Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-15
MICHIGAN WANTS
RETURN CONTEST
Would Make It a H0me-and-
Home Series With
Harvard.
YALE DOINGS KEPT SECRET

According to Athletic Director P. q.
Bartelme, of Michigan, a reply to the
counter proposal for Harvard
Michigan game next year will
not be received for several days.
In the opinion of Bartelme, the tele-
gram sent Saturday by the Wolverine
board of control must be laid before
the Harvard authorities before any
final action can be taken at the Cam
bridge end.
Bartelme has failed to deny the re-
port that the message contained an
absolute refusal of the offer for a
single game to be played at Cam
bridge October "a, 1914. His silence
further tends to substantiate the be-
lief that Michigan has asked for a
two-year agreement, which will pro-
vide for one game at Cambridge and
one at Ann Arbor.
The statement attributed to Coach
Yost following the Harvard-Yal
game this year, in which he Is stated
to have expressed the opinion that
Michigan would easily beat Harvard
on that day, has created confidence
in the Ann Arbor rooter and he be-
lieves his team could wallop the
Crimson in spite Of BriclSiey's toe.
Yale football coaches who discussed
the gridiron situation until midnight
Saturday night had no statement to
make as to the results of the meeting
at New Haven. Several points have
not been fully decided upon and
others need the approval of men who
were not present at the meeting. Ac-
cordingly Captain Nelson Talbot will
make no announcement of plans until
the middle of the week. He says the
football schedule for next fall Is prov
ing puzzler.
AS O. result of the interest aroused
by Brickley's five field goals in the
football game between Yale and Har-
the famous football statistician, has
made a careful search for similar rec
ords in past football games. His eff
forts have brought to light the fact
that three times previously this feat
has been accomplished, and he gives
the following data: b. W. Trafford,
of Harvard. against Cornell, Novem-
Der 1, 1890, kicked five goals by drop
kicks from the 35, 35, 80, 30 and 30
cago, against Illinois, November IS,
1905, kicked five goals by drop-kicks
from the So, 90, 20, 20 and 15-yard lines.
Eckersall on November %, 1906, dupli-
Gated the feat against Nebraska,
scoring from the 49, 35 20, 20 and 20
yard lines. Brickiey's kicks were from
the "a, 80, SO, 80 and 21-yard marks,
the 39-yard goal being from place.
kick and the others by drop-kicks.
S.
With q place on the schedule made
vacant by Wesleyan's determination
not to play Yale another year and
the possibility Of games with the Uni
versity of Chicago and the Army, Yale
managers have q problem to arrange
a game that will serve its purpose
of showing up the weak points in at
tack and defense and yet prove a
drawing card. The latter considera-
ton is an important one this time,
for Yale has a million dollar stadium
to pay for and there will be seats
enough for almost all corners.
Walter Camp, Yale's athletic ad-
wiser, who has just returned from
Chicago, has nothing to say about the
possibility of a Chicago Yale game.
Other problems discussed related to
coaching plans for next fall. Although
no announcement was made, it is be-
lieved Howard Jones will return an
other fall to take charge of matters,
with Frank Hinkey, Captain Ketcham
and DR. William II. Bull to help him.
HinlSey has been suggested as head
coach if Jones does not return.
The honor of being football captain
at Dickinson College has fallen to H.
ID. Hornberger, of Sinking Springs,
Pa, who has just completed his first
year as a regular player on the Dick
inson team. Hornberger played centre
this fall.
The Harvard football captain for
next year will be chosen Thursday,
when the players who won their 'H''
in the Yale game will hold their an
nual election. There are two recog-
nized candidates, Charles e. Brickley,
whose kicking performances have
been noteworthy. and Walter II.
Trumbull, who played centre. Eigh-
teen men are eligible to vote, but the
candidates, according to custom, will
take no part in the balloting.
For practically the same reasons
that actuated Wesleyans refusal,
Trinity declined Yale's invitation to
play the opening football game for
both colleges at New Haven next sea-
son. Trinity in refusing, explains
that her schedule is already filled,
but other reasons are that she is I'M
willing to accept an offer secondary
to Wesleyan, and that. like Wesleyan,
the Trinity management does not care
to go up against SO hard q game at
- -