The Washington herald., 1908-02-09
READY FOR COLLEGE
Prep School Players Pick Flu
tuPe Alma Matters.
PENNSYLVANIA GETS MOST
or the sixty-nine Leading GrtdiFon
stars Who Enter College Next
Fail the QualeFs Draw Eighteen,
While Fourteen Go 10 Yale and
Twelve to Princeton.

There are sixty-nine young men who
graduate from certain preparatory schools
OF the East in the spring about whom
many colleges are particularly interested,
for these siXty-nine young men represent
an clement that is OF the utmost import
anee in the athletic affairs Of the present /
day up-to-date college or university. For
tunate indeed is the institution which can
count them as matricuiates next fall. and
more fortunate is that institution now
than has been the case in years past, for
football is developing into such d scien-
tific game that it requires more prepara-
tion than ever before,
OF these slxty-nine football players,
Pennsylvania is the lucky university. and
the Quakers draw eighteen of them, four
more than Yale, her nearest competitor,
and six more than Princeton. who comes
as a good third. Then Cornell is fourth
with six and Harvard NTH with four,
while Dartmouth, a big factor in college
football comes sixth with three. Six Of
these boys are undecided where they will
attend college at the present time, and
the remaining six are going one each 10
Wesleyan. Brown, Annapolis. Bowdoin
Maine and Massachusetts Institute OF
technology.
II is a hard matter 10 decide which
university is drawing the cream OF the
lot stars from Andover are going 70
Yale, and with them stars from Hill
School and Hotchkiss Pennsylvania gets
stars from Mercersburg and Tome Insti-
tute and her immediate feeding grounds.
Haverford Grammar and Penn Charter,
and Princeton comes IN for her share Of
future greats from Lawrenceville, Corn
ell Is not 20 be denied, and she is 10 have
some Of the best. one from Andover and
another from Exeter, and so on it goes
down to the end.
Three for Yale.
Just what men the different colleges
win get IS best told by taking up the
schools in their alphabetic order. First
comes the Phillips Andover Academy. OF
her last falls championship eleven. the
team that defeated Exeter, and which
/ gave a good account Of Itself in fresh
men games with Pennsylvania and Yale
[ four men graduate. three Of whom enter
/ Yaie in the fall and the other Cornell.
Captain and Quarter Back Merritt who
played through the season in a badly
crippled state, viii enter Yale, with Me
Dewitt the right guard, and Murchie. the
/ l50-pound left half back. Jackson, the
/ big right tackle. who looks like splendid
material is going TO Cornell Andover
/ lost 10 the Yale freshmen. 10 to 6. and 10
/ the Pennsylvania freshmen. IS to O.
/ The Exeter Academy squad Is to be
/ heavily depleted by graduation. nine men
/ in all leaving school in the spring. three
going to Princeton, two 10 Yale. and one
each to Dartmouth, Cornell and Tech
/ one man. Mackey the fun back, is unde-
/ cided Capt. Powers, right tackle, enters
I NJ. ]. T.; Wilson, tackle; White, end and
/ Bertolet, guard, enter Princeton; LOTUS,
/ quarter back, and Savage, end. 20 TO
/ Yale. Burns. half back. 10 Dartmouth
and Baker, right end, to Cornell Exeter
/ lost 20 Andover and 10 the Yale freshmen.
! The Haverford Grammar School loses
i thirteen Of its squad by graduation. an
[ almost iTTepaTable loss. OF these men six
enter Pennsylvania three Yale. two
/ Princeton. one Cornell, and one. Deacon.
left end, is undecided which college TO
attend. Towne. captain and left half
back; SOmeTs. quarter back; NeWhall.
/ left tackle Harner, right tackle; Bales,
right guard, and Liggett, right half back,
enter Pennsylvania. Evans, fun back,
Hunter left guard, and Harlow, center,
enter Yale. Hewing. quarter back. and
/ Braden. end, enter Princeton. Lawrence.
substitute quarter back. goes TO Cornell.
Hill school Loses six.
The Hill School team. which defeated
Haverford and Hotchliss and the Penn
sylvania freshmen. 6 to 6. loses six Of its
good team. one that played with consid-
cradle spirit Three Of these men go TO
Yale. two to Harvard. and one TO Prince
ton Yale obtains Capt Francis, left
tackle; Glover. right tackle, and Smith,
right half back. Harvard draws L. D.
Smith, left end. and Knapp. center rush.
Princeton is to enroll Adams. right end.
This team had a splendid record through
out the season.
The Hotchkiss School, which lost Us
big game to Hill, to 0. had a good team,
five Of whom enter college in the fall.
and, as before, the major portion enter
Yale. Three of the five will matriculate
at Yale. and the other two go to Har-
ward. The Eli football squads will be
strengthened in another year by Bowen.
end: Howe, quarter back, and Ksynor.
full back. and the Harvard squads will
have men like Gaddis tackle, and Groves.
end. to aid them in their future work
LawrenCeville Academy. which resumed
football after giving it up during the sea-
son of 1906, had rather hard time strik-
/ ing their gate as they lost 10 HaveTford,
II Mercersburg. and Tome. The outlook for
the coming fall is being dimmed by the
II losses of graduation, for this spring nine
Il" men leave school, three Of them en-
tering Princeton. one Wesleyan, and one
the United States Naval Academy. Four
of the graduates are undecided. Pfeiffer,
center; Andrews quarter back, and Har-
per. half back, join the Tigers; Elmer.
tackle. enters the navy school; Moran,
full back. goes to Wesleyan. The un-
decided list consists of Carroll. sub cen
ter; Burr. tackle; Uhl. quarter back, and
Gates, half back.
MercersburE Is Weakened.
Mereersburg Academy loses eight good
football men in the spring, and they are
going TO five different colleges. Prince
ton gets two, as do Dartmouth and Cor
nell, while Pennsylvania draws one with
Bowdoin. Princeton's quota is made VI
of Phil NJ. King, a nephew of Princeton
former quarter back, who played end at
school, and Dunlap. center rush. Cor
nell gets Captain and Quarter Back An
derson and Left Guard Crawford. Dart
mouth is to obtain Madden, left hall
back, and Wolfe, tackle. Pennsylvania
obtains Shields right half back. and
Bowdoin matriculates Whitmore. right
/ guard.