Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-01
university coaches are too astute to be mis-

university coaches are too astute to be mis-
led SO easily.
o. the foot ball squads OF the big Six" oc-
CURED at Pennsylvania last week, when
w. Hollenback. one of the Quakersi best
substitute half backs. sustained a broken
leg In one of the scrimmages. There was
considerable mystery to Hollenback's in
jury. for he was not tackled hard and no
one piled up on him when he fell. He
seemed to twist his ankle as he fell and the
bone snapped. Hollenback will not be able
to play any more foot bali this year. His
loss is not very severe because the Red and
Blue has plethora Of good back field mate
rial this year.
PENIS coaches have reason to congratu-
late themselves on the character Of their
back field men. Stevenson at quarter, Rey-
nolds and Green at half back and Fol-
well at full back are about the best quar-
tet the Quakers could get. But there are
enough other stars here to make up two
more back fields, only slightly inferior to
the first. For quarter back there are three
good men in Luby, Johnston and Corson.
For the two half backs the coaches can
cali on Sheble, Longwell. Jacoby and Dyer.
Then for full back Hamilton and Kinnard
are both good men, The condition of the
line substitutes Is not SO bad. but even
here the coaches are not at a loss for sec
ond-string men.
AS predicted in this column recently,
neither Princeton nor Yale are faring so
badly in the matter of scholastic recruits
as they thought would be the case At both
institutions the scholastic stars were per-
haps little late In arriving, but they have
joicing over them.
At Princeton the best OF the new men Is
Moscript. the former Mercersburg full back
He is not only a good punter, but line
plunger as well. Other promising men are
E. Dillon, the former Andover quarter
back who is giving the veteran Tenney a
run for the place: O'Brien and Jennings.
two Exeter stars, and Freyer. a 20O-pound
tackle from Hill School. Yale is happy
over the acquisition Of Levine, the famous
ALdover athlete; Paige. a 20o-pound guard
from st Pauls School; Jones and Turner,
both scholastic stars Of ability.
One of the features in western foot ball
this year is the greater attention which the
coaches there have been paying to the de-
Tense Heretofore the westerners have built
up their attack at the expense Of their de-
Tense. The consequence was that they ran
up big scores against the small schools and
then failed to hold an eleven slightly in
ferior to their own. It was on this account
that last year, and in fact for several years
there has not been game OF Importance IN
the west in which both did not score at
least once and sometimes twice. In the
east the coaches have built up the defense
first and the offense last. The result has
been that in the championship games it was
seldom that both sides scored. Last year
Penn proved to be two touchdowns
stronger than Harvard. three stronger than
Columbia and six stronger than Cornell.
Similarly Yale was two touchdowns strong
err than Harvard and the same over Prince
ton. In none of these games could the de-
feated team score. The west has heretofore
been the very reverse of this. 1t has been
Oh account of this manifest weakness In de-
tense that eastern critics have not hesitat
ed to declare that western foot ball is not
as strong as eastern. But with the change
which Coach Stage of Chicago and Yost of
Michigan have started the west may have
different tale to tell in the future.