The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-09-13
TIME HONORED FOES
WILL CLASH NOV. 20;
Captain Eddie Mahan Of Harvard and Captain Wilson, Of YALE
Have Been Practicing Throughout Summer Within
Stones Throw of Each Other.

New London. Conn, Sept. 12.--Cap.
tain Eddie Mahan, of the Harvard
football team. and Captain Wilson, Of
the Yale eleven, who. technically
speaking, ought to be the bitterest
OF rivals. have boths been training for
the football season within drop
kick of each other at Gales Ferry. q
few miles up the river from New
London.
Since August the two football cap.
taIns have been almost inseparable
Officially the yare business managera
OF two branches of New Haven tutor
ing school but outside OF Office hours
they kick the same football. swim in
the same water. walk through the
same woods and run over the same
roads.
few weeks will make a very per.
ceptible difference in their relations.
On August 20. for instance. Mahan and
Wilson took stroll through the
woods and played ball together on a
scrub nine, and on November 20.
When Harvard plays Yale in the
stadium. Mahan will possibly be Civ
Ing Wilson the straight arm that will
bowl him over as he runs back a
punt or Wilson Will possibly bring
Ma han TO the turf with an ungentle
tackle.
All Part of the Game.
Tnat, however. Is d part of the
game. Football is football. no doubt,
even as friendship is friendship.
Mahan and Wilson are virtually
leading camp life, They undress for
dinner. instead OF slipping into Tux
edos- When the writer tramped into
Eddie Mahan's ranch the Harvard
captain was running around pursuing
his duties in bare feet. That's part
of the treatment he always prescribes
for himself during the summer
months, In order to tougher the soles
of those feet extcrnities in prepara-
ton for the football season in the
fall.
And the hardest labor that Mahan
has at the tutoring camp is not sign
ing checks or teaching Greek. but
carrytn ice on his back from the ice
cart 10 the big refrigerator. Great
exercise and very cool, he proclaimed d.
The rival captains have peculiarly
suitable positions for combining busi-
ness with pleasure. The New Haven
tutoring school has hired the head
quarters of the Yale vastly crew
squad at Gales Ferry, in which to
accommodate the pupils who are
studying for the Yale entrance exams.
Also Wilson presides over the school
as business manager.
The sight of the Thames makes
Eddie Mahan squirn for veugearee
every time he looks at the moving
waters. We may not have licked
you with our navy this year, Alec"
said Mahan TO Wilson, but our land
forces will do awful damage to your
foot ball army this fall. | hate to
think of beating you In the stadium
next November. but it's got to be
done
VERY good, Eddie. very good" said
Alec Wilson to MGhan, hut after that
game In the stadium the Yale parti-
sans will gather in a group and they
will sing in chorus, We Take Our Hats
OFF TO Yon. Mr. Wilson. Lick Harvard
to frazzle' is my platform. and have
been elected captain on it,
The two spend a good Iaaf}y hours
each week spoofing- each other on
what will happen November 20, but
taken separately they both express
their belief that Harvard or Yale Will
be unbeatable the coming fail. de-
pending. of course, on whether MIR.
Mahan or MIR. Wilson is being inter-
viewed.
Mahan has spent the whole summer
getting himself into condition, and he
is today to start scrimmaging, as wen
as being very eager to do so.
Mahan Down to Weight.
Mahan at present weighs 176
/ POUNDS, WINCH IN MS norman Inquire
He and a dozen first string men or
the 1915 squad will begin the actual
training work in a few days. when
they Wal congregate at Newport,
X. l.. for a week of special work I'M
der Haughton.
The Harvard coach has his summer
cottage on an island in Newport har-
Dor. and he owns the island all by
himself.
The general alarm which summons
the whole squad for work at Cam
bridge will be sounded next week.
Mahan has list of l3a men who will
come out for practice. and their ad-
vent to Soldiers Field will mean the
largest squad that ever has shown
itself here before, For two weeks
there will be hard drilling in prepara-
ton for the opening game of the sea.
son. which falls on September 26.
'-rhe schedule that has been ar
ranged for 1915 is surely a tough one"
said Mahan, but | guess We can
pass through it without suffering any
defeats The hard games begin to
come earlier than usual on the new
schedule. for we shall not have much
chance to get going well before the
Carlisle play with US"