Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-04
Football Notes.

| Carlisle escaped injuries in the Penn
| game, and will be able to present it:
strongest team at Cambridge, today.
! Yale expects a hard game from Column
Ola, out looks Tor Il more decisive victory
/ than Princetons over the New Workers.
| The football game between Coburr
| Classical and Edward Little High ap
| pointed for Saturday at Auburn has beer
| cancelled.
Only one eleven has been able to get
| inside of YaleS 5-yard line this season
: by steady rushing. and that team was
West Point.
If Yale and Princeton win their next
two games they will meet on Nov. Il
without either having been beaten, which
was not the case last year.
The practice at Harvard is about 100 per
cent. better since Capt. Hurley returned
to the game. Hurley never showed up
as leader as he has this year
The West Point team came out Of its
Harvard and Yale games without serious
injury. Mettler, the end. has a bad leg,
but expects to be right. next week
Carouthers. the Tigers center rush, is
expected to be in shape To play against
Dartmouth. This will stiffen Princeton's
line over what ii was against Columbia.
Boston Journal; Army officers around
West Point have become dOubtful about
the team, SO army money Will probably
be scarce III the game with the navy on
Dec. =
WI 4itI NiSt, IL years Olu, WIS fiiltu III
football game, Friday. between two
Chicago High school teams Wise tackled
another player and his head was beneath
the other boy when they came TO the
ground.
Former Capt. Thorn of Columbia, and
who was dropped from that university
recently, will not be allowed to play on
the University of Virs1ni;, eleven by TIE
authorities, as it would place the uni
VCrSity iii a wrong light
Many nf Dfipcetnp's rlayar- b.,,., baa,
taking rest and It is not unlikely that
before long several will be sent to At
artic City to take things easy for a while
with view of giving them as much of
q change OF diet as possible.
Arrangements We're completed, Thurs
day, by Manager Pierce of the football
team of the Morse Hign school ct Bath,
for game. Saturday afternoon. with
LcaVitt Institute. which has the heaV-
lest team the local eleven will meet this
season.
The Carlisle school football eleven with
substitutes, coaches and trainers. arrived
ut Boston, Friday, from Philadelphia for
the game with Harvard. Saturday. The
men went to the Woodland Park Hotel at
Auburndale, where they Will be CHARTERED
and where they will remain until they
leave for the stadium. Saturday. The
players engaged in signal work and light
practice on the hotel grounds after their
arrival.
Prncetons football captain. james
CoOney, who plays left tackle, has re-
ceived an injury to his leg from 4 bad
tackle, which will probably keep him out
of the Dartmouth game, Saturday.
O'Brien, who plays end, is also suffering
from bad leg and will not play, Sa,ur-
day. The Princeton coaches, Thursday,
expressed dissatisfaction at the lack OF
animation the team manifests This is
probably due to the POOR physical condi-
ton of the players.
Boston journal: mo coach has ever
had a finer bunch of material from which
to select a team than has Stage this
year" says Yost of Michigan, in speak
irg of the University of Chicago eleven.
Every man on his team is n trained
and developed athlete. ana not alone in
football. He has shot putters, weight
throwers. hurdlers, runners and baseball
players like Perry. Hill. Bezdek. Walker,
Catlin, Eckersall, Gale and DeTray They
are experienced men in the branches OF
athletics that make good football players
Michigan has 4 lot Of work ahead to get
up TO Chicagos standard. | don't see
where there is a soft spot on the Chica-
go team. They have n versatility of
plays. and the team is not built around
any one individual. ANY team that has
ever gathered together would have the
proposition of its career in stacking up
a against Chicago this wear"