Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-06-26
DIPLOMAS ROB SCHOOL TEAMS
Graduation of Athletes Takes Good
Men from Field.
YALE is EXTRA HARD HIT
whole Line Leaves the Ranks ne
New Haven--PrincetOn Also
TO Feel a Very Heavy
Loss.
YALE IS EXTRA HARD HIT

new YORK. June 25.-This years COM
mencements will rob the eastern colleges
and universities OF many star athletes. Foot
boil will be hit much harder by the depart
ure of the possessors OF the sheepskin than
any other sport. Yale will lose an entire
line. Princeton VIII miss the left side OF
the line as well as several strong substl-
tutes. Waller and Bamman, Siegling and
Balm, Welch, Read, Bergen, Buckingham
and Dawson are among the elect. In Daw-
son, by the way, the Tigers will lose one
OF the best-if not the best-catchers who
ever donned mask for the orange and
black.
Harvard will lose fewer foot ball men
than Yale or Princeton, but tho crimson
base ball and track stars will depart In
large numbers. Pennsylvania and Dart
mouth will lose men VINO represented a
large proportion OF their athletic strength
for four seasons. From the smaller col
ieges unusual number OF men whose
athletic achievements rank with those OF
the stars at the larger Institutions will
leave for good
Yale will close a three-"Y" man when
Edward Coy puts on cap and gown the last
time. Coy will return next fall as foot
ball coach, and there Is every reason to
Coy VIII have difficult task. Patience
in large measure Will be required OF him.
lie will have to develop a new team to play
a new style of foot ball, style not pleas
ing at present to the Yale gridiron mentors.
1t has ben said Of Coy that he is the great
est all-around player who ever wore cleats.
Coy has rowed, played varsity base ball,
put the shot, played basket ball and even
tried q little broad jumping.
Harvard Loses.
Harvard also loses, in the person of its
varsity foot ball captain, Hamilton Fish,
IT,, a man hard to replace, In Harvard
case the sense OF loss has been tempered,
too. And in rather a significant way. Fish
was an athlete, and he also stood for
scholarship Completing his course months
before that course would regularly term
mate the foot ball captain has already
entered business life but his occasional
visits TO Cambridge serve to bridge the gap
between the close of the foot ball season
and the hour OF final parting from his
classmates, Fish was well endowed, physi-
cally and mentally, to learn and play a
remarkable game under the rules which
required Of a tackle a guards endurance,
the speed of an end and the versatility OF
haifback. Fish's reputation as a player
will survive many changes In the game
itself
Another graduating varsity captain is
Clarke Tobin OF Dartmouth, known as an
''An-America" guard. as one of the finest
Players who ever played in that position,
and also knows as a leader who could
Inspire men and hold them together when
the test came. Tobin went to Dartmouth
from South Boston, awkward, raw-boned
and bashful large for his years. He comes
out OF Dartmouth an all-round sort of
man. AS in the case of Coy, Tobin will
return to coach at Hanover Tobin, not
only represented Dartmouth with distlnc-
ton on the foot bali field. but was also
dangerous man with the shot. Before a
large gathering of class secretaries OF the
alumni at Hanover, Tobin spoke the other
day. Men who had begun TO believe that
the college had grown too large, less demo-
cratic, more in love with luxury, heard the
varsity captain defend and describe the
Dartmouth OF today. What he said was to
the point 1t was convincing, too. And
the class secretaries went their way to
worry no more.
Worst Yet 10 Come.
Philbin, Murphy, Andrus. Goebel. Lilley,
He bbs, Coloney, Spencer, Logan, Holt
johnson and Brown viii be lost to Yale
another year. Philbin was certainly fine
halfback. He had the weight and build to
play effectively on the line defense or in
close attacks, and yet he was a brilliant
Open-fleld player, sure on kicks and a
wliirlwind at running them back. He was
also great base ball player until his in
jury early IN the season.
Murphy like Philbin and like Coy a
base bali as we'll as a foot BAH star. cap
tanned the nine in 1909. but declined re-
eiection. Andrus and Goebel were the
strongest pair OF guards Yale has had in
years Iilley was natural end, who could
and did play tackle. and Hobbs was a
tackle. who often participated In the duties
Of an end. Cooney, really handicapped by
his bulk. suddenly displayed remarkable
speed In his last year at Yale. Logan was
very alert and speedy end, and, in
spite of his handicap OF injuries, few
players made better record as receiver
OF the forward pass Like Coy, Philbin and
Murphy, Logan is bail player, too, and
he Is now at the head of the Yale team.
star base ball pitchers are also on the
graduation list Among them are Temple
ton OF Williams, Mcclure Of Amherst,
SehultE of University of Pennsylvania,
Hicks OF Harvard. Ralph Good OF Colby,
FOLEY OF Holy Gross, MelIale OF the Uni
versity OF Maine. Martin OF Tufts, ana
DeAiot of Lafayette.
The list OF "minor' college stars who
graduate Is long, and It embraces men who
could surely have made places for them
selves in the big university teams. Besides
the base tall players to whom reference has
been made, such foot bail players AS Nc
cRR Of Lafayette, and Voorhis OF PENN
sylvania state. stand out. McCaa was a
wonderful punter rugged line-plunging
back of the old-fashioned type, and de-
fenslve player. alert, shifty. intuitiys.
Voorhis. strong open-fIeld player that he
was. made speciality OF drop kicking and
place kicking,