Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-29
NOTRE DAME MAY
MEET ABOR|G|NES
Game Likely to Be Played In
Chicago on Christmas
Day.
GRIDIRON NEWS OF TO-DAY

| GRIDlRON NEWS Or lODAf
Carlisle and Notre Dame may clash
at Chicago on Christmas Day accord
ing to advices received today from
Notre Dame. A game between tne
Indians and the speedy Indiana outnt
/ ought to be hummer. Both Teams
| have swept everything before them,
In fine style. Notre Dame had great
| success against West Point and Penn
| State in an Eastern invasion, and just
now the Westerners are raising Cam
in the Southwest.
Western intercollegiate conference
football players will be numbered IN
the first two games next fall. IT
after this trial, the plan meets WIN
opposition 1t will be optional with
contestants whether numbers be worn
or not. These plans to test the ao-
visibility of the system were made at
the meeting OF managers ana coaches
yesterday in Chicago.
| Director George Huff, Of the Uni
versity of Illinois, was appointed a
committee of one to determine the
sentiment of the conference after the
| trial other methods of acquaintlng
football crowds with details OF play
was made certain by the appointment
of Coach A. A. Stage, of chicago, as
q committee of one to devise set OF
signals by which officials might md
cate to announcers the cause OF pom
alties.
-.
The Indian football squad returned
from the Brown game, at Providence,
yesterday in better physical condi-
ton than any football aggregation
has enjoyed in the twenty-five years
the great college game has been IN
vogue at Carlisle. Vedernack's arm
La slightly stiff. Goeback. who had a
slight fever, Is entirely recovered.
Barring skin bruises the rest of the
Redskins are In fine physical condi-
ton.
When given the option at Proyi-
dence of stopping over In New YORK
for the Army Navy game or coming
home, the Indians voted unanimously
to return to Carlisle. The modest
aborigines, II Is thought, SHED at
the attention they would probaly
attract at the big social football
event.
An army aeroplane decorated with
army flags may be seen above the
Polo Ground prior to the football
game between West Point and An
napolis. Sergeant Samuel Kaufman.
of tho artillery corps at West Point,
announced yesterday that he had re-
ceived permission from tho military
and football authorities to make the
flight. Sergeant Kaufman said he
would start from Governors Island
some time before the football game
begins, weather permitting.
-
Jack McMaster, who trains the ath-
letes of the Naval Academy, will
make his semi-annual fitting TO Scot
land as soon as he can pack up after
today's football game. He has en-
gagged passage on the Lustania for
next Wednesday morning and the
; voyage will be his flfty-sixth crossing
of the Atlantic. He goes over In De-
cember and June every year, return
ing In March and September. AS
soon as his ship docks at Liverpool
he jumps into the first train, de-
barks just across the border and
, drives twenty miles out into the
, moors, where his family lives. Then
come fishin' and huntin' to make the
years sit lightly.
Paul wilmington, former Harvard
football star, is nursing q lame leg
4
Day football game between a picked
UP team and a team made up largely
/ of present and former Harvard play
ers, at Newburyport He failed to
rise after a scrimmage and had to be
helped to the stand. Wilmington
, played centre on the Harvard varsity
,, teams of 1908 and 1909.
80
/ Wall Street betting odds heightened
, today to 10 to on the Navy against
the Army, making the midshipmen
| the strongest favorites since betting
: on the game began. Plenty of Navy
money was offered at the prevailing
! Odds but the Army supporters held
} off for 2 to !. There was a bot OF
/ $500 even that the Army would score;
: $500 even that the Navy would score
: double the number the Army would;
, 5000 even the Navy would score the
, first field goal. and 500 even the score
would be odd.
Eleven members of the Penn varsity
, squad, five of whom have been regu-
lars during this season, will be
among the missing when the call Is
made for football candidates next fall
! Captain Young, Simpson, Minds, Mar.
shall and Crane are the Ave men who
wore the Red and Blue on the grid.
iron for the last time on Thursday
while the other members of the squad
who will be graduated next June art
| Dutton, O. substitute guard; Griffith
the second string centre; Peden, ar
end Bloom, another end: Anderson, 8
half back, and Torrey, tackle.
ss
Announcement was made yesterday
OF the election OF Richard Diamond
1915, as captain of next years Lafay-
cite football team. He has played
both at end and quarterback during
the season just closed.
/
Norman Schwarzkopf, who was
graduated last February from Bar
ringer, is q member of the West
Point football squad which plays at
the Polo Grounds today. He is just
eighteen years old and shows unusual
physical development, weighing 1SC
pounds. In June he entered the acad-
envy, having passed his entrance ex-
ans in April. 1912. He is a Newark
born boy. having attended and passed
through every class of the Washing
ton Street School and completed his
course at Barringer.