The Washington times., 1901-09-18
FOOTBALL SEASON NEAR.
Work on the Griliron Begins at
Many of the Colleges.
The Outlook for This Years Play
Problems the Various Coaches
Have to Face-Hnrynrd Handicap
ped at Stnrt-SchcduIe of Gnucs.

| various Coaches
Have to Face-Hnrynrd Handicap
ped mt Stnrt-SchcduIe of Games.
Less than week now remains before
| the opening of the college football season..
and at all the big institutions of learn
ing in the country the teams have either
begun preliminary practice or start in
work today. At Columbia and Pennsyl-
vania the players have been out for sew
eral days. The forces of Harvard are
also familiar with their padded suits by
| this time. while practice at Princeton
and Yale began yesterday.
1t is too early yet to attempt to forecast
the results of the seasons play, but the
problems which the various coaches have
to face can be briefly outlined Perhaps
! the hardest of the lot is that now before
Head Coach Reid of Harvard Besides
the decentralization of the university's
football forces after the overwhelming
defeat at the hands of Yale last year. the
further handicap of an almost entirely
new team has to be overcome. OF last
years veterans, DAILY, Lawrence, Burnett,
Sawin, Ellis and HallowelI have graduated
| and Kendall and Geirasch will not return.
This leaves Barnard. Lee and Sargent,
with Captain Campbell and Bowditch.
The rest of the team will be practically
new men. Coach Reid is evolving a new
system of offence. the old Harvard style
of play having been beaten at all points
by the new play which the Yale coaches
sprung on the opponents Of the blue last
year.
At Yale the question of head coach
has yet to be decided. The Yale practice
has been delayed a week. because Captain
team, has been Obliged to give his at
tention to the coming meeting with the
English athletes, and. in the absence of
coach, there has been no one to direct
the practice. The position was offered to
Gordon Brown, last years captain. but he
declined it. Yale can hardly hope to have
the magnificent team with which she won
her victories last year. OF the men who
were expected to report today Rafferty,,
end; Sheldon. guard; Ocott, centre, and
Chadwick half back, are old men Goss,
Hamlin, Benham and Wilhelm were all
leading substitutes, and should form a
strong set of players this year. There is
besides these players plentiful supply OF
material. including some very prominent
preparatory school players, and the out
look is. at least, hopeful.
Princeton has the majority of her play
ers back this year. The university had
the blackest year of her football carer
last year, and was beaten by Cornell, CO.
lumbia and Yale. There are already re-
ports of good material. and with the vet
Grams in the team the Tigers may retrieve
their last years failures. OF the old men
Reiter. De Witt, Hale, Levick, Meier and
Underhill will return.
Columbia is fortunate in losing but two
men of last years eleven. Jack Wright
the guard, has gone West to coach the
team of the University Of Washington,
and John Wolff. right end. graduated in
June With these exceptions the rush line
will be intact. Bruce enters the law
school and will again play at centre. with
Austin at right guard. AT left guard Me
ser, the crew captain. will begin in
Wright's place. He played in several
games last year., as did Freeman. the
giant from Hayerford College, who is
also a candidate for, the place. Murphy.
Stillman and Tyson of the 1900 scrub will
also report again. Smythe will take care
of one tackle. and efforts are being made
to induce Knapp, who played SO well in
1899. to come out again. An operation for
appendicitis kept him out of tie line last
fall. Van Hoevenberg. at left end, has
another year to play. The other end will
have to be filled by a new man. as Huffa
ker and Beardsley. last years substitutes,
have both left college.
The backfield is intact. Sykes will be
at quarterback until after the Harvard
game, when Bayard Boyesen will relieve
him, unless Sanford finds a better man
for the place. Jackson. who rowed at bow
in the crew. is a promising man for the
position. Morley, Weekes and Captain Ber-
rian will succeed themselves in the back
positions with Townsend. McCollom and
A Boyesen as excellent second string
men. Then there are some twenty pre-
paratory school players who have yet to
win their spurs. The squad will be con-
siderably swelled on September 80, on
which day the formal call for candidates
will be issued.
OF the other teams Pennsylvania has
been at work for sor.e time, and an un-
usually strong lot of material and much
enthusiasm are reported as the conditions
under which the red and blue start the
season. Practically nothing has. as yet,
been done at Cornell, and the practice of
the Carlisle Indians is, as usual, kept
quiet by their coaches.
The Yale-Harvard game this year will
be played at Cambridge and will take
place November %. Columbia plays Har
ward October u. Cornell meets the Car
October 10; Columbia plays Yale. at New
Haven, October 26, and Princeton plays
Yale, at New Haven, November 16 The
full schedule follows:
Sept. 21-Lebanon Valley College, at Car
lisle; SusGuehanna University. at Penn
sylvania State College.
Sept 2S-Williams. at Harvard: Column |
bia. at Buffalo: Trinity. at Yale: Colgate. |
at Cornell; Gallaudet, at Carlisle: West |
ern University of Pennsylvania. at Belle |
fonte; Williston, at Amherst; Lehigh, at |
University of Pennsylvania.
Oct. 2-Amherst, at Yale: Rochester. at |
Cornell; Bowdoin. at Harvard: Columbia. |
at Rutgers; Gettysburg. at Carlisle: |
Franklin and Marshall, at University of |
oct. 5-Wiliams. at Columbia Haver
ford, at Princeton: Carlisle. at Dickinson: |
Tufts. at Yale; New York University. at |
Brooklyn Polytechnic; Pennsylvania
State. at University of Pennsylvania;
Worcester Polytechnic, at Amherst; Ur-
sinus, at Swarthmore.
Oct. Skates, al Cambridge.
Oct. 9-Wesleyap. at Yale: Amherst. at
Hamiltoe., at Cornell; New York
University. al Princeton: Swarthmore. at
University of Pennsylvania.
Oct 12-Columbia. at Cambridge; Car
isle, at Bucknell: Union, at Cornell; Lee
high at Princeton; FRANKLIN and Mar
shall, at Haverford: Burlingarne Athletic
Club of Williamsport. at Pennsylvania
State: Yale. at annapolis: Boston
Tech" at Amherst: Delaware, at
5warthmore. Brown. at University of
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