Daily Kennebec journal., 1913-11-27


Il again next season. Captain ket-
cham. Pcndleton. Talbot, .Marting,
Ainsworth. Dunn and Avery will be
bst by graduation. Yale coachers are
sure to have another. stormy season
In store.
Larry Whitney was a prospective
Varsity captain the moment he was
headed for Dartmouth. lie was bullt
that way, and had he made some 9TH
or college or university his choice IL
would have been just the same IL
would very likely have been a track
capiaincy if not football. He is fine
type Of the college athlete.
Ex-Capt. Ham" Fish of the Har-
ward eleven evidently has not wholly
recovered from Saturdays game lie
maintains that the three sure pets
for the next three years are: That the
Navy will beat the Army, this year;
that Harvard will beat Yale, next
year. and that Roosevelt will be elect
ed President in 1916.
Snake Adams. one of the greates
dodging backs who ever played the game
Oh football and who after nearly 20 year,
goes back to Princeton TO help groom
the, Tigers, has a son AT Old Nassau
Like his famous daddy, young Aihes
is football player and has much OF MS
fathers lodging ability. He played on
the Freshman eleven this fall and so'
into all the games. At present he is
rather light in weight.
Just another gasp of the football
season of 1913 in the Pennsylvania
Cornell and Brown-Carlisle games
THANKSGIVING day and the Army
Navy contest at tho Polo Grounds,
next Saturday. They are picking the
Quakers to down Cornell as OF oid'
while the Navy will start favorite
over the ARMY contingent AS hoi
that Carlisle Brown game. warner
braves are booked for another chahee
to fatten their point scoring total
That question of whether or not
Charlie Brickley of Harvard Is as
great a football player as Jim laorpe'
the Carlisle Indian was crops up
as usual and will not down. 1he
question has furnished all kinas OIL
debate from followers of the plsshih
game. However. no matter what way
the question may be considered IL Is
one OF those that will never be ae-
cided. The local son will always nave
his followers while many VIII never
forget Thorpes great work on 'he
gridiron.
There are any number OF cases as you
All know, of brothers who elected 10 20
TO different colleges. 1t may interest You
10 learn that Aleck Wilson. Yale's dash
ing quarterback, who has come INTO
pro,pinence. this fall, is a brother OF
Tom Wilson. the old Princeton guard.
who PLAYED on the so-callcd champion
ship team of 1911. Then. too. Gle. VINO
PLAYED guard for Princeton in the Dart
mouth game and did the punting. Is a
brother Of the Yale pitcher and end oil
that name.
An x-ray examination. Tuesday, oil
the right arm of Huntington Hard
wick. who played end on the Har-
ward Varsity eleven against Yale, last
Saturday, showed that shoulder ilga-
ment had been strained and a mus
Gle near the collar bone apparently out
of place. Hardwick sustained the IN
fury early in the last half of the game,
and finished the contest with his arm
disabled. He has worn it in sling
since Saturday night. Physicians SAID
1t would be several days before the IN
juries healed.
When the Harvard team returned
to the Stadium after the intermission
and. led by Capt. Storer. ran at fuii
speed across the field. some one re-
marked: ..They had better not waste
their energy in that way" When faie
followed and trotted slowly down the
the side line, our friend drew COM
parison favorable to Yale's way OF
doing things. AS matter OF 1act,
the Harvard trainers point of view Is
that the short sprint serves as
warming up prior to resuming play
and does more good than harm.
Hurry Up Yost, the well-known
Michigan University coach. seems TO
size the football situation up pretty
wen when he compares the Eastern
game To that of the Western. Yost,
however, claims that Eastern footbaii
coaches have not obtained the most
o,,t- of the new game and he West
crner is right. How many times have
.v. seen that forward pass in action
successfully at the Stadium, last sea-
son. to say naught about the other
departments of the game? However
n the Westerners have the new style
of game down better than the Eas,
All that we can say is that it Is to be
reptetted that the East and West
caunot meet in final football game
Of the season.
Portland Press-The Portiand-Deerihe
11irh football game. Thanksgiving morn
ing. will bring the season to close VIII
a flourish Excitement is as hish III 'h'
two schools over this game as IL mas
bcen over any contest of the year boli
schools will march to the ball GrouhoS
nrartically en- masse, each headed ps
its band, and the Portland High students
wilr occupy the bleachers While Deeflht
has the grandstaud. From the two slde'
of ihe field the rival colors will b'
Haunted. the grandgtand being mass o
r,,rple. and the bleachers riot of blue
Roth football squads have been putin;
In some unusually strenuous practice
this week, in preparation for the event
At Portland High. today, there Will b.
two or three corridor meetings, som'
member of the faculty or of the studen
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