The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-09-20
BE BIG YEAR
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All Signs Point to d Most Elk.
.58 Cellent Season.
WILL BE LESS DANGEROUS
New Rules Eliminate Element Of Dam
ger and Bring About More Open
P,ay-Personnel Of the Big
Teams.

Especial TO The Times Dispateh2 !,
M NEW YORK, Sept. lD.--Ihe o.rDa,'
Y season Is with us, and ut every coles ).
n throughout the land bands OF s'hiM - !
young athletes are enthuslas.lea''s ~
Il aoinr Initiation into the mysteries OF
rush. tackle, drop kick and punt win q
z. determinat ton in the heart Of each 10 90
nj n, hls mower to bring the champion
ship to alma mater.
Iinless ali signs fail, 1t will be grea'
#year In the annals Of foot bail. ireiii ~,
-5erv work shows that oil the big UNI
yers,ties have plenty of first-cias ill',o
rial and the result should DO eNunl.
matched teams and cracking GOOD GAINES
8s' Mich interest centnrs In the new ruies,
,,,,,,ch IN w been framed with m idea or
eltndnat ting as far as possible the eio
q n,nnt of danger Of serious injury ana 10
hrlnr about more open play. Althoush
there will be more end runs under lhs
a rev rules and great opportunity LOT ~.
yolvcd plays, It Is tho general opinion
+,,at coaches will 20 slow on trick plays
and teach straight football first.
Among the well known players VIM
wifi instruct the collegians III the gathe
th,s wear arc William Cranston at Hnr'
81 , a
Arthur r. T. Hillebrand at princeton.
carr williams at Pennsylvania, Raymond ,
Morley at Columbia w. J. warner az
corneu In the West "Hurryup" 1ost
viii, be at Michigan, Staff at chicago,
chalmers at Iowa, Woodruff, the former i,ni
II pennsylvania coach, at Illinois, ana Az
dv"lODca at Wisconsin.
a regularity that has been noted TINS
year among the followers OF foot-pall IS
that the majority Of the teams. judging
from statistics computed from thlrty-h'e
~ tha leading elevens OF the country,
viii be captained by men In the Inc
Princeton will be led by guard, ne
witt; Yale by an end, Rafferty,; Corneh
#bv a guard, Hunt; Pennsylvania by an
end, n Metzger, and West Point by an END,
Tarnsworth.
Yale, who won the championship iast
year, will have an exceptionally strong
eleven this year. She loses only four OF
the giants who won for her last season.
They are Holt, who played at CENTER
Cess guard; Captain Chadwick, halfback,
and Glass, guard. This Is certainly
hard quartette to replace. but Captain
Rafferty, and Coach Chadwick feel sure
the trick will DO turned. For ends Yale
has Captain Rafferty,, T. L. shevlin. W.
~. stillman,G. B. Ward and j. A. Moor
head to pick from. Among the men who
shosred IN wrllj az tackle last year are
TT rJoran r. p Kinney. L. II. Bissell,
p Rinomer ana n nj turner.
Yale had many cracking good substi-
< tutes last year, who will BIO formidable
candidates this fall Among these men
are j, G. George, T. Y. Jackson. Bernard
Cartwright, S. s. Turner, ]. E. Owsley,
a. W. Allen, j. c. Preston and w. &.
Eoper Then there are the two promls-t
Ing players of tho old freshman team. j.
Leayenworth and L. Hoyt.
+.'
Carl Marshall will be at the head of
Halvard's football warriors this season.
He will be minus the services of the
great trio Of backs, Herman. Putnam and
Graydon. but Carl and Andy Marshall.
Bowditch, Shea, sugden, Knowlton and
Mills will be on hand fine nucleus for
- INC canoloates VINO are out LOT me
vacant places t1hnley, captain and iull-
PACK OF last years Boston Latin school
eia'ei'. ~ pusertul man ana sfoulo
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