Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-05
DARTMOUTH MEN
OVERCONFIDENT
That Is Warning Of Coaches
Talking on Penn.
Game.
NEW FOOTBALL GOSSIP


While football coaches in some
camps are spending sleepless nights
worrying because the teams under
their charge are not rounding into
shape, the football faculty" at Dart
mouth is alarmed because the team
is too good" at least In its own es-
timation. Overconfidence. the direct
result OF the victory scored over
Princeton, has made the players
careless and they pay little heed to the
warnings of the coaches. The team
was put through a gruelling drill in
preparation for the University of
Pennsylvania team yesterday, which
means much TO both colleges, for
should Dartmouth add another vic
tory over one of the big elevens, her
booming football prestige will be
greater than ever.
Every effort is being made to re-
duce the craniums of the players be-
fore II is too late, according to the
reports from Hanover. At the same
time this may be only ruse of the
Dartmouth coaches. II It Is they
must be handed the palm for spring.
ing something original and novel, en-
tirely different to the usual gloomy
tales preceding a big battle on the
gridiron.
Following the death OF George Gay,
a Ursinus College student and ath-
lete who had his neck broken in a
! football game Saturday at Phoenix
vile. the faculty met last nights and
decided to cancel the remainder of
the football schedule. The two games
to be played were with Pennsylvania
Military College and Franklin and
Marshall.
The Notre Dame football team Is
on It's way East again today for their
clash with Pennsylvania State. Be-
cause of the long trip ahead of the
! players, yesterdays practise was
| light. The freshmen team, using the
plays which defeated the Army last
week. were completely routed by the
regulars.
With but a little more than three
weeks left in which to whip a team
| into shape to meet the Navy, the
| Army coaches began a strenuous
campaign with the Army squad yes
terday Two teams were lined up for
/ q hirty-five-minute scrimmage.
which ended only after the regulars
had scored three touchdowns. The
work was encouraging. Captain
Hoge was used again behind the line.
1t looks as IL he were a fixture In
that position.
-
So confident are the Navy coaches
| that the team has reached top form
in its general play that the entire
! back field was given rest yesterday,
with the exception OF Mitchell, who is
fighting 1t out with Nichols for the
quarterback position.
4 Bent on reducing the possibility OF
injury to his regulars, Coach Yos'
yesterday called off the proposed
scrimmage with the Cornell drilled
scrubs and instead brought the re-
serves on the field merely for the
purpose of showing the varsity the
Ithacans formations and of devisine
methods of defense. 1t was strictly
secret drill.
Union made n Garrison finish in its
annual football struggle with Hobart
| at Buffalo yesterday, making two
touchdowns in the final period of play
and winning by a score of Ia TO 0.
Hobart played strong defensive
game for the first three periods. but
| In the final quarter the constant
pounding of the Union attack wore
! down the Hobart line and the Sche-
nectady eleven romped through to
victory.
The Cornell football squad engaged
/ In its first outside work yesterday
afternoon since the Harvard game on
! Saturday. After the rest the men
went to the work with spirit which
was highly encouraging. The coaches
adjourned the field work when it be-
gan to get dark and ordered the men
to the baseball cage. where some new
plays were announced, TO be used in
| the next game.
| FordhY n sufferer another defeat at
the han "a of its great rival, Villa
nova, in the annual election day
game at Fordham Field. Score, 40 to
0. VilIanova's team work was splen-
did It's plays were cleverly masked
and the old criss-cross and delayed
pass plays were worked for repeated
gains. The remarkable ability of the
Quaker back field men to shake off
the tacklers spoke well for Coach st.
lAlN III AAti CdAaA'AN hhN
Yale centre.
A list OF touchdowns to date runs
all the way from twenty-eight for
Notre Dame to one for Swarthmore,
but the season has three weeks to
run yet.
SAYS the New Haven Register.
COACHES may gather here in droves.
What Yale needs is players. And she
has neither players nor the time now
to develop any. Two weeks remain.
No new style OF attack nor method
of defense can be perfected now. The
big games are due and Yale is Sc
riously handicapped"
Bill Hollenback says Penn's line
compares favorably with Harvards.
The Navy's line is described as be-
ing one of the strongest in the coun-
try. The team is smotherlng oppon-
ents under top-heavy scores, the
backs are ripping and pounding their
way to touchdowns by the wholesale,
yet the Army goes on practising.