The Washington herald., 1907-08-25

So preoecupied has the sporting world
been with the thrilling races in baseball
and other sports that It has almost lost
sight Of the fact that the intercollegiate
football season OF 1907 is almost here.
Within the next three weeks football
coaches will come out from their covers
and there viii be gathering Of football
candidates at every college and univer
sity OF importance in the country. Many
of the smaller colleges have scheduled
their first games for the middle OF Sep
TENDER, so that there is no time 10 lose
in instructing their candidates in the rules
OF the game and conditioning them.
1t is unlikely that any OF the big uni
versity squads will hold preliminary prac-
tee before the second week in Septem-
| Der The abolition OF summer practice.
at least upon an extensive scale is sup
/ posed 10 be one OF the reforms accom-
plished within the last few years Al
though the general public is led TO believe
that the reform is very effective. the fact
remains that almost without exception the
big universities manage TO hold some sort
Of preliminary practice. at least for
limited number Of their men.
At this time II is impossible to fore
cast just how strong the various men,
bers OF the Big Five" Will be this fail
II is easy enough 20 make a canvass Of
tbs different squads and to learn what
veterans have been lost and what retained
4 from 1906. But the coming season is diff
ferent from that Of last year In 1896 the
] In TfrraH ,,f.-
rule which prevented the competition Of
freshmen on all intercollegiate teams.
/ This compelled the coaches 10 recruit
I their teams altogether from the 1896 men
who had been left. The elimination Of
/ the freshmen led 20 the organization Of
teams for first year men with regular
/ schedules and coaches. II was the first
timS that the freshmen eleven became an
integral part OF the football system al
/ these universities.
Freshmen Important Factors.
This year. in addition to the veterans
held over from last year. the coaches
will have the aid OF al the freshmen
1 players from 1906. The freshmen will be
most important factors this fall. and
some OF these youthful grldiron stars are
quite likely 10 displace men who were
veterans last year. II is a weI-known
fact that there we're a good many fresh
men in 1896 who could have made their
varsity teams in a walk had they been
eligible.
Judging from the number OF veterans
left over from 1866. Cornell ought 70 be
unusually strong this fail. The Ithacans
have lost just one veteran, this being
Newman. the center. Cornell. therefore,
starts the season with both her ends
Van Ormsn and Babcock; both tackles.
Cook and Brinton; both guards. Thomp-
son and O'Rourke: her quarter back, ia
mieson: both her half backs. Gibson and
Earle. and her full back. Valdez. The
Ithacans had a splendid freshman eleven
last year, and II some Of these young
sters do not displace one or more OF the
varsity regulars it viii cause considerable
surprise.
Cornell this year is slightly handi.
capped because she is installing a radi-
cally new coaching system For the first
time a corps OF graduates Will have
charge Of the coaching The two men
who will be responsible VIII be Halliday
and SchOelkopf. former full backs The
system TO be employed at Cornell Is a
duplicate Of that used By Pennsylvania
with such conspicuous success. The new
Cornell coaches had a conference dur
ing the winter with the Pennsylvania
authorities, who gave them as many
pointers as they could. The Cornell in
nOvatiOn viii be watched with much In /
terest by outsiders. II the Cornell alum /
nj and the fraternities keep hands OF /
the new system is likely 70 be a success. /
but II not it Will end in ruin.
Yale Needs Recruits.
II the Yale champions Of 1896 did not
have so many freshman stars from which |
to recruit, the Ellis would be in a very /
bad way. for they have lost by gradua- /
lion and other causes more than half Of
the 1906 eleven. The men lost include |
Forbes, the star end; Hockenberger. the
center; Erwin. the guard: Veeder and /
Knox, half backs, and Morse and Roome /
who alternated at full back. This leaves /
the line pretty near intact, but such IS /
the high calibeT Of several members Of 1
the freshman eleven OF 1906 that more |
than one varsity man from last year Is /
IN danger OF losing his position. In /
Cooney, An6rus, and Coy, Yale has three /
freshmen who Will make the regulars /
hustle from the very start. Indeed. /
some places viii have 10 be made for
these stars because every one of them
could have made a varsity team last
year.
There will be no change IN the Yale
coaching system. The present one has
turned out too many championship elev
ems TO merit any change now. w. F
Knox, the star half back Of 1906. will be
field coach. with Walter Camp once more
the head and front OF the whole system.
No university has so many former gradu-
ate stars to assist in the coaching as
ale, and Knox Will have a regiment OF
assistants this fall II he wants them.
Two Losses for Penn.
The Observation-Disclosures is par
ticularly blessed this year, because the
Quakers have lost only two members OF
their 1906 eleven. These are Levens at
left enc. and Lawrence at quarter back
This leaves the Red and Blue with the
following veterans: Scarlet. right end:
Draper and CASTOR, tackles; Gallagher
and Iiegler. guards; Dwyer. center:
Greene and Folwell, half backs. and E4o1.
lenback full backs.
Penn this year has a better LOT Of re-
cruits from last years freshman team
and substitutes than usual and if ali
things work together right the Ouakers
ought to have one OF their greatest
teams. For Lawrence's position ST Guar
ter Regan, the former Andoyer star wtu
have first consideration. This Young
man looked like a second Stevenson last
year as far as individual work went. and
II he develops the heaGwork necessary
he will hold down the position from the 4
start. He is one Of the best irop-k;ck- b
ers Penn has had since BroolSe's 6sv sns A..