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905-Pennsylvania. e: Cornell, =.
06-PennsyIyania. o: Cornell. q.
07-Pennsylyania, T.: Cornell. /.
Navy Favorite Over the Al

There is every reason that the Navy
should rule favorite over the Army for
their annual game On the seasons rec
ords the Navy has much the better of the
argument. This, however, does not mean
the soldier lads are going down to de-
feat They have lost two years in sue
cession to the sailors and will take no
chances this time. 1t is almost impossi-
BILE to get line on the relative strength
of the two teams through the medium OF
comparative scores. Neither eleven has
met a common opponent to permit this
sort of a comparison.
The Navy has SO far played but two
OF the real big teams. These were Har-
ward and the Carlisle Indians. The Har-
ward game resulted in a tie score at &c,
though Harvard should have lost the
game by a score of 60. only Il tumble
and a long run of 60 yards enabling the
Crimson To escape IL defeat. One week
later the Navy lined up against the IN
dams and lost 16 to q. 1t should DE
noted here that the Redmen scored all
of their sixteen points with field soais'
but did not once cross the Nays line.
The Navy, on the other hand, scored a
well earned touchdown against Carlisle
when means tilaL the iiliuulcS AoNO u
powerful attack.
The West Point team MAS shown its
strength in two big games. Against Yale
the Soldiers could not score bit they
held the Els to a single touchdown. The
Soldiers work in this game compared
quite favorably with that of the Navy
against Harvard The next important
struggle on the part OF the Army was
the Princeton game. which resulted in a
90 score. In this contest the offense of
West Point seemed to be poorer than it
was against Yale. but it's defense was of
high quality. The thing that should
cause the West Point coaches to have
misgivings is the fact that several of
the smaller colleges have been able to
score on the Soldier team. And only last
week Washington and Jefferson played
the Army a 6-6 tie.
In comparing tie Two teams man for
man the Navy looks to have the better
of the situation. In Quarterback Lange
and Capt. Northcroft the Sai,ors arc
plendidly equipped. Capt. Phloon
I3esson and Stearns are, the best men
that West Point has. but they arc all
overEnatched by the Navy eleven. OF the
thirteen games played in the ser.es be-
tween the Army and Navy the Sailors
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For Love of Horses?

Member how the racing exploiters (the
Set-the-money people backing the tracks,
that isl used TO humble that exalted stuff
about their only idea in carrying on
racing being the Improvement in the
breed of horses?''
That was their biggest chirp They
loved. oh, just l-l-luv-ed, the horse They
wanted 10 see the horse improved. They
wanted to see him projected into the
realm of the higher and nobler. They
Gdi race for money. Certainly moi
tprnly not They didn't care a IniIdaW-
ed iS for the S6o.OG0 and $4,000 a dav
th;t they took in by way Of gate re-
celp;s. The old kale or kerti ~ was the
VARY last thing on earth they were
looking for. The big nix on the money
sas-h was a shame to even suspect them
OF wanting the dust.
Nope-ee. All they wanted was tn Jim
Prove the breed of horses
Some OF EN- who eXuded this Junk were
pretty good chirpers and they got away
with Il in several quarters.
When the first little storm-precedinp
zephyrs began to fan their faces they
considered that ii might be a pretty good
plan TO try to bunk the farmers upstate
wHth their improving the breed of
horses chatter.
They figured that it wouldn't be any
bad idea to get the agricultural per-
sons on their staff in case the Legislature
got busy with anti-racing stuff.
So they sent a lot of stallicns up, state
10 ne bred TO The farmers mares. See
Trey were going to prove, y'know, tina
Il cir one idea was 10 improve the bree(
% horses"
Now. these stations that they sent t.
tie agr;culturists for breeding purpose:
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GOOD STORY OF
TED COY'S COLLAPSE

