The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-24
Football Notes

Pennsylvania left for Chicago Wednes-
day night in a special car over the Penn
Sylvania road.
Phil King, the University of Wisconsin
football and baseball coach, has been ad-
supreme court
It has been decided that the Nebraska
WISCONSIN football game will be played
date of the contest is November p
The University of Pennsylvania team
When VIII hays PaYed three games, this Week
around Besides the middies, Gettysburg
and Chicago are to bump into the red and
Columbia's football squad has dwindled
aging outcome Of the he's game llle with h1 Harvard
The team is also sadly crippled by fac
ulty restrictions RESI- Captain Berrlen VIII
rest of the season
The plan of using big, heavy men at
all of the leading eastern teams. The
coaches realize that tackle is the most
in that position often has to bear the
brunt of the attack unaided. while the
three center men can protect each other.
Ex-Captain DAILY of Harvard, the great
quarterback who is now playing with the
b est Polnt s eieven was 1ee Only man m
Harvard and touchdown He tried to
make a flying tackle. but failed and thus
one of his old teammates was allowed to
score against the cadets
Coach woodruff of Pennsylvania has in
vented a new kickoff The ball is placed
on the ground with the broad side toward
the goal posts and one end higher than
the other. The ball is kicked on the up
f it Strikes the se ground It bonnds bsck
instead of rolling forward This gives
down on the kick better opportunity to
get the ball than the other players.
Considerable has been said for and
against the crouching. start introduced
by Coach Warner of the Carlisle Indian
eleven about three seasons ago and now
used by the University of Illinois. Those
know that the backs get off in the same
way as do sprinters when they start in
practice can be only beneficial. The requi-
sites of a good back are, above all things
that he be able to start quickly and then
stomach into the line They have been
exceptions where men of peerless ability
in bucking the line have run high. Perry
Hale of Yale was high runner. was
also Shirley Ellis of Harvard. Van
Doozer of Northwestern was never a low
could gain more ground when low. From
a crOuching start the player strikes the
line low and when under good momentum.
Coach King of the University of Wis
consin eleven has ordered that nothing be
said hereafter about the dazzling end
runs of Cochems unless the men who fur
nisl, his excellent interference be men,
toned at the same time This is q. wise
action on the part of King. although he
can hardly control those things which are
said and written about player who is
so conspicuous as COchems. As a matter
of fact Cochems deserves but little credit
for the sensational runs which he makes
around the ends. He would be utterly
able to make them We're it not for the
mates give him. They protect him so
completely that the opposing tacklers can
not get their hands the fleet runner.
When the men who form the interference
are not mentioned in the reports and all
of the. glory is given to Cochems King
fears that they will become Disguised and
refuse to give Cochems the Interference
they are capable Of