The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-26
CAMP On
FOOTBALL.
Some New Plays in
Game for Coming
Season.

This is the time of the year when
| school boys and athletic enthusiasts
| are looking forward to the fall season
and beginning to count the chances of
| the various football teams. 1t is also
| the time when coaches are wondering
whether the infant prodigies they have
heard of are likely to materialize and
turn INTO players. In the East, Prince
ton, as the champion of last season, is
naturally favored with the most flatter-
ing consideration, while Yale, Dart
mouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Column
bia, the Indians and Cornell, ali come
in for their share of the criticism and
regard of the enthusiast.
The phenomenal work last year of
certain teams, like Dartmouth and the
Indians, gave them especial precedence,
but the latter have lost to Cornell
Coach Warner. who for so many years
has drilled and instructed them, and
who last year turned out team of
lightweights which, considering that
fact, showed the most remarkable game
of any of the lesser teams in the East.
Dartmouth may be expected to pur-
sue the same methods as in 1903, and,
although the death of their famous CEN
ter, Hooper, and the loss of two or
three other men, have broken the
ranks, it is safe to predict that this
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classed as dangerous.
Princeton, Yale and Columbia to-
gether with Pennsylvania, are arrang-
ing to follow out lines of pol.cy similar
to those of last season, and, for the
most part under the, same coaching
staff. Harvard at the end of the year
selected Wrightington, a former captain
and remarkable halfback who has been
better known for the last few years as
an official, for her head coach. It is
doubtful, however if her coaching will
be materially altered, save in respect
to the kicking work, from that of last
year, as with a tandem attack on tackle
and center forcing. Harvard showed
in 1903 a game which for the first time
in three years was able to consistently
gain ground against her main rival,
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also likely to be fairly satisfied with
former methods.
Pennsylvania under Williams has a
difficult undertaking, for her season of
last year, crippled by the loss of Smith,
a man upon whom much of the play
depended, was very depressing to those
who had in former years seen Pennsyl-
vania "a star so high in the football
armament. True, at the very end,
Pennsylvania played a good game
against Cornell, but Pennsylvanians are
not satisfied with any such late recov-
cry.
In the Middle West, those veteran
coaches, Yost of Michigan, Williams of
Minnesota and Stage of Chicago, will
once more take up the burden, and
each endeavor to demonstrate the value
of his theories. Yost's successes have
been so phenomenal and so repeated
that it was a considerable feather in
the cap of Williams that he should
have been able last fall to make Min
nesota tie the Michigan wonders. Stagg
rising from sick bed to see the final
contest between Chicago and Michigan
in which his men We're defeated must
be looking forward to another seasons
opportunity. Mccormick, former
Dartmouth player. but who coached
Northwestern last season, is another
strong and resourceful Middle Western
coach who did we'll with rather medic
ere material last season. And it is safe
to predict with this array of talent that
the Middle West season will be quite
as interesting and holly fought out as
that on the Eastern seaboard.
On the Pacific coast, Stanford and the |
University of California, now limiting
themselves to graduate coaches, will |
line up with all the old traditions ia
maintain and prepare to face what is |
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