NEW HAVEN, Conn, November 21.-A
Yale coach is responsible for the follow
ing story: When the great game between
Yale and Princeton was ended big
fiaxen-haired boy drew a heavy blanket
around his bandaged head and shoulder.
hid himself in a corner of bus. rested
his elbows on his knees and sunk his
chin and Jaws into his hands. Outside
thousands were cheering for Old Eli
Along the streets of Princeton the old
vehicle rolled with its twenty silent pas
sengers. At the hotel all alighted and a
crowd rushed around to sing "Boola' and
give three cheers for Yale.
Needless of the victorious yells the boy
with the white hair and the big blanket
rushed up the steps. flung open the door
to his ROOM fell OH the bed and burst
into a kystercaI fit of weeping. On a
chair near the bed sat a more elderly
man-an exact replica of the young man.
Without Il word he soothingly took the
feet of the athlete and. throwing them
across his knees. silently loosened the
laces OF his foot ball shoes.
When the shoes and stockings had been
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NAVY FOOTBALL SQUAD

annual battle between the "mddies'' and
the cadets is probably the most spec
tacu1ar of American athletic events. The
President of the United States is usually
in attendance, as are the Secretaries of
War and the Navy, and as a rule more
than 10000 people witness the struggle
which is succeeded by most fantastic
manifestations of delight on the part of
the NictOrS.
Series a Tie.
More than a dozen games have now
been played between the teams of the
two institutions. West Point has won six
and Annapolis a like number, with one
game tie. SO that it will be appreciated
a double significance attaches to the 1903
game. The first contest took place in the
year 1890 and was played at West Point
The location of the succeeding contests
alternated between the home grounds of
the two schools until 1898, when the last
game of that series was played. In
1873 the contests were resumed. the game
of that year being played on Franklin
Field at Philadelphia. the athletic grounds
of the University of Pennsylvania. The
games of 1900. 1901, 1902, 1908 and 1904
were likewise played at the same place.
The struggle of 1905 took place at Prince
ton, but the year following the game
came back to Franklin Field, and is likely
to remain there indefinitely.
Whereas the Navy had played foot ball
for many years before the memorable
series of contests opened in 1880 and had
developed the game at its training institu-
ton. the Army cadets had not taken hold
OF the game until that year In the early
days the Navy used nautical terms for
it's signals. the captain calling out such
orders as Reef topsails, Man the jib-
halliards." etc. 1t is worthy of mention
in passing that the hero of the Navy's
game of 1S93-a player who turned de-
feat into victory-was Bagley, who after
ward lost his life off Cardenas. Cuba, in
one OF the saddest incidents of the Span
ishAmerican war.
Lull in Proceedings.
Following the game of 1893 there was en-
intermission in the series of contests be-
tween the two branches of the fighting
forces. The authorities Of the two arms
of the national service came to the con-
clusion that the keen rivalry was divert
ing the attention of the young men from
their studies to a dangerous extent. Then,
too the Journeys of the whole bodies of
students to the games presented problems,
and finally the general public was COM
ing to the annual game in such numbers
that the officials were simply overwhelm-
ed. Gradually. however, as years went on.
the first objection came to be looked upon
more leniently and many OF the other
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Princeton to Have Investigation.

Yale won from Princeton last week just
about as had been predicted in these
columns. 1t is true that the Tigers played
the Ellis little more even struggle than
had been anticipated" but the Tigers
failed at the critical moment Now every
one at Princeton and elsewhere is asking
what the trouble is with the Tiger foot
ball machine. For five years straight
Princeton has lost to Yale, and there
seems no immediate prospect of breaking
the succession CT victories for the Blue
\ cold analysis OF that game week
ago means that Princeton lost because
she had built w her offense d; the ex-
penSe CT her defense. Her secondary de-
Tense was not worthy the name. In the
second half. when Coy started his ruSheS
he fought his way along without any seri-
Gus opposition. He received very little
assistance from his teammates after he
got through the line. and the'Tigers did
next to nothing in Stopping him after he
got started. If the secondary defense had
met Coy as it should. or if the defending
Tigers had merely dived under him. he
would have been stepped yards short of
the ground he gained.
To the outsider it seems Ike an Idle
dream for Princeton to hope TO hold her
own with Yale at football. With all due
respect to Princeton the New Jersey in
stitution is small compared with Yale.
The Blue has twice as many from whom
to draw for its eleven as Princeton has.
The wonder is that Princeton is able to
do as well as she does Furthermore there
is no prospect that the situation is going
to brighten any for Princeton. In ath-
letic matters this is the day of the big
universities whose students number 5000
and more. Princeton, with 1000 and her
ment, cannot be expected to compete with
institutions like Harvard, Yale and Penn
sylvania, where the student bodies range
from 1900 to LEO.
Eastern Foot Ball Still on Top.
In the two big -;ntersect'onal games last
week The east more than he'd its oWti.
Pennsylvania fairly swamped Michigan.
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termined to carry the ball to victory If
he had failed the censuring eyes of 5000
students would have been upon him. He
felt that they would have accused him
of putting himself in the linelight, while
the men who had fought vaIiantly for an
hour by his side were thrust in the back
ground.
He did ii all of his own initiative The
coaches had absolutely nothing to say.
During the fifteen minutes which elapsed
between the halves the Yale cohorts had
remained in their dressing room silent.
The room was filled with silence and
gloom.
do YOU think you can win?' asked
Walter Camp. the veteran coach
The other coaches were speechless.
1--WE will win said Coy, and that was
all that passed
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as Good G1oat on His Racing Track Prediction

