Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-02-09
A Review of College Sports
For Coming Season of 1914.


competition. One or two athletes in
eligible last spring will also be able
to compete. These taken together with
the IL veterans available should pro-
vide team numerically strong but
Trainer Keene Fitzpatrick will have to
increase the standard of performance
if the Orange and Black is to finish
better than ninth place which is
Princeton's mark as 81 result of the
six points collected at Cambridge in
the Intercollegiate last May.
The question of the scene of the
1914 Army-Navy football game is al
ready being discussed by representa-
tives of the two academies. The pro-
posal to play the game in the Yale
stadium, which will hold 10000 spec
taters, is receiving favorable consid-
Grafton at West Point but it is said that
the Navy will not agree upon the long
trip to New Haven. Lieut.. D. p. Sui
tan, the Army representative, states;
1--WE are now negotiating with the
| Navy in regard TO the place for next
years Army-Navy game, but have
reached no agreement as yet. So far
as the Army is concerned the Yale
field would be entirely satisfactory,
but am afraid that the distance from
Annapolis to New Haven is so great
that the authorities at the Naval
Academy would not agree to play the
game in the Yale Bowl
T. Dewitt Cuyler, chairman of the
Committee of Twenty0ne in charge
of the building Of the Bowl, says:
In regard to the possibility of the
Yale Bowl being used for the Army
Navy football game when completed.
| should be very strongly in favor of
such plan If it could be brought
about. 1t would undoubtedly give
the Army and Navy facilities they
have never enjoyed, but | am fearful
that the Navy would object on the
ground of the distance
The former Carlisle Indian School
football center Wheelock, who until
recently was a student at the Univer-
sity of Idaho, has abandoned the idea
of further college education and re-
turned to his tepee. Football coach
Griffith is bemoaning the loss of the
famous redman whose sudden depart
ure he is unable to explain.
Dad Moulton, recent trainer at the
Stanford University, is authority for
the statement that the Pale Alto Uni
versity has future worlds record
sprinter in young Dick Grant of Port
land, Ore. Grant has a record of 10 1-5
seconds for the hundred yards as
scholastic runner and is expected to
run inside of ten seconds this spring.
Walter Camp in a recent address to
the Yale alumni of Rhode Island on
the Yale athletic situation and the
prospects for the future spoke in an
optimistic vein as follows:
'It is perfectly true that in the last
two or three years we haven't pro-
gressed as we used to progress. l
have said it was not easy to win but
! it was simple We did it by not max
/ ing a mistake twice. When we found
out a mistake one year we did not
make that mistake the next year. We
are not looking for easy fruit If we
are down, we have made some start
all along the line. Now, we are go
| ing on in the same way with baseball
as last year, playing it from the bot
| tom, and we have first class coach
| in Quinby who knows the game and
| can handle men.
''The crew situation is in the hands
of committee. They have hard
task. The idea is not to have three
different systems, and an inoffensive
set of eight men to stand for it, but
to get men in charge who will develop
a continuous policy. Armstrong will
be. in charge and we have Guy Nick
alls, who is probably the master Eng
lish oar, both in performance and
coach work. We can't hope to have
Nickalls and keep him there for more
than year or two, and we want some
one who Will stay on, who will carry
on the same system. Eugene Gianni-
nj will work with Armstrong and Mr.
Nickalls He has not had experience
in coaching four-mile college crews,
but the committee hopes that the ar
rangement will work cut. In football
we have one of the old school-Frank
Hinkey-who, in addition to- being one
Iof the old school players, has always
been man who is willing to try a
new play He is ready to move. and
should think we. can progress in good
fashion there and take up the work
from where we left 1t last year..
According to statistics recently COM
piled by the Princeton University