Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-25

Princeton will have the usual number Of
graduate stars, who can be called upon
at any time. All told. the Tiger outlook IL
very bright and Princeton will make
strong bid for championship honors, which
she divided with Yale last year
Foot ball matters at Harvard are in a
very chaotic condition. 1t was not known
until well along in the spring that Har-
But when permission was given for the
continuance of the sport ii was hedged
about in such a manner as to make the
development of a strong team a difficult
matter There have been many criticisms
most of them from Harvard sources. about
tn" policy which led to the selection of
Joshua Crane as head coach. Crane de-
rived his experience in the game nearly
score of years ago and since that time has
done very little active coaching. 1T IL not
believed that he can DO the Harvard foot
ball men very much good and dire things
are predicted on this account.
There was much disappointment at cam
bridge when Bill Reid refused to return
Reid worked extremely hard for three years
TO put Harvard foot ball on firm basis,
but he was antagonized to such an extent
that he encountered trouble every way he
turned. Since there IS no evidence that
Harvard men have reformed In this respect
Crane may have his troubles.
The Harvard eleven is fairly well pro-
vtdcd with veterans from 1896. OF last
years team all but four of the men are
back The men lost are Pierce the left
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tackle, and Foster. left halfback This
leaves Starr and Mcdonald. ends: Burr,
right guard Parker. center; Newman, quar-
terback. Appolonno. right haltoack. ana
Wendell. fullback The crimson WI no'
suffer In the slightest for lack of, veterans:
But there IS every reason for the oeher
that Harvard will not have many first
class men from last years freshman team;
The uncertainty that prevailed at Harvard
all Of last year and the year before had
tendency to drive promising schotastlc
nlayers to other universities where they
knew the game would be played. on TINS
account the Crimson coaches Will nave 10
depend more upon their 1906 regulars and
the substitutes.
Warner Back to Carlisle.
No discussion Of the big teams Of the east
would be complete without some reference
to West Point, Annapolis and the Carhsle
Indians Both Of the academy teams sur
fers about the same in the number OF vet
Grams lost. They have equally heavy sched-
ules The Middies will play Princeton and
Harvard while the Army lads Will play
Cornell and Syracuse before the big game on
Franklin Field. This year the Soldiers nave
cut out both the Harvard and \ ale games
because they crippled the Army players 100
much The Carlisle Indians VIII this year
be coached. by Glenn Warner. who returns
after an absence of four years at: Cornell
Warner has always been most versatile
coach. and as he Will have the very pest OF
material with which to work at the Indian
school he will make things lively for the
big teams he meets.
With but few exceptions the schedules of
the big teams are much smaller this year
than usual. The West Point schedule has
been cut to seven games: the Yale and Har-
ward schedules to ten games each. The
Princeton dates, for some reason or other
have not been made known at this writing
being held up by the faculty. 1t Is known
however. that the Tiger schedule will be
much smaller than usual
There will be but two fnterseCtional games
OF Importance. On November 16 the Unfver-'
sitv of Pennsylvania plays Michigan at Ann
Arhor and on the same day the Carlisle In
dams meet Minnesota at Minneapolis. These
two games were played on the correspond
ing date last year and the games resulted
in an Overwhelming victory for the east
This wear both of the western elevens Will
bend every energy toward reversing the or
der of things. The big eastern games this
year will be the Yale-Princeton contest at
New Haven November 16: the Yale
Harvard game November "a at New
Haven: the PrinCeton-C Cornell game on Oc-
toher % at Ithaca: and the PennCornen
game at Philadelphia on Thanksgiving day.
Then will come the wind-up to the whole
season with the ArmyNavy game at Frank
lin Field. Philadelphia on November 30.