The Washington times., 1908-12-22
ColIeqe Athletic NeqUS and Gossip
CulLed From Different Sections

Georgetown. George Washington. and
the local high schools will be repre-
scented at the Johns Hopkins meet, In
Baltimore. on January 50.
A number OF Washington boys who
made good I'm athletics in the North
have returned here for the holidays.
Amherst has awarded the football "A
10 thirteen players who took part IN
the Williams and Dartmouth games
Football evidently pays in the West
almost as we'll as II does III the East.
The University OF Chicago cleared
81, 721-57 on the season just closed.
The Naval Academy lacrosse team is
planning an elaborate schedule. Games
are paDding with Johns Hopkins, Ste
vens. LehiEh, Harvard, Swarthmore,
and Virginia
The Columbia University indoor track
games will be held IN Madison Square
Garden. February l3- Entries close
February Fordham University has
February 90 for It's annual games
bill" HoHenbach. the Penn football
captain, has received another offer to
assume the position of head coach next
year. This time the offer comes from
Wittenberg College
According to DR.. f F. Smith, OF the
Penn athletic committee, Schultz, last
years freshman pitcher, was not among
the Penn players recently declared IN
eligible on the ground OF professlon-
alism.
Art Brides, the Yale halfback and
tackle. has had coaching offers from
Syracuse, University Of North Carolina.
Howard College OF Birmingham, Ala--
the Mississippi Agricultural College:
University of Maine, and University OF
Oregon.
CaptaIn Hof. Of the University OF
Virginia baseball team for 1903 and the
manager Of the Virginia team have Just
completed arrangements with the atm
letic authOrit es Of Harvard University
for the baseball team from that IN
stitution to use Virgiria's field for two
weeks in the spring for practice.
Pennsylvania State College will short
" have one Of the best athletic fields
lars has been received as an apporuon-
ment from the State and the balance OF
the amount required to lay out first
class arena will be raised by the col
Iege- The field IS to cover SayeL zen
acres of ground.
Frank II. Bigelow. OF Worcester, who
has conducted the New England inter
years on the Worcester oval, is again
seeking to secure the meet for this
spring. He viii however, have TO set
tie matters with Holy Cross College,
as the latter is likely to have scheduled
one of its best ball games for the third
Saturday in May, the day upon which
the meet will be held Holy Cross IS
somewhat bitter toward the New EnC-
land intercollegiate Association. because
it was refused admission into that bc,iy
a few years ago
Brown and Amherst relay teams are
to meet at the 3. A y. games in Me
Cl'anics Building February 6.
The special committee appointed by
the Southern intercollegiate Athletic
Association has thus far found nothinS
irregular in the eligibility of the Louis
lana State University. This team made
a great record during the fall 1t aver
aged more tha-. forty points a game,
and was the only team to beat the
crack AlabaHa Tech eleven from Au-
burn. Auburn had already trimmed
SuWanee. a team neither Virgini2 nor
Vanderbilt could beat. Louisiana was
coached by Wingard, a former Pennsyl-
vania player, while Auburn was in
charge Of DonohCe, Of Yale: Dwyer,
cx-Pennsylvania center, ard Tichenor,
u clever alumnus crack.
Yale viii start winter football prac-
tice. an innovation, some time in jan
uary. Capt Ted Coy thinks that candi-
dates for several of the positions know
SO little about the game that thew need
both winter and spring drill. The win
ter training VIII be confined 20 the quar-
terbacl1S. the centers. and some Of the
halfbacks. 1t VIII take place in the
gymnasium
Just now Coy Is hustIinc TO rcupd IN
hdis permanent coaching staff for next
Sss-sea- RS SAYS that he axRNcts t.