New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-17
Columbia Gets
Ready for Big
Year on Gridir0n
Everything in Shape for Squad,
Which Will Start Work
on Wednesday.

Still dizzy from the glorious season
Of 1915, when, after a lapse of ten
years, it put a football team on the
field that went through the season
without a defeat, Columbia will start
its second season Wednesday. If the
1916 schedule proves as successful as
its immediate predecessor there can
be no doubt that at the end Of the five
wear trial period the gridiron game will
be restored At Morningside Heights ior
good
for the squad. Lockers have been IN
stalled for the men, South Field mas
been trimmed and petted until 1t looks
Ike a regular lawn, Harry Fisher has
been supervising the erection or ne"
stands. and Captain jeff Healy, the
giant tackle, has won his fight Tor
some sort OF a training table.
II was feared that the date set TOT
opening practice might be postponed
because Of the paralysis epidemic, but
President Nicholas Murray Butler does
not intend to change the regular
schedule for the academic year. Con-
sequcntly. football, which IS not an
unlmportant item on the schedule, TO
the Undergraduates at least, Will also
start on time.
Metcalf VIII Coach.
Head Coach 7. Nelson Metcalf, who
came out Of the wilderness OF ONO
last fall and accomplished the re
markable feat Of winning five games
and losing none, with an absolutely
green team, Will be back this fall. lie
will be fanked by a staff of competent
assistants, a motley throng, IN that II
represents five universities.
The whole veteran line, from tackle
10 tackle will report for the opening
practice. In the backfeld several good
men have been lost, but Howard NIL
Ter and NANNY Littaucr, half the Of
fcnsiye strength last fall, will be on
hand
Lending even more 70 the prospects
for a good season is the announcement
that this year the team will be together
Al meal times. A regular training
table, with all its accompanying eX-
pense, savored too much Of business
and too little Of sport from the fac
ulty point of view, so II tabooed the
practice last season. Captain Healy
has declared that in view Of the par
alysis plague it probably would be
safer for the men 10 eat under proper
supervision, and the college authori-
ties have agreed TO let the gridiron
warriors convene regularly with their
coach.
lom Thorp. the old Columbia cap
tain; Peter Fisher, formerly Of Ober-
lin; Ike Teller. end at Dartmouth
two years ago; Ted Wilmington, of
Harvard. and Al Stimson, also of Ober-
lin, have been asked 10 report
Wednesday in the capacity Of assistant
coaches.
According 20 the men that Metcalf
has communicated with, the number TO
report on September 20 should be close
to a hundred. Then it is realized that
out of the fifteen thousand or more
students in Columbia only seven hum
bred are eligible for football, and a
squad Of one hundred will prove
highly pleasing to all hands.
Ends Greatest Need.
The greatest needs, 80 far as the
varsity is concerned, are at the ends
and in The backhed. Eckey Calder.
marry butImeSeT ana mex heeuetb
three sterling ends, have been grad
uated Halfbacks Donoho. Mansbach.
Wadelton and Simonds, last years
captain. will not be among those pres
ent. This leaves Metcaf with only
Littauer 90 depend on.
Bud Culloton, star OF last years
freshman team, will be eligible. Dial
Cochrane, who broke his ankle last
year, has announced his intention OF
reporting. This pair. with Fred Dunn,
Jack Rosen and Phil Elmer. make up
the only material out of which Met
calf can build a second line Of defence
and offence.
Before the opening game with Hamil-
ton, October II, there is every reason
10 believe that the staff Of coaches will
have the eleven IN presentable shape.
For a team as green, comparatively
speaking, as Columbia will be, there
are really no soft spots in the schedule
after the Hamilton game. On October
il Vermont comes to South Field;
October n, Union; October 2S.
Stevens; November IL, Swarthmore;
November Is, Wesleyan. and November
%, New York University.