The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-08
TALK OF IMPosSIBILITY TO FILL
PLACES ALL BOSH.
MOST IMPORTANT THING
NOW is ORGANIZATION
CAPTAIN COPE Is EXPECTED
HOME FROM sEwANEE SUNDAY.

Team Will Have Less Than Three
Weeks in which TO Get Into
Shape for the First Game of the
SeasOn-University of Florida
Comes to Savannah on October 20.
Persistent RumOrs That Hogan
Yancy VIII Go to Jacksonville to
Coach the Team There-POsitfOns
Have Been Secured Here for Both
He and His Brother.
The outlooks slim and dark and
gloomy,
The full backs sick and things look
bloomy.
The center fumbles the. slippery ball,
There's nothing left of the old stone
wall,
And its gloomier than gloomy.
Be still, dear rooter. cease your whin-
ming,
Behind the ball the men are still lin
ing.
They'll get their trimmings soon
enough.
There's no excuse for the annual bluff;
Take a friendly tip and yell while
you can.
All over the country the anpual cry
of poor material, lack of weight and
condition" is being sent up by coaches
and captains who are preparing for
defeat in case it comes. This weak
ness has struck Savannah. Past idols
of the gridiron are lamented as though
it were an impossibility to fill their
places. These same worshippers are
tickle, and at the end of another sea-
son will have set up new gods.
With hard work Savannah has prom
Use of just as good team as was de-
veloped here last year. There is q
superabundance of material, and the
only seeming difficulty now is the lack
of organization. The team which play
ed together last year was practically
the same one which had played together
the year before, which will not be the
case this year.
Right at this stage predictions of a |
much weaker team than the one put !
forward last season does not help |
matters. and rather diminishes the am |
bition of those who would like to go |
in to make the team. In speaking of |
the prospects for this years team, a |
former member of the blue and white |
line up said that all this talk about no |
available material to fill the places of
the absent players from Savannah
now is bosh. q wouldn't try for the
team this year" he said, Because L /
know that l could not make good /
among those who 1 know are going to |
try."
Capt. Cope is expected to return to
Savannah Sunday. 1t is probable that |
a meeting will be held next Sunday, |
and the preliminary arrangements for |
the practices will be made. During the |
season the Turkish baths will be used. |
just as last season.
With less than three weeks practice |
the team viii play the team from the |
University of Florida, which has been |
at practice since Sept. A. This will |
be a severe test for the team, and if /
Savannah is victorious it will be high
~ creditable.
The Jacksonville papers continue to |
print statements that Hogan Yancy /
has accepted terms to coach the Jack |
eonyille team, or rather to assist Jack |
Curran, who is coaching there now. /
Positions have been secured here for /
both the Yancy brothers and they /
are expected to arrive shortly, al |
though nothing definite has been heard |
from them recently.
Even without the Yancys there are |
excellent prospects for the team.
Frank Williams, a former star line |
man, will go back into training for |
one of the end positions. Artly will /
be out for practices, as will also John |
son and others who will try for tackles. |
In all, over thirty applications have |
been made for places on the team.