The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-01
pOIBALL SEASON
| IS NEARLY HERE
Enln Three Weeks Eastern
universities Will All Be Out
In Gridiron Armor.

81 preoccupied has the sporting
Id been with the thrilling struggles
aseball and other sports that fl has
lost lost sight of the fact THAI the
rcollegiate football season Of 1907
lmost here. Within the next three
ks football coaches win come out
heir lalrs and there win be a gath
Is OF football candidates at every
7ge and university Of Importance in
country. Many Of the smaller col
S have scheduled their first games
4 the middle of September. so that
have no time to lose in instruct
their candidates i'm the rules of the
s ee and conditioning them for the
Is extremely unlikely that any Of
big university squads will hold pro
nary practice before the second
k in September. The abolition of
mer practice. at least upon an cx-
3 i've scale. is supposed To be one Of
I reforms accomplished within the
few years. Although the general
! &c is led to believe that the reform
zery effective. the fact remains that
& Ost without exception The big mil
ktties manage to hold some sort of
urinary practice at least for a
zted number Of their men. abOut
en- the reading public is not in
! bed.
Too Soon Yet to Tell.
this writing it is. of coarse. i'm
Isible to forecast with any deerea
/ certainty just how strong the vari-
members of the big Five" will be
fall. 1t is easy enough to make a
PASS of the different squads and to
n what veterans have been lost
what retained from 1906. but the
] ing season is different from that
asst year. In 1906 the Big Five"
the first time observed a rule
!eh prevented the competition of
5hmen on all intercollegiate teams.
II compelled the coaches to recruir
II teams altogether from the 1905
who had been left. The elimina-
or the freshmen led TO the organ
lon of teams for first-year men
Il regular schedules and coaches. 1t
the first time that the freshmen
len became an integral part of the
bail system at these universities.
Elis year, in addition TO the veter-
held over from last year. the
hes Will have the aid of all the
Fhman players from 1906. The
nmen viii be a most important fac
'this fall and some of these voutb-
[gr1diron stars are quite likely to
lace men who were veterans LAST
/. 1t is well known fact that
|e We're a good many freshmen in
who could have made their var
teams IN walk had they been ELI
|dging from the number of veter-
left over from 1906, Cornell ought
|e unusually strong this fall The
cans have lost just one veteran
being Newman, the center. Cor
therefore, starts the season with
he2 ends, Van Orman and Bah
|; boNth tackles. Cook and Rrinton.
guards. Thompson and O'Rourke:
quarterback, Jameson; both her
packs. Gibson and Earle. and her
back, Walder- The Ithacans had
1did freshman eleven last YEAR
If some of these youngsters do not
lace one or more Of the varsity
lars it will cause considerable SIR
eW Coaching Plan at Cornell.
|rnell this year is slightly handi-
ped because she is installing a rad
y new coaching system. For the
time corps of graduates will
e charge of the coaching. The two
who will be responsible viii he
|iday and Schoelkopf, both former
packs. The system TO be emploved
Eornell is a duplicate Of that used
Pennsylvania with such cOusDtcu-
success. The new Cornell coaches
a conference during the winter
the pennsylvania authorities. vino
them as many pointers as they
r. The Cornell innovation will be
Ehed with much interest bv out
Is. If the Cornell alumni and fra
tiles keep their hands of the new
m is likely 10 be r success. but
Pt IL win end in ruin.
the Yale champions Of 1906 did not
so many freshman stars from
IN TO recruit the Ellis would be I'm
sry bad way, for they have lost
graduation and other causes more
mar OF their 1906 eleven. The men
include Forbes. the star end.
kenberger, the center: Erwin. The
Td; Needer and Knox. haIfbacks.
Morse and Roome. who aIternafed
ullback- This leaves the line pret-
bear intact but sucn is the nigh
per OF several members OF me
Imam eleven of 1906 that more than
varsity man from last year is i'm
ger of losing his position. In Coo
Andrus and Coy. Yale has three
omen who will make the regulars
IL from the very start. Indeed
2 place will have to be made for
E stars. because every one of fbA1n
4 have made a varsity team last
No Change AZ Yale.
ere will be no change in the Yale
hing system. The present system
turned out too many champion
elevens to merit any change now.
Z. Knox, the star halfback Of 1906
be field coach. with Walter Camp
more the head and front OF the
e system. No university has so
y former graduate stars TO assist
he coaching as Yale. and Knox
have a regiment of assistants this
If he wants them.
g University Of Pennsylvania is
cularly blessed this year because
Quakers have lost but two mem
FEW CHANGES