New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-09-14
PENN. FOOTBALL MEN
READY FOR PRACTICE
New Coaches and Untrled Ma
teriaI Make the Outlook
Hard to Figure.

The University Of Pennsylvania FOOT
ball practice will begin tomorrow. when
George II. Brooke and his assistants ex-
pect TO have at least sixty men on
Franklin Field. Since the football COM
mittee absolutely refused to permit any
kind of preliminary practice in advance
OF this date the coaches have been get
ting in touch with the candidates, so that
they might lose no time.
The first game will be played with
Gettysburg College on September q.
which will give less than two weeks OF
preparation. Although the Quakers have
respected the sentiment against prelimi-
nary practice for a good many years. they
have always managed to get on the field
nearly a week earlier than will be pos
sible this year. Some Of the coaches
seem to think that the football commit
tee has been entirely too strict
The fact that the team has lost FIVE OF
last years veterans. and this season must
20 TO work with a group Of new coaches.
makes the problem difficult one. George
Brooke has a three-year contract, and is
not too optimistic about winning all his
games this fall He believes that II will
take at least two years TO get the best
results from his system.
With the approach OF the opening date
for practice the prospects brighten for
strong back field. 1t Is learned that Har-
ris, who played a brilliant game with the
freshman eleven. will be a candidate for
the varsity. He is one of the best all
around athletes that ever entered Penn
sylvania. He weighs $50 pounds. ia a
good line breaker, end runner and punter
He is not quite so we'll thought OF as
Carter. but he will be a strong candidate
for one OF the halfback positions. With
Minds at quarterback, Marshall and Har
rls at halfback and Carter at fullback
the Quakers would have a pretty fair
back field.
The coaches are hopeful that the new
material will bring out some heavy men
| for the line. For the last half dozen
years the Quaker line material has been
very poor Last year, for instance. one
OF the tackles weighed only l65 pounds,
while the average for the whole line was
not only the lightest In years. but many
pounds lighter than the rush lines OF the
Quakers rivals. Even some Of the minor
| colleges outwelghed the Quaker forwards.
| Assistant Coach Zeigler. who had charge
| Of the spring practice. secured the uni
versity for big men and succeeded in in
teresting a number who had never report
| ed for the team. He Is hopeful that some
! Of them will make good.
This years schedule is the shortest on
record, there being only ten games. The
| football committee has come 10 the con-
clusion that midweek games are practical
! ly useless They are always a losing
venture financially and the coaches think
that they can get Just as good results
| from scrimmage with the scrubs. The
only midweek game played will be that
with Franklin and Marshall on Octo-
Der I.
Al the same time this years schedule
will be unusually hard for the reason that
with the exception OF the first two games
\ every contest will be with team which
has trounced the Quakers In the past.
| Considerable uneasiness is felt because OF
/ the necessity OF moving the Lafayette
game from the first Saturday in Novem-
Der to the first Saturday In october. The
Eastonians have always been match
| for the Quakers and since they have been
| training for nearly two weeks they will
be far advanced when they reach Frank
| lin Field. Then in order come Swarth-
more, Brown. the Indians, State, Dart
mouth Michigan and Cornell.