Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-13
Foot Ball Notes,

In Mccormick the Tigers certainly drew
prize package from the Yale lottery.
The Michigan-Columbia game scheduled to
be played in New York on Thanksgiving
cay has been declared off.
There is lively struggle for the position
of light end on the Yale team between Hare
and Stewart. The latter is an old Andover
player.
The Midshipmen will play Princeton next
Saturday.
Yale has not been playing very strong
teams thus far, but none of her opponents
have been able to make first down.
Cornell has gone into secret practice
Wonder if Pop Warner has any more hid
den ball tricks ur his sleeve.
A display of accurate goal kicking was
supplied by Tom" Hammond of Michigan
in Saturdays game with Kalamazoo He
stylishly topped off fifteen out of sixteen
touchdowns.
Sam Morse, who is doing well in the prac-
tce at Yale comes from Brookline High
School. He is a grandson of the inventor of
the telegraph code.
The West Pointers are taking daily prac-
tee in preparation for the game with Har-
vard next Saturday. AS a rule the army
Boys only have foot ball practice three days
A week.
R. D. Smythe. who played tackle on the
Columbia team IN 1901 and 1902. re-entered
college this year with the expectation of
playing on the eleven, but has now decided
to give up foot ball.
Considerable surprise and indignation
have been aroused in Princeton over the
rumor that Princeton is trying to force Yale
to accept Jack Minds umpire in the COM
ing game and refuses to consider Paul
Dashiell, who is Yale's indicated choice AS
a matter of fact no effort has been made To
do anything of the kind. Princeton is will
ing to take any umpire Yale chooses to
name, whether he be Minds or any one else
except DaShiell.
Dartmouth men are asked frequently
Which Is the better coach ~
present coach. Or Wallie Mccormack who
went before him-and they cannot answer
If'e assumption is that the parts could have
been reversed, Mccormack bringing the
team to its successes Of last year and Fol-
som laying the foundation, but no one can
tell They are both extraordinary coaches
ana under them men have been trained to
lead. The demand for Dartmouth coaches
each year is greater than the supply But
the team which Dartmouth will play
against Williams Saturday will have both
10th Mccormack and Folsom behind it. Sew
eral of the man on the squad have been
under the tuition of both
At Yale 1t is believed that success in ath-
letIcs brings a large number of new stu
dents to the university, but that 1t brings
undesirable ones, says the New Haven Reg
lister. This theory which has been held for
some time, is regarded as borne out by the
statistics for the entering class the present
fall. Yale had one of her most successful
years in athletics last season, winning in
tercollegiate and dual track meets, the row.
ing victory, standing second in foot ball.
winning the Harvard game, and taking gun
club, debating and several other minor
championships. The university is conceded
to have won more important athletic events
TIC past year than any other institution 1t
is due to this reason somewhat extensively,
1t is believed, that the number of students
who applied for admission in June exceeded
the university high water mark. There were
about fifty more than had ever applied be-
fore. Yet when they had fought through
the Yale entrance examinations the list had
dwindled so that fully fifty fewer than
silly professors think that a large share of
the persons VINO could not pass the exami-
nations were those who were attracted by
athletics alone. The faculty think that IL
the young men who received wholesale con-
oIrIons are really eager to come to Yale
they will renew their attempt another year
If they were attracted by athletics they will
not.