New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-20
Advantages of Plan TO BE
Shown at Princeton and
Polo Grounds.
DARTMOUTH BOASTS
OF BRILLIANT END
Teller. Former De Witt Clinton
Captain, Making Name TOT
Himself at Hanover.
Nv HERBERT.

Two football games next Saturo !A
Ill f,rn;sh n striking example OF 1he
sSvantages of numbering the players.
Tha nIan. so long advocated IN NJ
T,Tihune. will be tried out at the ROY
Grounds when Cornell and browI w
hattie. while the players also VIII az
numbered in the Princeton-DSrVi"0u'"
game at Princeton. ;.o,-
No one thing will do more 70 nj ~
sify the widespread lnterest ~ Of
snsc.ators than this simple method OF
;Sentifvine the players, who as RUE
are so disguised with headgear that
over their best friends might hesltate
IN picking them out. .o~
dartmouth. which was the pioneer
among the larger colleges III auop1'He
the numbering system, beheNeS III
<,,iIv The experiment was uleo
os,a;n.t the Carlisle Indians last year
snd worked out so well that FIanN
Csyanaugh, the head coaeh' says INV
numbers have come TO stay ...
The plan at Hanover is 10 asSign
numbers early in the season 10 tne
leading candidates on the VARSITY
SQUAD and make no changes. for IN
stance. Teller, who is sure 10 play one
end against Princeton, Is no. 81 maSs
Merrill. who will be seen at one guar y
~r;iI have "a on the back of has jersey
Cen.ain whitney is numbered /; Ghee'
az sensational little quarterback, -
Cnrtis. the clever punter, 3, and MUIR
dock. the fullback, 4, but there the Sc
quenee ends.
Tro nlavers on the Dartmouth eleven
learned their football at De witt I'm
ton High School, and apparently
learned It we'll They are Alex NJ
Teller who is called Ike perhaps
because that is not his real name VINO
is making a name for hlmselt at emu
and Charley Cumisky, hrst SUBSTITUTE
quarterback to Ghee. ,. INA.
Teller will bear watching against
Princeton on Saturday. lie seems ~
be of All-American cahore' anu
counted one of the best enaS ever ou
welcomed at Dartmouth. lie was cap
tain and left end on the De WHY Ciin-
ton team of 1911, and earned alI-schor
lastic honors, and also was captain OF
the freshman eleven at Hanover In
1912 He had TO repeat his nrst year
work in Dartmouth in 1918, so th&t
this is his first appearance on the
varsity.
+ A Curtis. the Dartmouth half !
hack. who ranked with the best punt
ers of the East last year, - '"o 90's /
Of the newly elected Governor OF /
Maine and former Mayor OF Portland I
Edward y. Robinson, coach of the /
Brown eleven, was halfback on the I
team of 1895, which was beaten 6 10 .
by Cornell at Ithaca the last time 4
the two universities met on the grid .
iron. In consequence Robinson has, a
nineteen-year-ol settlement to make |
with the men of Cornell at the Polo 4.
Grounds next Saturday.
"Buck" WhittemOre, one of the as !
sistsnt coaches at Brown, insists that
Mark Farnum. who was the sensation /
of the Dean Academy eleven last year, /
and RAYMOND Ward are two OF the 1
hest tackles he has ever seen.
Joe Cannon, the Dartmouth athletic |
mentor in this city, tells me that the /
freshman football squad at Hanover is
made up of 116 men. This is more
han one-ouarter Of the entering class,
rhich this year Numbered 43o. Al
Princeton 1893 men registered Tor the
freshman class