stuff. They taught him the Yankee box
OF tricks in boxing. They spent hours
and hours every day forcing him to un-
learn most of the so-called boxing stuff
that he'd picked up in EngIand-where
they don't know how to box. y'know-
and in drilling him in the nifty kind of
stunts that are in the repertoire of even
the little bits of fcurth-raters in the box
ing realm of this country.
Driscoll proved to be a willing and an
apt pupil. and he won his first scrap
hands down. He'll win lot of other
ones. too.
But for the preservation of the record.
and so that the English folk won't get
too Sandowish in the region Of the chest
protector. why. we're just spreading it out
on the little book that Jenny Driscoll
was put hep to about everything he now
knows about the boxing game after he
got off the steamer that brought him out
to the Sites. OF chap.
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- to o, and this Michigan team was
proclaimed an average Michigan team.
Cornell played a tie at Chicago, though
if the Ithacans had been pointed for this
game there is no. doubt that they would
have beaten Stages men fairly easily
Western men, however. should not take
these setbacks too seriously They do
Eastern over western methods or OF
eastern over western men. They usually
mean that the eastern men enter college
with much better training than their
western rivals. The splendid coaching
the eastern men receive in their pre-
paratory scholarship has more to do with
this superiority than anything else.
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In one more week the foot ball season
of 1905 will be a matter of history. There
! are just two games of Importance yet to
be played and one of them will have
much to do with the determine ton of the
premier honors of the year. On Thanks
giving day the unbeaten teams of Cornell
and Pennsylvania clash on Franklin
Field. Philadelphia, and the same field
Will contain the Army and Navy elevens
two days later. From the standpoint OF
real foot ball the Pennsylvania Cornell
affair will be the more important. but no
game of the year will attract so
much OF society and the diplomatic
and administrative life of the country as
the Army-Navy game. In this respect the
latter game is in a class by itself.
There is no doubt that the Pennsylva-
a-Cornell game will produce some of the
very best foot ball of the entire season.
The Pennsylvania eleven by its great
score against Michigan and it's uniformly
good record throughout the entire season
has stamped itself as one of the best that
ever wore the red and blue. The Quaker
supporters even go SO far as TO say that
"a victory over Cornell will make them
! the champions of the east, which may or
may not be true. according to the way one
reads comparative scores.
On its record for the season the odds
should certainly be on the QuakerS for
they have shown strong scoring ability i'm
practically every one of their games. To
date only one team has been able to cross
their goal line. this being the Indians
But since this game the Red and Blue
has moved forward With great strides
and its overwhelming defeats of Lafay-
cite and Michigan surprised the support
ers of the team as much as the elevens
they tramplel upon This Pennsylvania
!, eleven is not very heavy. but it is made
| up Of men of the rangy type, full OF
| speed. wiry and strong. And these arc
the characteristics of which champion
| ship teams are made.
| Hollenback q Power.
| Much of Pennsylvanias success to date
has been due to the splendid playing oil
her captain, Hollenback, at fullback. The
work this young man has done stamps
! him as the equal of the great Coy OF
! Yale, though the two men are not quite
! the same type of players. The Quakers
| have likewise been blessed with two good
! quarterbackS in keinatl and Miller, two
| first-cla halfbacks in Manner and Means
dock who could hardly be duplicated OF
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LlEUT FRANMD BEPR1EN
U0N HEAD CQACh~

