Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-28
SPORTS OF ALL SORTS
Foot Ball Teams Work Hard
for Tomorrow's Battles.
BIG FOUR ENGAGED
PRINCIPAL STRUGGLE BETWEEN
HARVARD AND PENNsY.
Good Bowling Matches-Gossip of the
Race Track-Women Golfers
Minor Leagues Demands.
BIG FOUR ENGAGED

The Quakers are in good spirits for their
game with Harvard tomorrow at Cam
bridge, and while they hardly dare hope
for victory, they are resolved to play
hard, determined game, and take adyan-
tage of any mistakes the Crimson may
make. Since two recent upsets this taking
advantage of +he enemys mistakes has
come to be a more or less set formula
among supposedly weaker teams. It is
rather frail prop on which to lean, yet
without 1t foot ball would lose half its fun.
But it is difficult to pick out a team whose
campaign this season has been less at
tended by mistakes than Harvards Three
qualities which have marked the Crimson's
progress have been steadness, safeness and
GOODNESS. The morale of the team is excel
lent. 1t impresses the onlookers. Penn
sylvania is stronger individually this sea-
son than last" says DR.. Williams. head
coach, but 'the team development has not
been as good as it was in 1903"
Kicking Goals Side Issue.
Cooney of the Princeton foot ball team
kicked ten goals from touchdowns against
Lehigh last Saturday, but his accomplish
ment was put in the shade the very same
day by Curtin of Michigan. who kicked
eighteen straight goals from touchdowns in
the game against West Virginia. Kicking
goals from touchdowns is merely little
side issue in such one-sided games. but in
close games it becomes a very important
issue and is then a real test of skill ana
nerve. 1t is doubtful if there ever was a
goal kicker the equal of little Hudson the
Indians great quarterback of a few years
ago. He would, with the greatest uncon-
Germ. drop kick his goals from touchdowns,
scorning the place kick method. On the
subject of goal kicking the argument arises
annually whether a field goal from place
ment-that is, after fair catch-should
count much as drop kick. Each counts
four points. but certainly drop kick repre-
sents more team and individual skill. A
place kick from a scrimmage is worth as
much as a drop kick, but the free place
kick, following a fair catch, is not. The
rules committee took a step in the right
direction when it made a touchdown count
one point more than drop kick goal ana
it would go further in the same direction
by making a place kick from a fair catch
worth one point less than the drop kick.
Two Fine Players Injured.
Capt Graves of the West Point team is
the hospital with cracked rib memen-
to of the debate with Yale last Saturday.
1t is thought he is out of the game for the
rest of the season, and, if so, the soldiers
chances of doing to Princeton what they did
to Yale and what the Navy did to Prince
ton become materially less. Graves has
Deen power III the west fOlnl attack,
dropping behind the line to lead the way for
the runner or taking the ball himself.
though thus far this season he has taken
the ball but little. The West Point captain
is a pretty good drop kicker and danger
Gus on that account whenever the ball is in
opponents territory. The drop kicking duty
will now devolve upon Torney. the full back
and punter. Mettler takes Graves place
at right tackle. and is a sandy player, not
without experience but not finished a
player as his captain. A coincidence in
connection with the Nays defeat of
Princeton and the Army's defeat of Yale
is that one of the most valuable men on
the two winning teams was hurt Doug
lass. the crack Navy full back, retired
from the Princeton game with broken
leg.
Anent the game which gave West Point a
look-in for the eastern championship, there
was an interesting occurrence in the Yale
dressing room just after the contest. Capt.
Hogan asked everybody but those who had
taken part in the game to vacate; then he
addressed his men thus: Il want you fell
with your work today. You played good
foot ball, and l am proud of you. Every
man played hard up to the finish, and there
is no occasion for any man to take any
blame on himself. When you go out of here
l want every man to go out with his head
in the air and smiling" Capt. Hogan is not
garrulous. Like Hinkey Mcbride and Raj
ferty, former Yale captains, he has little
to say. 1t may be observed that all of
these silent" CAPTAINS captained teams
hat were beaten. Less reticent was Gordon
Brown, who led Yale to sweeping victory
after two years of defeat and who cap
tanned the strongest foot ball team Yale
ever turned out.
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