Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-06

the ball over the bar seven times In success
sion in the game with Trinity last Satur-
day.
Bailey. the University Of Maine quarter
back, sprung whole bag full of tricks on
Brown, and he may cause Harvard some
uneasness next Saturday.
Society note.-Mr. William ]. Mcmahon,
former captain of Bucknell University. VINO
was married last spring, has joined the
Yale foot ball squad.
Columbia has decided to enforce the four
year rule and has dropped star guard
named Talbot, who has played the limit.
Play e a
Wrightington has few other problems
mapped out for the Quakers when they go
to Boston on October %.
Yale may lack green material, but she
has pretty good bunch In Shevlin. Rock
well, Hogan. Bloomer, Kinney. Owsley.
Trip and Roraback
1t is said that Capt. LYMAN of the Cornell
eleven will have to give up foot ball. as he
has not sufficiently recovered from an oper-
alton for appendicitis. which he underwent
about two months ago.
1t looks as if Ralph Kinney intends to
hold his position at guard at Yale. He put
one aspiring candidate out Of commission
yesterday.
MARYLAND, a former Annapolis tackle. is
candidate for the Syracuse University
eleven. He stands six feet two inches and
weighs 1S5 pounds. He will make good
companion to Van Duyn. the shotputter.
"a SpcCldl ulSpdtCH from llldCa says. be-
fore the Princeton game, the last Saturday
in October, the Cornell eleven will have
forty different plays many of them trick
formations for which the Carlisle Indians
coach"
Harvard is progressing favorably, but
what great Improvement there would be
II 1ne and fancy punter of the Percy
Haughton type should make his appear
ance. 1t took whole season to develop
Haughton as a kicker, but the time was
well spent.
Speaking of the Penn-virginia game the
Philadelphia North American says: 'Vir-
gnia was undoubtedly overrated. Sanfords
men developed no attack of appreciate
power and could do nothing against the
Penn defense. Their kicking was poor
fumbling execrable. and what trick plays
they attempted failed dismally."
Wallie Mccormack is hailed as a wizard
at Northwestern University, because he has
introduced bowling as a part of the train
ing for his foot ball team. The idea being
to give the men timber backs and shoulders
and assisting the eye in better gauging
objects at distance. This is about the
limit
The eligibility question has become such
an issue out west that Hurry Up Yost
has published lengthy statement in the
papers. going into detail ON the status of
his players Among other things, he states
that Ralph Rose Is not candidate for the
Michigan team.
The navy foot ball squad has been
SlTeHSlHeIeu by crazy, VINO mas played leIt
tackle for two years. and Mcconnell. last
years substitute guard. Both the regular
tackles of last year, Capt. Farley and
Grady. and also Piersol, who played the
position after Farley was taken with ty-
phoid, are in the game again.
OF the new men tried for the West Point
team last Saturday Hanlon, at right half
proved discovery For two seasons he
been trying for a vacant guard position, did
not do so well as expected, and he was re-
placed by Seagraves He has the physique
for good guard, however and the coaches
will do their best to develop him. Gillespie
showed great ability at end and may dis
place Rockwell Davis the big 195-pound
back, injured his ankle early in the game
and may be out of the game for week or
more.
Bill Edwards. the Princeton coach. was
asked the other day if the Tigers would
be as strong this year as last. THAT is
expecting a good DEAL he replied. TT is
hard to fill the places of such men as De-
Witt, Henry and Davis. Still, the material
is good and the team ought to be strong"
OF the Dickinson game, Edwards says:
One can scarcely recall a game which
seemed loosen and when less foot ball
knowledge has been shown. The only
redeeming feature was the pushing and
pulling by Princeton men, They seemed
to help the runner along better than any
princeton team has in past seasons. Nc
Cormick kicked well. and, while the punts
We're not long. they were about the right
distance for his ends to cover"
1t does not take long to make up contIE-
tons at the University of Pennsylvania
Last Saturday morning the university ath-
!etlc committee discovered that big Smith
had one mark against him, so he showed
what good student he is by taking an ex-
animation right off the reel He came up
TO the faculty requirements and then made
two touchdowns against Virginia
The Boston newspapers have their usual
SCOTS at the stories about the small size
OF the Yale squad and the scant material
hnrn r he,
shadow of Harvard to own up that out of
a squad not half big as that at Cam
bridge the Yale coaches can turn out a
team that annually trounces the Johnnies
from over the Charles.-New Haven Reg
lister. Yale used to win quite frequently
from Harvard. but old Eli has gathered in
only three crimson foot balls In the last
ten years.