The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-16
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Worcester Academy does not dare
hope to better Worcester Highs old
record of 81 to against the Academy,
but there is certainly plenty of con-
fldence in the Academy contingent.
-Bowditch Harvard right end, is
picked by many experts as the star Of
the Crimson team this season. He has
been coming steadily and seems to be
as strong as Capt. Campbell.
Harvard Freshman and Yale fresh
les will line up for the annual game at
Cambridge today. Harvard and Dart
mouth varsity teams will also do battle
today at Cambridge.
The Worcester High-Academy
game at the oval this afternoon Will
begin promptly at 2.30 o'clock. The
game should be one of the best contests
of the season from a local standpoint
as there is no lack of rivalry.
If the Academy High School game
was two weeks away, Worcester High
might have a better chance to show it.
self In the past week. there has been
wonderful Improvement in the team in
all departments of play.
Worcester Academy Football team
is one Of the best elevens that has
been gathered in a preparatory school.
The team work is nearly perfect and
every player fairly beams with con-
fidence.
Anybody who thinks Worcester
High School eleven will bow this after
noon without bitter struggle will
surely get astounded by the display OF
determination on the part Of the High
School youngsters.
Princeton will meet Yale at New
Haven today The Blue feels strong
enough to give the Tigers tail another
twist and If all Poe's are kept out of It,
Princeton will have to hump to score.
John Anderson is wanted by the
Boston N. L. team and II all the stories
regarding the liberal inducements ex-
tended by the Boston directors are
true, John ought to get under cover
quickly.
The Yale News recently said that
no eleven Of recent years at New
Haven has better prospects so far as
student support is concerned than the
present one. I'VE eagerly await both
big days. Nov. 16 and g." says the
News.
Undoubtedly Worcester Academy
win average more than - pounds heav-
Ter to the man when the teams go on
the field today.
High School figures represent those
Of the players with heavy football toys
on while some of the Worcester Acad-
envy men were stripped when on the
scales.
Worcester High School had a day
Of hard work yesterday. Two prac-
tice periods in one day and both filed
with the most hustling possible under
the conditions made up the program.
The Carney Nelson pair off OF
guards in today's game Is a peculiar
one. John Carney is II years old and
the Academy man is q years Of age.
Connie Mack never makes any bad
breaks. His statements on the base
ball situation are always models OF
baseball diplomacy. Yesterday the
shrewd North BroolNfield baseball gen.
eral was in Worcester and he handled
the graYest Of questions in the smooth
est possible manner.
The Boston Globe intimates that
Holy Cross Is not anxious to meet Bos-
ton College again because the Purple
fears Boston College will improve so
much in the next few weeks that it Will
win. In justice to Holy Cross it should
be said that even those who believe
that relations with Boston College
should be maintained, are confident that
Holy Cross is far superior as a team to
Boston College. In fact. the present
eleven is the strongest that has ever
represented the Purple. but a big mis-
take was made in dropping the Boston
College game just at a time when a
victory over that institution was al
most sure to result from the annual
game.