Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-09
TUNING Up FOR
BIC FOOT BALL
MidWeek Struggles Come in
Merely as Practice
Contests.
Today's Foot Ball Games.

Today's Foot Ball Games.
Pennsylvania vs. Franklin and Marshall,
at Franklin Field.
Harvard VS.. Bates, at Cambridge.
Cornell VS.. Niagara, at ithaca.
Yale VS.. Springfield Training School, at
New Haven.
Princeton VS.. Wesleyan, at Princeton.
The above are five of the more import
ant games in the east which are sche
for today Midweek games are not very
popular, but it is customary for the larger
colleges of the east to schedule them dur
ing the first month of the season. These
games are usually played with teams of a
known weakness, teams that the big col
leges should have no trouble in defea ting
by good size scores.
These games are in the nature of try
outs and are valuable to the players and
coaches as such. The season has adj
vanced to the stage -.Iere No. advanced
foot ball must be practiced by the big
teams, as they all have important games
coming soon where the teams will have to
go some to show that they are of cham
pionship caliber.
The games of Saturday are an impos-
ing lot. Today's games look easy for the
big fellows. The Army In its opening
game defeated Franklin and Marshall %
to Q. so the Lancaster boys should be
soundly walloped by the Red and Blue to-
day. But Pennsylvania plays Swarthmore
Saturday and it has the defeat of 4 to {
last year to wipe out. In that season Penn
was handicapped in getting her team to-
gether early and the Quakers beat her
This year 1t is different and Pennsylvania
means to be revenged. The game today
will be the means of trying out the team
and to perfect plays and signals that will
help in the game Saturday.
Steady advancement has been made by
Penn and she may be expected to dc
something that will make every one take
notice when it comes down to the have to-
Pennsylvania has another defeat hang
ing over from last year on which to get
square. The Carlisle Indians went to
Philadelphia and won by the score of "a to
6. The Indians are a shifty lot and once
they get the drop on team there is little
hope for the unfortunate, no matter what
team 1t Is. The Indians will be beaten this
year, although the record to date shows
them to be a very fast and capable lot OF
players.
Yale's New Play.
NEW HAVEN, October 9.-Coaches at
Yale directed the practice yesterday after
noon to eliminate the serious faults of the
Syracuse game. fumbling and lack of eff
ficient offensive work. For fifteen min
utes the candidates had stiff signal drill
and then came ten-minute scrimmage in
which neither side scored. One of the
features was trick play worked sue
cessfully by the college team. Bingham
quarterback, fell into line with the three
backs. The ball was snapped back to
him in his position on the left end Of the
back field. He started around the right
end. following the backs as interference.
He then slipped the ball to the fullback,
Burke, who turned and ran around left
end. This play found the varsity ar
IDENTIFY chasing the interference and
Burke gained a good ten yards. Gordon
Brown, who has been expected, will not
he able to come to Yale this fall to assist
the team.
Hot Scrimmage by Tigers.
PRINCETON, October 9.-Despite the
fact that Princeton is to play Wesleyan
on University Field today, the whole
Tigers outfit with the exception of the
backfeld, was put through a hot scrim-
mage yesterday afternoon. The weather
was ideal for fast foot ball and Head
Coach Roper and his assistants We're not
| slow to take advantage of it. The prun-
Ing out process was begun, for the squad
was considerably smaller than before.
| Nevertheless. some ffty-odd men are
| being hustled around. 1t is a long time
meted out to the Tigers as was the case
| yesterday afternoon. Eddie Dillon rushed
the varsity through play after play, while
Roper ran after them yelling for more
speed. End plays were especially timed
and there was decided improvement in
Interference and response from the line,
McFadyan, Siegling and Buckingham,
three big fellows, We're pulled from the
line and given chance to start off quick
| ly from the backfeld This trio was
driven so fast that they got mixed and
stepped on each other once in while.
The scrimmaging was cut to fifteen min
utes, one-half five and the second ten,
when Parlan, Reid and Dillon were with
drawn from the varsity makeup. The
first string went to pieces and could not
score at all from the scrub. Booth broke
up many formations directed through
tackle. The forward pass did not seem
to go either, though Wistar and Brown
were both on the job.
Harvard Driven Hard.
CAMBRIDGE, October 9.-The Harvard
foot ball team was driven hard for TWEEN
ty-five minutes yesterday afternoon in the
hardest scrimmage of the year The
varsity scored three times against the
second team by very fast play. The first
time was when Fish intercepted a for
ward pass on the varsity's 15-yard line
and ran 95 yards for a touchdown. The
second goal was made by carrying the
ball the length of the field by forward
passes. line plays on tackle and two sue
cessful onside kicks. The last touchdown
was made by Peirce, who recovered an
onside kick and ran % yards to the goal
line The feature of the work was the
showing made by Fish at tackle. Fish
seems to be the only man who can be re-
lied upon with reasonable certainty to