The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-09-20
YOsT BREADS CLASH
WITH THE COPH[RS
With but Four of Michiaan's
veteraaslBaek Big Coach
Is Worried.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Sept. 19--The
gathering of the Yale football clans be
gan today, and by Monday thirty OF the
players viii be here ard begin their
seasons practice Capt. Charley Raj
ferty, Field Coach Chadwick and Man.
ager Miller have been here this week,
and plans are completed for the recep-
ton of the candidates. When the
Rckers report at the gridiron next
Monday they will be given dose of
rudimentary work which will continue
week. Capt. Rafferty, hopes to have
lineup next Saturday and team drill
for the next week will be directed to
learning some simple formati for
use in the opening game, which will
be played with Trinity college two
weeks from today.
After looking up the veteran players
Capt. Rafferty, has received assurances
that the following players will return
for the coming season: Ends, Shevlin,
Hare and Rafferty,; tackles, Bloomer,
Hogan and Kinney; half back, Owsley,
and fullbacks, Bowman and Farmer.
There is a possible doubt about the
return of Rockwell, who, it is rumored,
has been thinking Of going into bust
ness at his home in Oregon, but the
coachers thin khe will decide to return.
Boomer will not be eligible unless he
passes an examination which has been
hanging over him all summer, and a
report received this week says that
Metcalf has hurt his knee and may be
out of the race for halfback If Rock
well does not return and Metcalf is laid
up there will be no formidable candi-
dates for quarterback in the field at the
start, and SOBER, who was very light
halfback last year, may be given a try
at quarter. Owsley looked sure to win
place at haifback last year, when the
faculty ruled him out.
The question: which the coaches will
focus upon settling at the start will be
the selection OF a center trio. The
three giants, Glass, Gross and Glass,
who We're the center bulwark last year,
either left college or are ineligible, so
that three new men are looked for.
Bloomer, who played tackle two years
ago. will be tried for guard. He weighs
200 pounds. -
Smith and Cartwright, of the fresh
men eleven last. fall, ARE likely candi-
dates, although inexperienced. Among
the new men coming no giants have
yet been sighted. 1t is possible that
Kinney will be taken from tackle and
put at guard, as he also weighs 200.
Shevlin, who was at end last year, has
gone up to 200 pounds. but some of the
coaches feel that, despite their heavy
weight, Kinney should be kept at tack
lie and Sheylin at end, because they are
so fast.
What Yale will do with the new rules
is not likely to be evident before No
yember l. According to the plans laid
out the team will play simple football
of the old-fashioned kind and will not
perfect the. team game. til late in the
season. The first hard game Yale has
on the schedule is the contest with CO.
lumbia in New York city, Oct. 81. -
In general the situation at Yale may
be summed up by saying that the ma
terial is not in sight for as strong an
eleven as last yearstf1at the back back
field and the center are unsettled, and
the ability of the new men TO play the
new rules successfully is very prob
lematical ,f fbiEa0