Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-22
FOOTBALL.
At Observation-Disclosures II, Fordham 0

Mike Thompson will referee at West
Point Saturday and will probably Oh
ficiate at the Harvard-BroWn game
Oct. 81
OF the team that met Yale at West
Point Saturday, only three men, Moss.
Resson and Philoon, were in the Army
Yale games last year.
Andy Smith and Mike Bennett. two
former U. of P. fullbackS and stars in
their day, are coaching rival schoolboy
teams near Philadelphia
Capt. Bill Hollenbach, PENIS best
all-round man, was severely injured
last Saturday and may not be able to
play even in the Michigan game.
Can't Horr of Syracuse. whose team
plays Princeton Saturday. has q brok-
EN- rib He suffered with it for nearly a
week and attributed the pain to some
slight bruiSe.
A football game has been arranged
for P. NJ. Saturday next on the Con-
gress street grounds. Belfast, between
the Belfast High school team and
Camden High school.
Carlisle. Pennsylvania and Princeton
coaches say that the Villa Nova team
plays about the toughest game of any
of the smaller teams. Villa NoVa's tao
tics in 1907 were what kept that team
off the Yale schedule this fall.
Holy Cross began secret practice
Tuesday and during the remainder Of
the week the squad will work out alone
on the old gridiron on the upper field
This is more secluded than the new
field and more adapted to secret prac-
tice.
Jack Wendell in writing for New
York naper on Harvard's Drospect IS
says: ITO offset not especially bright
prospects. the coaching this year. the
whole idea. the whole spirit. is ideal.
Coach Haughton has a wonderful fund
of common sense and he has an excel
lent man to work with in Capt Fran
els Burr
In a long and tiercely contested
scrimmage Tuesday afternoon the Har-
ward Varsity football team showed an
alarming weakness on the defence. The
second team crossed its goal line three
times and seemed able to make it's dis
the Varsity had scored twice on the
second.
Annapolis has scored 1876 points in
five games this year, and has not been
scored against Harvard has scored SO
points, and Yale as points, Yale hav-
ing played only four games to Har-
wards five. The Middies hold the rec
ord of the season so far. with the In
dams a close second with 126-5 in five
games.
Harvard and Dartmouth have played
10 football games since 1883. OF these
Harvard has won IA games Dartmouth
two games Harvard in all these games
has scored 4O7 points. and Dartmouth
has scored Sc points. Since 1901, which
was the first year Dartmouth ever
scored on Harvard, the Crimson has
won three games scoring II points.
Dartmouth has won two games scoring
66 points. and there have been to
and D to 0 ties.
The MidShipmen had a long and sat
isfactory practice Tuesday. All of the
regulars were on the field. and the only
likely substitutes who are laid off by
injuries are Mason. who has a twisted
knee, and Donelson, whose jaw was
broken in Saturdays game against Lee
high. The work was in preparation for
the Harvard game on Saturday, and
the feeling is growing that the navy
has great chance to score a victory.
Marks. Hawley and Tobin were not
out with the Dartmouth squad for work
Tuesday. Marks and HaWley are tax
ing a rest, while 1obin has a slight
~ injured finger The practice was iust
as long and strenuous as that of Mon
day. For the first hour Coach DR.. Con-
nor had the lincmen tackling The
and then had them breaking
The line showed a slight i'm
provement over Monday. Toward the
last part of the open work there were
four elevenS out for signals. The last
hour was given over to secret practice