Evening star., 1905-10-28
FOOT BALL NOTES.

Most of the Harvard cripples will be in
the game today.
There is wall from New Haven about
the Yale defense, yet no team has yet
crossed Yale's goal line.
OF Harvard's five varsity coaches, Lewis,
Waters and Herman were All-American
players.
Cayou, one of Carlisle's old players, is
coaching NOtre Dame.
Princeton men offering odds as high
as to that they will beat Columbia.
Brink Thorne, the 90 Yale halfback, is
back in New Haven again coaching the
team. Yale now has coaches enough al
most for every one to take man.
Since Lafayette played Princeton there
has been really nothing doing in the foot
ball line at Easton, Pa. The men have been
too busy recuperating and nursing bruises
to get much practice.
Chicago University has been scored on by
a minor college team.
They have no man at Harvard this year
who enjoys foot ball the way phil" Mills
did.-Boston Herald.
Drop kickers are lacking in the west this
fall Probably Yost will develop a good one
before the season is over.
Oveson Is the only old Harvard player
that has not been moved to come out yet.
Stagg of Yale beat King of Princeton
when their teams came together. A goal
from the field was all that separated Chi
cago and Wisconsin.
1t begins to look as If there will be a
strenuous game of foot ball on Franklin
Field on November II, and 1t would not be
surprising to see few changes In the Penn
sylvania team before that date
Levine. one of Pennsy's subs, is Rus
sian. Recently when he made a run. for
the scrub team, another candidate a Jap
anese. Takaki. interfered for him to the
delight of the crowd
Yellow Jack scored the first down against
the University of Mississippi foot ball team
this season. The team has been disbanded
and Will not get together again until next
season.
Booths Nebraskans prevented Michigan
from scoring in the first half something
which none except the big four out west
has done before. Michigan's weight told
in the second half, however, and the game
was won easily.
Coach Morley of Columbia says more is
gained by good drop-kicking than line buck
ing, and he Is developing the kicking de-
partment. Collins. the fast little quarter
shows up strongest among the drop-kickers
and punters.
Walter Mccormack is said to be dlscour-
aged at Northwestern. His team did not do
well against Kentucky, and has small
chances for Chicago. Trainer Holland has
big injured Hstfi but hopes to have his best
team TO go against eleven today.
The other day when Blagden, Harvard's
tackle In 1901, was working in foot ball
clothes on Soldiers Field he attracted the
attention of O'Brien. the freshman end
There's great player said O'Brien. "I
have watched him and he ought to make
good Who Is hep About that time the
laugh was on OBrien.
BIZ Edwards. who viii umpire the Har-
vard-Pennsylvania game, will have the
chance OF his life to make a reputation by
making the game absolutely clean, even IL
he rules off half dozen men for evadins
rules. Roughness in play can be stopped
and fearless umpire Is the man who can
do IT,
Although the physical characteristics of
the Indian are not much different from
those of the pale-faced men, yet II is re-
markable that along the line of foot ball
redskins are assisted in playing the great
college game by a number of peculiar
phases OF their natural DEVELOPMENT that
are not possessed by the average college
boy. Frank Mt. Pleasant, the wonderful
Indian tackle athlete, who is playing quar-
terback on this years Indian foot bali team.
and who is 10-second runner, jumps 23
feet inches and punts 80 yards has feet
which are long, fiat and punched with mus
cles, upon which ordinary knocks ana
sprains have no effect. One of the most
eminent authorities has stated that a pound
of Indian muscle, far as endura nee
and tenacity are concerned, is worth one
and half pounds of white mans muscle.