Princeton, ends,
Church OF Princeton !. L, Pierce OF Carl
isle Indians !. g., Overfleld or Penn Co.
Young of Cornell q. b., and Gammons,
Fultz and Richardson of Brown backs.
Another wall from Columbia is that
the team was not met at the station and
did not know how TO get TO its hotel or
out 10 Cambridge. Manager Shoemaker
surely Is hurting his college by making
statements which carry no weight and
make Columbia ridiculous.
Mccormack, Exeter's coach. will soon
receive the assistance of alumni. Crans-
ton, who probably shares with the la
mented big" Peters OF Yale the dis
unction of being the best centre ever
developed at Exeter, is expected next
week, and Barbour. former quarter at
Yale, and Guy Murchie of Harvard Will
give more or less attention TO the ele-
ven.
Harvard plays Bates at Cambridge to-
day. Yale meets Bowdoin at New IIa-
ven, Princeton Ines up against Syracuse
at Princeton, Pennsylvania entertans
Penn State at Philadelphia and the Carl
isle Indians journey to Baltimore TO play
the u. of NJ.
Football enthusiasm ct the University
OF Pennsylvania found vent last night in
a mass meeting. Nearly 1000 students.
armed with megaphones listened To ad-
dresses by DR.. ]. William White Capt
Fhckmir of the crew. Coach Woodruff
and Capt, Hare. After the meeting the
students marched into the city and
paraded the streets.
Julian Hawthorne, VINO wrote up the
Brown-Penn game for the Philadelphia
North American, makes the following
statement: Il may as we'll admit that
from beginning to end, / did not under
stand, OF even see, single play that
was made: but j had az least the wisdom
after the first few minutes, not 10 try
10 do so. II would have been ike at
tempting TO learn the Chi~ese language
from listening to two hours conversa-
tion between natives. Nevertheless, was
ridiculously interested in the proceedings
from start to finish" What was the
matter with Mr.. Hawthorne?
Brown misses Deke Pratt this year and
well she might for no better quarter
back ever donned the moleskins for the
brown and white. While Pratt did a
large amount of spectacular playing, his
great strength lay in his all around ahil.
ity, his great head work. his absolute
sureness in passing the ball and his per
feet interference, particularly in the Penn
game. While Charlie DAILY OF Harvard.
the all-American quarter. might have
been his superior In back field work.
Pratt set a standard In all other depart
ments of the game that DAILY could not
equal.
II Princeton can defeat the crack La
fayette college team next Saturday there
viii be feeling of intense relief at old
Nassau. The Lafayette eleven is thought
TO be fully as strong as mat OF last year,
which defeated old Penn by TO o. II
Will be recalled that the tigers. with all
OF their stars in the lineup. defeated La
fayette by IL TO i'm n game that was
repiete with hard playing The Easton
men this season have demonstrated about
the same strength, but as Princeton is
not yet in form the tigers will be forced
to play much better football than against
Annapolis I'm order TO win. Lafayctte's
team is heavy aud plays n dashlng game.