Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-08
FOOT BALL NOTES


Charley Gould. the old Yale captain Is
now a Standard OIL agent
Pennsylvania is using Lamson, her big
tackle, In rushing the ball. He Is said to
be a wonder in going through the scrub
line.
Can Harvard roll up score OF "a to .
against Williams this Year,
Billy Coe has entered the literary depart
ment of the University Of Michigan, but he
will not come out for foot Dali, as ne Is IN
eligible this fall.
According to the general trend of opinion
contained in the New York Herald's sympo.
SUM on association foot ball. the "socker
game is not likely to supplant the .Ameri-
can college game of foot ball.
One of McCormacks Northwestern candf-
dates Is Barlow, who was substitute on
Yost's western championship eleven in lSo5
ST. Louis amateur" foot ball team man
ayers are advertising for players, whom
they will pay $S5 per month. The farm
hands of Missouri can see easy times ahead
until Thanksgiving.
Tenney the Princeton back, is being given
lots of time to practice drop kicking. as the
Tigers have found that a valuable man IN
this department of the game may turn the
tide of battle, as>i in former years.
Several of the Annapolis regulars cut their
leaves short to begin work at foot bail Inc
presence of Rockwell and Olcott of Yale at
Annapolis has stimulated great interest.
West Point has won all the recent games
Delano and Cook. formerly of Brookline
High, are trying for the Syracuse Univer-
sity eleven. Touhey of st. Alphonsus A. A.
has also gone to Syracuse.
Johnny Hart is having his troubles at Am
herst. Connell, substitute guard and tackle
of last years team, has been suspended
from the squad because of delinquencles IN
his college work. Reyes and Henry, two
other members of the squad, have also been
forced to leave 1t for the same reason.
William Everett of Adams Academy,
Quincy, has forbidden foot ball On the
grounds that it is too rough a game. At
meeting of Harvard alumni last spring he
took Harvard's old foot ball players to task
for not coming out to show his boys how
to play the game.
The element of training always has both
cred Columbia teams. Time and again the
elevenS have gone halfway through the sea-
the schedule and be weak and inefficient
at the time that they should be strong.
This season Mother Webb, the bicyclists'
trainer, will try his hand on the Columbia
men.
Coach Yost and Trainer Fitzpatrick of
Michigan picked up the English association
game as joke last week but upon thinking
it over they concluded that It is one of the
best means of developing endurance in the
early part of season. 1T makes the men
step lively, keeps their eyes on the ball and
develops the wind, while they do not run
the danger of injury that might happen in
scrimmages,' said Trainer Fitzpatrick.
West Point is playing two ex-college foot
ball men. Philoon from Maine and Hanlon
who played at Wesleyan. Annapolis makes
q protest against this practice each fall but
1t does no good. West Point draws much
more from among old college players than
does Annapolis, where thesmiddies are gem
orally younger than the cadets, and this
fact doubtless has something to do with
the army's long string of victories.
The purple stocking which in years past
was used by Northwestern's athletic teams
has been abandoned, and in its place a
white stocking with purple band above
the ankle was chosen. This stocking is also
ffSfG Ntn TO hot oh,
because of fear of blood poisoning. Davis
and Jenkins, both of whom were injured
in the game Saturday, are threatened with
blood poisoning because of the purple color
of the stocking coming in contact with the
cut.
Jimmy Knox, who writes under the seu-
donym of THE Referee" in Town Topics
says: THE rule debarring first-year men
Is an excellent one and should be adopted
by the eastern colleges. 1t would be If
there were the unity of purpose and con-
advocated. From my freshman year to the
period when l ceased to serve as a gradu-
ate coach have perSistently advocated the
restrictions of all frst-year men to fresh
men teams. AS a freshman I was pounded
to pieces on the college eleven, and l am
sure that my later value to the varsity
would have been materially enhanced If
had remained throughout the season with
my class team. It may seem disloyal, but
later as freshman coach I would never
acknowledge that had a player of varsity
caliber on my squad. and the work of those
same men that held in check fully justified
my keeping them with their equals physi-
cally and in experience"
There is not a prettier play in foot ball. or
one that Is more appreciated by the specta-
tors, than drop-kick for goal. Frank
Hudson's ability in this direction made him
a universal favorite. Poe's kick that won
the game for Princeton against Yale was a
spectacular finish of great game but in
late years the drop kick method of scoring
has not been much in vogue Here's hoping