The Jersey City news., 1901-08-19
TIGERS TO PRACTICE SOON
Coach Robinson Calls the Football
Team Together Earlier This Season


In about three weeks the veterans of
Princeton's football team will be at Old
Nassau's gridiron in their football togs
going through the first stages of pre-
liminary practice, falling on the pigskin,
racing across the 10 foot quadrangle for
lmbering the joints, and tackling men and
machines. Trainer Robinson has been at
work on the field and has it in fine shape.
Langdon Lea, '96, the head coach, will
arrive here earlier this year than usual,
and will start all the best players at work,
50 that every man will be able to play the
game in real varsity fashion by the time
the important games of the season are on.
Last year the great defect in the team
was the inexperienee it showed when it
met some of the strongest Eastern
elevens. Two weekes before the Yale
game the players, who with few excep-
tions were new menSstill were green, and
the most conscientious work of the former
football stars who came in to assist Cap
tain Pell and the regular coaches, failed
to turn the eleven into championship
FORM
In view of this fact, lea and his coaches
will begin their work at least week
earlier than has been the custom hereto
fore, and will remain for the most part
with the players and watch their progress
as the season advances. At least three OF
the coaches will be on the field every af-
ternoon to instruct the candidates. After
a first and second team have been selected
for the practice games, attention will be
turned toward the development of the first
xrybo will bo
of the Tigers are Lea, head coach; Jesse
Riggs, 's2, and Knox Taylor, '95. who will
look after the centres and guards; How
ard Brokaw, 'I, and Arthur R. Hille-.
brand, 1900, who with Lea, will be in
charge of the tackles and ends, and Ad-
olson Kelly, 49,, and Johnny Baird, 80.
who will instruct the men behind the line.
One of the principal features of the
coaching this season will be that after
the first games have been played Captain
Pell will be relieved of coaching and will
play his position, while the coaches lay
their plans and instruct the players. This
will enable the captain to put more snap
into his playing, and should be the means
of inspiring his men with greater en-
thusasm.
ces that the team which will represent
Old Nassau on the gridiron this season
will be much stronger than last years
eleven, and will be, as Head Coach Lea
recently said, 'a bad one for any college
eleven to run up against" The eight
members of last falls team who will re-
turn in September, together with the
number of able substitutes and promising
new men of the incoming class, should
afford sufficient material for the develop
ment of first-class team. The following
old players are still in the university
Left end, Roper; left tackle, Pell; left
guard, Wright; centre, Losey; right guard,
Dewitt; right tackle, Davis; left half
back, McCord; quarterback, Meier. The
best substitutes are:-Ends, G. Poe, Her
man; tackles, Sheffield Montgomery;
guards, Dana, Mills; centres, Butkiewicz,
Hale: halfbacks, Hart S. McClave. Henry.
Levick; fulIbacks, Underhill, Hodgman.
OF the players that enter with the class
of 1905 the following are said to be the
best candidates:-Hogan the big tackle on
the Phillips-Exeter team; Barney, the
star centre of the Andover eleven, con-
sidered the best in the preparatory
schools; Foulke, captain and halfpack OF
the St. Paurs School team, and H. Short,
tackle, who comes from the same school;
Kafer, the dashing halfback of the Law
renceville School eleven, and Umberger,
fullback, and G. Henry, quarterback on
the Blair Academy team. Trainer Robin
son. when asked for his opinion on the
prospects for a strong team, said few
days ago:-
.'I cannot tell much about it until get
INV hands on the new men, but will say
that the outlook is good, and If a few OF
the new men live up to their regulations
as football players the team certainly
will be no easy proposition for any OF the
big elevens. We are going to play hard,
fast football this season, and those inter-
ested will find this out before the last
game is played"
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