The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-09-30
FOOTBALL WILL
SOON HOLD SWAY
TEAMS SLANT PRAc.
TiCE THIS WEEK.
Yale and Harvard Will be Repre-
senteo by Good Eievens-Tsle
Loses Stars.

although IOOtOall Will DO over lCl-
ped b. baseball for a few weeks
more. the great college game will
hold full sway for the neat eleven
weeks. Within the last week every
member OF the Big FIVE began
regular practice, while hundreds oi
5 hools. academies and minor col
leges o one end OF the country
10 the other did likewise. IL is not
trlte to say that the present season
promises To be more interesting man
ever. especially since the remodeling
Of the game by the football rules
committee.
Princeton had the honor Of being
the first big eastern university to
start the pigskin sailing through the
air. Coach Roper had the Tiger can
didates out on Monday. Even with
the advanced start Princeton has a
shorter season than the other big
Institutions, as her final game with
iale IS played on November Is. The
Tigers were followed in order by Cor
neil. Yale. Harvard and Pennsylva-
Ma. For the first time I'm a good
many years the Quakers. instead OF
being the first OF the bis teams to
start work, were actually the last.
There is a good reason for the in
creased interest in the game this
year. To understand the causes prop
erly II should be recalled that when
The rule makers amended the game
at the Close OF the season Of 1905 they
f'ter"d II . r~"dically ny trn intro
duction OF tho forward pass d..U otner
innovations OF tnat il WAS almost a
lew game TO the public. The new
rules were so distasteiul TO many
peTsOns that they ceased attending
games ami the sport had 10 bulld up
a new clientele. This process "A iur-
tE"r retarded by additional changes
ia the code. the most radical IN audi
ION TO the forward pass being tuat
Incorporated into the rules a year ago
last spring. providing that the run
Ter with the bali be not allowed TO
receive the assistance of any of has
teammates 10 advance thc ball.
How the Teams Compare.
Naturally ii Is a BIT early To make
q very valuable comparison OF the
material which has 50 Ear reported
40 Iic different universities of the
east. As lar as veterans are cen
ccTned. Princeton and harvard have
slightly the better o.. f.o situation.
When the Tigers TOOK 10 tie held ON
Monday az but three oi Tie men Who
started salus Yale mad been aC
counted for. These men are White
and Dunlap. ends. Brown. a tack. q;
Wilson n McCormIcA. guards, 40
S,ntAal. ~CeAtcr. i,ndI,tOu. q half
back ana Capt. Hart. fuhback. There
are also "a number OF excellent sub
stItutes trying Tor the team, So tnat
optimism reisns supreme in Tiger
town.
Coach Roper and his assistants
want "a fast back held. In icudietOn
tucy nave one OF the best backs IN
he country. and BaSer. last years
freshman quarterback. looks good Tor
o varsity berth. sawyer. a substi-
ute halfback last year. is only a lar
play er. and capt. Hart. the iullbdck.
has Yet TO prove that his ability has
not been greatly ovcridt'd. Some
times a team II handicapped by toe
many veterans. bcCauS' This condition
OF things tends 20 make "a team over
confident an- keeps down the LIST OF
new candidates. This may or mag
ton.
Yale Loses Several Stars.
Prospects at Vale are rosy cuOuLh.
although the Ills have lost more
men than Princeton capt. Howe and
Fullbdck kistl,r are the only vet
Grams in the back field. kirkpatrick
and Fields having graduated, the lat-
ter now acting as head coach ln the
line Kirkpatrick Is sonc at one end.
and Morris b. missing at center.
Scully and Paul are back az tackle.
and Chiids should make q capable
guard
In the opinion Of the writer N1le's
greatest good fortune is the posses
sion Of Howe "a quarterback This is
his third year ON tho Yale team lc
held down the position OF Captain
COy's well nigh perfect iu 1909. and
last year no was about all that stood
between the team and utter rout.
IN fact % was Howes reneralsh.p