The Washington herald., 1907-11-08
PUNTS AND PASSES.

Tech High Will play Woodberry- Forest
at Orange. Va, tomorrow
The North Carolina team. which pIays
Georgetown tomorrow. is expected to
arrive here late this evening.
Gait formerly OF Maryland Agricultur-
al College, is making a good showing al
quarterback at George Washington
Pennsylvania state has been holding
masS-meetings every night. The victory
over Cornell leads state" to think it
can wallop Pennsylvania tomorrow.
Swain, Browns right end. is in the
hospital with a sprained ankle and an
injured hand. There's no chance FOR his
playing in the Yale game tomorrow.
The Princetonians will put in three days
in practice in Norwalk. Conn. just prior
10 the Yale game Rooms have been en-
gagged for the men there. and the town
has a good gymnasium and football field
The move will give the Tigers a chance
20 get acclimated and breathe the same
ozone which makes such good football
players az New Haven.
Chicago papers are making an ambi-
tious attempt 10 take q census Of all the
accidents in the football world. OF
course their figures are not exactly true,
as a complete list covering the whole
country Is next to impossible. Then.
again. many Of those Injured were not
football players; that Is. several were in
jured because they did not know the
game
A football reader" wants to know II
II was exactly proper for Billy Ed
wards 10 umpire the Carlisle Pennsyl-
vania game II he knew at the time that
he would be called upon TO tip off his
Princeton friends on Cariisle's plays.
Edwards rushed TO Princeton Immediate
~ after the Indians victory AT Philadel-
phia, and the effect of his coaching was
very apparent.
Only FIVE more big games are to be
played this season. Yale and Princeton
will play their annual contest Saturday.
November 1e and on the same day
Pennsylvania will tackle Michigan at Ann
Arb0r. On the following Saturday Yale
and Harvard will clash. Thanksgiving
Day will find Pennsylvania and Cornell
fighting on Franklin Field. and two days
later the annual Army and Navy game
will be played on the same gridiron.
Lafayette feels greatly disturbed be-
cause its star half back Chalmers, was
ordered of the field for an alleged attack
on Greene in the Pennsylvania game
The claim is made that Chalmers slid
on the slippery footing and unintention-
ally ''kneed" the Quaker" Chalmers
has always been rated as a clean player.
and never. before was penslized for
rough playing. Greene's sides were bad
ly bruised.
There is a tip out that the football
rules committee Will either do away with
the forward pass altogether next sea-
son or curtail its use. The play has not
been as satisfactory this season as last.
which fact can be attributed 60 the I'll
advised move in making a distance pen
atty for forward passes on the first or
/ second downs that are incompleted in
other words, which hit the ground be-
fore being touched. Last year any in
| completed forward pass meant loss OF
the ball.-New York Sun.
When a modest, conservative coach Ike
| 'Hurry-Up'' Yost volunteers the infor-
nation that Michigan will beat Penn II
is high time the Red and Blue arouses.
! Coach Yost sent Willie HestOn to see
! the Penn-Indian panic. Heston sat in
the press box. started earnestly taking
notes, but long before the end of the
game ne leaned back and smoked his
/ cigar as though he was the happiest man
/ on earth, and he tore up his few little
notes with the air of one who is satisfied
/ they are not needed.
| Johnny Mayhem. the Brown captain.
says his team played better football
/ against Harvard than at any time this
year so Harvard may be deserving of
more praise than censure for winning by
only one point. Mayhem says the Har-
ward ends are weak. and that II thev
don't improve they never will withstand
/ the Yale attack. The Harvard line was
better than he expected The Brown
tackles. on the whole, outplayed the Har-
ward pair. The Harvard backfeid did
not work well together but did better
after Lockwood went in the game 'Har-
vard,'' says Mayhem in conclusion.
should consider herself lucky to win. for
We certainly outplayed her."