New-York tribune., 1908-10-29
ON COLLEGE GRID[RONS
TEAMS HARD At WORK.
Hobbs IN Scrimmage at YGJe-FGSt
PIau at Princeton.
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New Haven Oct 2S-The heavy rain here TO-
day shortened The Yale football practice much TO
The disgust Of Bigiow and his helpers on tne
coaching squad who feel that the time left before
the Princeton game is none too long 70 get men
ike Hobbs and kndrus. who have been OUT of me
practice for part OF The season, into good cohul-
ti5n Both Hobbs and AndrUs played in snort
scrimrnage against the freshmen to-day but HOODS
was in for only few minutes. getting kick on
his lame ankle that sent him 10 the side lines
Philbin scored the only touchdown in a @-T1inute
fght between The freshmen and the varsity 70
DAY the youngsters fighting hard and giving the
regulars SITTER practice than the second eleven has
been able 10 Go lately. Frank ButterTorth 81. was
out 10 help the coaches this afternoon ana old
some work with the punters. Fred Murphy ~
also Joined the coaching squad and spent me
afternoon with the tackles
Il announced tonight that the Harvard
77lanagement had selected the Hotel Shoreham at
Norris Cove. as headquarters for the team wnen
& comes he-e next month The Crimson has used
this hotel which is the old Pequot Club house for
several years when i has come here 70 play Yale
The lineup to-day was Left end. Logan; left
tackle Hobbs. left guard. Andrus; centre. Riddle;
right guard Goebel; right tackle Brown right end,
Naedele: quarterback Bingham; left halfback, Phil
bin: right halfback, Brides; tull0ack. Haines
TBy Telegraph to The Trstune.J
Princeton, y. J, Oct 2S.-Ir spite Of a steady
ortzzlIng rain the Princeton football squad was
driven through the hardest practice Of the year this
afternoon IN sea Of mud. The varsity played two
se-rninute halves all except ten minutes Of which
was against the scrubs in secret The freshmen
faced the regulars for the last ten minutes. for
which TIE gates were opened. The team and
coaches are working like Trojans for the West
Point game.
NcCrohan after q months absence on account
Of injuries played fulIback the varsity to-day
and made p good showing. He bucked the line time
and time again for long gains in style that
recalled the way he used 10 so through the var
sity line last year when the scrub. With Nc
Crohan in the back5eld were Cunningham and Ilo-
botf - the halves and Dillon al quarterback. a
combination that looks more like Princeton
VARSITY backfleld than anything seen on Univer-
sity Field this fan. and that worked well this
afternoon scoring two touchdowns on the scrub
eleven.
AIcCrohan made the first tally after series OF
line bucks. and Cunningham scored the second A
substitute backfeld then went in, consisting q
Bard Bishop. Coke and Pfeifer Pfeiter scored
another touchdown n the second half.
The cubs We're then sent IN. but they could not
hold the regulars. and Coke was showed over for
the fourth touchdown Of the afternoon Cass and
King. two centres played end to-day, and Clark
held down the pivotal position. Cass and King
worked during the secret period, and It is not
known how they fared. Six men We're used at
end. the others being Dovd, welch. Buckingham
and Gill