New-York tribune., 1915-09-24
FOOTBALL GETS
A GOOD START
AT COLUMBIA
Thirty three Candidates
and 1000 Rooters Report
for Opening Practice.

Football had an auspicious beginning
at Columbia yesterday, when thirty
three candidates reported on South
Field for q drill tina. lasted close to
two hours.
Although the number of players with
football experience couId be counted on
the fingers of one hand the squad
showed plenty of promise, in the opin-
ion OF Nelson Metcalfe, the head coach,
and his three assistants, Tom Thorpe,
captain Of the Columbia '05 eleven; Ole
Moffitt, who played two years at Wis
consin and one at Pennsylvania, and
J. c. Henderson, one of Metcalfe's
mates at Oberlin.
Another batch Of thirty candidates
is expected when the university opens
next Wednesday, and in this number
there are half a dozen men who have
had good prep school training. among
them J. F. Healey, the old BGs' High
star, and WILDER, who had year on
the Cornell freshman eleven.
Cleveland, who was a substitute cen
ire at Princeton; Gallagher. former
Army second string quarterback, and
Ecky Calder, a st. Lawrence end, were
the Ouly pldytlS VI tNptiltANS OA NNN
field yesterday.
More than fifteen hundred under
graduates, alumni and visitors were in
the south stand when the squad tripped
on the field in the early afternoon, and
the crowd was augmented every minute
until there were more than two thou
sand on hand.
The squad was split in three sections,
Netcalfe, Nofftt and Thorpe each get
ting a group of candidates, who were
chosen by lot. Most of the time was
devoted to work of the most elementary
kind, and only for few minutes al the
end of the drill did the men get little
practice at running down under punts.
There will be the same kind of work
this afternoon, and the first black
board talk will come tonight in Ear
Hall
Unofficial announcement was made OF
the schedule, which begins on October
% with a game with St. Lawrence
University. Connecticut Agricultural
College will be played on October 30,
Stevens Institute on November 3, Trim
ty on November 10 and Wesleyan on
Thanksgiving Day, November 25. Nc
vember 20 is an open date and Am
herst, New York University, Rochester
and Union are all endeayoring to re
arrange their seasons programme to
fit in a game with Columbia on that
day. AS yet neither y. \. L., Roches-
ter or Union has been able to get re-
leases for games already scheduled for
that day, while Amherst is debating
the advisability of tacking the Colum-
bia game to a schedule which normal
ly ends on November 13 with the an
nual game against Williams.
1t is believed that there will be an
alumni rally TO the support of football
as soon as the work Of the year gets
fully under way. Among old Columbia
stars who have volunteered to lend
hand in the coaching the eleven are
Billy Erb. quarterback in 1902; Harold
Weeks. the old halfback; Eddie Col
Inns, quarterback in 1905, and Bob
Stangeland.
Vic Kennard. the Harvard drop kick.
er, has promised Tom Thorpe to spend
a couple of days a week on Morning
side Heights during the next three
weeks before he leaves to join the
Harvard coaching staff.
The candidates who reported yester-
day and their previous experience in
athletics follow:
X. ". Todd, hockey; r. Franklin,
baseball; p. ELMER, baseball; E. Korn-
sand, basketball; |. Slower, baseball; +.
Simonds. crew; c. Weed. track VI.
Krulewich. s. Bullwinkel. II. Monroe,
crew; T. X. Noble, water polo; W. Wad-
elton. p. ". Thompson, K. Manshach,
crew. r. Donnell, basketball; f. Calder,
basketball; d. Meyer, I. Donaldson. I.
Fairfield, crew; G. Momford. d. Ilm-
mer. c. Cochrane. crew and water polo;
n. Winkler. J. Norton. F. Z. Murphy, J.
Aimee, crew; w. Gallagher, B. De Gran,
+. Healy. basketball; II. Buermeyer,
soccer; f. Donoho, crew; ]. Brown and
J. Cleveland.
Plenty of Vim at Yale.
tBy Telegraph to The Thbunel
New Haven, Conn, Sept. 23.-Cool
weather, which came as a relief from
the sweltering heat, which slowed up
practice earlier in the season, put snap
into the two workouts which Frank
Hinkey gave the Yale football squad
to-day. The players showed more lie
as they left the field tonight, after
harder drill than they had in week.
The only thing which marred an
otherwise successful day was mis-
han. in which Sam Duryee, quarterback
on the second eleven and likely can
didate for that position on the first
team. suffered an injury to one of his
hands.
This mornings drill was devoted to
individual instruction and signal work.
This afternoon signal work was cou-
pied with scrimmage, in which the
scrub scored two touchdowns on the
varsity. Legore and Metcalf making
the tallies.
Harvard Squad in Stadium.
BY Telegraph 20 TIE Tribuncl