Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-12
Foot Ball Notes.

Hard knocks make good foot ball players
seems to be the rule at New Haven.
Flores and Pat Kennedy are the leading
candidates for right end on the Indian
team.
Halliday is the acting captain of the Cor
nell team since the retirement OF Capt.
Lyman.
other member of the big four. Penn comes
next.
Princeton will be tackling the midshipmen
while Harvard is playing at west folnt
next Saturday.
Graves of West Point is practicing goals
from the field. in preparation for Harvard s
visit to the Military Academy.
If names count for anything, Dockstader,
who is trying for the Indian eleven, ought
to make a good end man.
The Georgetown preparatory foot ball
team will line up this afternoon against the
eleven from Technical High School on
Georgetown field. Notwithstanding the de-
feat by Central on last Friday, the props
have hopes Of winning today's game.
which was to have played Georgetown. has
disbanded, so there will be no game at
Georgetown field today. The Blue and
Gray's next game is with Villanova Col
lege on Saturday.
The Michigan team is agaiE after the top
score record of the season. 1t now holds
it for single game, rolling up ninety-fve
points in one contest The 'Yost machine
ing western elevens are making big scores.
Possibly the minor teams in the west are
not as good as those of this section
Cases of dual college loyalty are more in
evidence this year than ever before. 1t is
not unlikely that every one of the big elev-
ems will have at least one graduate of
other college on its team whose participa-
ton has been made possible by a years
residence. Already there have been three
cases of men refusing to play against their
old comra des.-New York Herald.
In preparation for the annual game with
villanova here next Saturday the George
town College eleven is going through one
of the hardest weeks of practice since the
beginning Of the season. Not having had a
game since that with Princeton on October
1, the Blue and Gray candidates have lost
much of their form, and have not yet cor
rected their two most glazing Tablespoon
tackling and slow charging. Lack of a
sufficient number of coaches has also been
a severe handicap to the Georgetown team.
Like almost everything else, foot ball
seems to move by cycles. We all remem-
Der the seasons of 1898 and 1894, and that
period when flying wedges and battering-
ram tactics threatened every department
of the game save that of brute force.
Then followed a period wherein quickness
and the perfect execution of plays made
for success, and lighter men had oppor-
tunity to prove their mettle. Nov we are
threatened again with the numbering
heavy teams, which gain ground by phys
ical force supplemented by SKILL instead
OF giving science its fair due.-James L.
Knox in Town Topics.
An unpleasant feature of the early
western season is the employment of
spies and scouts. Not one of the big teams
but is constantly on the lookout for these
men, which has resulted in the develop
ment of a counter secret service system.
Tooker of Princeton gives promise of
becoming a fine drop kicker. Although
green at this part of the game, he got
the knack of 1t in remarkably short
time.
Pennsylvania, in her efforts to bolster
up a rather weak scrub" has been call
c. E. Wallace and DR.. McCloskey, two Of
the Quakers' old-time tackles, got into
the game and ripped the varsity offense
to pieces. "Oh, were not such has beens
after ALL" quoth "Blondy" Wallace, az the
two walked off the field. The policy of
playing these two stars will be continued
Owsley of Yale has the Rockwell habit
of singing out the signals before the men
are in position for the scrimmage He
loses no time. thinks quickly and hardly
are his men through thinking of the last
play before he brings them to a realizing
sense of the next move. AS neat play as
has been seen in many a day, and one
showing spryness and watchfulness was
made by Owsley In the Pennsylvania
state game. Shevlin caught a punt, but
dropped the ball when tackled. Owsley
was backing him up. Shevlin fell to his
launches, but quicker than man can
bat his eye Owsley threw himself across
Shevlins stomach and grabbed the ball
Owsley's head was half buried under the
burly form of his full back, with two or
to the pigskin until the heap was olsen
tangled