The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-06
GETTING into FORM
FINAL PREPARATIONS OF BIG
FOUR ELEVENS FOR REAL GAMES.
PRINCEToN'S FIRST GAME
SHOWED THAT THE TIGERS WILL
BE SERIOUS CONTENDERS.

supporters of the Black and Orange
Have Never Been So Hopeful This
Fairly in the SeasOn-Walter Camp
Is Expected to Join Yale's Small
Army of COachers-PennsylVa
Has Verified Predictions That Her
Heavy Men Would Be Fast
The Princeton Tigers played their
first game of the season Saturday,
when Swathmore was led to the slaugh-
ter The one week of play that the
Tigers had resulted in great good, and
they showed up on the field in sur
prising form.
The general tone among Princeton
sunporters is more hopeful than it has
baen at this time in several years. Al
though the squad still consists of more
than fifty men, it is already possible
to pick with some certainty the men
who will be chosen for the team.
Candidates for center are Short,
tackle Of last years team, and Bar
ney, last years center. Although Bar
new has a great advantage over Short
IN weight, he is not so quick nor so
aggressive, and preference seems TO
favor the latter.
The guards will probably be Raj
ferty and Bradley, and the tackles De-
witt and Reid, with Cooney and Ba-
ker as subs. At the ends Davis, CraW-
ford and Tooker are to be relied upon.
Quarterback will undoubtedly fall to
Burke, with Vetterline as substitute
Hart and Foulke are veteran halI-
backs. but the coaches are finding some
difficulty for subs. Kaffer, Varsity
fullback last year until injured, was
being tried for the position. Fullback
is causing more concern than any
other position
Mum. a sophomore, and McClave,
who played in the position against
Yale last year, are the present candi-
dates. Both lack speed, however, and
are not up to the standard on line
Camp to Join Yale.
Walter Camp Yale's advisory coach,
is expected to join the football can
didates almost daily. His presence is
expected on the Yale field in order that
he may oversee the preparatory work
of Ellis eleven. In addition to Camp,
several graduate coaches are expected.
and in a short time the training field
will have almost as many coaches as
a special from New Haven.
Yale has any amount of material
and the predictions are that she will
have a powerful eleven. The linemen
are veritable giants. Roraback tips
the scales at 225 pounds. He has been
the only substitute center who could
hold his own with the great Holt in
former years. BY his side he will have
Boomer and Morton, each of whom
weighs over 200 pounds. Bloomer has
not been in the game since 19OO, put
his work has shown that he has lost
none of the vim and dash that made
him famous as a Yale tackle.
Metcalf has gone back to his old
position at right half. This leaves left
half vacant. Owsley is the most prom
Using candidate He was a substitute
last year. He is hard pressed by
Phipps, a West Pointer Mitchell,
new man, is developing into a power
full ground-gainer, and 1t would not
surprise many if he made the place.
Twitchell is rushing Rockwell for
quarter.
Bowman has worked off his condi-
lions and with Mccoy of Amherst, he
will have lively fight. The players
are about on par, but neither can Kick
as well as Mitchell
The Pennsylvania Team.
The red and blue of Pennsylvania
Will be Haunted with the pest Oh thein
this year. Capt Metzger has one OF
the best teams that has ever repre-
sented Pennsylvania. The outlook is
encouraging and refreshing. After
the game with Dickinson, in which the
Pennsylvania boys were stopped sud
denly by Metzger's men, showed that
Penn has a strong lot of players.
Coach Williams, although well pleased
with the game, gave his men talking
to. His theme was, Hold the ball
The coach instructed his men to cling
tightly to the leather, no matter what
happened. 1t was fumbling that lost
Penn her prestige last year, even
though the team was inferior to those
OF former years. Reynolds gave a
great exhibition of punting. In him
Penn has find. He has powerful
kick MetZger, Taylor and Weede,
and later Torrey, guarded his kicks
from the scrubs and he got away with
everyone of them. Corson at quarter
ran the team in magnificent style. He
is a wonder. and with Reynolds Penn
VIII have two finds. Unless he is al
fected by praise he will be phenoTn-
ehon. Bennett and Drake hit the line
with terrible force and made substan-
un gains. They will do.