Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-09-25


 : New Haven, Sept 25.-As football practice progresses at Yale, coaches grow more hopeful and some venture to say that a squad of such promise never has assembled at this season of the year on any gridiron. Yale has three sets of backs with little to choose between them, and for the line positions there are two good men for each place. Yesterday the varsity lined up as follows Paige, left tackle; Biglow, right tackle; Burch, left end; H.. Jones, right end; Dimes, quarterback; Berger, left halfback; Bomar, right halfback, and Coy, fullback. Brown is the big fresh man guard of last year, who appear ed for the first time to-day. Coy and Wheaton kicked 60 yards with ap- parent ease during the practice. The work included tackling the dummy, running down under kicks, catching pnnts and running with the ball be- hind interference. Bomar is show ing up excellently as halfback. Cooney is as fast as he was last year, although he still has some superf1u- ous flesh. Tad Jones is not being worked at quarter Dimes and Bing- ham are getting the brunt of the practice. This does not mean that Jones is at all out of the running, but it is desired to train the other two candidates not only for substi- ute work but for another year.
 Cambridge, Mass, Sept. 25.-Old Harvard football players are turning up in great numbers to assist in the coaching of the eleven. Yesterday Charles Daily, the noted Harvard and West Point quarterback, arrived and announced that he expected to be able to work with the team the greater part of the season. Yesterday Graydon of the Harvard 1901 and 1902 teams, who at the time was con- sidered the greatest line breaking fullback in the game, appeared on Soldiers field and aided in the coach ing.
 Three of last years veterans re- ported for practice yesterday after noon. They were Starr, who has played on the team for the last three years at quarterback and end. New. hall, last years quarterback, and Macdonald, the varsity end. These players are in fine condition and got right into the work. Burr ano Pierce are now the only veterans who have not been out for practice and they are expected to return every day.
 The work yesterday afternoon waa fast and encouraging. It was devot' ed entirely to practicing the forward pass, number of formations involv- ing one or two long passes being tried by the different teams.
 Princeton, N. J., Sept. 25.-There was a slight touch of fall in the air here yesterday and the Tigers were put to harder tasks than hitherto. The afternoons work was more in- teresting than any to date. A strong line must be developed and first of all men must be trained for the job. A fast end is needed, too, a man who can work in unison with Mister of last seasons team. To-day Brown and Mister and Dowd ard Vaughn were drilled at breaking up inteffer- ence on end runs and chasing down punts. The work was pretty rough as a whole. Dawson alternated with Eddie Dillon at quarterback.
 For the first time this year ths tackling dummy was used and :t was used hard. The big fellows especial ly were sent against the dummy be- cause the coaches think that speed along the line will be more import ant factor in this years game thaI ever before. After dividing the bunch into three elevens Coaches Cooney Mum and Foulke instructed them and kept them going for long time Foulke devoted much attention t1 thz back field. The kicking yesterday was done by Capt Mccormick, Tibbett and Harlan.