The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-04
Early Football Practice Is Be-
ing Held at All Of the East
ern Colleges.
FAVORABLE OUTLOOK FOR
RUGBY ON PACIFIC COAST
Rowing Season Will Come to
Close With Labor Day Re-
gatta at Philadelphia.
BY MANHATTAN.
BY Leased Wire to The Tribune.
NEW vnRH c.A rL i,


BY Leased Wire TO The Tribune.
NEW YORK, Sept 3.-The big uni
versittes are getting down to football
practice early this season. due to the
numerous changes in the rules, which
require some time for perfect disgestion.
From this point Of view the coming sea-
son Will be memorable one In the his
tory of the game. for not only are the
new rules being tried out, but the game
Itself Is upon trial
A squad OF thirty Harvard players con-
sregated yesterday at Oceanville, Me,
Tor the initial try-out under the revised
statutes Among those VINO are fore
gathered In oeeanwiiie are Captain With
1ngton. Corbett, Perry, L. D. Smith,
OfIaherty. Wigglesworth. Fisher. Mlnot
Mckay and Jim Long.
faies football candidates have been or
at Lakeville. Conn, Captain Fred Daiy
plans to spend from September ~ tiii
september sS 81 p, the day before the open
Ing ING OF college; In rudimentary drill there.
Inc faculty has threatened to allow no
moro games to be played before college
formally opened. but this fall will make
n1aved an e1cep1lon, VoIo when, when WESLEYAN Will be
inc smallest number OF veterans on hand
on any eleven In years. Only Fred DAILY.
IH1nnny Han,n -, k;Ilpatrick and Quarterback
and Holiday. Phiibin and Spalding. the
backfield OF the freshmen last fall, are
prominent candidates. for the team.
hsM mM'Gnigaa in,s led a rather successful foot
me mon from Ann Arbor finally sue
ceeded In trouncing Pennsylvania On
November IL the product of Fielding II.
fosts coaching ability will make an
other pilgrimage to Franklin Field And
the hurry up" person promises he will
smile IL another victory is Iugged awey
to Ann Arbor.
Michigan Out Early.
The members OF the Michigan squad.
needless needless to state; are in line with my
will begin training curly. On September
is the Wolverines will gather at Whit
b ars sn1e men 9e sN %ho won the the
autumn. and there Is sntd to be an ex-
cellent reserve stock to draw upon In
the members Of the freshmen and scrub
squads. They are certainly optimistic
about their eleven out at Ann Arbor
this year
Head Coach Yost and Trainer Kraenz.
Lake About October j the scene '' OF
training will shift to the grldiron at
Ferry Field, where Coach Redden will
join the squad. With the exception of
Maize and Blue football board. Kraenz-
lein succeeds Keene Fitzpatrick. who
takes up his work as trainer at Prince
ton. or course, there are the intrica-
cies OF the new rules TO be mastered,
and Yost will be more on the hurry up
order than ever, Last season he taught
his charges string OF confounding trick
plays. and this phase Of the Wolverines
game should be developed more than ever.
Tho return Of the AIl-Americen rugby
football team from Australia and New
Zealand has stimulated interest In foot
Leland Stanford university. the Univer-
slty OF California and the University of
Nevada, elaborate preparations are under
way for the season: Graduate Manager
team predicts very. successful year:
Coach George Presley OF Leland Stanford
IS also optimistic over the outlook.
The first serious call for football ma
IN Monday. There Will be no paid as
sistant coach in the field at Stanford
his year. but Captain Doyle will assist
made the Antipodean tour with the All
American team and comes back with
bag full OF tricks.
Rowing Season Closes.
The American rowing season will como
% close on Monday-Labor day-with
he rowing of tho Middle States regatta
,een very successful rowing year for
he United States. While 1t was not
sensational or exceptional year. yet in
crest has grown widely.
Successful regattaS were held In every
,art OF the United States.
Word has come from the west that
Davenport, the wonderful middle dis
ance man, will not be seen In any
aces this fall. He has gone to live on
. ranch somewhere In Colorado. and
Ia said that even Prof. Stagg does
he Chicago a a. was building on Day
nport for the quarter and a half mile
I the national championships. and he
ill he q big loss to the Cherry Circle
eam. Before leaving for tho wilds Dav-
nport promised Stagg that he would
urely be on hand for the opening OF
ne football season,
Some one has risen TO remark that
eople will begin to lose interest in base
all II the teams In the National league
ro not moro evenly matched in strength
\ the future. At the beginning OF the
aason a blind man could have picked
ne present position of the teams In tho
ational league Thorc have been some
lrprises. notably the poor showing of
etroit.