The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-26
COLLEGE STARS
WHO GRADUATE
Yale Is Hit Hardest With Line
of Veterans Who Forsake Pig
skin for the shcepskin.
COY AND FISH BOTH GO.
Baseball Will Have Shattered
Lines Next Spring When the
College Stars Have Left.


Now York. June 25.-This years
commandments robbed the Eastern
colleges and universities of many star
athletes. Football will be hit harder
by the departure of the possessors Of
the sheepskin than any other sport
Yale will lose an entire line. Prince
ton will miss the left side of the line
as we'll as several strong substitutes
Waller and Bamman. SiegiinE and
Balm, WEIGH. Read, Bergen. Bucking.
ham and Dawson are among the elect
In Dawson. by the way. the Tigers Will
lose one of the best--if not the best
catchers who ever donned mask fol
the orange and black.
Harvard will lose fewer football
men than Yale eor Princeton. but the
crimson baseball and track stars will
depart in large numbers. Pennsyl-
yania and Dartmouth will lose men
who represented a large proportion OF
their athletic strength for four sea
sons. From tire smaller colleges. an
unusual number of men whose athletic
achievements rank with those Of the
stars at the larger institutions will
leave for good.
Yale will lose three .Y.' man
when Edward Coy puts on cap and
gown for the last time. Coy will re-
turn NEXT fall as football coach, and
there is every reason to- believe that
he will prove one of the best.
Coy VIII have difficult task. Pa
thence in large measure will be re-
CURED of him He will have to de-
velop new team to play new style
OF football, style not pleasing at
present TO the Yale gridiron mentors.
II has been said OF Coy that he is
the greatest all around player who
ever wore cleats Coy has rowed,
n I'd varsity baseball, put the shot,
played basketball and even tried a
little broad Jumping.
Harvard Loses Ham Fish.
Harvard also loses. in the. person of
ner varsity football captain, Hamil-
ton Fish. .Tr., man hard to replace.
In sHarvards case the sense Of loss
has been tempered. too. And In rather
significant way Fish was an ath-
lete and he also stood for scholarship.
Completing his course months before
that course would regularly ter
inmate. the football captain has al
ready entered business life, but his
occasional visits TO Cambridge servo
i to bridge the gap between the close
of the football season and the hour
of final parting from his classmates
Fish was we'll endowed physically
and mentally, TO learn and play re-
markable game .nder the rules which
required of tackle a guards endur.
ance the speed of an end and the yer.
satility of a halfback. Flsh's reputa
ton as a player will survive man.
changes in the game itself
Dartmouth Loses Tobin.
Another graduating varsity captai
Is Clarke Tobin, of Dartmouth, know
as an ''all America guard. as on
OF the finest players who ever playe
in that position. and also known as
leader who could inspire men and hol
them together when the test came
Tobin went to Dartmouth from Sout
Boston. awkward, rawboned and bash
ful. large for his years. He comes on
Of Dartmouth an all-round sort O
man. AS in the case of Coy, Tobi
Will return as coach at Hanover.
Tobin not only represented Dart
mouth with distinction on the foot
ball field, but was also dangerou
man with the shot. Before a larg
gathering of class secretaries of til
alumni of Hanover. Tobin spoke TIL
other day. Men who had begun t
Believe that the college had grown to
large, less democratic, more in Low
with luxury, heard the varsity cap
ftdlli ucIeHu ueSCTlDe the lDdTt
mouth of to-aaye What he said wa
TO the poirt. 1T was convincing, too
And the classe secretaries went thei
way to worry no more.
Yale Is Hard Hit.
Phtlbin. Murphy, Andrus Goebel, Lii
ley, Hobbs, Cooney. Spencer, Logan
Holt. johnson and Brown Will be los
to Yale another year.
Philhin was certainly fine hal
back. He had the weight and bull
TO play effectively on the line defens
or in close attack. and yet he was
brilliant open field player, sure o
Kicks and whirlwind at runnin
back He was also a great baseba
player until his injury early in tn
season.
Murphy, like Philbin and like Co.
baseball as we'll as football sta
captained the nine in 1902 but dc
clined recollection Andrus and Goeb
were the strongest pair of guard
Yale has had in years. Lilley was
natural end, who could and did pla
tackle. and Hobbs was a tackle VIII