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

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change is the fact that a field goal is much
should. therefore. count more in the scor-
ing. Another reason for this proposed
change Is to prevent partisan officials from
calling fouls on one team In order that its
opponent may thus overcome a lead Sc
cured by legitimate goal throwing
"a corps of competent officials will be
secured 10 officiate at all championship
games. They will be Ave In number one
from Philadelphia. another from near Tren-
ton. another from Connecticut. a fourth
from near Boston and a NTH from near
Buffalo. These officials shall not be col
lege men. and to further prevent any par
TALLY no official will be allowed 10 act I'm
his own territory
3-The other changes are minor ones. but
they are so many that the old A. A. L. rules
will not be recognized when the college
book Is published.
After a lapse of one year Harvard will
once more be a member OF the Intcrcoilegi-
ate Association. which will also include
Yale. Pennsylvania. Columbia. Princeton
and Cornell. The past year was quite ex-
ceptional In the history OF college basket
ball. for nearly every team made money
and did not have TO ask for financial as
sis'ance Both lale ana Columbia cleared
nearly $1,000 each. Princeton made S4oo
while Harvard quit even. Penn lost SIS
and Cornell a little more. This year II Is
expected that every team will quit the
season with money i'm the treasury.
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Quite a commotion was caused in the In
tercoilegiate foot ball world this week with
the announcement that George Woodruff
the famous Pennsylvania coach, inventor of
guards back. the fake kick and quarter
back kick. had been engaged TO coach the
Carlisle Indians. In view of woodrum's
past record something sensational is ex-
pected from him this year And II the pub
lie knew all that has been going on IN HIS
fertile brain since the rules were changed
a year ago Ii would be particularly expect
ant. Woodruff has not done any coaching
since the rules were changed but he has a
new play now which he has told his Phiia-
delphia friends will surely revolutionize the
game.
Last June Woodruff came up from Wash
ington. where he is employed In the for
estry department as an attorney. and held
several conferences with PENIS board OF
advisory coaches. To them he explained
his play and tried to demonstrate it's
effectiveness with Quarter Back Stevenson
and several other members OF the team in
uniform Just what the play Is nobody
knows unless the Penn coaches do. Wood
ruff desired to sell the play. but either the
Quaker coaches thought his price was too
high, or did not think well OF the play, for
they did not engage Woodruff.
1t Is practically certain that Woodruff
will endeavor to use this play at Carlisle
and IL II has any merit at all it should
succeed there. No foot ball team In the
country is more adept In mastering trick
plays than the redskins. and If they learn
all that Woodruff knows. and practice the
rudiments of the game as well. something
sensational may be watched for from the
willy red men.
Yale men are lamenting, and Cornell
coaches rejoicing at the quick shift which
Thompson, the Andover guard. made from
Yale to Cornell last week. The case of
Thompson is unusual and suspicion is sure
to attach to him for his mysterious move
ments. Last spring Yale coaches proudly
announced that this young Hercules had
definitely decided to enter the New Haven
institution. month or two later after
Reid, the new Harvard coach. had complet-
ed a semi missionary tour of several east
ern preparatory schools. the announcement
came from Harvard that Thompson had
finally decided to go there He evidently
experienced a quick change OF heart. for
he was again announced as prospective
Yale freshman. He even went so far as to
take his entrance examinations at Yale and
told all his friends that he would be out
for the team. The next news concerning
him came. from ithaca. where he was said
to be preparing for Cornell. Now Head
Coach OwSley announces that Thompson
failed to pass his entrance examinations at
Yale and that 1t was for this reason he
went to Cornell. That Cornell Is making
material is shown by another case, that
of the young giant Horr, who went to Col
gate Academy last year. but has reported
for his entrance examinations at Penn this
I'll s.alt
have crossed in several other points this
summer and neither institution will an
nounce its new men until they are matricu-
lated.
Cornell University Is laying large plans
for it's track season next year. Ii is nothing
less than A dual meeting with Oxford Uni
versity. England. The victory OF the Tina
cans at the last Intercollegiate meeting has
doomed this sport at Cornell as nothing
else could have done. Not only will Cornell
retain nearly every point winner OF this
team next spring, but several scholastic
stars of ability, notably the great Indian
broad jumper Mt. Pleasant, have signffied
their intention OF training under MoakleX.
II the meet with oxford is arranged it Will
be accomplished through the efforts of w.
f. Schutt. the intercollegiate two-mile rec
ord holder. who is now student at OK
ford, where he won one OF the Rhodes schol-
arships.
1t Is expected that Harvard and Yale will
hold another dual track meeting with OK
ford and Cambridge next summer IN this
country. Schutt will naturally be one OF
the Oxford runners. He is now said TO be
arranging a meet between Cornell and OK
ford to follow the first big International
games.
Ii Oxford and Cambridge come over next
year II Is quite likely that there will be sew
eral challenges hurled at them both from
the east and west. Other eastern colleges
do not like the idea OF permitting Yale and
Harvard to pose as the best representatives
of college athletics in this country and
would like to get a chance at the Britons
themselves.
The same Is true of the middle western
colleges. who resent deeply the way In
which the eastern colleges set themselves
above the western Institutions. For these
reasons 1t Is not improbable that the Brit
ons will receive several challenges during
the coming winter. 1t is doubtful, however,
il they accept any OF them unless Schutt
is able to arrange the meeting between Cor
nell and Oxford.