Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-07
Football Notes.

QuakerS.
New York is making bid for the Army
and Navy game
yale is the only team that has beaten
Syracuse this season
The Princeton back field is being touted
rs the fastest in the country.
I'm at New Haven, Andrews IS looked
11Don as a rival for BigloW at tackle.
With Nesmith out, Harvard has lost
her best substitute for Capt. Hurley.
Hockcnberber, though comparatively
weak appears to be the choice for lett
guard on the Yale team.
If mass meetings have anything to do
with the making of a winning team, Har-
ward will have a winner.
Princeton has found n star punter III
Tibbetts, a freshman. His kicks, TINS
week, averaged 80 yards.
The end problem a Harvard seems as
far from 4 satisfactory solution as it was
at the beginning of the year.
The greatest coaching staff in the coun-
try is now bending its energies toward
stiffening the Yale front line.
Yost's Michigan team is beginning to
come again. Illinois. coached by Wood
ruff last fall, was beaten, SO to o..
Schuster of Lafayette, has drop kicked
as many goals from the field as have all
the other drop kickers put together.
Thompson, Andover's old guard. evil
IDENTIFY has not succeeded in being the
keystone Of great team at Cornell.
Princeton apparently is very weak on
the end of the line, inaSniuch as the Co
lumbia ends outplayed those of the III
gers.
Amherst's defeat by Holy Cross does
not argue that Johnny Harris team will
break Dartmouth 5 march at Amherst,
Saturday.
The hard driving of the Yale coaches
is beginning to tell on the men. Flan-
ders Bielow and Morse are all down a
little too fine.
Jim Quill. the old Amherst back, has
recovered from the effects of two broken
ribs and is now available for back field
work at Yale.
There IS not single member of the
Harvard team who had n football reputa-
ton at any other college before he came
to Cambridge.
Charley DAILY. who witnessed the liar
ward Carlisle game said that the Yale
team is not 50 strong this year in his
opinion as last.
1t isn't hard luck that a college eleven
loses men by legitimate disqualification
by faculty and athletic committee cdicts
lit is retrbution.
Pennsylvania States cry to the effect
that she was robbed in New Haven was
not conducive to the elevation OF foot
bail as n college sport.
A few days ago 500 from Philadelphia
l.. of p. hackers was covered at even
money by Harvard men. The Quakcrs
now want odds OF ) to g.
Apparently Frank fIinkey has done
wonders with Jack Gates, as his work
i'll the West Point game was superior to
that of the 81 Eat Shtvlin.
Griffin, who weighs 1863 pounds and plays
center for Dartmouth. IS one of the light
est but most effective mon in the position
among the New England colleges.
Thompson. the former Andover captain.
who was finally landed by Cornell, is
Dle1Sln2 The coaches nv his nhiljtV adj
vance the ball from TIE guards back for
nation.
Since Lafayette played Princeton there
has been comparatively little hard prac-
too busy rccupcratinG and nursing
bruises.
How Capt. Hurley of Harvard, can
Jump into the play ana stand two 55-mn
ute halves against Yale is difficult to I'M
derstand, vet the Crimson coaches say
that great player Will not line up till
then.
James Squres. aged 16 years. a mem
Der Of the Alton Gl9 High school foot,
ball team, died there, Monday, from blood
poisoning, the effect of a kick on the knee
received, Oct. H. in n game with East
st. Louis High school team.
1t is reported that Bill Reid, Harvard's
coach, is paid $1,000 q quarter, or at the
rate of $4,000 q year. He is not the only
coach who is receiving big money. Dick
inSon of PENNSYLVANIA, YOst of Michigan,
lriilt1 VI w lSCOilSlll dnG Nllll1mS o Mill
nesota, arc drawing $500 or better for
three months work.
Bob Dunbar in Boston Journal: If the
signs do not fail, we shall see on Nov
-, within the stadium the finest eXem-
plifcatiOn of skillful handling Of the ball
that we have seen in years. Harvard
has played two games in succession ir
which fumbling has heen practically
eliminated, and Yalc's work in this re-
spect is very smooth.
Three of the stars Of the WASHINGTON
University squad went Oh n strike, last
week. because Coach Cults did not run
| things Just to their liking. The college
sided with Cults and the strikers were
ostraciZed. 1t took only three days for
the strik to realize that they had made
a mistake, and they asked permission to
reloIn the squad. They were pu. on the
second eleven, and will now have to earn
their way back irto the good graccs of
the coaches and students.
Boston Journal: There is one thing
about that Yale eleven. No team ever
existed that had equal coaching There
has been the greatest combinatio of tai
ent at Capt. Shevlin's can that has ever
been known in football. and it is no won
der that the team is making good The
supreme effort Yale is making NAV be
taken as compliment to Bill Reid. or. as
yale friend suggests, rs indicating that
Yale men mean to demonstrate that
Mike Murphy is not Indispensable