Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-28
BIG DEMAND FOR
ARMY-NAN SEATS.
West Point Subscribers Must
Have All Applications in
This Week,
HEARD ON THE LINES

Lieutenant Philip Mathews, treas
urer of the Army Athletic Council,
which has charge of the distribution
of tickets for the Army Navy foot
ball game among subscribers in the
Army Athletic Council, said yester-
day that owing to the largely In
creased demand made upon the Army
Athletic Council this year for seats
for the Army and Navy football
game in New York, the council was
obliged to announce that application
for tickets must be in the hands OF
the athletic committee before Novem-
Der I.
The great question at Pennsylvania
now is: Can the team benefit by the
lessons of the Indian game? The
whole student body and the coaches
believe that the Red and Blue boys
will benefit and that they will be Inn
proved by the grueling lesson handed
to them by Pop Warmers Indians.
Many students in Washington and
Jefferson College think Dave Fultz,
the umpire at the Yaie-W. and ].
game. robbed bob" FolwelPs team
OF well-earned victory over the
Ellis.
The betting at present is strongly
In favor Of Dartmouth against Penn
and on Harvard to beat both Yale
and Princeton. There may be lots of
surprises in this football season yet.
There already have been a number,
and who can tell?
Tom Brown, a Vanderbilt tackle.
suffered a broken bone in his foot
and a torn cartilage in his neck In
Saturdays game with Michigan. it
developed yesterday. He will be dis
abled until Thanksgiving Day at
least.
In a group of thirty-three Eastern
football teams, only three, Harvard,
Dartmouth and the Army, have won
every game The list of unbeaten
teams takes In addition to these
three, Yale, the Navy, Washington
and Jefferson and Pittsburgh. If the
last-named may be included in the
geographical range. The only teams
in the whole roster not scored on are
Yale and the Navy.
Chalk diagrams on blackboard
hung in the gym" interspersed with
clear-cut forceful words from the
coaches, was the order of the day for
the Army's football squad yesterday.
No special preparations are being
made for the Notre Dame game next
Saturday, Notwithstanding the fact
that the Army tackles the Westerners
at most inopportune time. Meacham,
ha %. lot,
Benny" Hoge, end, and Weyand, the
big tackle, are severely used up.
The victorious Dartmouth team had
a day Of rest yesterday, as a reward
for its victory at Princeton, and the
only activity in football circles con-
sisted of cleaning the mud soaked
clothes and patching up a few bruises.
Considering the character of the game,
the fact that but one man was seri-
ously hurt, speaks we'll for the physi-
cal condition of the squad.
With half of the local games behind
them and the hardest contests of the
schedule to start next Saturday, the
Naval Academy football squad start
ed the weeks work with great
earnestness yesterday afternoon. The
coaches warned the players that Lee
high, Bucknell and Pennsylvania
State, which will be their next oppo-
nents, would be teams of an entirely
different calibre from those which
have been played recently.
Jim Cooney, the famous old Prince
ton tackle, is going to spend couple
of weeks coaching the football team
of the Exeter Academy. Cooney, who
is a. superintendent of a salt plant
near Ithaca. N. Y. left there last eve
ming for Exeter.
Jimmy Craig, star of the 1912 Miehi-
gan football team. lined up with the
varsity in signal practise last night
for the first time this season, filling
his old place at left halfback.
Because q number of the players
were badly bruised in the game
against the University of Pennsyl-
vania on Saturday, Coach Warner
| thought it best to relieve his men
from any work on the gridiron yester-
day afternoon and had them take a
long walk in the country TO substitute
a limbering-up exercise.
Cornell took stock yesterday after
noon after Saturdays upset at the
hands of the Pittsburghers and found
herself a bit battered. but determined
to make a desperate effort to play
Harvard next Saturday without the
game proving a walkaway for the
Crimson.