Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-10


ball machinery at every university. large
and small. throughout the country will be
In full operation. Cornell will start work
tomorrow with "A full squad. while Column
bta begins day later. The University OF
Pennsylvania and Yale will start work on
Friday. Harvard and Princeton have no.
announced their official dates. but Coach
Reid is already at Cambridge and Coach
Hillebrand at Princeton. while old and new
candidates have been assembling at both
institutions for full week. Although Cor
nell apparently will have the longest period
OF preliminary practice. # may be taken
for granted that not one OF the other uni
versities will be caught mapping. The
rivalry between the different members OF
the big Six" especially this year, is much
too keen for one institution to permit an
other to get q start of Il.
A month ago Yale appeared to have about
the poorest prospect OF any of the big col
leges for a strong eleven. but the outlook
for the Ellis has been Frightening within the
last two weeks. There is no prospect of
getting any more Of the 1904 veterans back,
but an exceptionally strong scrub team.
with the Ellis usual batch of prominent
scholastic stars. will put Yale In a good
position to fight The present nucleus Of
veterans consists Of Capt. Shevlin at one
tackle. In the back field Yale has Hoyt
and Morse for half backs and Finn for a
substitute full back. The loss Of Rockwell
will make II necessary for Yale to use
Hutchinson. last years substitute, or Bines,
the freshman. at quarter back. In spite or
the losses this would give Yale ex-
ceptionally strong back field.
It Is the line which will give the Yale
coaches the most trouble. Few teams have
ever suffered SO heavily here as the Ellis.
With the exception of Shevlin and Tripp
every man IN tt must be a substitute. For
center Yale hopes to make good player
out Of Mckay, the former Georgetown
player. The Ellis had depended upon
Thompson. the former Andover guard to
take Klnney's place in this position. but he
has mysteriously decamped to Cornell
For tackles Yale will probably have to de-
pend upon Forbes, the former Wesleyan
star. and Kineon, the oarsman and sub
tain of the track team, will probably hold
down one end with Capt. Shevlin at the
other extremity. In spite OF all hard luck
tales to the contrary this would give Yale
Princeton and Harvard are counting upon
the Ellis to be easy prey they will prob
ably do so to their sorrow.
OF all the big Six Princeton has given
out the least news concerning the new men
upon whom the Tigers look for success this
fall. The Orange and Black has lost
rather heavily in line men. but retains an
exceptionally good back field. or the line
men Short is missing from one guard.
Stannard from tackle and Crawford
from end. This leaves four Of the line men
in position-Tooker at one end. Capt:
Cooney at tackle, Butcher at center and
Dillon at guard. In the back field Burke
at quarter back and Foulke at half back
have graduated. But the back field Is In
much better condition than the line. Ten
ney is a better quarter back than Burke,
as he proved toward the end Of the season.
Mccormick and Rulon-Miller will fight 1T
out for full back. The one who loses out
l., xr,;n aIx- hA nj
position. for both are stars of the first or
der. This will leave only one half back TO
provide for unless Mccormick or Rulon-
Miller takes the position.
In regard to new material no one VIII
know just what Princeton has secured until
the freshmen candidates are called out.
which will not be until after the practice
begins for varsity candidates. The Tigers
have never been known to be without
splendid material in their freshman class,
and they certainly uncover one or two
finds.
Once more Princeton will be the first to
open the foot ball season, and likewise the
first to end 1t. The Tigers Will play their
first scheduled game on Wednesday. Sep
TENDER 20, whereas the other universities
will wait until Saturday. September 30, to
start the pigskin moving. The Tigers will
be compelled to end their season on Novem-
Der IS with the Yale game. This contest
will once more mark the climax OF Prince
toms season. Yale and Harvard will wind
up their affairs on November % at Cam
bridge, while Columbia will close with the
Penn game on the same day. Cornell and
the Quakers will wait until Thanksgiving
day to close their foot ball season.
The athletic authorities of the University
Of Pennsylvania are regretting the delay IN
the completion of their new training house.
which was to have been ready for the foot
ba II men this fall. The builders found that
they could not have it completed until the
middle of November. and they feared that
it would be dangerous to attempt TO wos sa
many thousands Of spectators would De
passing in and out to see the games. Ac-
cordingly the work will not be started un-
til after the foot ball season, when the WORK
Will be rushed to completion in the nope
that 1t will be ready for the teams When
they begin training In the spring. ing us
building when completed, VIII DE one Vi
the finest in the country 1t VIII De tiie S
stories in height and will accommodate an
the members of the teams In actual Train
ing 1t has been found necessary because
of the poor facilities for housing the attn,
Istas outside of the dormitories. Several
cases of illness, the authorities say have
heen traced directly to the poor sanitation
of the temporary homes. 1he ne" puh"
ing will cost $45 900.
One of the most sweeping reforms which
the SNORT of basket ball has ever experience
al is being furnished by the intercollegiate
cornmittee appointed last spring for the
purpose OF drawing NY :. - ~ oa.t
COMMITTEES, which represents both the east
and the west. has had several meetings. TINS
summer and the code will soon be submit
ted to the association for ratification. Here
tofore the intercollegiate Association has
been playing according TO the a "A. Z.
rules but these have proved so unsatisfac-
tory that the college men refused to abide
by them any longer. Furthermore. the col
Ieee men propose to leave the jurisdiction
of the A. A. U. ss far as basket ball is
concerned, and absolutely no attention will
be paid to any efforts of that body to sus-
pend college athletes for not regarding the
A. A. Z. rules.
Next to the clean break of the college
men from the A. A. u. the most important
change is In the playing rules. The changes
to be made contemplate roughly the 1ol-
lowing reforms:
ALI field goals shall count points in
stead Of 2, leaving goals from foul to count
l point as before. The reasons for TINS