a preference for the Yale methods and Tor
the coaches from Yale.
After the game of 1903, when the Army
defeated the Navy by the disastrous
score Of 40 to ). Prof. Paul J. Dashiell
was given absolute charge of foot ball at
the Naval Academy, and he gets much of
the credit for the Improvement that be-
came noticeable from that time. Later
he retired from the active direction of
foot ball. but is this year associate
coach. Lieut.. Frank D. Berrien is now
the head coach, and among his assistants
is Douglas, the captain of the victorious
Navy team of 1907 and probably the best
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Prophesd the Closing Of the Horse Game in New YokFghter
Driscoll Good One-Base Ball Managers Must
Be Tough-National Game Benefited
by Abolition of Racing.

win look. the other night. like a water
bug running away from high tide in
ba thtub.
But there's an answer to that. too.
Driscoll wasn't anything like the candy
gloveist when he hit this North American
beach that he is now. Not by from here
to Anacostia and back. He was just one
of those s.and-still-and-jab English fight
ers. that's all. He was. ii is true strong
and handy. but all of the inside stuff
which is known even to the tyros among
American boxers, was Greek and Syriac
to him.
But some folks who liked DriscolTs like
able ways took hold of him when he hit
this shore ard wised him up to the inside
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all-around athlete who ever graduated
from the Naval Academy.
The captain Of this years team is Percy
W. NorthcrOft. who was one of the stars
Of the winning Navy Squad of 1907.
Northcroft, whose home is at Pawtuxet,
r. L., is n big fellow, standing six feet
two inches in height and weighing over
$50 pounds when in foot ball training He
is tWentyone years of age, and will grad
uate from the academy next year. The
captain of the team is selected by the
members of the foot ball squad. and the
student body in general approves the
choice
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meat stations OF the thoroughbred strain
taken away from them, so there now, you
mean old things!
Kind O funny, isn't it?
Are the farmers gun-nashing their teeth
in impOtent frenzy and moaning and
wailing and sobbing their little hearts
away?
Oh, well, not SOS you could observe 1t
with the ordinary microscope OF COM
merce.
Farmers are not worrying at all. i'll
fact Just going around munching their
cuds and listening to the photograph
after they've got their chores done and
taking things easy-like. Nary i gnash.
Nary an inpotent frenzy. Nothing like
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generally booked for five years contin-
uous service on shipboard. and during this
time gets out of touch with the changes
in the rules and the improvements in the
games. When the services of graduates
were obtained-men who had been stars
in their day-it was sometimes found that
by reason of long absence the coach had
himself much to learn and was not exact
" qualified to teach the young idea the
game. The systems of the larger univer-
sites have been utilized with varying
success in getting the Navy teams into
shape for the great annual contests. but
of late years there has been manifested
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any team. The remainder of the line Is
strong and experienced. The kicking de-
partment is we'll cared for with Ho.len-
back to do the punting and Means the
place kicking.
This Cornell eleven is an enigma that
will be solved only by the playing of this
game 1t was thought that the lthacans
would show the stuff of which they are
made last week in their game against
Chicago. in which they were tied with IA
score of = to +. But in this game the
New Workers were content merely to
hold their own. though they had expected
to win the game. Up at Cornell their
season is failure or a success according
as they win or lose to Pennsylvania. In
all the long period of fifteen years that
these two teams have been meeting each
other Cornell has won but a single game.
So monotonous has become the series of
Pennsylvania victories that some people
have acquired the idea that Pennsylvania
is unbeatable at the hands of Cornell.
This year Cornell has made her greatest
preparations to upset this theory. The
Ithacans have been brought along very
gradually. No effort has been made in
any game to run up big scores. Merely to
win has been their ambition. The players
were ordered to withhold all their best
plays in the Chicago game, as they have
been reserved for Pennsylvania.
The Philadelphans, in spite of their
overwhelming victories over Lafayette
and Michigan. have foreboding of
