The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-09
FOOTBALL GOSSIP
 FROM THE MAJORS
BY MANHATTAN.

New York September 8.-The football season soon will be inaugurated. Within the next two weeks the men who expect to represent their colleges on the gridiron for the season of 1907 will be hard at work, and the coaches will be doing al sorts of stunts in order to pick out the very strongest teams to carry the college colors to victory in the most strenuous game now played by young men.
 Head Coach Knox of Yale will get his candidates for the Old Eli team together September IF, and the first lineup will be about as follows: Ends, Logan and Paige; guards, Goebel and Andrews; center, Cooney: quarterback, Tad Jones; half backs, Wheaton and Murphy; fullback, Brides or Coy The first problem this sea son is that of backs, all the best men of last year were graduated.
 Harvard, Princeton and Pennsylvania coaches are looking over the list of avail able candidates very carefully. but little is being given out about the possible makeup of their elevens. There will be many and important changes with several new men coming into the early practice of whom much is expected. All coaches will make an early call for first practice, for the schedules this season ~D~N>--@- are coming to believe that early training is expedient. for the season being only about six weeks in length, month or preparation is not too long.
 The western colleges are doing even more than those of the east in the work of early preparation. 'Hurry-Up fost of Michigan, Is getting his material to- sether now for the Wolverines have seven hard games in addition to the prelimin-
 ;, anxiOng t0 beat PCnn- sylvania November 16. and is bending all his energies to early but sure devel- opment of his team.
 Coach Stagg at Chicago university will have several veterans for the nucieus oA A good team this year. He will try W all ter Steffen in Eckersall's place at quarter back. Captain Leo De Tay, whose in- iured eye kept him out of the game last eason: Harold Iddings. halfback; Ander- con center: Kelly, guard. and Hewitt, end are all available from last year team.
 The football rules for this year are dit- ferent in only two important particulars from what they were last year.
 Ten minutes has been added to the play ing tIme-each half now being thirty-nVe minutes long-and the possibilities or the forward pass, 50 popular with spectators.
 
 ,ess risky to use on the first and second down Instead of losing the ball in case the forward pass strikes the ground De- fore striknig a player of either side, tne same side now retains possession ol .he hall. but loses fifteen yards. w heh .pe forward pass is essayed on the third down. however, and 1t trikes the ground without striking a player, or Is other"ise made illegally, the ball must De surreho-
 etI last season -
 Another change which will stop much argument permits lineman to carry the hall. provided he does not leave his posi- tion on the line until the ball is put .n play. o.,r
 The ten n-yard rule is preserved exactly as before. having met with almost genefsi approval in that it made far less eliec, tive anything like mass plays, and iorcea the open play, which everypooy so iioch desired.
 1,ha forward pass will probably be the most nopular play of the year No team last year. unless it had a man who was very accurate in passing the ball, careo to take any chances with the innovation. The players liked 1t. but they were a,raio , of if Rather than make mess or ,he nlav and lose the ball they fell pacK on tlle old game.
 Cornell will be the first of the big teams to appear in the schedule this year. 'he eleven will play George Wasnins.on IthIca an the 2sth. Four of the pig ma chimes will be in action on October z. s,s onens with Wesleyan. Harvard With Rowdoin and Pennsylvania with Nilla Nova. while Cornell contends with liam, ilton. Princeton begins her season on October s. playing Stevens
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