The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-11

the pig skin through the posts. five times
out OF six tries
Princeton apparently needs goal
kicker One goal after five touchdowns
is a pretty poor showing, even on so
bad a day as yesterday
Pennsylvania has the hardest game Of
any OF the big four on hand for next
Saturday, with Brown. Yale will meet
Dartmouth. Harvard will tackle Colum-
bia, and Princeton will meet Annapolis.
Humbrd a young Tiger cub. recently
showed his claws by putting up a sensa-
tional game on the scrub team against
the varsity. lie is booked for a niche in
Old Nassaus Hall oDFame.
While Phillips, the Amherst fullback,
outpointed the men behind the Harvard
line yesterday, the crimson players were
able TO gain more ground on catching the
punts.
The Carlisle Indians have a lightweight
team this fall The only heavy men are
Smith at center. Wheelock at tackle, and
Pierce at fullback.
II Bloomer makes the Yale team this
year and Davis is equally successful at
Princeton, they will meet face TO face
in the Yale-Princeton game Nov. IL. Both
men played on the winning Phillips An
dover Academy eleven last fall.-Boston
Herald.
And Yale will have an easy time going
through Davis. as Bloomer was by far
his superior at AnGover last year.
not like head gears. He never wears one
himself, although his hair is of no use
as protection. Nor Is he in favor OF any
extra amount of pads.
Amherst gave Harvard n surprise yes
terday, ana would have scored were IL
not that time was called when they had
the ball on Harvard's five yard line.
simons, Columbias captain has re-
signed on account OF injuries and Nor
ley has been elected temporarily in his
stead.
Mike Murphy says the Yale eleven has
been overworked. and he has issued per-
emptory orders that several OF the reg
ulars must take a rest.
Although Scudder, the Brown quarter
back went through the narrowing ex-
perience of a fraternity initiation the
night before he PLAYED the same snappy
game yesterday that has characterized
his work all this season.
Three members Of the famous Carlisle
Indian teams will be on the Homestead
eleven this fall. They are Bemus Pierce,
Hawley Pierce. and Miller. This team
will undoubtedly be the strongest pro-
fessional eleven in the country this sea-
son.
1t is very evident that Brown is going
to be weak at centre this year, as botn
Tetrault and Hall are not very reliable
men Tetrault is the moro steady but is
not aggressive enough. while Hall is slow
and on his passes is nable TO throw the
ball almost anywhere. Neither are var
sity timber but are the best men avail
able and Brown will have TO make the
most of them.
Pennsylvania football players will this
fall wear pneumatic pads in the front
OF each trouser leg. Formerly a shin
guard was sewed there. but now row
OF four pneumatic tubes, each with a
mouthpiece for imitation and a rattan on
against the fatal muscle bruise. which in
capacitates the player for a week or
more. With this arrangement the rat
tans on the outside present the consist
ency of a shin guard while the soft in
f1ated tubes press against the leg OF the
wearer.-Philadelph Public Ledger.
Many coaches still adhere TO the prac-
tice of having small men play quarter
back though A. A. Stagg last year show
ed that this position on the Chicago Uni
versity eleven could be filled by heavy
weight. stage coached Kennedy, the Chi
cago captain, 10 play quarterback, and
this is what George Woodruff. the noted
University of Pennsylvania coach, has to
say of him:
Stage developed in Kennedy a quar-
terback whose absolute effectiveness in
that position never has been equaled. He
had all the duiclness and facility of mo-
ton usually Belonging to n lighter man.
but nevertheless he managed TO use his
100 pounds of SPLENDID muscle in such
manner as TO add from 25 10 so per cent.
i'm me value of every play executed "