Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-12
FOOT BALL NOTES.

1VO4 BALL NO1GS.
While Yale will miss Logan at end, the
New Haven team has flrst-class SUBJ
Stitute I'm Vaughn
Princeton this year has been tied by
Lafayette and Dartmouth. and Pennsy
has been tied by Lafayette and Penn
State.
Michigan was expected to give Pennsy
stin battle until IL was beaten by
Notre Dame. Yost's only score being a
field goal.
Waller is Princeton's ranger on the de-
fensive, and the big guard will be hard
man for Yale to prevent coming through
Saturday.
Annapolis will lose only three foot ball
men by graduation next spring, while
some Of the Army's best players will go
out with 1905 graduting class.
Michigan has scored more than 1000
points In its foot ball career against
$50 by its opponents. and has only lost
six games. three OF them to Penn.
All the big college foot ball teams are
now settled down to put on the finish
ing touches for the games that mean
the most in their schedules.
Although they are sore clear through
In that they don't discuss the reasons
why MacF'adyen is in bad grace on the
foot ball field down at Nassau.
Twenty-Five special trains over the New
Haven road will carry the big crowd of
spectators to New Haven tomorrow for
the Princeton-Yale game. 1t is esti-
mated that 1900 people will travel to
ton will send its usual quota.-Boston
Herald.
Capt. Miller of Penn is finding II a
on his own eleven. 1t is now more or
less apparent that the coaches were wise
in keeping him on the second string last
season.
Sherwin. Dartmouth's left tackle. also
is a drop kicker. He failed to make a
field goal against Princeton, but has been
practicing and doing accurate work this
week at Hanover.
There has been some criticism Of
Howes handling Of punts at New Haven.
When Yale played the Army his hand
ling OF kicks was splendid, and many OF
his catches were beauties, made while
running at top speed.
The Cornell team Is making one Of the
most eventful records Of any of the elev-
ems. 1t hasn't made over sixteen points In
every game but one. and has lost three
out OF six games.
From the number of schoolboy goal
kickers who are being developed all over
the country. the colleges will receive
within the next three and four years a
large number Of drop-kick experts. The
present year has itself been one Of the
best drop-kick seasons in the history of
the game. but II will undoubtedly be
eclipsed by the development Of the near
future.
1t doesn't seem possible that 1T was
just twenty years ago that Yale and
Princeton were preparing for their annual
game, In which there were such stars
as HeKelfnger. Mcbride. McClung. Wur-
temberg. Stage. Harkwell. Rhodes and
Gill playing for Yale with Donnelly. Cow
an. Janeway, Riggs, Poe and Ames in
the Tiger lineup. The Tigers won this
1889 game from Yale by 10 to o.
The suggestion will be made at next
years foot ball rules committee meeting
to allow a player to call for fair
catch on forward passes. A rule allow
ing the man carrying the ball in a rush
from scrimmage to call five yards,
quest before the man about to tackle
him said whoa" would be just about
as sensible a ruling for the game-al-
though the forward pass fair catch
doubtless would prevent some injuries.
In the fall Of 1889 Young. the Cornell
quarterback received a bad bump on
the head during the first half Of one Of
the early games and was SO dazed that
he gave the signal for the same play
a tackle buck-eight times In success
sion. The rival eleven. unable to COM
prehend such generalship. or rather lack
Of II, became just as bewildered as the
injured quarterback. writes Walter Camp
in Outing, and in the effort to under
stand the unintelligible let the Cornell
backs through for a quick touchdown.