Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-17

special U1spach to Inc star.
NEW YORK. September 1.-THE dull
thud Of the pigskin IL once again heard on
the football season Of 1905 gridiron. Coaches.
veteran players and substitutes with the
ambitious prep school stars ready to re-
port at all the universities on the open
Ing day Of practice every indication points
to one Of the best seasons OF recent years.
All Of the varsity squads. with ono or two
exceptions. are in the pink OF condition for
the gridiron struggle. In the group Of
colleges known as the big Six" Columbia
win be the only one who cannot call on
nearly all OF last years eleven for work
this season. With such q condition existing
the contests win surely be close and we'll
played. and the public will have a chance
to see some magnificent struggles.
Naturally the two rival claimants for the
foot ball championship OF 1904. Yale and
Pennsylvania. loom up as the likeliest to win
the honor this year. Each has a nucleus of
veteran players who will be able to fill
nearly all the positions on the team, and
with the strong substitutes from last sea-
son and the material which each expects
with the incoming class, the coaches will
apparently have little difficulty in turning
out formidable elevens. Should both of
these colleges go through the season with
out defeat, and 1t is probable that they
will, the championship would once again
remain In doubt. 1t is unfortunate that
they do not meet in a contest, for deciding
the championship by comparative scores
Is a sorry business at best.
Harvard. the down-trodden of the last
few years, will undoubtedly come to the
front in foot ball lore. She too, has a strong
nucleus to work from, and with many de-
feats to avenge will play strong game
with her more successful rivals At Prince
ton the
New Jersey men have the making of q
powerful aggregation in the gridiron game.
AT Cornell there will be a large squad of
veteran material for Coach Warner to start
on. but, although the men are experienced.
they are not fully up to the standard of that
at the colleges previously mentioned. The
men lack the main essential. weight. The
prospects are. however, more encouraging
than those Of last year.
Both Yale and Columbia will be more or
less crude than early in the season, but the
game will be all the more interesting for
that very reason. The question is which
will make the more progress before they
come together in this city on November l.
Cornell plays Bucknell on october Z and
Princeton plays Bucknell on October IA.
Those two games will be eagerly watched
and deductions made as to the possible
bearing the results may have on the Prince
ton-Cornell game
Yale plays the Springfield Training School
on October IL, while Harvard measures
strength with the S. T. S. on October IA,
but three days later. Williams and Am
herst, whose game on November IS is an
important one, each play Columbia in Oc
tober; Williams on the 14th, Amherst on
the 21st Columbia and Cornell clash on
November IS. and Pennsylvania and CO.
lumbfa on November %. On November 80
Cornell and Pennsylvania lock horns, so
that what they did against Columbia will
be sure to form the basis of deductions for
the Thanksgiving day battle. Princeton's
game with Columbia and Yale's game with
the Morningside men come only a week
apart-October % and November 4, being
the dates-and the form student will be
busy making comparisons from the show
ing of the Tiger and the Bulldog against
the Blue and White.
Three weeks intervene between Harvard's
game with Williams and Dartmouth's game
with Williams, but even that lengthy stretch
will not prevent lively conjecture as to
what will happen when Harvard and Dart
mouth meet. Dartmouth and Brown are
to meet on November %. Brown plays
Harvard on October % and Dartmouth
plays Harvard on November 1S. Yale
stacks up against Brown two weeks after
the Crimson and Brown have 1t out. There
is only one team that both West Point and
Annapolis lneet-the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute. The Army meets V. P. l. on Oc-
tober IA and the Navy meets v. P. l. on
November 20. An interval of five weeks
is too much on which to base reliable
opinion as to the relative strength OF the
soldiers and the middies. but that will not
prevent the middies from trying to roll the
bigger score up against V. p. l.
Columbia will apparently have the shaki-
est eleven that has ever represented her.
There is not any material worth speaking
of from last year and this, coupled with
the fact that the schedule which she will
be called upon to play is an unusually hard