The Washington times., 1901-09-22
BLUE And GREY FOOTBALL
Billy Church, the ex-Princeton
Tackle, to Coach Eleven.
With Candidates All of Light
weight, nm Open Game Is to BE
Taught, In Opposition to Inst
henr's Clumsy Guards Back Style.

| W. W. Church, the famous tackle of the
| crack Princeton team of 1889, will coach
| .he Georgetown University football squad
curing the coming season. The announce
I ment OF his appointment was made last
| night by NJ j. Thompson. graduate man
| ager of athletics at Georgetown. Church
| Will take charge of the football squad at
| once Aspirants for gridiron honors will
report to him tomorrow afternoon. From
that time on. the football muse will be
worked overtime on Georgetown Field.
Every effort will be bent toward develop
ing from the mass CT greer but husky
material available. a team that will make
a creditable showing against the middies
of the schedule
Church coached the Georgetown team
two years ago. That was. however. be-
fore the pail cast over the popular college
game by the death of one of Georgetown's
crack players several years ago had been
dispelled He is well known in Washing
ton and possesses qualities which should
make him an excellent coach. AS a play
er his reputation is national. There have
been few tackles in the annals of foot
ball who have ranked higher than Church,
who was placed on the All-America team
in 1889 by Caspar Whitney.
1t is probable that Church's advent in
the football world at Georgetown will
cause a radical departure from the Penn
sylvania style of play in vogue there last
year. At the conclusion of the season
there was some dissatisfaction expressed
at the methods of Dr. Bull. the famous
Pennsylvania centre. Church will teach
the Princeton system of play. The Penn
syivania style, once most effective, has
during the last year or two come to be
regarded as out of date. Most of the can
didates for the Georgetown team are light
and fast. better adapated to the open
Princeton game than the cumbersome
guards back" style of the game as ex-
plotted by the Red and Blue.
Captain. Barry has had the candidates
out on the field at Georgetown for two
days. Despite the fact that there are but
few members of last years team to form
nucleus around which to build an elev-
en-. Barry takes hopeful view of the
football outlook The old men who have
donned uniforms again are kearns and
Seitz at guard. MacKay at centre, Buck
Icy and Lynch at tackle. Reilly and Cap
tain Barry at half back. The timber
available for the vacant positions is of
excellent quality. The squad, to which
a number of additions are expected with
in the next few days, now consists of the
following. G. Seitz, J. Seitz, Cox, She'll
Thedieck. Byrnes, s. Ednonstcn, Graham.
O. Shea. +. Laroussni, O'Hara, FickIing,
Hayden, Kearns. Lynch Buckley, Reil-
ly, CaDario. Barron, MacKay. Nandeven-
ter. and Russell.
A training table will be started this
week. The early practice will consist of
light work until the men have rounded
into the kind OF shape that viii stand the
hrunt of daily practice with the scrub.
In the meantime. falling on the ball. kick
Ing, catching, and passing. augmented by
long runs. TO develop endurance. will be
the menu of practice on Georgetown
Field.
The schedule as far as it is now made
up Is as follows. the first two games to
be played at Annapolis and all the rest
at Georgetown: October 5, Naval Acade-
my; Octuber Z, st. Johns College; Oc-
tober 10. Western Maryland University,
October 10. Virginia Polytechnic Institute;
October %. Dickinson: November 8. Gal
laudet; November 3d. Gettysburg College;
November l6. University of Virginia; No
vember q. Baltimore Medical College: Mo-
vember IS. Lehigh University. A number
of the vacant dates will be filled with
games for which negotiations are now
pending.