Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-28
Football Notes.

Another week of the sport and then IN"
big games will be rehearsed by the nrc-
side.
West Point and Annapolis will close the
season of 1905 with their annual contest at
Princeton, Saturday.
Boston Journal: For g. clever player
Capt Shevlin showed up poorly. Satur-
day. in comparison to his other three
years of brilliant work.
On Thursday, Penn and Cornell Will
fight it out at Philadelphia, while in TIE
West Michigan and Chicago will settle
the Western championship at Chicago.
Boston Journal: The condition of Capt;
Daniel j. Hurley of the Harvard fOotDtll
team was reported at the hospital, sun
day night as being very encouraging. For
the first time since his admission to tn"
Institution he sat up for a short while
during the afternoon. receiving the calls
of his mother. sister and brothers.
Boston Journal: 1t looks now as if the
football rules committee would have to
get together with the college presidents
when they revise the rules, this winter.
Some of these heads of universities, not
ably President Eliot of Harvard, know
what they want and are able to diagnose
the rules and the effects of any. proposed
changes. They will demand radical
changes and they will probably get them.
Bob Dunbar in Boston Journal: One of
the most remarkable feats l have heard
of this year in football was that accom-
plished by young Timmins. the quarter
back of the Milton Academy third class
man, in a contest against similar class
eleven of Noble & GreenOugh School re-
Gently. The Milton team won, Y to 0. and
Timmins kicked all II goals from touch
downs. He is only a mere lad of less
than IA years If he can continue to per-
form as we'll he will make remarkable
player when he reaches college,
Boston Journal: The Yale football team
returned to New Haven, Sunday evening
he with rnSnpct nj
Harvard's tandem play. They found thus
play a regular batterinS ram. and 1t was
only by putting i'll rev and fresh men
that Yale wore down Harvard's attack.
Yale says Harvard never had such an at
tack, and that for power she doubts II
any team ever had d better play. Brill
was a surprise to the Ellis, and they now
put him down as a wonder. 1t helped
Yale when Harvard took him out of the
game.
the flag end of the football season is the
Army and Navy game, which will be play
ed in Princeton. Saturday. The annual
contest between the soldiers and the mid
cause persons not connected with either
branch of the service regard these tive
teams as public wards. This popular tic-
| ton does no harm, and at the same tim.
makes interest in the game widespread
| For the first time in several years the
| contest is not to be in Philadelphia. The,.
| HIS UctIl al lDl vi ulSCuSSIOH dDOuI tllt
| change from the Quaker City to Princeton
| and with this phase of the situation many
| are familiar. 1t has been suggested that
| it would be wise move to transfer the
| game to Washington. and reports indi-
| cate that perhaps stands will be put uI
| on the White Lot for the accommoda tior
| of the crowds that will see the game in
the nations capital probably next year
The Army and Navy Journal is as strong
| ly in favor of the move to Washington
/ nc IN hn,, hn
| played in Princeton.
| Although the Yale football season clos
ed. Saturday. with the annual game
| against Harvard, plans were immedia tely
| begun for next seIsOn. The election of u
| captain will be the first step in the cam
paiSn. The meeting to choose Il leader
will be deferred. as some of the players
| will not return to college for two or tire.
| days, going to the homes of friends to
rest from the five hard games which
| matches with West Point, Columbia
Brown, Princeton and Harvard. The
captaincy seems to lie between Sammy
Morse, right hllfback: Bob Forbes. left
tackle; Paul Veeder. left halfback, and
Roswell Trip right guard. Trip has
another year to play. but expects to &C
| INTO business and will not return to Yale
| lie will be graduated from the Sheffield
Scientific School i'm June There is som,
| talk OF Carl Flanders. center. but it is be-
| lieved that the election will simmer down
| 10 ForbeS or Morse. as Feeder did not
| play last year and was not Il first string
player this fall in the Harvard game
| This is the first season on the eleven for
both Morse and Forbes. Both are bril-
| Liant players and the election of either
would be welcomed as an ideal choice
| Whether Captain Tom Shevlin can be in
duced to come back to act as head coacl,
IS not sure. He has planned to go into
the lumber business in the West, but
strong pressure will be brought to hear
to induce him to return to Yale rs coach,
Ills year as captain closes with him one
of the most popular leaders who eyer
headed a Yale team.