Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-27
PLANS FOR THE
. FOOT BALL SEASON
Male Has Suffered Less of Best
Men Prospects of
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Other Teams.

Within the last week nearly every big
university of Importance In the east has an
nounced Its plans for the coming foot ball
season. which Is now almost upon US.
These plans include the beginning of pre-
liminary practice, which will start earlier
this year and be more thorough than ever
before. AS was the case a year ago, Cor
nell Is the first to begin active work. Coach
Warner and Capt Cook have called the
Ithacans to report on September 10, and
from that day on the gridiron at Ithaca
will be about the busiest place In upper
New York state. The University of Penn
sylvania players. with ex-Capt. Torrey in
charge Of the coaching forces. Will begin
work day or two later on Franklin Field,
Philadelphia Yale. Princeton and Harvard
will begin at about the same time-Septem-
Der Is.
Although the dates given above are the
official times set for starting preliminary
work. no one need be surprised to see any
or all of these teams at work several days
earlier than this. The radicalism of the
new rules has made Ii incumbent upon all
these institutions to make their preliminary
practice season more thorough than ever
this fall. Very few of the players have
new rules are, and 1t will take them some
time to master the new formations.
1t il worth noting here that the big
Six" formerly composed of Yale. Harvard.
Pennsylvania, Princeton. Cornell and CO.
lumbia, Is now a thing of the past. Co.
lumbia has been removed from the foot ball
map by the action of President Butler and
the other powers that be in prohibiting
this game for all time. Instead. Columbia
will make q feeble effort to popularize as
ISOLATION foot ball and possibly the Eng
Ash Rugby fame. But the Columbians will
get scant sympathy from the other uni
versities, and their experiment is evidently
doomed to failure. Instead of the big
Six we now have only the big Five" a
eastern intercollegiate world until some
other team makes itself powerful enough to
take Columbia's place by trOuncing. with
some degree of regularity. the big dicta-
tors. At present Dartmouth and Syracuse
are the most likely candidates for this
honor.
Outlook for the Season.
In summing up the outlook Of the big
teams of the east 1t may be said that they
are on more even terms at the start than
they were a year ago. All five have lost
several veterans but the losses are almost
equally severe in each case. Another thing
that helps to equalize the situation is the
rule adopted unanimously by the big Five
prohibiting the competition of freshmen and
first year students until they have served
one year of probation On this account the
entering classes at these five universities
cannot be utilized for foot ball or any
other teams. They will be obliged to play
with their respective classes. Each team
must rely upon the same squad 1t had last
year unless some new men then in school
can be found and utilized. AS each of these
teams has lost four or more Of the 1905
veterans 1t is quite likely that the standard
of play will suffer little this year,
as their places must be taken by last year 8
substitutes.
OF all the big teams. Yale Is probably a
heavier loser than her rivals. not because
the Ellis have lost more men. but because
OF the character of the players themselves.
All told. Yale Is minus OF seven of her reg
ular veterans.
These include Sheviin and Gates, the two
ends: TrippS the AI-American guard Flan-
ders. the center rush: Hutchinson. quite
generally picked the best quarterback
in the east, and Finn and Quill. the two
men who alternated at fullback. These
men are left for the 1906 nucleus: Forbes
! and Bigelow, tackles: Erwin guard: Morse
and Roome. halfbacks. But IL Yale loses
heavily In veterans. she at least has a
splendid lot Of substitutes from which to
draw. These include White and Hocken-
! berger. both experienced line men, and a
splendid lot of backfield material In Knox.
Tad Jones, veeder. Levine. Zimowski and
Wernecken. Yale's coaching this fall is In
charge OF Foster Rockwell. the great quar-