The sun., 1908-12-13
FIELD or. .RlOTBALL TIMBER.
GF N4sTgON1AL WIDTH on FIVE
LEADING TEAMS.

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Contributions 10 flve leading football
ttaIns Of the reason just past were made
by an area Of Uncle Sans domain cover
log many thousands Of miles. There are
Al America teams In more senses than
one. Not only do many states-Statea
scattered from one. coast to the other
have representation. but even the remote
possessions, For instanoe. the next oap-
tain OF the West Point eleven comes from
Alaska, One Of Harvard's players is q
resident of Honolulu and another's home
address In the college catalogue is Paris,
France The coach Of the Yale freshman
team halls, according to the university
catalogue, from the Far East. Chester
Jules Copmann, Yokohama, Japan ia
the registry.
American, but as .sesn. there Ia q dash Of
tosnopolitanlRn IN their officiaI resi-
defces rs given IN tho catalogues. They
come from all over. these hardy ohasers
Of the pigskin. and the wide national
range which is covered by even the small
pofton OF tho football playing community
represented by FIVE Eastern colleges
shows that the timber for the game Is not
marked by sectional boundaries.
Given the physique, the willingness for
hard application and subservlence to dis
cipline and the alert mentality, and the
coaches and association win do the rest.
no matter W neither the candidate is from
the back woods Of Maine. the magnolia
shaded South, the sandy wastes OF the
southw est, the lumber regions Of the
northw est. the coal mines Of Pennsyl-
vahia, the banks Of the Missouri. Wabash.
Ohio or any other old river. or whether
he Is city bred and urban to the last de-
tail Of manner and custom. makes no diff
ference. He becomes one Of o demo-
cratic whole when he makes the varsity
eleven and he fights for the common
cause. alma mater.
Geographical distinctions are for the
time forgotten, and whether the guidon
is Of crimson, blue, orange and black.
green, brown, red and blue, carnelian.
maroon or purple, II carries to tho grid
iron knight the message that In this sign
We conquer. It was the turn OF the Har-
ward team to conquer this year---a turn
relished all the more by the Camb ridge
folks. because II 30 seldom oomes TO them.
The smooth working and admirably CON-
structed machine which Harvard had this
fan was one for which the integral parts
o}ue from. widely divergent localities
rance on the East, the Hawaiian Islands
70 the Vest. .
The leader OF the team, Capt. Francis
Surr, comes from close to classic Cam
ridge, r He lives In Chestnut Hill,
Sbioh is, also the home Of West, the
;Yard, who played in part. Of the Yale
a,ne. Other New Epglanders Of the team
7ere Sprague. Cutler and Corbett, from
;lppkline; Yer tWiebe, from Somerville;
hepnard, the man who kicked the goal,
from Boston; Leslie, from Milton; Crowley
from Cambridge, and Hoar. from Con-
p I'd. D.,
3ut while most OF the recruits for the
,rsity team came from near. to the uni
vsrsity, there are long distances between
their native. towns and those Of others
Of the team. . Mckay, the tackle. is the
niItAisp Of the eleven. The other. tackle,
-Nptain-eleot Fish, is New Yorker. His
.rrhe is at Garrison-on-the-Hu Hudson.
Souhss. the centre, lives in New York
rtyIn Gil Browne, the left end, . Cali
fainiau. haiiipg from Los Ange,es. The
Esaards are set up IN Honolulu Dunlap
sevsn statss and the District Of Colum-
hia figured Ia the source Of supply for the
Yale team in the Princeton and Harvard
games, Big citias and little cities ara
represented, the wild West and the efiete
Fast. Ohio, Massachusetts,. New York.
Connecticut, Illinois. Arizona and Penn
sylyauia are the CommonWealths which
merged Into oisa spT old Ell. From HFoots-
ton. Mass, came Brides. the tackle, Along
side Of him played . man who came from
several days journey TO the westward. Bill
tsoeoeh the gGafd' Sn cones from ona Pa@nin, pSs
tbareis not only considerable difference
ihspace but In environment. There was no
difference In environment when the two
lined up together on Yale Field.
capt! Buroh 10 an 0hioan. He added to
tho name and fame OF Cincinnati, showing
football captain and President, both
of'Tale. The new captain, Edward Harris
Coy-Ted for short-was reared under
the shade Of the elmss He lives In New
HaEen. Another Connecticut member
q the team was Ted Llley, son Of the
Governor-aieot and another, Walter
thing but dumb, was one Of the best
ends Of tho year.
Anthony Haines. end rush, lives in
Rockford, Ill.,, and Field. the fullback.
wheh he ls at home next summer can see
the White House. Fred DAILY. the half
hack. slipped down to Yale from under
theryery noses of the Harvard men. His |
home ia in Cambridge, Three Gothamites
rlayed on the team Hobbs, the tackle:
Phifbin, the halfback. and Corey. the
Quarterback. Cooney, the centre, is a
BInoEiy rite and Johnson. the quarter
haek. "a Dobbs Ferryite. Philadelphia
was honnred by the presence on the team
of Biddle the centre and Wheaton the !
halfback. Cleveland sent Bingham. the |
Quarterback, the same city in the past
having sent two Yale notables In Mall |
coam Mcbride and William Rhodes. AM |
dris. the: HI Afssor;csn guard. lives up |
the Hudson. Murphy. halfthck lives
Massachusetts.
The Cornell team for this season was
not 30 Representative Of the country as
Harvard or Yale, but drew from New |
York, Ohio. Pennsylvania. Illinois and |
NewJersey. Seven members Of the team |
live in New York State. Capt. Walder |
comes from North Tonowanda, the town /
that Prsnk Hinkey made famous. Hurl,
hNft, the end rush, lives In Buffalo, and
the other ends, FRANKIE and Macarthur, |
aso cone from the Empire State, From |
,S,faclse came 0Rourke. the big tackle: !
MS%e The halfbach, who kicked tine goal
against Pennsylvania. is q resident OF
Watertown. n ", and Hoffman. the !
haHBack, Of Germantown. Pa,
othet Penney ylvanians on the team were !
'osGrove the guard. Ieyentry the tackle