The sun., 1907-11-01
IN TIKI FOOTBALL WORLD
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n Yale holds 10 her present arrangement
| In the middle of the line she will 80 into her
| two hiR games with q green centre. Not
| one of the three men now playing there has
( played his present position in a championship
! game. and two ~ them. COobey and GOebel,
/ have not played ON varsity tenn before
| this year II has been a long time since Vale
\ has had such AN out and out green trio In
the centre Of the line. n ls seldom that at
least one Of the three has not been In Prince-
ton or Harvard game. Back In the early
'a0s there noted green centfe
consisting Of Phil Stllman. centre, aud Jim
McCrea and w. q. HickOk. guards. Great
was the concern as TO how they would acquit
! themselves In their FIRST big fraoas. They
! acquitted themselves admirably. Such veter-
ans as Acton and Mackey played opposite
/ them on the Harvard team. Yale won the
game and In the course Of the struggle McCrea
| got through his more experienced opposite
| for a blocked kick.
| CongdOn, now playing centre for the Yale
| varsity. is a sample of a man likely to earp
: his by sticking everlastingly TO IL. When
| he first appeared as a candidate on Yale Field
he tried for quarterback. but the other quarters
were too good and he did not qualify as
tried ut end. but the fact that he never rose
| higher than a substitute did not make him
/ any the less faithful. Evidently he is heavier
| than when he first entered college, for
career that begins at quarterback and ends
at centre represents a wide gap in avOiTdupOis.
, For centre. however, CongdOn Is comDara-
, lively light. He is strong. though. and active.
That he is persistent is shown by the fact
that after three years he has finally worked
( hts way to becoming varsity probability.
! II quiet persistence is worth as a reward
, another man on the Yale squad who is entitled
| to one is Beebe. out every fall doing his best
/ to make the varsity as end or tackle, not
| discouraged II he does not. and doing hls
| part by playing on the second team. They
! also serve who only make the scrub.
The campaign undertaken by the Villa
! nova eleven this season is unique in the ar
rangemenU OF the schedule. The hardest
| part of it comes first. Instead Of working
I up to hard games. VillRnova has had them in
! the early half of the season. while the games
! to come include much less formidable op-
! ponents. though by no means easy ones.
lsThe Indians. Pennsylvania. Princeton and
| Yale have been played in quick succession.
| SwsrthmoTe. Holy Cross. Fordham and George
Washington are ret to be played, and Villa
| nova entertains the reasonable belief that
| coming scores will he less one sided than
| those that have gone before. When Villa
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| whatever advantage there may be in a hard
| series of tteringS from opponents, Whie
| successful early season. lt ~ Co DC regretted
| that the FOrdham eleven has not stacked up
| against some of the big five so that its strength
| against the tOpnotchers might be measured
| As IL is the reckoning will have to be made
| on what Fordham does against Nillanova
| and Holy Cross, both of those teams having
served as punching bags for the big fellows.
Capt. Pryor Of the Brown University eleven.
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| play from either the practice scrimmages
or games since the season begun. \ rare
| record. indeed. What with trying out sub
stitutes and allowing players to rest after
| hard contests. to say nothing or physical
disabilities great and small that rs 20 S %Jh tne
! isn't another player who has not been out
! of'it some time or other. A. this season OF
| the year particularly there Is scarcely day
that somebody does not lay on for much
needed rest" This is more true Of backs than OF
! out ends race up and down the field a great
deal. Capt. Pryor must be tough.
With a few days left before the Rutgers
! game on election day, the New York Uni
! versity. football team expects its hardest
TO be perfected before Tuesday and TO this end
Coach OlGOtt has adopted new system OF
sSrimmaEe The principal POINTS are; ,arat laat
are given the scrub ltn9Inen ana forced TO 20
! through the heavier and experienced varsity
| second defence MOwen was back in the
| lineup Yesterday, hIvinR rested from the
severe shock that he sustained with Tietgen
| in yesterday S scTlmmage. Medberg smashed
! up the scrub line with the best practice play
ing he has ever displayed WITH q: Young at
/ Friedberg at right tackle the line is we'll nigh
| perfect on this side. Perry has inlproveu in
practice so fast the last few days that he
] Is sure to keep left end in the lineup, although
Bernstein is by no means out OF the game.
! Fordhau was put through some light scrim-
| mage work yesterday. many Of the men being
| somewhat stif from the effects Of the game
! OF last Saturday. The scrub lined up against
| the regulars for periods OF fifteen minutes,
| plenty OF open work and running down OF
! varsity kept possession Of the ball for most
! OF the time, the scrubs being unable 20 make
any SS9inSst n rsa he strong nS Of Gbs me
men were put in action by Capt. Gargan.
though some Of them did little more than
in practice. his hard line bucking netting
large gains through the line Of the scrub, the
secondary Geienos gin,ns way ~, G n ns ~ baIr haTr
back and devoted much attention to the
working Of trick plays, which invariably were
tances. Baldwin. who was played in last
saturdays game for the first time. IL getting
plenty Of work. "a his weight and strength
scrubs line was crossed with little difficulty
for three touchdoTns, y , the nrst session: On.
nearly every down. The second eleven
put up a stronger game in the second period.
The men are working well In practice and
prospects for a victory over Holy Cross on
Saturday seem to be good.
WEST POINT Oct 81 There was only a
4 short scrimmage to-day. and after the varsity
had scored one touchdown the kicking de-
Dartment OF the game came in for attention.
Howard RoOme, fullback on the Yale team
last year, was here to-day and took Beavers,
C;rebie and Surles in hand. Capt. Smith il
still out OF the game. and his injury will not
permit him TO play against Colgate on Satur-
day so Weeks will act as captain. In to-days
lineup Weeks played right halfback, Fowler
! going In at tackle in his place and BessOn
going from end to Pullen's place at tackle.
/ ChaInberlin Is showing up in great shape at
i left half, and II looks now as II he would have
nrst call for one Of the back positions, being
/ both speedy and n hard man to down. The
end positions are unsettled as yet with 5tearns
| Ayres and BessOn making a strong bid
NEW HAVEN. Oct. 3i,-Fumbllng broke out
! early In the Yale varsity twenty-five minute
! scrimnage with the scrubs to-day Otherw
the varsity players showed some imprO
| ment and continued their scoring streak
! Yesterday. IN less than two minutes OF
! they mad carried the ball 10 the second tea,
! one yard line, but there lost it in TO- "
pass Mitchell punted out, and "
catch BiGlOw tried for q goal from D