trouble in store for them. The history
of past seasons is evidence that big scores
by Pennsylvania in her midSeason games
and slow progress on the part OF
Cornell the best possible conditions
for 4 bitter struggle OF Thanksgiving
day. Accordingly the Pennsy lvania play
ers expect the fight of their lives this
year to trounce Cornell.
Valdez a Good One.
Cornell has splendid fullback in Capt.
Walder and a good quarterback in Cald.
well. This young man is also Il star drop
kicker. Tydeman and Shearer, although
somewhat inexperienced. have been show
ing up well ~ halfback. But 1t is in the
line that Cornell has somewhat of an adj
vantage over Pennsylvania Here the
Ithacans have weight and experience as
well. The Quakers are quick chargers
but if Cornell Is as quick her forwards
should have the advantage here. The fol-
lowing is the record to date of the Penn
Cornell SERIES:
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"a CIny selected for their athletic
prowcss from the hundreds of
young men at Uncle Sans
greet school for physical and mental
training. is now hard ut work in prepa-
ration for the annual battle with the
West Point cadets on the foot ball field.
There can be no doubt but that the series
of foot ball games between the two serV-
ice schools for educating Uncle Sam
officers constitutes one o. the most in
terestinG athletic riValries to be found
in this CO. any other country. The fact
that the status of the competition cannot
be determined each year until the very
end Of the autumn--the crucial game
taxing place about December l, when all
other foot ball teams have gone into
eClipse-serves to focus an unusual
amount of public attention on the ri
yalry.
Considered purely as an athletic event,
the Army Navy game is scarcely up to
the standard maintained by the gridiron
warriors representing Yale, Harvard and
the other great universities. There have
been some years when Uncle Sans in
StitutiOnS hav produced athletes fully
equal to the stars of the foremost col
lcge teams, and this bids fair to be the
case at the Naval Academy this year.
but at other times the athletic perform
ances of the soldiers and sailors have been
scarcely up to the highest foot ball
standard which is not to be wondered
at, however. considering the comparative
youth of the players.
Great Partisan Spirit.
But anything that this naval-military
rivalry can lack in technical skill is more
than made up in partisan spirit. The
deep-seated feeling that is famed to
flame with each recurring championship
contest is not attributable solely TO the
intense rivalry between the two institu-
tions. but extends in each case to the
whole branch of the service which the
school represents. Indeed this annual
competition, costly alike in time and
money, is made possible largely through
the contributions made by the commits
stoned officers of the army and navy in
the form Of dues to athletic organiza-
tions which foster the sport.
Finally. the countrywide interest in the
West Point-Annapolis foot ball compe-
tition is traceable to the pride which the
pubic at large feels in Uncle Sans mag
n!ficent seats of learning, enrolling as
they do for the most part lads who have
proved their mettle by winning out in
competitive examinations. Moreover, the
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that or those whatever.
But the racing body in taking the crab
stations away from the New York state
farmers thinks it is just visiting the
meanest git-back blow upon the soil
scrapers that you ever heard of in al
your life, honest to Mag.
Query: How is it that people crafty
enough to get hold of race tracks and
such like vested interests-how do they
ever get it, without possessing at least
the elements of q sense OF humor?
Driscoll Has improved
This Jem Driscoll, 130-pounder from
England. is some mittist. He made Bald
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Chicago'S Horse Show

CHICAGO, November 21.-An exhibition
of the best in the equine world will be
held the evenings of December Z, 8, . and
10. in this city. under the supervision
of the International Horse Show Associa-
ton of Chicago A total of $4,000 has
been offered for prizes in the different
judgings, and many prominent owners are
expected to exhibit
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Tough Boys the Winners.

Say" peeved the gentlemanly Patsy
Donovan the other day, Il wish to Mike
that you press chrpers would stop ailud-
ing to me as "a gentlemanly manager,
That's a fire line of oil, and all like that.
but it doesn't get a base ball manager
anything these days. It's largely owing
TO the fact that I've been worked up so