Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-04
SPORTS OF ALL SORTS
Gridiron Battles Tomorrow
Hard for Crack Teams.
TIGERS HARD GAME
MEET WEST POINTERS AND A
FIERCE STRUGGLE PROBABLE.
Good Entry List for Benning on Open
ing Day-High-Class Golfers in
Match-Bowling Battles.

| IilceC west 1OluI anu I1dTFdIu WILL mCCI
Dartmouth. All these games will be of the
| greatest interest to the foot ball world. It
will be up to Pennsylvania to show her
| friends how she defeated Harvard and to
| put another peg in her victorious career.
For Harvard Dartmouth will have some
| terrors The crimson must redeem itself
! for the defeat by Pennsylvania; the coaches
| must show something after weeks hard
| work, and the Dartmouths are just the
| boys to give them trouble.
| 1t Is now Princeton's turn to meet West
| Point. Harvard had a narrow escape with
| the cadets and Yale fell their victims.
| What will Princeton do tomorrow? If the
Tigers defense proves to have been
strengthened the Jerseymen will win. Both
| teams are strong on the offense.
| Bad Reports From the Tigers.
| The Tiger practice at Princeton yester-
| day afternoon was part open and part Sc
| cret and on the whole was almost equally
| encouraging and disappointing. In the open
| play the regular men were to great ex-
| tent displaced by substitutes, whose work
! proved much the more cred1table OF the
| two. Mccormick was back in the game
| and was very strong on the secondary de-
| Tense. which had been weak, and his line
| pIunging eclipsed his former high stand
| ara. IuThe Hftu leidpoO eAho Po'SSO ~ANS
| ball In a way that will scare the Tigers II
| he doesn't improve in the West Point game.
| In general the teams offense was very
| strong and the defense was fair. butcher
| did some miserable work, and the scrub
| regularly bowls him over like ninepin.
| In the secret half, however, there was
| different story to be told OF the team
| work. While the scrimmage was one or
| the hardest the team has experienced this
| season. the work. especially on the defense.
! took an unexpected downward slap, ana
| proved thoroughly discouraging. Miller
| punting was in keeping with the lament
| able work done by the whole back field
| Herring who has been playing tackle In
| STANDARDS place, got bad wrench IN the
knee, while Stannard did not even nave On
| his toys. Derense and offense were so pooi
| that the varsity failed even to score
Pennsy's Team Working Nicely.
The practice held by the University of
Pennsylvania foot ball squad at Philadel-
mia Yesterday was secret and a decided
| improvement over the work of the men the
day previous. The new set of signals. to-
| gether with the new formations, worked
| nicely against the scrub in the scrimmages;
| Pickarsh Lamson, Sinkler and Greene
| were excused from the days work, taking
| a much needed rest. Smith Is expected
back by Saturdays game and will particle
pate if it is the wish of the authorizes
George Brooke visited the field during the
| preliminarieS and took charge of Reynolds
! and Sheble, coaching them both to get
| their kicks off faster. He seems TO thlnk
| that Lafayette's forwards have been
| coached to block. and in this case both
these men must get their foot into the ball
quicker for this game than at any time
| this year. Considerable kicking was done
| during the lineup, having the second
| eleven trying to block. In the scrimmage
the showing of the varsity was good es-
pecially ON defense. The offense was lit
tie weak in Interference, but as the work
ly
| they scored on the scrub team twice. The
scrub eleven was strengthened by two old
Pennsylvania stars at the tackle positions,
| namely Wallace and Goodman. The OBJ
| ject of their playing was to hand a few
| important tricks to the varsity line men,
| which they did. These old timers have had
| full charge of the tackles the entire sea-
| son, and through their ability as coaches
| they have developed two excellent players
| in Lamson and Butkiewicz.
Harvard's Practice Was Ragged.
| Harvards team had it's last hard foot
ball work at Cambridge yesterday after
| noon before meeting Dartmouth on Sol
| diers' Field tomorrow. Dartmouth got the
| better of Harvard last fall, and 1t looks
| just now as though the New Hampshire
| college stood good chance of doing the
| trick again this year, for Harvard has not
yet recovered from the Pennsylvania game
! of last week. Several men upon whom
| Harvard is relying for her strength have
not been in the game since last week. the
| most notable case being that of Captain
| Hurley. The Harvard team has shown
more life and fight, however, this week
| than in some time. Yesterdays practice
| Of the Harvard squad was again ragged
and crude due to the over-anxiousness Of
| the men to get into the play.
| Both the varsity and the substitutes
| were offside continually. In the scrim-
mage between these two teams neither side
L
defense. and as they were continually Off
| side they broke up the varsity plays be-
fore they could get under way.
I The encouraging feature of the days
| practice was the improvement in open field
| tackling by the varsity men, Fred. Pruyn
| who has been playing on the second eleven.
was put at left end on the varsity, and
| he played a fast game and did some fine
tackling. or the substitutes Matthews
| played strong game at left end making
| two pretty diving tackles in the open
There was large coaching staff out this
| afternoon including Frank HalloweIl one
| of Harvard'S best ends; Norton Shaw q
| guard of seven years ago. who devoted
most of his time to Schoenfuss Bert Wat
ers, who watched the tackles and infused
some life into the team as q whole: Nor
| man Cabot, Dudley Cochrane, George Lee.
| one OF the guards on Dave" Campbell
| eleven; John Dunlop. w. H Lewis bob
| Herman and Carl Marshall
Yale Strong and Quick on Offense.
The fake kick was practiced on Yale
Held New Haven. yesterday afternoon so
many times that 1t gives color to the
statement that the play will form a part
of the standard Yale offense In the big
games. The play never failed to gain good
distances against the Scrubs" The whole
afternoons work was in marked contrast
with that Of Wednesday. The varsity
team. though minus the services of ShevIn
| and Neal, ends, and Hogan and Bloomer
tackles, displayed an excellent team offense
and their dash took the momentum out of
almost every attempt made by the scrubs"
4 to gain through the line or around the ends.
| The quickness of perception of the team
has improved also, for they repeated the
safety made day or two ago on the quar-
ter back kick when near the scrubs -
goal line, forcing the half back over the
line, instead of throwing him In his tracks.
as usual After scoring in this way the
scrubs took the ball to kick Off 1t went
| to Stevens who ran 1t back to midf1eld On
the next play he made a twenty -five-yard
gain. In three rushes straight through the
line the varsity scored a touchdown. The
pulling and dragging of the backs by the
| forwards were once more seen on plays
where opportunity for such help was Of
fered. The work today will be lessened in
order to have the team fresh for the game