The Washington herald., 1907-11-03

The Maine college team is unusually
weak this year.
Princeton outweighed the Indians thir-
teen pounds to the man.
Jacl, Gass viii referee the Georgetown
Y, p, /, game at Richmond to-day
Brown has had its goal line crossed
twice in each OF its last two games.
Bill Edwards is on the list for one Of
the officials when Harvard meets Carlisle.
The Tigers clean-cut victory over Car
Isle was a bitter blow to PENIS reputa-
ton.
It took the Cornell defeat 10 rouse
Princeton 10 a realization of her latent
strength.
It is reported that Mount Pleasant, the
Indian quarter back, viii enter Cornell
next fall
Princeton's weakness in puuting in the
Cornell game was as costly az il was
unexpected.
Lafayette, which meets Penn to-day
tied the Quakers, TO 6, in 1905, and to @
a year ago.
There viii be nearly 1O,000 less seats
on Soldiers field for the Yale game than
two years ago.
Lew Drill. the former Georgetown
tackle is coaching at Hamline Univer-
sity. Minnesota.
Mayhem. of Brown, is just beginning
20 show the form that distinguished his
playing last season.
Harvard has had several kicks blocked
this year This has not been because OF
Burrs sl0wness, but because he has not
been protected.
No new developments in the George
town-Ge0rge Washington controversy are
expected until Manager Fitzgerald returns
from Richmond.
So great a demand for seats for the
Indian game is expected that Harvard
students VIII be allowed 20 purchase
only four seats each.
Walter Mccormack, Dartmouth's great
est coach. is giving satisfaction as a ref
cree In the West He ofiiciated at the
AHchigan-Ohio State College game.
Capt. Slavin. Of Villanova. says that
Princeton can beat Yale. There are a lot
of people from Missouri in New Haven
just at this time of year. however
Harvard's last game with PennsyI-
v1uia was i'm 1905. Since 1881 the elevens
have met nineteen times. Harvard win
ming twelve and losing seven games
Capt. Parker. Of Harvard. besides hav-
ing a cold. also is bothered by his back
again. which has caused him so much
trouble during his career at Cambridge
Williams College Athletic Council has
cxonerated three players whose standing
was questioned. The council decided that
there was no violation of the eligibility
rules.
The Nays great showing against La
fayette should set the Army coaches
thinking. The changes in the Navy line
and back field seems TO have had a good
effect
The Penn players have a $4,000 club
house on Franklin field and Mike Muir
ply allows them many privileges not
usually held TO be consistent for men in
training.
The coaches of Ithaca are said to he
afraid that instead OF helping the eleven,
the defeat Of Princeton has made Cornell
overconfdent The defeat Of the Tigers
is worth it.
The Army and Navy have played
twelve games since 1850. The Navy won
three OF the first four games, then the
gAmcs were prohibited by Congress for
six years. and since 1899 the Army has
won six games and the Navy two. The
series stands 20 5 in the Army's favor
In the Michigan-Penn game last year
the Quakers made most of their ground
through the wolverine line This year
this should not be the case, as Michigan
is strengthened greatly by the addition
o. Schulz and Rhienschild 10 its line.
while Loell viii prove q big help in back
ing up the line.
Coach YOst. of Michigan. says If Penn
lost every game Of the season they would
give the best team IN the world "a battle
worth miles of walking TO witness. They
are fighters, and this man Murphy will
set them ready for US, and we VIII have
game out at Ann ArbOr which will
beat anything the West has ever had a
chance TO watch"
With the exception Of the Army game
the hardest event the Navy eleven still
has to play this season is the Swarth-
more game. The team will be especially
coached for that contest The Navy
coaches fear the drop kicking of O'Brien
After the Swarthmore game the final
lineup of the Navy eleven will probably
be determined. SO that the men may
have a chance to get team work down to
the finest possible point.
Coaches who have said that gains could
not be made through the line under the
new rules. others who have said that
gains could not be made around the ends.
a third section who have insisted that the
forward pass could not be made to work
successfully. stu more who have held
that running formations are a snare and a
delusiOn since the new game came into
existence. are referred to the results which
Warner has accomplished with the IN
dians. OF course, the coaches shouldn't be
a chance TO give them an object lesson.
'Inordinate desire to retain possession
Of the ball is running the game. said
Walter Camp. when the changes were
being considered in the rules. Football
has come TO be a struggle of no skill, but
one Of brute strength 10 hold possession
Of the ball from the time Of the first
down until it is across the goal. Every
play is planned for the one idea of hold
ing the ball at any cost What football
elevens need is to lose the ball once in a
while and then be able to regain It. We
dontt want a tug OF war on the football
field And Pennsylvania, foremost in
yowling for the forward pass has devel-
oped an attack on the modern game this
fall, because the eleven has not been
taught what it should have been To meet
modern conditions. The days of beef
against brains and skill on the gridiron
have fed for keeps.