Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07
-M|OWEEK FOOT BALL ]
GOING OUT OF STYLE
important College Teams Are
Gradually Dropping Wed
nesday Games.
Foot Ball Games Today.


Harvard vs. Bates College at Cambridge
Navy vs. ST Johns College. at Annapolis.
Princeton vs. Stevens Institute. at Prncc,.N.
Pennsylvania VS.. Nilsnovs. at Philadelphia.
Gettysburg Mt. 81. Mary's College, at
Gettysburg.
Washington and Jefferson VS.. Geneva College.
ST. Lawrence University VS.. 81. Michaers Col
lege.
Andover VS.. Harvard. second.
Exeter Willston.
Northwestern University Rpon. at Water
town. Ill.
In foot ball. as in everything else, the
fashions change from time to time. and
where the coaches used to be strongly in
favor of midweek contests I'm the early
part of the season the passing Of the
Wednesday games seems to be approach
ing Neither Yale nor Cornell will appear
today against opponents from other col
leges. but will devote all their efforts TO
velopment against the scrubs"
Whether or not this is a good departure
from the regime of former seasons is a
moot question among the coaches. Oh
courses. IL can be argued that there Is a
great advantage in pitting an eleven
against methods that are strange to IL.
but. on the other hand, much may be
argued for the superior strength that
is found among the scrubs.
Midweek games usually mean the rolling
up Of big scores against very weak minor
teams that have not any Of the power
that is evident among the substitutes Of
the important varsities. and the out
come Is that the games are really easier
practice than against men who are try
ing to gain a position among the regu-
lars.
The best thing that can be said for
these games is that IL gives the players
a chance to get a better insight into the
strict Interpretation OF the rules. In
practicing against men Of their own col
lege the varsity players are often al
lowed considerable laxity by the coach
ing stan. which does not care to waste
time in enforcing penalties. while even
in the contests of least Importance the
code of the gridiron is strictly adhered
to.
One Important Game.
There is one game today which will at
tract plenty Of notice. for 1t will give the
first comparative estimate of the ability
of teams Of note in the college world.
That Is the contest between Pennsylvania
and Villa Nova on Franklin Field, Phil
adelphia. The latter has met Carlisle
and lost by the score of 10 to o. so the
Penn coaches will be able to get a line
on what they must do to prepare for the
Indians later in the season by the result
OF the contest today.
The Villa Novans have made great
preparations for this game and have gone
to Philadelphia full of confidence that
they will make the Quakers exert them
selves to the utmost to score a very de-
cisive victory. Maxwell. the coach, has
given his squad good talk on the prin-
ciples In vogue at Pennsylvania.
The loss Of keinath, who was badly In
jured in the game against Bucknell Sat-
urday, may prove a big handicap to the
Quakers. The Red and Blue. however.
was lucky in discovering a new quarter
in Jack Means. who played on Ohio State
two years ago and made quite a reputa-
ton in the west. He is a good drop
kicker In addition to being a lively little
field general but with only one days
Metzger will take a chance at putting
him in the position today. Last year
"Pennsy' beat Villa Nova IL to o.
Princeton Will Play.
Princeton has as an opponent this after.
noon Stevens Institute. which was an
easy victim last year. losing by a score
of ~ to O. The Hoboken players appear
to be fairly strong. as they were AIDE to
hold Lehigh down last Saturday TO a sim
much better than In 1907 against the
Tigers. Bill Roper, however. has q
team that Is giving evidence of great
power and aptitude and nothing has been
left undone to bring out all the latent
possibilities of the candidates.
There is now on the Princeton practice
field a squad of old-time stars who are
using all their energy toward getting the
best results out OF the available material.
Among them are Johnny" Poe. 30:
Knox Taylor, '95: J. Lyle. OF: Gresham
Poe, 'O2 and Herbert Dillon. O7. Taylor
and Dillon are looking after the line
men. John Poe after the tackling and
Gresham Poe is taking charge of the
quarterbacks
The other big teams to be seen in action
today are Harvard and the Navy. The
Cambridge students will meet Bates and
the middies will face ST. Johns College
These contests. on all previous work.
should be very one-sided for the Crimson
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