Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-24
welcome from students and adherents o
the school alike.


the school alike.
If Brick is unable to play in the back
field the Gallaudet eleven will lose
valuable man-one whose place it will be
almost impossible to fill. Brick is a good
line plunger and is in the game from start
to finish.
1t is questionable If ever a more rapid
development was noticeable in a foot ball
player than it was in Kelly. who played
fullback for Georgetown in the last few
games last fall In the fall of 1909 Kelly
was out for the George Washington
eleven, and was discarded by the coach
and captain of that team as being no
good. The next year, last season, Kelly
went to Georgetown and reported for foot
ball practice. He was not much heard of
during the early part of the season He
was learning the game. Just before the
Virginia game, when two of the George
town backfield men We're in poor shape,
Coach Nielsen, against the protest of
everybody, sent Kelly in at fullback to
play his first college game in the crucial
contest of the season. The George Wash
inston discard made good. and was the
most consistent ground-gainer in the
Georgetown hackfeld during the re-
mainder of the season.
kellys rapid development at George
town is tribute to Coach Nelson S
ability in sizing up player and in maxi
ing him play foot ball after he has
brought out the best there is in him.
Western Maryland College has always
had the strongest team among the Mary
land schools as far as foot ball is con-
cerned Year after year the other Mary
land institutions have tried to wrest the
honors of the erdirOn from the up
staters. but so far they have not been
successful. Once or twice one of the
other schools has succeeded in winning
the annual game, but only once has the
western Maryland crowd lost the cham
pionship in clean-cut manner and that
was when the Maryland Aggies, coached
by Nelson. took the pennant in 1906.
Up at Harvard the loss of Minot is apt
to cause a vacancy in the eleven that it
will be almost impossible to FILL Year
before last Minot was one Of the greatest
plunging half backs in the game, and
was rated at being second only to Coy
of Yale. Last fall he was shifted from
the-back field into the lin. and he made
good there just as easily as he did while
playing behind the line Of scrimmage.
There were few lnemen able to stand in
front of him, and In almost every game
played he opened holes in the offensive
lire big enough for three or four backs to
plunge through. At best it is hard to
fill such mans place and it looks now
as if it is almost impossible to get a man
as good.
Minot is ineligible to play because Of
DEFICIENCIES in the ella ssroom. 1t may be-
though, that he will pass off his condition
in time to be used.
Cornell is banking this year on trim
ming Pennsylvania If possible. Last fall
a change in the coaching policy was made
and 1t worked well, SO well in fact that
after receiving a crushing defeat at the
hands of the Harvard team 1T came back
and beat Chicago by an IS to 0 score and
lost to Pennsylvania, which was rated
with Harvard as being one of the strong
pSf
points.
And at that the Cornell team last sea-
son was developed almost entirely out OF
green material. This year almost the
whole of last seasons first string Is Jack,
and with the added experience should be
quite a factor among the big teams. The
Ithacans stand better show this year
than in some time to gain victory over
the Quakers.
i Georgetown will start its strongest i.,e-
up working tomorrow and will from that
time on devote every attention to the per-
fectlng OF team play. So far the signals
gone through have been little more than
few numbers, used as makeshift to
get the men used to receiving the ball
from the quarterback and taking direct
passes from center. This week the men
will be taught the formations which are
to he used during the entire season. and
will probably be given the code of signals
that will be in vogue during the remain
der OF the year.
The team will be put through the first
real hard work Of the season this morn
ing. 1t being intended to give the scrub
and varsity elevens a good scrimmage,
besides a long drill in the elemental tao
tics.
The Maryland AgSies will attempt to
arrange game with one Of the local high
schools during the coming week. so that
the team will have a chance to try out It's
plays against a strange eleven. The Ag-
giles coach does not think ii policy to go
up against one of the colleges in that
class without having had a scrub game
Of some kind.
The University Of Nebraska will get its
chance this fall for the first time in sew
eral years to win the championship of the
west. The Lincoln team meets both
Michigan and Minnesota this season and
If it can manage to get away with the
two contests IL will more than likely have
the undisputed championship of the mid
die west. as heretofore it has generally
been Michigan or Minnesota which has
finished the season in the lead
The Nebraska eleven this year will be
composed of veterans and alumni Of the
school who are In close touch with foot
ball affairs at their alma mater state that
there have not been as good prospects In
Years for the development of q represept-
ltIV, Nebraska eleven.