Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-27
THE FOOT BALL SEASON
Opening Games With the Big
Colleges.
TWO LOCAL CONTESTS
GEORGETOWN AND COLUMBIAN
MEET oUT-oF-ToWN TEAMS.
Gallaudet to Play at Easton, Pa
Harvard, Yale, Cornell and Penn
f. sylvania On the Gridiron.
TWO LOCAL CONTESTS

The foot ball season opens today. In
this city two of the local college teams play
teams from colleges elsewhere, while all
the big college teams OF the east will be
seen on the gridlron. Georgetown will play
the Maryland Agricultural College eleven
on Georgetown field. Columbian will play
Western Maryland College at Y. NJ c. A.
field, and Gallaudet plays Lafayette College
at Easton, Pa.
The Georgetown team will line up as fol-
lows: McGettigan and Morse, left end; Rus
sell and Thompson. left tackle Kerns. left
guard; Gibbons and Fitzpatrick, center:
Rorke and Mahoney, right guard; Joe Seitz,
right tackle; owens and Preston Edmon-
ston, right end; Stevenson and Buckley,
quarter back; Carver and Hayden, left half
back; Reilly and Hart. right half back:
Sammy Edmonston and Graham full back.
The Columbian team follows: Sneed and
Smith, right end; Church, right half back;
Eddy, right tackle; Heine, right guard;
Cowan center; Kelly. left guard Cats,
left tackle; Mclean and Lewis, left half
back; Musgrave, left end; Machen, full
back, and Leach, quarter back.
Gallaudet's players are: Richard, left end:
Gale, left tackle; Hewetson, left guard:
Winston, center; Lovelace, right guard;
Garrett. right tackle; Escherich, right end:
Phelps, quarter back; Erickson, left half
back; Robertson. right half back; Melon
ough. full back. Substitutes, Ringnell,
W1nemiller and Mayer.
Harvard and Williams.
Harvard and Williams meet at Cam
bridge. Mass, In a game that promises to
be interesting. Alfred Hines, an old Yale
player. has been coaching Williams again
this year. Harvard has been in the hands
OF several graduates with Mike Farley as
head coach. Last year Harvard defeated
Williams 16 to o.
Princeton's first scrimmage is scheduled
for today. For the first time this fall two
teams will line UP for action. The cardi-
dates from the freshmen class can then be
sized up for the first time, in the soriIn-
mage their true merit will be evident.
Princeton and Columbia are two of the
large universities whose teams do not play
today. Both open their season next We'd
nesday-Columbia at the Polo Grounds. in
New York against the Brooklyn Institute
of Technology, and Princeton, at Princeton,
against Swarthmore.
Yale and Trinity.
At New Haven Yale and Trinity meet to-
day. Last year the Hartford College went
down before Yale-23 to 0. If Trinity proves
easy in the first half Yale will put In q
large number of substitutes In the second
half, 10 see what the new men are good
for.
Cornell tackles Colgate on Percy Field.
Ithaca. Colgate was first to meet the
Ithacans a year ago, and at that time held
them down to ITO. This was an excellent
showing against team that was defeated
by Princeton only S-6 and afterward beat
the Indians, Columbia and Pennsylvania
Cornell is stronger this year than last and
should experience little difficulty in defeat
ing Colgate by a substantial score.
Pennsy and Lehigh.
At Philadelphia the University of Penn
sylvania will play Lehigh- Last year the
Quakers won out $50. This year there will
probably be a closer score. for DR.. New
ton, Lehighs new coach, has whipped a
team together that It is believed will come
nearly scoring on Pennsylvania. If Cap
tain Gardiner returns to take part in the
game the team may show better form.
Brown, formerly one of the best foot ball
teams in the country, starts today with the
game with Colby at Providence. Fordham
plays Union, and Syracuse the Onondaga
Indians
The Indians. after their big victory over
Lebanon Valley College week ago. are
confident Of their ability to defeat Gettys-
burgs team at Carlisle today. The Indians
have the memory of a defeat-5-G-nfiicted
by the same college last year to make to-
days game hot battle. The Indians are
stronger than they were last year.
Army and Navy.
Annapolis and West Point DO not start
their schedules until one week from today,
the former playing Georgetown. the latter
Tufts. In both cases the Army and Navy
teams play. as usual. on their own grounds.