Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-09-17

we'll played and the public will have a
chance to see some magnificent struggles
Naturally, the two rival claimants for the
foot ball championship OF 1904. Yale and
Pennsylvania. loom up as the likeliest to
win the homer this year. Each has a nu-
cleus Of veteran players who will be able
to MI nearly all the positions on the team
and with the strong substitutes from last
season and the material which each ex-
poets with the incoming class the coaches
will apparently have little difficulty in
turning out formidable elevens. Should.
both Of these colleges go through the sea
son without a defeat, and 1t Is probable
that they will. tho championship would
once again remain in doubt. 1t is unfor-
tunate that they do not meet in contest,
for deciding the championship by compar-
alive scores Is a sorry business at best
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Harvard, the down-trodden Of the last
few years, will undoubtedly come to the
front in foot ball lore. It. too, has
strong nucleus 70 work from and with
many defeats 10 avenge will play a strong
game with it's more successful rivals At
Princeton the same favorable condition
holds The New Jersey men have the
making Of a powerful aggregation In the
gridron game. At Cornell there will be a
large squad Of veteran material for Coach
Warner to start on, but, although the men
are experienced, they are not fully up TO
the standard OF that at the colleges pre-
viously mentioned. The men lack the
main essential-weight The prospects are.
however. more encouraging than those OF
last year. Columbia will apparently have
the shakiest eleven that has ever repre-
scented 1t. There is not any material worth
speakinE of from last year, and this,
coupled with the fact that the schedule
which It will be called upon to play Is an
unusually hard one, makes II difficult TO
see anything but defeat for the Blue and
White aggregation.
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OF the smaller colleges Dartmouth and
Williams have good teams. They will both
have a good allotment of veterans and eN-
pect a number Of stars from the prepara-
tory schools Many expect to see Dart
mouth repeat her victories over the larger
colleges. Her games with Harvard ana
Princeton have always been close, hard
fought battles, and the New England men
have walked away with a good share OF
the glory.
Despite the many rumors Of the change
in the foot ball rules they are practically
the same as in 1904. The essential feature
will be the more strict enforcement. IL Is
figured that this will remove from foot
ball the Objectionable features which nave
caused many people to decry the game as
brutal The play will not be any more open
than last year, but the mass plays Will De
stopped as soon as the forward progress OF
the ball has come to an end. This Will DO
away with the piling up Of the men ana
the stealing of the ball. The penalties will
be severe for all offenses against the rules
and thus rough tactics will have to be
eliminated II a team is TO have any success
whatsoever.
The gridiron campaign will be longer one
than usual this year, for the reason that
Thanksgiving day falls on the last day OF
November and Thanksgiving day is usu-
ally the final day OF the season for the col
lege elevens Tn re will be one more big en-
gagement after that, the Army-Navy game
which this year comes on saturday De
cember q The campaign will be ushereo
in by a few games beginning today (sep-
tember l6), and will continue for eleven
weeks, with games on Wednesdays ana
Saturdays. Last year Thanksgiving came
earlier in November than this year, which
meant a SedSOu diO SOhSONNShN'J
less time in which teams might build up
and develop for their important contests.
The result was that there had to be more
or less hurrying to shape the teams into
form It is not unreasonable to expect,
therefore, that with more time to devote
to the very important procedure of picking
men and welding them into a team the
climax of the season will find teams of
better grade than last season. This, OF
course, provided the material is adequate.
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The schedules for the approaching season
show that there are to be PAS games in the
eastern college circle and IA in the west
S92 in all. That is a good deal OF foot ball.
1t shows how tremendously the game has
spread, and will give the devotees OF the
! sport a rich and varied program Of pigsSin
I battling. OF all the teams the Carlisle In
dams are the most extensive travellers.
The bigger teams such as Harvard, Yale,
| Princeton. Pennsylvania, Columbia and
Cornell make only two or three trips from
home, and these are short trips. Therein
| they have an advantage over the smaller
fellows. The larger colleges play nearly
all OF their games on their own home
| grounds, they being the bigger attractions
and hence being able to have most Of their
! opponents to come to them. West Point
and Annapolis travel less than other teams.
| playing every game but one at home. The
schedule for the Indians this year shows
| that they play Harrisburg Richmond.
| Philadelphia, Cambridge, Cincinnati. Pitts
! burg and Washington, as well as at home.
| Doubtless they plan out many play to
| the music Of the rolling car wheels. In
the west they make even longer Journeys
For instance, the Notre Dame Qnd) eleven
makes a trip to Madison, Wis, and the
University OF Nebraska eleven makes q
jump from Lincoln to Ann Arbor. Mich,
for a single game.
The Western college conference rule
barring freshmen from participation in
varsity foot ball seems likely to lack en-
dorsement by Nebraska universities. A
game will be played this season with
! Minnesota, which is under the conferences
rule, and the suggestion was made that
Nebraska adopt the same prohibition against
freshmen. The idea was we'll received al
first, but there has sprung up a strong
sentiment against the adoption Of the rule
Captain Berg, Assistant Coach WestoveI
and Physical Director Clapp are all known
70 be opposed TO the adoption OF such a
stringent check on the development OF q
foot ball team, and 1t is probable that the
athletic committee will refuse 20 ratify IL