Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-02
FOOT BALL NOTES.

The Dartmouth foot ball team arrived in
New York last night and went to the Muir
ray Hill Hotel, where they will remain I'M
til tomorrow morning when they will go to
Princeton to meet the Tigers. About one
hundred students were with the players.
The University of Pennsylvania has less
than half the number of boxes to sell at
auction for the Army and Navy game that
it had in former years. In 1904 seventy-two
boxes were sold at prices ranging from $50
to $3.50 each. This year there are only
thirty-two boxes for sale, all the others
having been taken by the army and the
navy
Mayor Vance Mccormick of Harrisburg
Rorarback, ex-Capt Brinck Thorne and DR..
AL. Sharpe of the William Penn Charter
School have Joined the Yale coaches, bring
ing the number up to eighteen. This breaks
all records for coaching attendance at Yale
AS the coaches are paying their own bills
the faculty is not interfering
The kicking game at Yale is the worst
off in technique just now, but there are two
look is optimistic. Sharpe, Billy Bull.
Thorne and Mccormick have charge of
Morse, Veeder, Knox and Mitchell, not only
in the field lot but also for an hour each
day on the gymnasium lot.
Head Coach Roper has taken quite radi-
cal action in foot ball affairs at Princeton,
but the most radical action of all bios
somed forth when he announced that the
daily practice would be secret until two
days bef.re the Yale game. On these two
days it is customary for the cudents to
make a big cheering demonstration at the
practice and but for this custom even
those two days probably would have been
denied the students.
Secret practice has become almost ne
cessity,' said Roper yesterday. 1.-The en-
bellishments of the new rules make 1t nee
n
with perfect freedom every day." The
Princeton students believe the Tigers have
new tricks galore to be tried out and that
Ropers action was taken in order to use
them daily and thoroughly familiarize the
players with them.
A carload of Minnesota's prettiest, noisest
and 1 most vivacious eo-eds are going to
Chicago November 10 to cheer the Gopher
team when 1T meets the Windy City eleven.
special car has been chartered on the
Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul road.
from her hat. OF course there is to be a
chaperon. but the girls say they will not
be responsible If she is lost.
Unnecessary excuses frequently are made
that the West Point players are handicap
ped by little time for practice Perhaps the
same handicap would do some of the big
college teams good. On the other hand, it
Is fact that bigger proportion of stu
dents play foot ball at West Point than at
any other institution in the country. Nearly
third of the entire enrolment plays almost
daily. ''-'-
Coach Folsom of Dartmouth is so pessi-
mistic over the chances of Dartmouth at
Princeton tomorrow that he comedies a
galaxy of touchdowns to the Nassau men.
But Folsom is always pessimistic. In 1903
he said that Dartmouth's great strapping
eleven had no show at all against Harvard,
yet the green won, IL to o. Last year he
predicted another bad showing, yet the
green tied the crimson. This year he said
that Dartmouth had merely an even chance
against Williams-and events proved for
the first time, the escellence of his abilities
as a seer.
Dewitt Cochran, Yale's old half-back of
the middle 90s, is one of the most rabd
enthusiasts at New Haven. At the Begin
ming of each fall Cochran leaves his beauti-
full estate at Tarrytown-on-the-Hu Hudson and
HES to his alma mater, where he talks
nothing but foot ball from the early hours
OF the forenoon to the late hours of the
| night. And whenever one or two of the
varsity men become stale or out of Sorts
Dewitt Cochran comes to the rescue by
marching them up to his country seat and
compelling them to enjoy the IuXuries Of
the land until they recover. Last Saturday
Cochran and Howard Jones sat on the side
lines and took notes of a hundred and one
important details of the two elevens