Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-18
ON THE GRIDIRoN.
Hard Practice Indulged In and Some
 Surprises Were Found.


 Princeton, Oct 1S.-The coaches are seriously dissatisfied with the Tigers defensive playing against Dickinson Yesterday afternoon they tested more thoroughly the strength of the eleven in this respect, and the result is the most unpleasant surprise that has been developed this fall. Ina fifteen minute tussle with the scrubs, the var sity was not only not able to score, but also could not prevent the second raters from crossing it's goal line twice.
 Philadelphia, Oct 1S.-The Pennsyl- vania team yesterday was put through one of the hardest practices it has had this year. The work of the men was fierce in the lineup and the coaches stood by and drove the men at the work The game with Virginia on Wednesday showed that Pennsylvania has several things to learn about the game, and especially on the defence, and that it is about time the men re- ceiyc some definite positions.
  were completely outclassed in the scrimmage- work yesterday afternoon. Captain Warner and his men scored three times in fifteen minutes. Yes terday afternoon was the occasion of the last lineup before the Ithacans play the first hard game of the season, for the Cornell aggregation left for Buffalo this morning at 80 o'clock. The lineup contained nearly all of the cripples who have been mending for the past ten days. Coffin was the only absentee.
 Williams town, Oct 1S.-Coach; Ha- zen is hard at work getting the Will Hams team into shape for it's game with Dartmouth at Newton Center on Saturday. Williams has not met her old rival on the gridiron for two years, when Dartmouth was defeated by two toucbdowns. made in the second half by the score of 12 to 10. The good game which the .teamt played on We'd nesday against the Massachusetts State college augurs well for the future and Williams, is confident of making a
 
 Cambridge, Oct 19-Harvard, in her daily football practice on Soldiers Fh-d, yesterday afternoon, tried for imation plays for the first time this season. The coaches tried ito put some life and snap into the varsity, but the response was not very encour- aging. The backs were all slow and the line could not, be depended upon. The second rushed the ball for thirty yards, bucking the line steadily, and would probably have scored touch down had not time been called.
 Schenectady. Oct 17.-Although her team was somewhat crippled by the Cornell game, several players being laid upy Union held the Amherst men down to a 0 to 0 score yesterday af- ternoon in game that was a pleas ant surprise to her supporters. Con- sidering the game which Amherst re gently played against Yale, holding the Blue down to single touchdown, UnT ion men are justly proud of their rep resentatives. Out of the four games thus far played she has suffered but one defeat and that at the hands of Cornell.
 New York, Oct 1S.-After three days of discouragement football practice at Columbia again took a turn for the better yesterday afternoon. Two new men, H. Mcclellan. former Colby player who is in the third year of the law school, and Kingden, six-footer, were fn the varsity line and the team pulled together despite the continued absence of Morley, Berrien, B. Boy esen, Bruce, Ache and Smythe. Bruce and Ache have both announced their intentions of abandoning football on account of the afternoon lectures in the law school. Berrien still remains under the faculty ban, and the others are nursing injuries received in the Harvard game.
 The Dwight school and Horace Mann school teams lined up on the gridiron at Manhattan Field on Wednesday af- ternoon. A large crowd of students were on hand. as it was announced that Herbert Croker. son of the Tam many leader, would play in his regu- lar position on the Dwight team. He did not play, however, ass the abscess in his ear was still bothering him, but he was on hand encouraging his team mates. Brown, who took his place at right tackle, by no means substituted Croker. as all the plays by the oppon- ents were fired in that directions Gro ker will take his regular place on the team against Newark High school to= day. The score was: Horace Mann, 15; Dwight. o.
 New Haven, Oct 1S.-It may La stated on good authority that Dick Sheldon, Yale's noted football guard, will not be seen on the field this sea- son. He has been told by his physi- cians that he must not enter any kind of athletics before next spring at the earliest. and it is doubtful if he will be able to leave his bed for some time. It was given out that he had been i'll during the summer with ma laria, but his looks belied him and it needed only the doctors statement to confirm the general opinion that he was suffering from some form of kid ney trouble Sheldon is now under the. care of a specialist at his home in New York city While his condition is