Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-10-11
THE FOOTBALL SEASON.


Reports From the Seats OF Learning more
Hopeful Than Usual.
Tho present football season gives
promise Of bringing out its share OF
nsy gridiron stars, and, judging from
thu reports from the "arious seats OIL
learnina-which ate n shade more hopes
ful than usual at this lime more thanX
its share, tays the New York Times.
Promising line men are attracting atty
tention in the early Inaotire, and alsoy
promising candidates for back Of the1
line position-. All this is we'll, and
points to several high-ciass eleyens
but among th SO budding stars there isl
as yet a scarcity OF frst-class materially
| III the kicking depat tment. II ther3
are future Brookes, Bairds, Butter
| worths or Brewsters either The coaches
are not proclaimng that fact or else
the kickers ha,en't yet shown their
full ability.
p]ayers Of this kind who have apI
peared in the last 10 years can aluosu
be counted ON ones firgers, without
going over the fingers second time.
| The sort OF men referred to are these
who combine accuracy with distance.
When one names o. Brewer and Writ
ing ton and lIaughton of Harvard, Bulb,
| te, worth, Mcbride, and Sharpe OF,
yania: Homans Baird and Wheeler OIL
Princeton O'Dea Of Wisconsin, Romes n
OF West Point. and Hersohberger on
Chicago, about all OF them are ransd.
All of the foregoing we're not strictly
frat -c,ass allaround kicSsra. The heatd
l-around kicker of them all waa1
Brooke, who cou d kick far and highN
and give tbs bali twist that made IN
difficult to hrlA. and now ana theu
could drop the ball over the goal bar.
Hudsou, the indian Quarterback.
deserves u place among tbt galaxy OF
sta, XII kera because Of his wonderful
knacN of makns goals from drop.
kick. He could also dror-kick goals
from touch down with surprising ire-
quency.
Yalt IL e.n't need new kirke' quite
so much as Pennsylvania, having
Sharpe, a go d man on thE t',of.k:cKsA
although ne has done nothing atartl'ne
in the way OF distance. BsaIde Hodg-
an Princeton has another p'oiniSins
kicker in Maths, while peithcr has
/ shown tue versatility that " heeler lad.
: Hallowell of Harvard is II fair punter,
! but they need hir more al emf 10 chase
, sicks down tho field. 1t is unfortunate
|, that Ashley If Up.un:bia il = jignt in
. weight Tor he has shown q RI markaale
q aptitude for the game, weieb, acrord-
ing to C1ach San ord, Is an en,i;ely
: new thing for him. Ashley Gap drop
kick with remarkable accuracy ana ia
q a fearless taozler.
4 A football Btatistioian has discovered
!. thu interesting fact that out OF "a col
4 lege eleyens this saison the number
i having captains in the lins ana the
!. number having captains back OF thu
n line is Just the same. There are twelve
/. of each.
!. Prinoeton's failure to open the foot
ball eeason Saturday is the only ob
, staole IN the way Ut comparing TIN
q leading college elevsns of the country
+ Oh the I'm shown Ivy their inilia
Il griiirop performances, says the New
d York Herald.
- Harvard has the hest OF any com
: parison on the basis of Saturday
AZ scores, for the crimson managed to rol
;. up "a points against the strong Yves
!. leyan team, although Harvard's lin
ff was dotted with new faces. Her vetera
10 backs were her yeomen, As Wesleyan
20 annually trounoes Trinity by a margi
- of from thres to four touchdowns.
a. will he seen that Yale's record of onl
"a % points against Trinity is far fTor
h favorable to the blue when compare
ID with Har,ard's showing.
=, When Yale's record of Saturday
y compared with her figures again
"a Trinity on previous SEASONS, it is ais
a. seen TO be unsatisfactory. Last yen
Al Yale rolled up 46 points against Trinit
IA In shorter halves than those paye
Saturday. If the figures made by fal
are taken az absolute in their signit
canoe Yale is not only weaker tia
Harvard, but is weaker than her ow
| last Near,a tenn.