Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-26
ST. JOSEPH'S HAS
LOST MANY STARS
BY GRADUATION
Coach Kennedy Will Start
Season Minus Such Men
as Yates, Gribben, Leckie
and Kelly, But Material Is
Good.

l. The st. Josephs College football team
with the veterans Mahony, Donnelly
| Spearing, Henderson, Denney and Byrnc
as a nucleus about which to build team
Many new men have reported and arc
seeking the places left vacant by the
graduation of Yates, Gene" Gribbin
Leckie and Ed" Kelly, stars OF former
seasons o'Nelll Hickey and Northror
are displaying mid-season form. VIE.
gund. a husky back, is lmpressing Coacr
Kennedy by his line plunging and for
ward passing. . .
Among the other new men who reported
to Captain Arthur Mahony, the following
are worthy of notice: Reilly, Doyle,
Fearon, Martin, King. White, Benns,
Druedng, Millar, Pentney, Lyons, Ander-
son, McNally and Hoban. %
The schedule is not yet complete. but
the following games have been arranged
October 2, open; October 10, Wenonah
Military Academy, away. october II, At
lantic City High School. away: October
90, Northeast High, away: October so,
Central High, away; November IL. open,
November 81, Brown Prep, home; Novem-
ber 26 Thanksgiving Day., Georgetown
(pending).
Penn Charter did everything that was
expected of them In defeating the Chel-
tenham High School team, 2l to 0, yes
terday in the inaugural game of the 1914
scholastic season. The Cheltenham boys
have never been accounted very strong
and for this reason larger score was
looked for, but the York road team sur
prised every one by holding their more
experienced opponents at bay on more
than one occasion.
The Quakers started the game like
veritable whirlwinds, and within five min
utcs after the kickoff had tailed on an
end run by Guyer They scored again
before the end of the period, when Hal
lowell intercepted a Cheltenham forward
pass and dashed half the length of the
field for a touchdown. Kindig kicked
both goals.
Cheltenham assumed the offensive after
this. and more than once had their OPP
poncnts' goal in danger. This was espe-
cialy true of the third period, when by
consistent line plunges they reached the
twenty-yard line, only to have Penn
Charter brace and take the ball way
from them on downs This proved to
be the visitors last squirt. and Coach
Merritt's eleven had thing pretty much
it's own way in the final period.
DR.. O'Brien's Central High cross-coun-
try team appears to have an edge on
the other schools again this year. 1t
will be greatly strengthened by the ad-
dition of Mike McHale the former Frank
ford Annex runner, who was the track
teams most consistent performer last
spring McHale started his career as
n cross-country man, and at that time
was the best freshman at the game IN
the city Four of the five veterans from
last years team have returned to school,
and with the addition of McHale will
make a combination that will bo hard
to beat.
The Northeast High eleven. will play
its first real football of the season in
interscholastic ranks today, when 1t en-
cages In a practice game again Mount
Holly High School at Mount Holly. In
preparation for the fray Coach Johnson
put the men through the hardest prac-
tice of the year yesterday. After the
usual signal drill the varsity and scrub
teams lined up for a ij-minute scrim-
mage. in which the first team held the
ball permanently and attempted 10 pene-
trate the scrubs defense. Given the ball
on the 10-yard line, they had little diff
fculty working 1t across the goal line
and scored several touChdowns. Cap
tain Webb's men advanced the ball chiefly
through an assortment of open-tield plays,
forward passes and fake drop
kick formations. Webb attempted sew
eral drop-kicSs. and twice booted the
ball between the posts. The scrub line
played we'll and blocked two kicks After
the scrimmaGe the men practiced re-
ceiving and running up the kickoff.