The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-01-03
Sporting Department
MANY FOOTBALL CAPTAINS
MEET WITH MISFORTUNE
Inv Miller is Not the Only Captain
Whose Path Has Not Been Strewn
With Roses--other univer-
cities Also Suffer.

cities Also Suffer.
rollowing the III luck OF number
~ university football captains during
,ha season of 1909, several named for
the leadership OF 1910 teams nave
met with misfortune.
Michigan's reputation OF j. JOY
miller the end rush, who was elected
70 the captaincy OF next years VOL
,,arine eleven, seldom has had par
allei in college football.
Miller did wonderful work Tor the
wolverines. and 1t was partly due 10
his individual efforts that Michigan
had such a wonderful season, when
included the feat of being the hrst
western college To defeat Penn.
Members of the varsity team reeog-
r,ved Miller's worth by electing him
captain of next years team.
Then came the sensational action OF
the Michigan faculty. Not only did
the authorities fail to ratify the elec-
ton. but it has barred Miller from
ever playing again on a Michigan
team.
Harris Misfortune.
Eddie Hart, the great Princeton
hack is another football player VINO
was recently honored with n captain
cy and whose faculty has not as yet
approved OF the selection. This hes
itatIon is based an unusual grounds
This is Harris second year at
princeton, and necessarily his hrst
vear as a member of the varsity
string. He came to Princeton from
Exeter. where II Is said that he met
with a severe injury while playing
football.
This injury, which Is said 70 be nc
less serious than a fracture OF the
vertebra at the neck, made IL imper-
alive for him to wear an unusually
formidable heargear, it being con-
structed of steel and heavy leather
Unless Hart had such IA contrivance
II IL decided that he could not last
five seconds I'm game.
Princeton is Afraid.
Because of the deaths of so many
players during the past season. th'
princeton authorities decided to have
medical commission examine Har
10 see whether he was risking hi!
life by playing football.
II his injury is not exaggerated
Prlnceton's faculty will not ratifN
Harris election and win bar him from
representing the Tigers on the grid
iron i'm the future.
Much sympathy is felt for Hart II
the matter. He played one OF th'
steadiest games of any Princeton
player last season, and If he has e
go. his loss will be felt.
Where Fish Lost Out.
Affairs at Harvard are all Jumblet
up because of the failure of the Grim
son to elect Hamilton Fish. jr., pres
ident OF the senior class Fish is the
star tackle and captain of this years
Harvard eleven, and il was under
stood that he had the inside track fol
the leadership of the 1910 class.
But when IL came to ballotinS, 4
was different. for a comparat'vel!
OF Fish. All sorts of development
have been brought to light sine
then. II was said that it was bat
re between commoners and aristo
Gratis and that the blue FLOODED Fisl
was defeated on that score.
one of he upshots of the unsavor,
EPISODE was the resignation of tn
class poet, VINO was charged witt
Using municipal political methods II
beating Fish.
II was also asserted that Fish fall
ed to obey the orders of Coach Haugh
ton in the game with Yale. soma go
ing so far as 10 say that the Crimson
would have been victorious had the,
been carried cut. Not only that. bu
Fish Is accused by his ietractors o
interfering with Quarter back OFls
merry so muah that the latter becam
upset and was useless to lis team
Hau5hton Not Favored.
II Is significant that Lothrop With
ington who was elected captain o
the 1910 team, and who is a persona
friend of Fish, makes the plain state
ment that he does not favor. the re
tention of Coach Haughton. whicl
would Indicate that all was no
smooth between Fish and Haughton.
In the meantime, Fish, dissapolnte,
at his defeat, has quit Harvard, bu
Will return in the spring to get hi
degree.
Last season no captain had NOR
trouble than AL Miller. the Penn lead
er Miller was shifted so often fror