The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-07

TO grotesque and lauRhable results IL
happened once at Columbia that there was
a man from Yale who bad never been
anything but a substitute on the eleven all
the time he was at New Haven. He never
had won his ~ and IN fact. was more
or less unknown TO all except q lew AT New
Haven. When he entered one OF the grad
uate schools at Columbia he WAS asked 10
come out for the football team. When he
had been in residence year he did come
out and not unn1turIlly made position
on the eleven. Imagine the CONSERVATION
OF the Columbia people when, as the Yale
game drew near the man announced that
he should not play against his old team.
The surprise at Columbia was equ1lled only
by the amusement az New Haven lhat TINS
man, who never had made the varsity
sity. why, he's played against the var
sity team for four years. said one Yale
man. ITO my positive knowledge he was
on the scrub every practise day Tor tour
seasons. He oughtn't 10 mind because the
team he's on now wears a lighter shade Of
blue
The unpleasantness over the Yale Penn
sylvania water polo game, In which a Yale
man was accused Of having bitten Phila-
delphia PLAYER, has led George Kstler,
the coach Of the Red and Blue water polo
team, to endea vOr 20 reintroduce the Eng
glish style Of game into this country
Kister said recently that most Of the rough
work was due TO the underwater play, the
small, poorly inflated balls and the method
Of scoring permitted by the rules on this
side Of the water. return to the English
style Of playing the game would, he said,
eliminate most OF the undesirable features
without interfering with the spectacular
points of the sport The main differences
between the American and English games
are: The latter il played with large,
tightly inflated ball, about the size Of an
association football, while the former i
contested with small loosely blown up ball,
which can be carried under water easily;
in the English game no player except the
goalkeeper may Use two hands on the ball,
while the American rules say that any
player may: in the English game goals
are scored by throwing the ball over the
goal, while American rules have made the
goal smaller and make II necessary TO
touch the board to count goal These
in the rules account for much OF
the rough work that Is so frequent in the
America game.
Eight OF nine years ago the English game
was played in this country, said Kistler,
but the Knckerbocker A. c., which turned
out teams Of big, heavy men, was instru,
mental in having passed rules which would
best be suited to it, team. These nave
never been changed,
Phil King coach OF the Wisconsin football
team. wound up spring football pract Use at
he Madison University recently by telling
the candidates that he didn't believe. in
spring gridiron work. Il think that spring
practise il useless said King, but II we
are 10 beat Minnesota, Michigan and Chi
cago, we will have to do "a much prepora-
ion as they do in this regard 1t was
likely at first that the practise
would not be held, as the Wisconsin foot
ball association is 5000 in debt and did not
wish to add TO the amount. peculiar
point Of discipline came up In connection
with the work, which has resulted in the
loss Of Richard Remp, the center OF the
varsity eleveI. Remp has been center
On the team for two years, and when King
back the hall, Remp argued. He tired 70
show King that his way had some nFcTIt > TOO,
put King refused 20 listen. Remp said that !
he couldn't very easily unlearn at this late
stage Of the game the style that he had
been using for two years IN college and LOT
some seasons before that in school. He |
RED to show the Remp method in ae polite |
a manner as possible, but when King re- |
-oTted that he came TO Wisconsin TO teach, |
not TO be taught, and that no insubordina-
ton would be tolerated, Kemp sadiy out
firmly left the field. He took on his toys |
and later announced that he would with
draw from college as aoon as he could get |
his Affairs fixed up. He left at the end OF |
The Easter recess. Remp had all his work |
near compilation and was thinking OF return |
ing for some graduate work next fall. HIS |
loss is a severe blow but King thinks that |
The value Of the lesson in dircipline is worth |
a PLAYER or so. The COLLEGE Il !ArEe is not |
quite inclined TO agree with him.
The University Of California four will |
AXE part in the international regatta TO be
held Nav "a in Victoria, British Columbia. |
The Berkeley oarsmen will be able 10 go as |
champions Of the Coast colleges, because |
hey recently defeated the University Of |
W ashington, which in turn Immediately |
after beat Stanford. There will be a re-
.urn race betwee California and the Uni
versity Of Washington on May 80 at Seattle, |
and the California people think that Il will |
be Just as convenient for them to start a |
little earlier and take in the Victoria races |
and meet Washington on the way home.
Pennsylvania has discovered that there |
q In the midst Of the student community |
At Philadelphia one Of the greatest full |
backs that ever played the game Of foot ,
lal in the West. He is no other than Egil |
Boeckmann Of st, Paul, Mimi, who played |
On the Minnesota eleven which in 1908 /
led the University Of Michigan at TO 0. |
Boeckmann, who Is said TO have made the |
touchdown. was unanimously chosen full |
back on the AlWesteTn football eleven. |
He entered Pennsylvania medical school |
n the senior class last fall and will. be |
sligible this coming season. IL Is eK- |
DeCted that he will take a post graduate |
course. in which event he will undoubtedly |
make place on the Red and Blue eleven. |
Boeckmann Is a typical Western giant, |
standing over feet in height and weigh |
ng nearly 1875 pounds. Despite these |
1erculean proportions he Is almost as
last a man as Heston, the Michigan star.
Williams has started on a system Of |
yradute coaching in football, by which |
Norris Ely, Yale es, the regular head /
,oach, will he aided by one Of more |
graduates James Arthur Hatch, 'O3, who |
played on the Williams team for four years.
1as been the first choice for a place under |
he new system. He prepared for Will |
Jams at Andover. where he was a member
II the eleven. After leaving college he |
coached the Colgate eleven, which was |
exceptionally strong. Last season he had |
,harge OF the team az Rensselaer, Poly |
echnic Institute. Il is hoped az Williams |
hat the engagement Of Hatch is the be-
ginning Of a firmly founded graduate
iystem Ely will have official charge OF
he team, but he will be in Willamstown .
,nly part Of the season. In his absence
Hatch will have complete control. The
ootball schedule Of the Williams team
las been arranged. The annual game
With Columbia will be played in this city
IN Oct. IA. Dartmouth comes a week
alter. Colgate and Amherst are scheduled 1
or Nov. 4 and IS. respectively, the latter
game winding up the season at home. The
schedule is: Sept. %, Williston, at Will /
Jamestown; Sept. 30, Harvard at Cam
bridge, Oct 7, Union, at Schenectady; |
Oct. IL, Massachusetts, Agricultural Coll
eye, at Williamstown; Oct. II, Columbia,