The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-11-28
Sporting Notes.

Brown TUNED the trick predicted and
beat the Carlisle Indians although the In
dams PLAYED gomeiy to the last.
\ forward pass gave Holy Gross the .
victory over University OF Vermont Al
Worcester Thursday by a score Of to q |
Stuart Ryder halthack OF the Amherst
team, has been elected captain Of the 1913 /
team. 1t he makes a, good Il captain as he /
has halfback he viii be highly sati>tac- /
tory choice.
University of PENNSYLVANIA threw big
scare into the Cornell camp before Cornell
finally won by score Of n to II. As
usual Barrett was the star for Cornell.
scoring l. 81 his teams ~ points
With 50 many first class athletes at the
front IN Europe and with so many swell
chances ot their beng disabled o. killed
others who have been obliged to remain in
the second rank in their speciaities may
| have chances Of coming to the front in
| their particular departments of sport.
| In the last six years Yale has made more
points against Harvard by Safeties than by
touchdowns, The Blue hasn't scored at
! all by touchdowns and has scored twice by
Harvard safetieS. Corbett made one in
1909 and O'Brien one in 1913. In 1914
Mahan made what a lot of folks think was
one.
| Buzz Andrews was one of the back
field men of the Brown university team
who played high grade football against the
Carlisle Indians. Buzz" did not have the
honor of making touchdown against the
i Redskins, but he made ono or two long
gains that contributed towards the touch
downs and hf> work on defense was very
noticeable
In connection with the proposition to
nave a high. school league to include the
Brattleboro high school. it Is felt that the
league games should be umpired By others
than those who by any chance can be in
terested IN the success of any of the teams.
Capable college men may be obtained at
small expense This plan. followed gen
orally elsewhere, has been found to be
the most satisfactory.
f. b. Coehems, coach Of the University
Of Maine football team, suggests that the
tfom-down1o-yards gain rule in football he
4 abolished. Instead he advocates that each
4 team be permitted TO gam as much as pos
8 sible IN five attempts and then the bal
{ should so 10 the other side He also adj
q vocates that the ball should be put in pla,
I at the beginning Of the third period wher,
& it was at the end of the second. maxim.
a continuous game instead Of two game
q as he now sees a contest.
q Tom Ready is well satisfied with hi
81 coaching season at Lehigh He had SOM
q stars on his team and among them Wa
81 Chenoweth at quarter, Cahill was prob
% ably the most sensational drop kicker o
81 the season, In the seven games he playe
b he made II attempts to kick goals and 90
q away with-fo of them. In two instance
IL when he missed his line failed to hold
81 His longest kick was the second in til
ii Penn State game and was from tssas
u yard line.
u 1t should be remembered that there
ID to be a skating rink somewhere this SCI
n son. The complexity of the weather Las
III winter did not make the proposition I'll
81 greatest Of successes. but there is MOI
b hope for the plan this year. 1t is propose
b to flood some suitable ground, and M
81 have it on the river as was the case We;
81 ago This plan is an ideal one-after Il
81 suitable ground is discovered. Sever
q have been offered. it is understood b
q there appears to be considerable numb
81 Of valid objections to most Of tho
81 offered,