The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-09-23
Condition of the Various
Kickers Who Will Com :
pete for Honors in the
Coming Season.
PRINCETON HARD AT WORK
COLUMBIA AND YAIE FAR FROM
sANGUINE - CoRNE AND
HARVARD ENTHUsI AsTIC-
LIGHT WORK AT PENN.


Princeton started active football work
on Thursday with a large squad of veter-
ans. SO far none Of the Tigers fresh
man stars have reported Unlike the
other universities, Princeton never calls
out her frst-year men until after the uni,
versity opens, which will be next week
II is understood, however, that the
Princeton authorities have not been
asleep while their rivals have been scour-
ing the country, and that they will pre-
sent some new men that viii help to win
back the Tigers prestige. OF the me-.
who reported on Thursday the principal
veterans We're Captain Cooney, butcher.
Dillon and Tooker for the lire; Tenney
King. Rnlon- Miller and Mccormick tot
the back field. In addition to these men
there We're many substitutes who prom
ise to develop well this year.
Princeton viii be the first of the Biz
Six TO play a regularly scheduled game.
The Tigers viii play yillanova on Sep
teinber 26. whereas the other universities
do NOT begin operations until tile Satur-
day following. The reason for Prince
tons early start is the early date on
which they have to close their season.
this being a week earlier than Harvard
a Yale, and nearly two weeks caller
than Pennsylvania and Cornell
Coach Morley started football practice
for Columbia the first of the week, but
the prospects for the New Yorkers are
far from bright. Indeed. it looks as
though Columbia will have one Of the
poorest teams this year The veterans
with which Morley is now working are
Captain Thorpe. Ecceverria. Post. Fish
er, Carter and Helmrick With hardly
an exception all the others are new men.
and few of these are of much promise
Columbia is badly handicapped by the
fact that it is largely post graduate
school to which few athletes are at
tracted.
Gloomy tales continue to come from
Yale regarding this years eleven, The
thing which Yale processes to be worried
about is the lack of promising school
boys from which TO recruit her eleven.
The Ellis started work on Wednesday
with small squad of veterans and
freshmen which has been increasing
daily. BY the middle of the coming week
the squad will be nearly complete.
Yale's weakness this year, after censid-
ering the material which has already re-
ported. is to be in the line. OF the
1904 line Neal is missing at one end.
Hogan and Bloonera from both tackles.
Kinney from one guard and Rotabacl
from centre.
But even with Yale's loss of veterans
in the line it will be stronger than is gen
orally believed by outsiders.
In the back field Yale has no eause for
worry. Hutchinson and Stevenson. the
substitute quarterbaeks. are both on
land. while Hoyts and Morse can play
the halfbacks aceeptably.' Finn, who
substituted at fullbaek or Owsley. is al
most as good as the man Yale has lost.
Among the 1904 substitutes much is ex-
pected of yeeder. who but for an injury
would certainly have made one of the
halfback positions. 1t is quite likely that
he will be tried out at end this year in
view of the dearth of candidates for this
position. Although Yale may not have
as large a squad of men this year as
formerly, college men should not be mis-
led into thinking that Yale is to be weak.
On the contrary. the Ellis ought to have
as strong an eleven as last year if they
are not visited by too much i'll luck
Cornell men are unable to restrain
their enthusiasm over the prospects of
1895. as indicated by the material which
reported to Coach Warner during the
week. And while this enthusiasm may
have to be modified as the season ad-
vanees. there is certainly good reason
for CornelIs hope that at last She Is to
have an eleven which will be capable of
placing Cornell to the fore on the grid
iron as her other team did in their re-
spectiye branches last year. The Itha-
cans are putting forth strenuous eff
forts to make good in football this sen
son, and they think that if they fail
this year, their case is hopeless.
With the exception Of the two or three
men Of the 1904 squad, whom Cornell