The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-02
FOOTBALL OPENS.
Outlook and Review of the
Eastern Colleges.
GridirOn Battles Promise to Be
Clean and Exciting.
MURPHY WITHDRAWS.
Loss of This Trainer Will
Greatly Injure Yale.
Pennsylvania Considered a
Strong Factor This Season.
MURPHY WITHDRAWs.

New York. oct. 2.-The football sea
son of 1905 promises much in the way
Of clean and excellent sport. In the first
place, it is the general opinion OF foot
ball experts that some surprises are
likely to develop this year. Naturally
that helps the sport at the very begin
ming.
Reid to Aid Harvard.
With "Bnl" Reid as coach of the
Harvard eleven it should surprise no
one to see a radical change in Har-
ward football. 1t is doubtful if there
is a graduate student in the United
States who is more alive to the neces-
stiles of Harvard athletics than Reid.
He is the one man who should be able
to bring something more to Harvard
than expressions of regret from year
to year that the best results have not
been achievd with the material which
was at hand.
Harvard's football candidates this
year viii be largely the men who We're
on the team in 1904. The crimson
had a great supply of men from which
to build I'D a football organization last
season. They were not particularly
successful on the gridiron, except as
they seemed always to demonstrate the
theory LEdL LIlEN were 6AEELlIl& IQucI
energy toward accomplishing little. but
under Reds tutelage the result will be
just the reverse. or everybody viii be
disappointed. 1t is not the first time
that Reid has essayed to handle ath-
letic teams at Harvard. and his pre-
Vious success is deemed quite sufficient
to anticipate added success and some
thing Of his determined methods this
year.
YaIe's Prospects.
Yale is another storm center of i'm
portance in football, and Yale will go
into the annual fight among the great
er universities this fall with some old
material and necessity to find men to
I'LL the places of some Yale football
heroes who have graduated and are
out OF football for good and all. HO-
gan and BlOOmer are through, Kinney
is out Of the game, and Neal, Owsley
and LeaVenWOrth have graduated The
first three were the great bulWark of
Yale football for two seasons, and to
lose q trio like that means endless
work in building the organization up
TO the standard Of the past two years.
OF the old material there are left
Shevlin, the captain this year, and
one of the best football players in the
United States; Trip, an excellent
guard and ROraback, the center But
these are all the seasoned players to
great chance for strong men to make
the team at New Haven If they are ca
pable in all other respects.
A greater loss to Yale than the
graduation of football players is the
withdrawal OF Mike" Murphy as the
trainer for the university. Murphy al
ways has had the players in the best of
shape to compete in their football
games, and it is seldom that Yale
man has been pulled out of the con-
test because of exhaustion. Murphy
has left New Haven. believing that the
climate was rendering a throat affec-
ton with which he is bothered stead
lily worse, and will be the trainer for
Pennsylvania this year.
Yale's back field will be we'll filed
with seasoned players. among them
Hoyt, Veeder. Morse, Flynn and
Stevenson, and the team should have
little trouble to fill these positions in q
manner satisfactory to the coach.
Owsley who was a member of the
1904 eleven, viii act as head coach
this year.
Princeton Is Weak.
Plenty of room is left at Princeton
for improvement of the eleven which is
to represent the orange and black in
1905. Several players have graduated
from the 1904 team, among them
FOulke, Short, Ward, King, Crawford
and Burke. Neither Stannard nor
Ritter viii be able to represent the
university, owing to scholarship pen
alties, and as they are two of the best