Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13
OF FOOT BALL TIMBER
Of National Width on Five Leading
Teams.
ALL SECTIONS ON THE BIG TEAM
Players from New HRmpshire, Hons
lulu, Minnesota, Tennessee on
Harvard, Yale, Princeton,
Pennsylvania and Cornell.

five leading football teams Of the season
Just past were, made by an area of Uncle
Sans domain covering many thousands Of
miles. These are IAN America" teams In
more senses than one. Not only do many
s~tates-states scattered from one coast to
the other-have representation, but even
the remote possessions. For instance, the
next captain Of the West Point eleven
comes from Alaska. One Of Haryard's
players is a resident OF Honolulu and an
others home address in the college cata-
logue is Paris, France. The coach Of the
Yale freshman team halls. according to the
university catalogue. from the Far East.
Chester Jules Copmann, Yokohama,
Japan 1t reads.
The players are all OF one nationality,
American, but. $ seen, there is a dash Of
cosmopolitan1sm in their official residences
as given In the catalogues. They come
from all over, these hard chassrs Of the
pigskln, and the wide national range which
is covered by even the small portion OF
the football playing community, reppe-
sented by five eastern colleges, shows that
the timber for the game is not hemmed in
by any sectional boundaries.
Given the physique, the willingness for
hard application ana suoseryience to dis
cipline and the alert mentality, and the
coaches and association viii do the rest,
no matter whether the candidate be from
the back woods CT Maine, the magnolia
shaded south, the sandy wastes OF the
southwest, the lumber regions of the north
west, the coal. mines Of Pennsylvania, the
banks of the Missouri, Wabash, Ohio or
any other old river, or whether he be city
bred and urban to the last detail OF man
ner and custom. makes no difference. He
becomes one Of a democratic whole when
he made the varsity eleven and the COM
mon cause is Alma Mater. e Pluribus
Unum is the motto on his mental escutch-
con, and he fights for the common cause.
Geographical distinctions are for the time
forgotten, and whether the guildon be Of
crimson, blue, orang and black, green,
brown, red and blue, carnelian. maroon or
purple, II carries to the gridiron knight
the message that in this sign we conquer.
1t was the turn of the Harvor I'd team to
conquer this year-a turn relished all the
more by the Cambridge folks, because it
so seldom comes to them. The smooth
work.. and admirably constructed ma
chine which Harvard had this fall was one
for which the integral parts came from
widely divergent localities-France on the
east. the Hawaiian islands on the west.
The leader of the team, Captain Francis
Burr, comes from close to classic Cam
bridge. He lives in Chestnut Hill, and.
Chestnut Hill, wherever near Boston it may
keep its modest self, is a much better
known place than 1t was before it fur
nished a captain of a champion Harvard
foot ball eleven. Chestnut Hill was
further honored by being the home of
West, the guard. who played in part of the
Yale game. Other New Englanders of the
team were sprague, Gutter and Corbett,
from Brookline; Yer Wiebe. from Somer-
VILE; Kennard, the man who kicked the
goal, from Boston; Leslie, from Milton;
Crowley, from Cambridge, and Hoar, from
Concord.
But while most of the recruits for the
varsity team came from near to the uni
versity, there are long distances between
their native towns and those Of others of
the team. Mckay the tackle, is the Paris
Ian of the eleven. The other tackle, Cap
tain-elect Fish, is a New i. Yorker. His
home is at Garrison n-the-Hudson which
IL a less imposing place than it's name.
Nourse, the center, is the metropolitan
member OF the team. He lives in New
York City. GIL Browne, the left end, 10 a
Californian, hailing from Los Angeles.
The lares and penates of Wilmington, the
guard, are set up in Honolulu. Dunlap Is
a Philadelphian.
Seven states and the District Of Columbia
figured in the source of supply for the Yale
team In the Princeton and Harvard games.
Big cities and little cities are represented,
the wild west and the effete east. Ohio,
Massachusetts, New YORK.. Connecticut,
Illinois. Arizona and Pennsylvania are the
commemorative which merged into one for
old ELL From the cultured puriieus OF
Boston came Brides, the tackle. Broekton,
Mass, being his home. to be more specific.
Alongside of him played a man who came
from several days journey to the west
ward. Bill Goebel. the guard. comes from
Phoenix, Ariz., and between BrOckton and
Phoenix there Is not only a considerable
difference in space, but in environment.
There was no difference In environment
when the two lined up together on Yale
ield.
Captain Burch Is an ohioan. He added
to the name and fame of Cincinnati, show
ng the versatility of that city as a pro-
ducer-a foot ball captain and a president.
both of Yale. tn new captain. Edward
Harris Coy-Ted for short-was reared un-
ANf AAe eAaA4b u AHt Nihuh. ne uNcS ID
New Haven. Another Connecticut member
Of the team was Ted Lilley. son OF the
soyernor-eleet and another, Walter Logan,
called Dummy. because he is anything but
dumb, was one CT the best ends of the year.
Anthony Haines, end rush, lives In Rock
ford. ILL.,, and Field, the fullback. when he
is at home next summer. can see the White
House. Fred Daily, the halfback, slipped
down to Yale from under the very noses
Of the Harvard men. His home is In Cam
bridge. Three Gothamites played on the
.~eam-Hobbs, the tackle; Philbin. the half
back, and Corey, the quarterback. Cooney,
the center, is a Brookiynite, and johnson,
the quarterback, a Dobbs Ferryite. PhilA-
delphla was honored by the presence on
he team Of Biddle. the center, and Whea-
ton, the halfback. Cleveland sent Bing-
ham, the quarterback. the same city In the
past having sent two Yale not1bles In Nal
colin Mcbride ana william Rhodes. An
drus. the All-American guard. lives up the
hudson. Murphy, halfbaok. lives In Mas
sachusetts.
The Cornell team for this season was
not so representative Of the country as
Harvard or Yale. hat drew from New
York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois ana New
Jersey. Seven members Of the team i've
in Nau York afata EapfaA, Ur.Iao-