The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-08
OPEN PLAY PLEASES
FOOTBALL PATRONS
Games Already Played DEM
onstrate That Gridiron Will
Be Popular This Year.
BIG ELEvENs STRONG
Many of the Nations Leaders
! Were Famous on Their
College Teams.
BIG ELEVENS STRONG
BY WALTER MARcEANp.

By Leased Wire TO The TribunG
NEW YORK, Oct The football
teams are getting into their stride all
over the country. TIE games already
PLAYED show that the men are familiar
with the new rules and that the game
AS now PLAYED is much more open and
hence more interesting 20 the nonex-
pert spectator This means a better
season both as TO sport and general IN
terest.
The game between Harvard and
Princeton, which marks the renewal OF
football relations between the Crimson
and Orange and Black. is expected 10
be a big added attraction TO the foot
ball card. Then. too, the Yale Prince,
ton and Yale Harvard games are
scheduled in addition 10 the annual
struggle between the Army and the
Navy.
These contests. football men say. will
make it an easy matter TO determine
the championship team OF the year.
meeting. the victor of the series, ID
seems, can safely claim the title, 1t
is as yet too early to form any definite
opinion Of the relative merits of the
teams. 1t viii take week or two
more of play before tbey get down to a
solid basis of play which will permit
the forming OF definite judgment.
| Harvard. which was generally nd.
mitted to have the strongest team in
| Haughton has lost Wilmington. Minot
| Mckay. Smith and Lewis, the back.
| bone of one OF the most remarkable
lines in recent years. The bsckfield
is also broken up. The job that faces
| the Crimson mentor rs developing an
almost entire new team.
Yale, although losing TIE great Kill
patrick and several lesser lights, has
a bevv Of regulars back. including
Scully and Paul. tackles; Captain
Howe and Merritt. qusrtcrhacks, and
Philbin, Baker and Riley. backs. With
these as nucleus Head Coach Jack
Field shonld have little trouble in send
ing forth a high.caliber machine. Wal
ter Camp. Jr.. who was kept out by in
.iuries last year, is expected TO be i
star this fall.
Princeton Timber Strong
Princeton will present q great array
of talent for Bill Roper TO work with.
The great Peudletop, unanimous selec
tion for balfbsck on the all~Americsn
team last year, Is performing wonder
/ fully ip the carly season scraps, as is
also Captain Ed Hort. Besides these
! there are dozen other members of the
first squad of last year back at the
Tiger institution
PENNSYLVANIA, under ANDY Smith,
should have a triumphal season. Co.
zens, the all-American center. is gone,
and so is Halfback Tex Ramsdell.
| Mercer the all American fullback. IS
in the FRAY again, along with the ends
and lnemen who put mp such a strong
defense Last season.
Cornell, with Dan Reed az the helr,
expects formidable team. as Full
back Wilson is 'be only reliable man
gone. Dartmouth is an unknown guam
tity, Coach Cavsnangh keeping secret
the state of affairs there.
West Of the Allegbeoies tho condi-
tion is practically the same as pre-
vailed last wear. so that it viii ne next
to impossible to get real line on the
championship. Michigan win meet none
of the other contenders for the title,
practically all the Wolverines games
being with eastern elevens. Chicago,
weak last year. should be stronger this
year Wisconsin holds forth bright
prospects, as do Minnesota, Nebraska,
Missouri. Washington and ST. Louis,
Kansas and Iowa seem 20 be out of the
running.
In the south. Vanderbilt and Arkan-
sas stand supreme The elevens that
took the field for these universities
last wear arc practically intact. The
two teams did not meet last year, but
each swept away with case the other
southern teams. Vanderbilt upheld the
honor OF tbe south against fhe cnst by
tyinc Yale. The two leaders of the
south will not get together until next
wear if ever. 50 this years title IN tnat
section will have 10 remain matter
of conjecture
Vale and Harvard Best
II is inconcusive 10 attempt fore
cast OF the season a, this stage, so Tar
as II affects the results. hut am tesnptea
to put the teams IN order , as inr as ,asrI ,asu
conside-ation OF the material in hand.
and the fundamental value of rhe coach
Ing systems. When the big sam@s ,,'nd Spm9
hut at this writing ] am impeisd TO pc
lieye that the outsider might look Tor
ward to high, class rqo,9a' IN hrssk.ts ,s,J as
Brown. Princeton and PennsylVsnia IN
brackets: Dartmouth and Cornell In
brackets; Army and Nay y.p IN ,s brackets, "a som,
One thing is certain. we VIII nave so''s
great hall this season
1T is interesting 10 note some OF the
leaders ,y who e1s wo In zane cnere on Here s
Ia n patriot list which Is worth Keep
ing:
ator Aldrich from Rhode Island, was cap
lain of the Brown varsity team for four
years Robert Bacon. United States. en-
hassador to France. was captain OF me
Harvard team In 10: Lee McClung.
United States treasurer. WAS halfback
in the famous Yale team OF 'el- still
regarded as the greatest team ever
turned out at New Haven; William II.
! Lewis assistant attorney general OF tbs
! United states. was captain of the Am
herst team and for two wears PLAYED cen-
TOR rush at Harvard. George Woodruff,
United States district Judge in Hawaii.
was a star guard on the Yale team OF
'Sq There lis considerable string OF
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