The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-10-24
5000 for coaching the football team they
have a gold brick of the deepest dye.

$1,000 for coaching the football team they
have gold brick OF the deepest dye.
Fincke, one OF Yales most promising
candidates for quarter Is being tried at
half back. with fair success.
II Princeton starts to play ungentIe-
manly football at Providence next Sat
urday there will be some very interest
ing incidents TO relate.
With 10 scrub teams and a varsity
squad playing the game, Harvard should
be able To pick and develop an eleven
competent to win from any college In the
country.
BUNNY Booths university OF Nebraska
team Is cutting a wide swath in the
West Booth is studying lay at the uni
versity and is putting in his spare time
with the eleven.
Gierasch. the Harvard half-back. who
has tried four years for the team and just
barely missed It, has been put out of the
game this year with a weak ankle. II
must be sore disappointment for him.
A large crowd should greet PRINCETON
on Andrews Field next Saturday. not
only In expectation OF seeing fast
game but &c show the Tigers that Prov
idence appreciates good football. This
may also be this city's last chance TO
see Princeton play here. as they and
Pennsy. have threatened to cut the Prov
idence trip off their schedule. The cause
may be attributed TO lack OF crowds.
Coach Robinson OF Brown says that
University of Pennsylvania should have
little trouble In running up big score
on Chicago A. A. Saturday, especially
as Chicago will be weakened after 1000
mile journey.
Columbia, undaunted. has begun prac-
tice for the Yale game Saturday. San
ford had more than 30 men out Monday
and yesterday. and the men put as much
spirit into their work as II they had been
victorious In their TWO big games.
Frank Hinkey. Yales famous end. will
arrive I'm New Haven this week Hinkey
will do much toward strengthening Yale's
supposedly weak ends.
Brown will catch Harvard this year.
when she will be in the most critical con-
dition OF the whole season.
Most OF the teams no doubt will have re-
ceiyed some hard knocks In the Penn
game, and all will ba~careful so as not TO
get more injuries for the big game with
Yale.
1t liz not likely that the g, 900 crowd at
the Harvard-Yale football game at Cam
bridge last year will be exceeded in 1900.
The big game at New Haven will not
draw within 10000 OF last years total at
Soldiers Field. and at Princeton and
Cambridge this <-s there will not be
nearly as large crowds as at New Haven
Nov. q.
The Chicago management accounts for
its defeat by Brown as due TO the poor
condition of the eleven and to the fumb-
ling of the backs, one OF whom, Henry.
played with broken hand. Browns s
work, however. is praised highly and the
eleven is spoken OF as the best that ever
played at Chicago. The Pennsy 80 team
Is included in this statement.
Heffelfnger. the old Yale star. saws
that Dick Sheldon, is the toughest pro-
position I'm the way of strong man''that
he has ever tackled. "Hef'' has some-
what OF reputation for strength, and
his opinion on this subject ought TO be
worth something. The only trouble IS
that Sheldon does not know the game
and this is what Heffelfnger is trying 10
teach him