The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-24
EASTERN TEAMS
DOWN TO WORK
Big Colleges Preparing for Strenuous
Football Season.
CONFIDENCE EVERYWHERE
OUTLOOK is BRIGHT AND CROP
OF VICTIMS SHOULD BE BIG.
Especial Sporting service1


New York Sept. 23.-Football is the mag
ic word which once more stirs the college
athletic world. Il Fouses the veteran
from the lethaFgy of his summer vaca-
ton and causes the prep school star
TO take tighter grip on his self-coptroI
that he may face the coming fray with
the cooluess of varsity man. Through
out the entire country coaches and play
ers are gathering for the opening of the
SFidiTon season of 1905, which promises
many a hard fought contest during the
next two months. The indications at d
large majority of the institutions point
to good teams, the only exception to the
rule being Columbia. The local collesians
material goes. and it does not look az
though they could aspire to cham
pionship honOrs. There are only four Of
last years veterans as nucleus for the
coaches to begin work with and new ma
terial Is not very bountiful.
There are rumOrs Of all kinds floating
about, which intimate surprises 10 those
who consider that the blue and white has
IS talk OF new men from the west, but
as Yet none have put in an appearance at
the football house.
Bright Outlook at Penn.
Pennsylvania will have nearly all OF
field this season and il looks as IL she
would have a team about the equal Of
that in 1904. In addition there is expect
cd a large squad of promising prep"
school material for Mike Murphy to round
into form. The fact that Murphy has re-
turned TO Pennsylvania Is taken as a
good omen by many OF the followers Cf
the red and blue, and they profess TO be
sure that the championship of 1905 Will
fall to the lot of the Quaker institution.
Certainly appearances tend TO give
weight TO even such a sanguine opinion
as that.
Giants Missed at Yale.
Yale enters the gridiron work with pros
poets hardly as favorable as those of
last year. yet without any cause to feel
glum. Some of the giants who have car
ried many team TO victory, such as Ho-
gan and Bloomer. will be missed during
the preliminary practice now going on
Still there is large squad of veteran
material which ought to make a good
eleven with practically no coaching what
ever The back field is strong with many
veterans, and the line Is the hardest place
to fill in with star material. The coacnes
expect that some of the prep school
stars will turn into strong players. Mack
of Mercersberg has charge of the training
of the men. Just what erect Inc loss oI
Murphy will have Is a problem which
will be watched with no little interest, not
only at Yale, but elsewhere.
Confidence at Princeton.
Princeton has fair allotment OF vet
Grams and is due to figure in the big
games as prominent factor. There Will
have to be hard work on the part OF
the coaches, but it is thought, with prop
er attention. the weareTs of the orange
and black can get into good condition.
There is no lack of confidence on the
mari OF the Princeton students, and they
freely predict a strong eleven. The in
coming class is expected TO furnish some
good material for the team.
Harvard will be an important factor IN
the season of 1863 The crimson once
again has the services of Bill Reid and
the undergraduates have confidence that