The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-17
Pennsylvania Hopes to Beat
Harvard This Fall.
Quakers Think Chance for Vic-
tory Is Really Good.
PROSPECTS BRIGHT.
The Crimson Compelled to Build
Up a New Eleven.
Yale Looks Like a Flag Winner
With Her Old Stars.

Boston. Mass, Sept. 17.-within a
fortnight the football season for 1904
will be in full swing. Candidates at
some of the colleges are already atwork
with the pigskin and ten days more will
see the gridirons of all the prominent
eastern colleges alive with players OF
the larger institutions Pennsylvania is
the first. as usual, to get her men out
for regular work Year after year the
Quakers have said that they would
give I'D early training, but each sue
ceeding season they are found first in
the field Pennsylvania, however. has
given up the summer training, which
last season kept her football players in
training longer than any other eastern
college The beach and mountain trips
have been cut out and the Quakers
have settled down for regular practice
on the home gridiron at Franklin field
Pennsylvania this fan will make a
desperate effort to down Harvard, and
there is every prospect that she will be
able to do it. She has called out to do
the coaching the best of her former
gridiron stars and has available mater
fal for a stronger eleven than has worn
the red and blue for many years The
game in Cambridge this fail is earlier
than ever before and comes right in the
middle of Harvard's preparation for the
game with Yale Harvard will have
had little hard preparatory work, only
six games coming before that with
Pennsylvania, and only two-WeSt Point
and Carlisle-that will have given the
Crimson a real trying out Pennsyl-
vania will have a heavy team of vet
Grams, while Harvard once more faces
the task of building up an almost new
eleven.
Yale at this distance looks to have
another championship team in sight,
having most of her stars of last year
and good material for vacancies. Prince
ton was very hard hit by graduation
last spring, losing six of her very best
men. including Dewitt, one Of the most
notable gridiron figures of recent years,
whose place Princeton will be unable
TO fill satisfactorily.
Injuries and graduation have also
worked havoc on Harvard's list of ex-
perienced players and at present it is
unknown just what men viii report for
practice this fall.
While the season opens about the
same time as usual this year, there has
been a general shortening up of sched-
ules among the big teams, with the ex-
ception of Pennsylvania, which will
play twelve games. Harvard, Yale and
Princeton's schedule calls for only nine
regular contests.
Once more coaches and players are
studying up on the rules. 1t is the gen.
eral opinion that the further changes
viii more than ever place a premium
on expert kicking. Kicking was one
of the most important factors in the
championship games of last fall, and
should be more vital this season. Yale
and Princeton recognized this fact early
and set about Strengthening that de-
partment of the game The Tigers had
the peerless Dewitt. with understudies:
while Mitchells booting of the ball for
Yale was about as good as on any grid
iron during the season Harvard was
weak in that direction, her only punter
being the freshman LeMoyne who
was cratic and not a strong punter at
his best. It is safe to say that the Har-