The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-08-27
YALE FOOTBALL TALK
The Prospect for the Season TO
Begin in October.
Many of the Old Guard VIII he BACK
This Fall-Last Years Men VIII
Help Make Strong Team-Man-
asement Looking for Coaches and
Trainers-McBride Not Available.

NEW HAVEN, Aug. 25.-Ydle's football
season for 1900 will practically begin Sep
! TENDER II, when the main squad has been
ordered by Capt. Gordon Brown to meet
him in this city for preliminary work The
first games are with Amherst and Trinity
late in September before Yale opens for
the fall term, and when the candidates
| get down to practice there will be some
steady, hard work to be done. Thus far
the prospects for the commencement OF
| the season are not the most hopeful that
could be desired. AlmoGt every member
of the training force of the varsity squad
has received an invitation to take up the
work with some other university team,
and the ranks are considerably thinned
out.
This week 1t has evolved that William
E. Carey, who was assistant trainer to Jim
Robinson last year, has been offered
similar place with Columbia. Coach San
ford, of the latter team, has been anxious
to secure Trainer Carey to take hold with
the team in Brandford September TO- and
he may accept.
When jim Robinson went to Princeton
the gap caused by his withdrawal seemed
has been accentlated this week in the
news that William Keller, his assistant
when here, may follow him 10 Old Nassau.
John Loughran, the third assistant to the
Yale team, has also under consideration a
fattering offer to leave New Haven, and
at the present writing the New Haven col
lege men are wondering where their train
ers are to come from for the coming fall
campaign.
II has been decided to make the Hutch
inson Dormitory the headquarters of the
Yale team when 1t eongregates here on
September IL, thirty strong, for the PIE
liminary work. 1t looks now, on paper,
as if the Yale Varsity team for 1900 would
be one of the strongest that Yale has
ever had. The only players whom Yale
will lose this year by graduation will be
Capt. NJ. L. Mcbride, last years :ull
back; d. R. Francis the crack tackle;
G. w. Hubbell, end E. N. Sn.:jer, end,
and Howard Richards, half back. Tee
losses are not very heavy, when they are
compared with those which Princeton and
Harvard will both suffer, the latter in
Burden, Boal. and Parker and the former
in Edwards Poe, Hildebrande, Booth,
Wheeler, and Knight
The veteran players who will compose
the nucleus of the 1900 team co11prise
several of the best individual plasers in
last years college catalogues. a. H.
Sharpe who played first base on his
years baseball nine. will be back a. talf-
back; Capt. Gordon Brown will ASSUME his |
old position at guard; w. VI. Fincke will (,
be leading candidate again for the place |
behind the line. and H. P. Olcott VIII be |
a candidate for guard Beside these men, |
there will be G. S. Stillman, tackle; G. B.
Chadwick. halfback: Charles Gould, end; (
r. B. Keane. halfback. and p. T. Hale, |
n
Sharpe, Fincke. and Stillman gained for /
will form a strong beginning for the /
formation of the new team which Gordon |
Brown will captain.
Among the new men who will enter the |
Yale horizon as possibilities in the foot
ball line this fall will be a number of
promising young players. Mallory, the
Lawrencevilie Academy tackle, will enter,
and Minturn, of Croton School, who is a
splendid guard, viii also come here. Among
the others who are expected to wear the
blue from the preparatory academies are
Reeves, the st. Paul's School halfback;
Brewster. Comstock, and Dwyer, all of
the strong New Britain High School team
and most of the best material of the last
year 3 inter-seho1astic teams in Connecti-
cut. The makeup Of the team promises
10 be strong one this year, if any of the
present indications are fulfilled.
The question of the choice OF coach
for the Yale varsity this year is one
that is giving the Yale men a great
many sleepless moments. Captain Nc
Bride, of last years team. whom it had
been hoped Yale could secure for coach
this year. has decided that he cannot
spare the time for regular work with the
men, and has declined anything like a re-
sponsible position with the candidates.
Captain Hinkey, So cannot act in that
capacity, either, so that the prospects are :
rather complicated. 1t is probable that
Walter Camp will take a more important
position than before with the football
team and that he will practically head
,abinet of coachers. among the latter to
1e Murphy. Thorne, Mcbride, Bull, Bass,
md other distinguished veteran players