Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-10
LIGHT FOOT BALL
SCHEDULE TODAY
Greatest Interest Centers
Around Princeton-Lehigh
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A light schedule is on for today on the
gridiron and it looks to be easy picking for
the big teams that will be engaged How
ever, there Is always the possibility of a
chance score by the lesser lights. They are
to be expected more this year under the
new rules, with their wider range of tactics.
and some of the coaches Of the big fellows
have told them not to be surprised if such
a thing happens. The schedule follows:
Harvard VS.. Bates. at Cambridge.
Yale VS.. Springfield Training School, at
New Haven.
Princeton vs. Lehigh, at Princeton.
Pennsylvania vs. Franklin and Marshall
at Philadelphia.
Cornell vs. Niagara. at Ithaca.
Brown vs.. Massachusetts, Aggies. at Prov
fdence
Annapolis VS.. Maryland Agricultural Col
lege, at Annapolis.
Yale freshmen VS.. Pratt Institute at New
Haven.
The first of the games to show what big
teams can do against common opponent
will be played today. This will be the
Princeton-Lehigh game. The Lehigh ae eleven
met Pennsylvania on September 20, the
score being 80 to to favor of the Quakers.
The Lehigh lads crossed Pennsylvania's goal
line and it goes without saying they would
against the Tigers. The Tigers will try to
prevent such an occurrence and also the
Tigers would not be downcast If they could
make more points against Lehigf than the
downcast if they don't. If in the natural
course of things a big team can do better
against a common adversary than some
other big team all right; but the topnotch-
ers do not go into their game with that idea
uppermost However. as Princeton and
Pennsylvania do not meet their work
against common adversaries is interesting if
not significant. Yale plays the Springfield
Training School today, which team Harvard
tackles ten days later. That is the only
team the Crimson and the Blue meet In
W. Dot, fc
satisfied to beat West Point without worry
ing about how much she beats the army.
Good Work at Yale.
NEW HAVEN. October 1O.-The Yale
squad was put through a drill yesterday
with two purposes in view. One was to
keep the varsity going at top speed to see
how efficient it could be in offensive work
and the other to pound home a better sys-
tenn of defense. The first object was accom-
plished by the varsity working the ball
about half the length Of the field for
scrub eleven. All the first period the var
sity eleven plunged and plunged. gaining
lots of ground on just old fashioned straight
foot ball. In the second period the second
eleven had the ball. but the varsity proved
very strong and little was gained by the
scrubs The ball which the second had at
the twenty yard line was held from a touch
down until repeated plunges and forward
passes had been tried In actual play the
varsity would have taken the ball on downs
many times in the same plays. Roome, who
has game leg, will not play today, Buck
Stuart taking his place at full back. Cong
don will go In place of Overall at left end
but otherwise the Yale lineup will be as
against Syracuse.
Harvard Practiced in Rain.
CAMBRIDGE, October 1O.-Harvard held
its practice in the rain yesterday afternoon,
but the weather did not interfere with the
work. Considerable attention was given to
the preliminary practice to brush the men
up on the rudiments. The scrimmage Of the
varsity was again spirited, the team getting
together several times for long plays. The
only touchdown was made on an eight yard
concerted play in which kersburg did yeo-
man service in pulling Lockwood along
Lockwood and Foster made some long
gains around the end and Foster made
twenty yards once on a new forward pass
formation. Peter Bowditch one of the best
ends Harvard ever turned out and who
coached the ends last year, joined the
coach squad yesterday and worked with the
ends. S. Morse. 90, has joined the candi-
dates for half back. 1t was discovered by
an X-ray photograph that Apollonio. the
regular full back. had Clipped a bone in his
leg and he will be out of the work for three
weeks. The injury. however, is not Sc
rious one. Apollonio got it by having a
man fall on his leg in the Maine game. Gill
bert, one of the tackle candidates. strained
himself taking the strength test required
by the university and will be out for few
days.
Tigers Show Improvement.
PRINCETON. October 10.-Weather as
changeable as the stocks had no lettering
effects on the work of Princeton's foot ball
squad yesterday, and the Tigers got in the
snappiest work of the season. In two short
halves the varsity scored five touchdowns,
and Harlan dropped a hard goal over from
the thirty-yard line. Jim Cooney made
the goals from touchdowns. driving all
five from all sorts of difficult angles.
Quarter Back Eddie Dillon drove the Tigers
with terrinc speed. The line men and backs
scarcely had time to return to their posi-
tions, so fast were the plays run off. His
men seemed to have the signals down fine.
Dillon caught the pigskin from each kick
off. and ran it back every time for distances
over twenty or thirty yards Both defense
and offense showed considerab bic improve
ment. Daub proved a tower of strength on
the secondary defense. Tibbot and he
smashed through the scrub line and en-