The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-19
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Irons.
G.. II. Clark has been reelected cap
tain of the sophomore football team at
Cornell.
Malcolm Farmer, of Gloucester, Mass
has been elected captain of the Harvard
freshman football team Tor the remain
der of the season.
Glen Warner is beginning to boast
that his Carlisle Indians have been
beaten by more good teams TINS season
than any other eleven on the grldlron
Ex-Capt John Outland,of Pennsylvanias,
who is now coaching the University OF
Kansas. is using the same style of Of
fonse as Harvard did against the Quak-
erS.
There is a belief in Nassau hall that
if Princeton were permitted to meet
Pennsylvania this year the oranSs and
black might wipe away the memory OF
some bitter seasons.
A New York exchange says: Some
of the people who have their hammers
out knocking football as a brutal sport
have not nerve enough to play them-
selves, and consequently are sledglng
those who have grit and backbone to
take part in the invigorating pastime.'
The sturdy captain of Phillips Xeter's
eleven, Karl f. Brill, has been chosen
! captain again for next year He is one
of the most promising players OF the
season His home is at Hazleton, Pa,
He is twenty years old and weighs 2OS
/! pounds.
The New Yorks are wondering where
Sweetland, the Syracuse coach, learned
the football he teaches. At Cornell he
was not considered wonder by any
means, yet in the defeat of Columbia
the critics are forced to admit that
SWcetland is one of the best coaches in
the East. as his team did grand good
work both on offense and defense.
Tho ,1iolot before q West POint-YalP
game a Harvard man asked Mike" Muir
ply how much Yale was going to beat
Harvard About u to 0?'' he was asked.
Twelve to nothing?" replied Murphy.
''There is not team in the country that
can beat Harvard u to 0. It's a toss-up
between the two teams. Harvard is in
about the same fix tthat we are. They
have eleven good men.
Willard Burr Soper, one of the leading
substitutes on the Yale football eleven, is
suffering from most severe In
ternal injury received at the regular
practice He went down in a scrimmage,
and when picked up was found to have
been hurt so badly that he quit the prac-
tice. He was taken to the infirmary, but
the management of the football aSSocia-
ton and the hospital directors kept the
case quiet till last night, when his eondi
ton became worse. At the hospital it
was said that he was a very sick man,
and that his injuries were internal. Soper
was playing on the varsity team when
injured. He was first substitute left half
back, and was a probable candidate for
halfbacR in the Princeton game, especial
ly as Wilhelni who has just been Grip
pied. retired, leaving the position of left
halfback open to Soper. Soper told the
hospital directors that he did not know
exactly how he was hurt but he says
that he was hit in the back from behind,
and went down in a pile.
When asked about Yale's chance for
| the Eastern championship, Heffelfnger
| is quoted as saying: 81 am afraid Yale
has a hard proposition when they go
| against Harvard. l think they will de-
feat Princeton without any trouble, but
| at the present time Harvard seems to
have the call. 1t may, be, however
| that Yale will take a brace. They are
| not up to the average Yale form at pres
| ent, by any means Same old Yale
| story.-Boston Globe.
The poor showing made by the Brown
productive of good. Athletics at Brown
have never had proper financial support
and to this fact is due in a large measure
| the humiliating exhibition given by the
| football team. Now, this is all to be
| changed. An active, and so far success
| full effort is being made by a committee
of the Athletic association to raise funds
| to provide coaches for future elevens.
| The committee is endeavoring to raise
| $1,000 among the alumni. and to secure a
| fund of $1,000 pledged by business men of
Providence for three years, on condition
that the alumni and the undergraduates
| raise a similar sum. It Is understood
| that the business men have practically
| subscribed the full amount of their fund
and the main effort is now being made
to obtain pledges from the alumni One
| third has already been pledged, and It
| is hoped to secure the remainder at an
early date.