The Washington herald., 1907-11-03
PUNTS AND PASSES.

Joseph Courtney. the former Holy Cross
football player, is playing good game
at end for Villanova.
Capt Smith and r. D. Johnson. of the
West Point team, are in the hospital
with sprained ankles.
Beside the regular games, Harvard
and Yale each have only nine or ten
days for hard practice
There is talk Of Tommy Fennell. now
at State College, being engaged as head
coach at Cornell next year.
The smallest player in the local high
/ school series is Guy, the Western tackle,
who weighs only l05 pounds.
Carlisle is nearest to the Tigers total
of 22 points this year. having scored PA,
although playing one more game.
Capt. Crowley Of Bowdoin, is the only
man on the team who has played more
than one year on the college eleven.
Mt Pleasant, Of the Indians. is catching
kicks on the run. and making the ends
who try to tackle him look ridiculous.
Columbia is contenting itself with Soc
/ Ger, although the majority Of her students
are still interested in the greater game.
Only Mike Murphy and Carl Williams
can save the Quakers from several more
! defeats The team is in the pit OF a
slump.
Swauee gave Virginia a surprise party.
/ The Charlottesville team was quite conf
dent of going through the season unde-
feated
Reform football I'm the West is on the
wane. Wisconsin is now preparing for a
/ seven-game schedule and a training table
next fall
/ Having lost to Clemson. after being
beaten by Virginia, North Carolina is
now out Of the race for the Southern
/ championship.
Pullen, who is back in the scrimmages
| again at West Point. still has a lame
knee, and viii probably not play in any
game until the West POint-Navy game at
Philadelphia
There will De LOT Of speculation If
the Central, Western, Eastern. and Blu
siness coaches get together 10 name an
all high school team to play Tech The
idea is a good one.
Jimmie" Johnson. the Carlisle coach.
/ has certainly showed himself a marvel
at back field coaching. Johnson Is well
/ liked by the Indians. and has inspired
:
/ activity
Bosey Reter. the former Princeton star.
Is not having much success this year at
/ Wesleyan. The eleven has won only one
OF the five games played, and IN the
games lost has scored only 5 points TO
its opponents III
It is to be regretted that Tech High
and the Georgetown Props will not play
/ this fall Tech is so heavy that she has
made Walkaway of the high school
| series. but the Props have a team which
/ is near Techs weight.
/ Carl Flanders is doing big things with
/ the Yale line and when practice does
not go TO suit him he jumps into the
game himself When Flanders takes the
/ keystone position. the subs have a hard
/ time of it, for there is no stopping him.
Villanora is the third team dropped by
/ Yale in three seasons. The first was two
/ years ago, when Columbia was marked
! OF the visiting list for being rough i'm
game won by Yale Last season Penn
State was eradicated at the end Of a
/ 100 Yale victory.
/ Football men seem to take naturally TO
/ politics nowadays Everett ]. Lake, now
/ lieutenant governor Of Connecticut. and
]
/ governor, was "a famous Harvard half
! back on the team that beat Yale at
/ Springfield. j to 6. IN 1880 He was a
/ great line-buckeT. and Walter Camp Sc
lected him as an All-American half back
I IN 1891
For many years the Harvard side lines
at football games have been overcrowded
by the large number who felt themselves
entitled to side line badges: Ex-captains
football management has long felt the
need of cutting down the number of side
/ line admissions. and has announced that
/ in the future only the following will be
/ entitled 70 side line badges: Ex-captains
/ and managers of Harvard football teams.
/ ex-gTaduate managers, ex-coaches and
1 coaches actively connected with Harvard
/ football, ex-"H' football men actively
| connected with Harvard football at the
/ present time. and active captains and
managers Of major teams at Harvard.
/ Having gone through their schedule so
/ far with gratifying results, the Dart
mouth players are now printing for Har-
ward DIT. O'Connor, the coach, says Dart
mouths showing in the Amherst game
/ was much better in comparison to Am
! hersts than the score Of Is to 10 indi-
Gates and that the Harvard game is
I viewed with no little confidence. Alas,
poor Harvard Not only is Dartmouth
/ laying" for the men of Cambridge with
1 felOniOUs intent, but Brown is scheming
and preparing tC 10 things 10 the Grim
son, the Indians are on the warpath for
| another scalp, and there is an array OF
! blue-hosed huskies from the neighbo~ing
province Of New Haven that menaces
/ the peace of mind of Capt Parker's de-
voted band. The Crimson the while is
plugging away and saying nothing.
Doubtless If she could win the Yale
| game the balm from that feat would
more than counter balance any setbacks
/ that may occur in between. Harvard has
I been a sort of h0OdOo for the Indians the
/ last two years, the Iatter'5 game not be-
/ ing UP TO its usual standard in the Sta
/ dunn and lacking In aggressiveness and
strategy. However, for nearly every team
/ there exists another team that is its pet