Omaha daily bee., 1907-03-03


Of the Yale system lald then have been
built upon. and the foot ball edihce At vir-
ginia is a pretty sturdy dwelling 1t lie
considered that the change to graduate
coaching IL only another manifestation OF
the peculiar preference that Is growing up
In the colleges 10 weed out the out and out
professional coach.
For instance. Amherst only recently an
nounced that thereafter there would be
graduate coaching. John H. Hubbard, %.
the crack halfbaek aud hurdler. was named
for the place Amherst Is another place
that is pretty well under Yale influence in
foot ball lines. John A. Hart. the former
for several seasons. and he was followed
by Guy Hutchinson.
Foot Bali Mt Yale.
On the subject Of foot ball the following
short note IN the Yale Alumni Weekly,
headed Foot Ball Photographic" may not
be unamusine.
II am a long standing subscriber to the
Weekly, ana by its means manage to
keep up considerable interest in affairs at
Yale even confess that / still feel a
sneaking fondness for Yale foot ball,
though / am old enough to know better
like to know what our players look like
whether they stin look like Yale gentlemen,
as piously believe Is the case, or like the
pampered prize fighters which they are de-
scribed to be In certain journals which
don't approve Of. VIII you not, then, beg
our foot ball managers when they have
the team photographed, to take them in
citizens attire and with their ordinary ex-
preston Of countenanee. that we who are
far away, In time and place. may form
some sort Of estimate Of what manner OF
men they are7 The photograph Of the team
of 1906, which you published a few weeks
ago, was not really one that i could iaunt
In the faces Of detractors with any great
effect. The campus, of course, knows these
athletes to be gentlemen as well, but the
outside world can Judge only from their
Photographic"
Princeton Statistics.
The Princeton Alumni Weekly recently
printed a summary of statistics obtained
by Prof. Howard MccIenahan, 'e4, secre-
tary OF the faculty committee on outdoor
sports at Princeton. It is seen from the
report that Of students who have ever been
| members OF either a varsity or a scrub
team in any branch Of sport, major or
minor, there are 800 altogether. which IL
estimated at % per cent OF the college en-
rollment. on the basis OF these figures
there are some very interesting deductions.
For instance, Of the 21e students who re-
ceived partial remission Of tuition fees only
twenty were athletes under the classical
ton given above Also of 174 students who
helped out their incomes by managing eat
ing clubs only thirty-four were athletes.
Last year, instead of having about 20 por
~ al
there were Is per cent. The proportion Of
athletes who receive remission Of tuition
also was much below normal this year.
being about 10 per cent. or these figures
and what they develop in regard to athletic
purity and the like the Weekly makes only
the significant comment; These figures
have more than a merely academic inter
| est"
West Point Base Ball Averages.
The batting and field averages of the
| West Point base ball team OF last season
| appear in the recent report Of the Army
Athletic association. Interesting results are
shown, especially In the case of Beavers,
pitcher, who is the strongest actual
| batter on the team. He took part in twelve
Of the thirteen games Of the schedule and
wallopped the bali for an average OF .4s7.
The only man put above him was Hanlon,
substitute catcher, who played In i've
games and hit for 600 The team as a
whole batted well They averaged sl2, as
against $50 for their opponents They lost
only three games, to Columbia, Yale and
Pennsylvania State college, The ten others
| they won, beating among others George
town, Fordham. Manhattan and the navy.
The team helding was s1s. as against .SSs
for their opponents. The figures are as
follows: