The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-10-08
Gridiron Gossip.

Yale seems a-trif1e -envious because OF
the size of Harvard's squad.
Walter Camp must be pretty we'll sat
isfed with the new ends at Yale when
he allows Shevlin to go to full back.
Charles Dudley Daily, captain of the
Harvard football team IN lsoo, IS now
captain of c company at West Point.
Gage, Dartmouth's big guard, was
the only man on the eleven to play all
the way through the Massachusetts,
state college game.
star end for Harvard. He is a corker
in getting down under kicks and mailing
the man with the ball.
More than seventy ambitious athletes
are striving for positions on the Har-
ward eleven. 1t is evident quite num-
Der will be disappointed when the weed
ing-out time arrives.
Georgetown was able to stop Short,
Princeton's big guard, on only one Of
his many rushes. The Tigers still hold
to a. formation with one of the guards
back rather than one of the tackles.
1t has been positively announced that
Harry LIE Moyne, one of the most
promising football players that ever
donned a moleskin, will not return to
Harvard. He is going to join his broth
err in the sheep-raising business in
Idaho.
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia,
Pennsylvania, and Cornell are closer to-
gether than usual, with two or three or
the Smaller fellows likely to create
ises well in hard-fought and exciting
games.
Kendall Green boys go to Lafayette
college for a game today, which will be
their first one of the year. The varsity
| is ripping the reserves to pieces these
days, which indicates that the mutes
have a stronger lot Of players than last
year.
| 1t does not take long to make up con-
ditions at the University of Pennsyl-
vania- Last Saturday morning the uni
versity athletic committee discovered
that big Smith had one mark against
him, so he showed what a good student
he is by taking an examination right on
the reel. He came up to the faculty re-
quirements, and then made two touch-
downs against Virginia
Pennsy and the Ellis seem to be on
friendly terms again this year. The
great Yale drop kicker, Sharpe, who is
now coaching the Penn Charter school,
and Yale'S heavy fullback and oarsman,
Weymouth will be regular officials on
Franklin field.
George Washington students are very
much pleased with the result of their
first gridiron battle since Columbian
adopted the name of the Father of His
Country. While the team may be better
than previous ones, it is hoped to make
this the best season of the university on
the gridiron.
| At PENNSYLVANIA the feeling is that
the Quakers have a better eleven this
year than for several seasons AIthouSn
Virginia, made a poor showing against
! Pennsy it is thought there is better
material on hand and more of it, while
Fullback Smith will be of great value
/ to the team.
Billy Morice, PENIS old ground
gamer is acting as official at West
Point this year The army plays Har-
ward, Yale, and the Tigers, but not the
| Quakers. selecting its officials from
4 Pennsylvania as a courteous exchange
/ for the use of the Quakers' football
field for the annual Army-Navy game
! The Harvard stadium last Saturday
seated the biggest opening crowd III
years, but the 5000 people were almost
lost in the great gray-stone structure
4 The plays can be much more readily
distinguished than from the old seat:
on Soldiers field, the spectators beins
the lowest row of seats nine feet above
If