Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-11-09
FOOTBALL NOTES.

Carl Flanders of Yale has gone back
to Carlisle to help the Indians for their
game against Harvard Saturday.
Lafayette. which has had more sue
cess against Pennsylvania than any
of the smaller elevcns in the last IL
years, expects to beat the Quakerr, Sat
urday.
., Coach Pierce of the Indians stated to
one Of the officials at Buffalo last week
that he considered his team Of substi-
tutes nearly az good as the regulars.
Carl Flanders of Yale says this is SO.
The Yale Freshmen are looking for
ward to victory over the Harvard
youngsters Their playing has been bet
ter against the same teams that the
Cambridge Freshmen have also met
Yost is still pessimis.ic regarding the
Penn game. He maintains that the
Quakars would be as strong as ever If
they had n good quarterback and a
clever man In the backfield to handle
kicks
The Association of Colleges and Pre-
pRratory Schools in the South has just
adopted the One-year residence rule.
which will stop PROSECUTING. and will
make intercollegiate contests much
cleaner.
After meeting Harvard. the Indians
will go to Minneapolis to meet Univer-
sity Of Minnesota. which a week ago
beat Nebraska. Is to 0. and ranks with
Chicago and Michigan as the strongest
teams in the West.
. Princeton has scored 1877 points this
fall. Yale 131 points. Harvard 40 points.
Cornell 202 points. the Quakers 147
points. Brown rs points and Dartmouth
. 60 points, Princeton was the first team
to score on Dartmouth.
: Harvard promises to have the best
Quarterback in years in Newhall. He
isI a brainy little player has consistent
ly- improved all season. and has been
game. all through hard three-cornered
fight for his position.
Everything points to the greatest
crowd at Cambridge on Saturday Of
any game ever played on Soldiers field.
except those with Yale. There will be
$4,000 seats inside the Stadium. and
II now looks as If all of them would be
taken.
Brown stock has taken a jump since
its showing at Cambridge and Dart
mouths fall at Princeton. However.
the game at Springfield Nov. "A IS not
over by a long shot. for Dartmouth Is
bound to improve by jumps during the
next three weeks.
Boston Globe: This year 1t is Andover
which Is the favori:e against Exeter for
the annual game. Hogan has not had
the best material this fall. but has not
overworked It as he did last year. and
the New Hampshire team Will g" to
Andover something of IA dark horse.
Boston Globe: The result of Satur-
days ,BroVn-Yale game will be await
ed with considerable interest. Brown
had plenty Of speed at Cambridge. but
a lot Of holding was allowed to go I'M
punished. Brown should be better this
week, hut Yale also should have
slnoOthed things out considerably.
A..E Musgrove. who was one Of the
first men to introduce football in the
South and who formerly was a crack
New Orleans oarsman. says that the
game in the Southern colleges has
greatly improved uHOeT tne ue" luieS
He is trying to arrange to take the
Carlisle Indians to the jamestown Elk
position next year.
West Point was pretty much tired
out by the Yale game. The cadets will
do little hard work before meeting the
Tigers. The general impression is that
the army has shown its best strength
Of the year. and that 1t cannot uphold
the same high standard Of play against
Princeton. The army has the severest
schedule of any team this fall.
Announcement has been made of the
selection Of Murphy Of Brown Univer
sttS to be head linesman of the Yale
Princeton game. The officials for the
Harvard game have not vet been de-
clded upon. Yale has named mike"
thompson Of Waterbury,: CT, the for
mer Georgetown University player, for
releree. He has official Yale has also
named Raul Dashiel of Annapolis as
umpire. Harvard has not passed on
e'tner one Of these names.