The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-09-05

New York, September 4.-The big universities are getting down to foot ball sractice early this season due to the numerous changes in the rules which require some time for perfect digestion. From this point of view the coming season will be memorable one in the history of the game for not only are the new rules being tried out but the game itself is upon trial.
 squad of 30 Harvard players con- gregated yesterday at Oceanville, Me-, for the initial try-out under the re- vised statues. Among those who are gathered in Oceanville are Captain Wilmington Corbett, Perry, L. D. Smith. O'Flaherty, Wigglesworth. Fisher, Mi not, Mckay and Jim Long.
 Yale's football candidates have been ordered to report on Monday Sep tember 12 at Lakeville, Conn., Capt Fred Daily plans to spend from Sep tember 12 till September 27, the day before the opening of college, in ru- dirnentary drill there. The factulty has threatened to allow no more games to be played before college formally opened but this fall will make an ex- ception, when Wesleyan will be played Yale begins this season with the small est number of veterans on hand on any eleven in years. Only Fred Daily, John ny Fitzpatrick, and Quarterback Howe are in college. Walter Camp. Jr., and Holladay, Philbin. and Spalding, the back field of the freshmen last fall, are prominent candidates for the team.
 Michigan led rather successful football invasion out of the west last year. The men from Ann Arbor finally succeeded in trouncing Pennsylvania. On November 12 the product of Field ing H. Yost's coaching ability VIII make another pilgrimage to Franklin Field. And the hurry up" person promises he will smile If another Vlc- tory is lugged away to Ann Arbor.
 The members of the Michigan squad. needless to say, are In line with my nolicies" as outlined by Yost. So they will begin training early. On Septem- Der IS the Wolverines will gather al whitmore Lake. Twelve men, who woD the big M" are eligible for the team this autumn and there is said to De an excellent reserve stock to draw upon in the members of the 10 freshmen and .rh souads. They are certainly op- timistic about their eleven out d' Ani' Arbor this year.
 Head Coach Yost and Trainer Kraen- zlein will meet the squad at Whitmore Lake About October 1 the scene or training will shift to the gridiron at Ferry Field, where Coach Redden VIII join the squad With the exception or Kraenzlein there are no new men on the Maize and Blue football board Kraenzlein succeeds Keene F1tzpatrlck' who takes up his work as trainer at Princeton. Of course there are the m tricacies of the new rules to be mas tered. and Yost will be more on the "hurry up'' order than ever. Last sea son he taught his charges string confounding trick plays and this phase of the Wolverines game should le developed more than ever
 Word has come from the west that Davenport, the wonderful middle dis tance man, will not be seen in any races this fall. He has gone to live on a ranch somewhere in Colorado. and if is said that even Professor Stagg does not exactly know of his where abouts The Chicago Athletic associa- ton was building on Davenport for the quarter and half mile at the na- tional championships and he will be big loss to the Cherry Circle team. Be- fore leaving for the wilds Davenport promised Stagg that he would surely be on hand for the opening of the foot | ball season.
 | Some one has risen to remark that people will begin to lose interest in | baseball If the teams in the National l league are not more evenly matched in strength in the future At the begin ming of the season a blind man could have picked the present position of the teams in the National league. There have been some surprises, notably the poor showing of Detroit.
 "I wonder" remarks Patsy Donovan
 where the catchers will come from in
 a few years more? Where on earth
 are we going to get real catchers, gen. | uine maskmen of the kind the old-tfme
 fans used to see parading with the big
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