The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-09-28
ANNUAL FOOTBALL
WAR IS OPENING
All the Big Teams Are Well
Advanced In Work
FORWARD PASS A FAVORlTE
Harvard and Yale Appear To Have
Good Material, While Other Uni
versities Are Fairly Well
off as to Players.
BY MANHATTAN.

New York, September 27.-(Special0
While the first guns in the annual foot
ball war have been fired, none of the
heavy artillery has yet gotten into &C
ton, and it is therefore impossible to
size up the teams.
One thing, however, is pretty GER
tain in the way of play. The forward
pass will be popular as it was last
season, and while it will be restricted
! by the new rules that 1t cannot be
used with the same reckl essness, as
marked last seasons work. it will prob
ably be all the more effective as a
ground gamer for that reason.
All along the line football practice
has now developed. Harvard, Yale and
Pennsylvania varsity candidates are
ready for a lineup against the scrubs.
| Tentative elevens have been picked at
all three, Harvard having finally
reached that stag of development. With
only a few changes, the first teams as
they now stand about the same as
they will be when the early games
| are played.
Harvard, as usual, will have team
| that will compare favorably with any
| of them in point of weight Browne
and Cutler, the two Candidates for
| quarterback, tip the beam at close to
| ITO. and Smith and Kennard, the for
! mer a halfback and the latter the pres
ent varsity fullback, scale over 1870.
The most recent lineup was: L. Crow
ley and Houston, ends; Mckay and
| Forscheimer tackles; Burr and Hoar,
! guards; Nourse, center; Browne, quar-
terback; Corbett and Smith, halfbacks,
and Kennard, fullback Pat Grant,
years center has Joined the squad, but
will not try for a place on the teaHl
! He will coach the varsity candidates
and play with the second string men.
] With the exception of Arthur Brides,
who is still among the missing, all of
| last years regulars who are still eligi-
! BILE have returned to Yale. Cooney.
center and left guard last fall, was out
! last week for the first time. He will
| be used at the left guard on the second
team for few days. when he will be
| shifted to center on the varsity.
The Pennsylvania coaches are al
ready attempting a little advanced foot
ball. The first and second teams line
men were lined up last week for few
| minutes for a light scrimmage, while
the backs were drilled in the triple
| forward pass. The varsity eleven was
practically unchanged.
Draper, the University of Pennsylva-
| MAS all-American tackel, is fack in col
| lege, and a heavy load was lifted off
| the minds of the Quaker coaches. He
climbed into his football togs and
| joined the squad on Franklin. Now that
Draper has returned to the fold, Billy
| Penn has the nucleus of a strong line.
| The backs are not causing nearly as
| much worry as the advance works.
j Enough of last years regulars and sub
stitutes are eligible to fill the positions
behind the line well.
Although there has been no football
practice at Johns Hopkins university,
! the Maryland college expects to be rep
resented this year by team that will
have speed to make up for the absence
! of beef The candidates have reported
and the ability of some of the fresh
men who say they know the game can
be sized up by Coach Sayler. The latter
! is optimistic on the question of good
material, the two sets of backs which
were trained last year being intact
| this season. The hardest task will be
! to fill the end position vacated through
! the graduation of Captain Ridgely OF
| the 1907 teams. The dearth of material
! for the guard position also appears a
| drawback.
Martin Sheridan, back from England,
| Ireland, Scotland, Sweden and lot or
| other foreign places. has game leg.
While on the "auld" sod Martin took 1t
into his head to bring a little more
credit to his home land by boosting
the Irish records a notch or two. One
! that needed boosting was the pole
vault. Martin studied the mysteries OF
! pole vaultng while training for the all
| round championship last year. So he
| entered a pole vaulting competition and
! put up new Irish record of Ii feet
! inches-a first-class performance any
where in the world. Being very heavy
man for acrobatic stunts of this sort
Martin strained his knee in dropping
| from the big height.
| Martin has so many world American,
| English, Irish, Scottish and Swedish
records now that he can't keep track
| of them.
The final meet of the season of the
Public Sch ools Athletic league will be
held at Curtis field. New Brighton, S. l.,
| on Saturday, October g. at 1870 p. m.
Twenty boys will be allowed to COM
pete from each school. Schools WIN be
allowed to enter 18 boys In the in
| dividual events. but only one relay
team. with two substitutes, from each
! sch DOL, will be allowed to enter. Boys
will not be allowed to enter more than
| one event. Gold silver and bronze
medals will be given in each event to
, those who finish first, second and third
respectively. A point trophy will be
| awarded to the school scoring the
greatest number of points.
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