Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-11
ON THE GRIDIRoN.
None of the College Teams Is Doing ss Excellent Work.

 through bunting exercise, the ends running down with the ball. Coach Reed singled out Tennent, the new line candidate, and devoted a half hour to teaching him. the center's mode of play ing. New formations were tried, the guards being brought back of the line.
 Emporia. Kan, Oct 11.-Walier Priest, a member of the Kansas State Normal team, who was seriously in- jured in a game of football between the State Normal and State university teams at Lawrence Saturday, and who was brought home unconscious, is in a precarious condition. It is feared that q clot of blood has formed on the brain as the result of kicks received ill a scrimmage for the ball. All the mern- bers of his family have been sum- moned to his bedside.
 COlumbia's football team went through it's last practice yesterday for the game with Harvard tomorrow at Cambridge. No rough work was done and there was only a lineup for few minutes. to give Weekes practice at hurdling the line. Coach Sanford gave some time to perfecting the Varsity in blocking kicks and holding to pre- vent blocking. In both these the men showed neat snap and skill.
 Pennsylvania is to have tackling dummy. This is a great innovation for Pennsylvania, for never has such q thing been seen on Franklin field. Coach Woodruff is not opposed to the dummy, but he has no faith in them, for he believes that tackling is in- str on hot learn to tackle in the rush line cannot learn to, tackle at all. The graduate coaches want the dummy and Wood ruff has consented to admit it to the field. It will make it's appearance in a few days.
 New Haven, Oct 11.-Yale's football players went without practice yester- day. taking an afternoon train for Bal timore. Captain Gould took thirty players. Purely scrub eleven will meet the Baltimore Medical college team tomorrow afternoon. The var sity eleven will during the afternoon, practice against the scrub players in another part of thesffeld. The varsity will meet the Annapolis Cadets next Saturday. Dick Sheldon and Clarence Weymouth did not go. Sheldon is not yet well. Weymouth has not reported and it is now feared that he will not return.
 Princeton, Oct 1.-The Tigers failed to show any improvement yesterday afternoon over the ragged work which they displayed in the game with New York university Wednesday,. The backs fumbled almost constantly and fell into the interference in a-sloyeuIy fashion. while the quarterback passed the ball in bad form. In the eight minute halves that were played the varsity failed to score single touch down. So frequent were the fumbles and other misplays that the varsity invariably lost the leather after few plunges. The scrub. on the other hand, made some big gains past the first eleven's forwards, particularly around ROper's end. He was boxed out of the play several times when Morse start ed him for good advances.
 West Point. Oct 11-Captain Casad of the cadet football team is in the hospital with an injured head. He smashed it in a collision with Daly, Haryard's former captain, who is now a member of the plebe class. 1t was in practice game Wednesday that the accident happened. Daly and Casad were opposed to each other. Casad tackled Daly, who was running with the ball. In some way their heads came together and Casad dropped like q log. He was carried off the field to the hospital. 1t will be several days before he can attend to his duties. The next day Daly also went to the hos iPita1 with a sore hand. An abScesS had formed on the finger.
 Cambridge, Oct 1.-The Harvard football team showed decided slump in its work yesterday. The second eleven defeated the varsity, one touch down to nothing in two fifteen minute halves. In the first half the varsity could not advance the ball out of it's own territory and twice was forced to punt. The first kick was blocked by McGrew, and Mackay caught the sec ond one and scored a touchdown after a seyenty-five yard run through the entire varsity team. Roberts was at center on the second eleven against Sargent. whom he outplayed complete ly. A valuable man is Lyon. second year law tudent, who came from the Iowa State college, where he was full back and llalfback. He is unusually TUT DdChs @OO pOunuS at present, but is very active and ex- perienced.
 The first big game in the west will be played tomorrow between the Uni versity of Minnesota and. the Univer- sity of Nebraska. In way it will be Yale vs Princeton. since Dr Williams, the former Yalensian. is coaching Min nesota, and Booth. the former Prince ton center, is coaching Nebraska. The tendency towards the picturesque in names to be found in the west is illus trated, the Minnesota players being known as Gophers. The most interest ing point, however, i'll connection with this game is the fact that Rogers, the former Carlisle school star, is a mem Der of the Minnesota team. Nebraska, it is said will protest the Indian on the ground that he is ineligible under the one-year residence rule and that he played five years at Carlisle. Min nesota. it is said, declares the protest will have no effect, as Carlisle is re garded as preparatory school.
 FOOTBALL sQUIBS.