Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-12
FOOTBALL YEAR
PROMISES WELL
BIG COLLEGES PREPARE FOR
SEASON
HOPE TO FIX CHAMPIONSHIP OF
VARsITIEs
Schedule Of Seasons Games Among
Teams of East Should Result
In Settlement Of Honors
of Winter

eIan players Oh varsity lOotDd1 SlSNSh'
are receiving letters from the team
managers requesting them to report
for early practice.
September is always the time of mos
pronounced activity among the coaches
who direct the affairs Oh the college
gridiron combinations. The mos
promising material must have as thor
ough a trial as possible before the
candidates turn out in large numbers
and when it is usually the case that
the physical condition of many vet
erans demands all the work possible
before the regular autumn campaign
on the chalk-barred field.
While the pigskin will not be set
sailing away from the kickoff by the
big university players for week or
so, nevertheless other teams will be in
the field before that time. The Car
Isle Indians, as is always their wont,
trot out on the lime-lined turf in less
than two weeks. Other smaller COM
binations will line up for actual play
about that time; SO it may readily
be seen why football coaches are
among the busiest personages in the
world these days. The days of secret
preseason practice are thing of the
past. However, groups of players OF
different colleges have been together
for the past few weeks, at seashore
resorts, letting out the kinks in their
arms by forward and other types OF
passing.
Although there is no intercollegiate
association with round robin scheme,
the chances for determination OF
the intercollegiate championship are
much better this year than last. Last
year the honor of being first lay be-
tween Harvard and Pennsylvania, but
as they did not play each other and ana
met but one common opponent the
Indians in preliminary games, the is
sue had TO be fought out verbally
Had Cornell played Harvard last
fall. as she will do this year, there
would undoubtedly have been some
thing tangible with which to settle the
controversy. This year Harvard plays
Yale. Dartmouth and Cornell, Yale
meets Princeton and Harvard, Prince
ton plays Dartmouth and Pennsyl-
vania meets Cornell This schedule
surely ought to leave some team with
the championship proved.
Michigan Holds Out
In the middle west the old confed-
crate combination, the big nine, mas
not been fully restored and will not
he until the University of Michigan
returns to the fold. This Michigan
shows no disposition to do, although
the Wolverines have stolen march
on the rulers of the conference by ar
ranging a game with the University
of Minnesota. The rulers of the con-
ference thought a few years ago thai
they had completely ostracized Mich-
igan from the west when the Mich
igan delegates refused to swallow some
Of the foolish legislation worked out
bv the conference professors during
those days of hysteria four years ago.
Rsf this year Michigan has secured a
game with Minnesota.
otherwise, the conference colleges
still consist of Chicago, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Illinois. Purdue, Iowa and
Northwestern. There have been sew
eral efforts on the part of Nebraska
"a take the place vacated by Mime
sofa. But Nebraska is not yet ready
to subscribe to all the eligibility re-
ouirements in the conference code ana
be still a freelance in western foot
ball.
There will be even more intersec-
tional football than there was last
wear. The universities of Pennsylvania
and Michigan meet for the fourth
time. while Chicago and Cornell play
their second annual game, this time
at ithaca. Michigan and Syracuse also
play again, their game taking place
at Ann Arbor. Another unusual in
tersectional game scheduled Is that
between Illinois and Syracuse in the
latter's stadium.
With one college already having
started it's early football season prac-
tice the other institutions are now be-
ginning to size up their probable ma y
terial and their chances to turn out
good teams for the approaching sea-
son. The George Washington univer-
sity has started work, and from now
on all the other colleges will begin to
make preliminary preparations.
Princeton's Prospects
Although Princeton's fourscore or
more of football candidates will not
begin to arrive at Jungletown for two
weeks or so they may be seen in sun
dry places from one coast to the other,
already indulging in a bit of football
training.
THE new rule of the faculty permit
ting football practice to start only
when college opens will compel the
men to put in some fast work. That
date-September 22-is bit late to be-
gin to get squad of football men into
condition, but proper physical atten-
fton will remedy that difficulty. The
Tigers experienced many more early
season injuries last year than ever be-
fore, and the main cause of it was the
late start.
Phil King '93, Howard Henry '04, and
Walter Booth '02, are to advise as well
as supervise the goings on at Uni
versity field. Jim Mccormick will be
in charge as field coach, and it is ex-
pected that the system will prove a
successful one.
The players who will be eligible are
as yet uncertain, examinations being
a wide river to cross for some of the
an the GhapnGlxi0
circuit last spring-Eddie Dillon, a
quarterback and captain; Tibbott, the
aII-American halfback; Booth, a tackle
and Dowd, an end. None of the losses
except perhaps that OF Tibbott. will
be severely felt, as a host of good men
are available.
About twenty-five men were given
a try at the end of last season, and
most of them will be on hand again
The freshman team will contribute
King, a nephew of the famous Phil
King. and Sawyer. Both youngsters
are fast. Welch, a veteran end, will
doubtless occupy one end.
Meigs, Rheinstein. j. B. Waller, Dale
Bredemus and perhaps Bamman, who
played tackle, will be some of the most
likely ends. Captain Siegling win be
one tackle. and It is likely that Nc
Crohan will be the other his ability
as n backheld man having fallen
somewhat short Of the mark because
OF his excessive weight. Bamman and
MacGregor are both fast tackles. tall
and rangy.
The center trio of the Tiger team
will hardly be changed. MacFadyn
at center and P. e. Waller and Buck
ineham for guards again, with Clark