The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-15
HARVARD ANDPENN.
HAVE BEST OUTLOOK
Prospects Better Than Those Of
Yale and Princeton for !.
Football.

With the football toys strung on the line and
The aroma of baseball in the atmosphere, 1t
may seem untimely to discuss the outlook for
next fall the grtdiron among the big four
of football. Much is likely to happen to change
the complexion Of the game or prevent the
return OF men who are now counted on to make
up the nucleus for next years eleTens at 1ale,
Princeton, Harvard and Pennsylvania. Unless,
however, it be something of most improbable
nature, the season, far at least as these
four universities are concerned, should be an
unusually brilliant one. s. .--,A.sa- ~. ... -
AL four will have a strong nucleus of players
TO begin with. and this Is particularly true OF
Harvard and Pennsylvania. AT Cambridge all
but two of the eleven which lined up against
| Yale are expected to return, and Will make up
q strong squad of experienced and capable men,
Carr will be graduated in June, and knowlton
who took Hurley's place as captain when that
player was hurt, has played four years and
will not be eligible. The team is strong in
substitutes. as Newhall and Barney, who played
part of the time in the Yale game, will be
back, together with such other promising men
es Pierce, White, Mcdonald, O'Brien and Snyder.
Penn Loses Three.
Pennsylvania will only lose three men-Cap-
tain Torrey at center, Lamson at right tackle
and Sheble at left halfback. ALI the other men
have from two to three years to play, and it
is not surprising that the quakers looking
forward to the best eleven of recent years next
fall. Pennsylvania has now passed thru two
seasons without a defeat, and Is counting on
making 1t three straight. The men who will
return the ends, Levine and Scarlet; Rookie
at left tackle; the two guards, Robinson and
back; Green at right halfback, and Folwell at
fullback. 1t will not be necessary even to
develop men for the vacant positions as
Bankhart, the old Exeter player, who, substi-
tuted for Captain Torrey, is likely man. He
weighs 105 pounds and all but won the position
this year by his clever work. Then there are
Draper. the 2O0-pound tackle, disqualified in
mid-season, and Ziegler, the big guard, who had
fyDlOid
experienced, brilliant players. Bennis, who made
such a name for himself in one or two games
can be counted on to take of Sheble g
place at halfback.
The Yale will lose six valuable men by
graduation. These are Captain Shevlin. Gates,
Trip, Finn, Hoyt and Hutchinson. The recent
necessary to say how much their loss will be
felt. Those of the regular team who remain
are Flanders. Erwin, HocSenburger' Morse
Veeder. Biglow, Roome, Forbes Levine, T. A.
d. JONES' H Jones and Knox. Promising sub
sttutes are Wylie, Dimes, Wernecken. Peyton
and Paige. Among those who did especially
well on the freshman team are Burch, Dunbar,
Soper and Bomar
Places Hard to Fill.
The places that will be hardest to fill those
Of shevlin and Gates H. Jones should take
care of one Of the ends, and there several
men, any one of whom may be developed into
an end, for the other position. Except for the
loss of Trip, the rest Of the line will probably
be unchanged. and should be exceedingly strong
The backfeld will be we'll supplied with Roome
Veeder, Wernecken and Dimes excellent sub
Stitutes..
Princeton also will lose six men by gradua ton
but in spite Of these will have a strong squat
to begin with. The players who will be lost are
Brashear and Tooker. ends; Rafferty,, guard
Carothers, center and Bard and Mum from the
backheld. Of these, lockers will be the hard
est place to fill, especially as he did the drop
kicking. There Is one to step into Garuthers
place at center, and a must be deVel
oped for the position. ,.~s
Captain Cooney Phillips and OBrien ar,
strong line men. however. and will return ant
the backfeld will not need any help, with Dillon
Daub, Simmons and Mccormick to return.
With the strong probability Of radical chang
IN the rules and the outlook for strong eleven
% uniformly bright at these four universities, i
would seem almost If much would depend O.
championship.