Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-21
FOOT BALL STARS
TO DROP OUT
Remarkable List of Men Who
Quit Gridiron This
Year.

On Yale Field on Saturday five Of the
twelve men who represented Princeton
played their last game for Old Nassau.
At Soldiers Field next Saturday thirteen
more from the Crimson and Blue teams
make their last appearance on the field.
Eight Of these are Yale men and six are
from Harvard's team. 1t happens that
Of the eighteen men who thus pass out Of
the great college game nearly all are
star players, SO that there will be a
noticeable void in the ranks of the three
big teams next year.
Yale loses Biglow. Tad Jones' Howard
Jones. Alcott. Paige, Foster. Congdon and
Bomar. Harvard loses Capt. Parker,
Grant, Appolonio, Wendell. Starr and
Newhall. Princeton's retiring squad in
cludes Capt. Mccormack, Harlan, Phillips,
Wister and Brown, taking away from
Capt. Eddie Dillon every one of the Tigers
stars Were these the only losers it
would not be so bad, but both Yale and
Harvard lose a lot of their best substi-
tutes, men like Dimes, Berger, Dunbar,
Bird, Beebe, Mitchell and others.
The passing Of so many men has not
marked a previous season in the history
of the game. 1t is one effect of the estab-
llshment of one years residence rule for
freshmen which cuts out all youngsters
and delays the development OF the var
sity players until late in their course, so
that the senior class is depended on for
the main strength of the varsity. It also
means that in the game there will be
toward the end Of the season many
changes to give the substitutes who gradu-
ate the chance to make their letter in
their last year.
There is almost no betting on the prob
able outcome of the big game Saturday
Yesterday there were few bets reg
istered at odds, of 5 to / on Yale, but
tfvely few who cared to back what looks
like the most forlorn chance for Harvard
The spirit of the Harvard undergraduates
In rallying to the team in its last fight
arouses general admiration, but even
Harvard men apparently only hope to
avoid rout. The sentiment most freely
expressed is: If the team can only play
from start to finish with the spirit and
abandon of Pat Grant, there Is a chance
to hold Yale to a creditable score, even
though victory may not be possible.
Another thing at Cambridge that has
Joshua Crane, who has assumed every
responsibility for the failure Of the team,
declaring that any fault that exists lies
not with the players or the coachers, but
with the system for which he alone Is re-
sponsfble. He does not, however regard
the task ahead of Harvard as impossible
of achievement, though he declares the
Yale team is exceptional in its wonderful
power.
The injury Of Exendine and Mount
Pleasant makes the chances of Carlisle
beating Chicago on Saturday extremely
small. The loss of the first and the han
dicap of the second take away the two
strongest individual players on the Car
Isle team, the two men the Idians depend
on more than others devplOn their
remarkable system of forward passes,
which has been largely responsible for their
success. Then, too. the terrific schedule
undertaken by Carlisle would almost pro-
hibit the possibility of success against
the strongest team IN the west. This is
particularly true in that Chicago has had
every opportunity to prepare especially
tor Carlisle, while the Indians have had
no chance to prepare for Chicago. All
this would seem to make the Indians task
insurmountable. Whatever the outcome,
IL cannot detract greatly from Carlisle s
remarkable record.