The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-11-12
Sporting Notes.

Every ticket for the Army-Navy |
game has been mailed to applicants.
Plans are being made for conference
Of various bodies to try to determine I
the answer to the much mCoted question:
- What is an amateur?
University of Pennsylvania coaches |
and PLAYERS ave so well satisfied with
the Dartmouth game that they hope to
beat Michigan Saturday.
Princeton is offering odds of 10 to
6 on the Yale game and Eli supporters
are asking TO l. One man in New
York offers 10 TO that Harvard will
beat Yale and can find no takers.
1t has been eight years since Yale
scored a touchdown against Harvard.
Since 1907 Yale has beaten Harvard
once by the field goal route and has
earned two ties.
DIR. Ben F. Roller was iudisposed
Wednesday night in New York and was
excused from participation in his
scheduled bout in the Graeco- Roman
wrestling tournament now in progress
there.
George Brooke, who has been head
coach of the University of Pcnnsyl-
asked leave cf absence for the rest
of the season and the request has been
granted.
Guernsey Of Yale kicked two field
GOALS Wednesday from the +5-yard line
| in a scrimmaee. He kicked one against
Harvard two years ago. but q lame
ankle prevented him from repeating
! last season.
| It is nor often that the sale Of seats
for Yale game is advertised. Be
cause Of the size of the Yale bowl and
the lack of size of the Yale team the
management of the Yale-Princetor
/ game is advertising public sale OF
tickets.
4 At the Princeton game Satur
day at New Haven there is to b'
spelled out the word ''Yale" in white
on background Of blue. Silk hand
kerchiefs are to be used and enough
of them VIZ - distributed at q cos
of $4,000.
The Colun3ia-T unity game schedule
for Saturt~- viii not be played hecaus
Trinity ins d that Brickley shoul,
be in the H. up. The Columbia authoi
tiles learned that playing agains
Bricklev would .ieopardize the amateu
standing OF the Columbia players.
The University Of Vermont has car
celled the football game scheduled fo
j tomorrow at Worcester, Mass, wit
/ Holy Cross The reason given wa
4 that a representative team could nc
] he gotten together, SO many Of the frs
string men are laid mp with injuries
Brown coaches are inclined to thin
3 that Haughton will think better OF h
D original plan TO send many subs again'
q j Brown Saturday. The Snoring Brow
4 made against Yale. coaches Of IL
j Providence eleven think, viii convint
4 Haughtou that he cannot take tC
3 many chances.
I If Princeton does not beat Yale at lea
4 u points some folks will lie much su
Z prised Amherst ought TO be - poin
B better than Williams. If Harvard does n
use too many subs in the game Brow
4 should be beaten 10 points Pcnnsylvan
q viii beat Michigan by pair OF toachdow
4 and Colgate viii have to scratch hard
q save being scored on. Don't bet all yo
q money on this dope.
s briggs, who did the punting f
/. Princeton in the Harvard game, W
F. coached bv his father from his HI
z school davs Coach Rush, after sect
q briggs punt in practice early in the St
y son. asked him who had taught him
- kick and when he learned that the boy
= father had coached him he sent
II him, and briggs, ST.. has been a e
H slant attendant at the practice Goa
Il ing his sen in the fine art Of booti
II the leather.
Il To quote Chilly Bull, the great t
II mer Yale player, concerning his opini
II of Ned Mahan, the Harvard capita
II "Mahan is absolutely everything
Il the Harvard team. He represents
II entire kicking, forward passing and {
running part Of the game, and III;
II the leading role il every Cake .
formation Mahan has more real z,
football stuff in him than any OF
man l ever have seen, and ] We Sc.
lot .
A play unparalleled in the annals
football occurred in the Carlisle
dian Holy Cross game, presenting
peculiar spectacle of a team refue
TO accept field goal with its Il
points after sending the ball betu
the uprights. In the third period {
Isle held Holy Cross for three do
yard from her goal line Devlin
Holy Cross dropped back and kic
the goal, but an Indian was dete,
off-side When the Holy Cross cap
saw that the penalty of half the
tance to the goal line would max
a first down he refused the coal
IL took the Daualtv