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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-14
Ex-PreSident Taft Sees
His Son Play Football
was chosen TO begin to-morrow's foot
ball game as centre.

was chosen TO begin to-morrow's foot
ball game as centre.
While Yale expects Lehigh to fur
nish a stiff football argument to-mor-
row, the Eli eleven has come along so
fast this week that fear Of defeat does
not haunt the Yale campus. The Yale
attack has increased in strength and
the eleven will face Lehigh in the best
of condition.
Last season Yale barely squeezed out
victory over Lehigh. the score being
to 8. Five Eli players. Belts, Shell
don, Baldridge, Black and Guernsey.
succumbed to severe injuries, and
Chenoweth. of the Lehigh team. broke
his leg. Lehigh has practically the
same eleven that nearly tied Yale, its
three backs, Chenoweth. Maginnls and
Halsted, being regarded as almost with
out superiors among minor college
elevens this season. Lehigh last Sat
urday defeated Albright College. scor-
ing 81 points, the same total Yale was
accommodating against Virginia.
Yale will present the same eleven
which submerged Virginia. with two
exceptions. Taft will supplant Maui
rice Smith. Smith was slightly in
iured last week. Jacques. who was not
in tip-top condition last week. will re-
turn to fullback. Rex Hutchinson, who
played fullback last week. is in the
hospital with a sore throat, but Will
report next Monday.
To-day's final drill included five min
utes' scrimmaging. largely TO develop
the varsity defence, and forty min
utes' signal rehearsal. Another session
was ordered with the varsity rush line
trying to break through the scrubs
line upon the varsity backs. but lie
Cores kicking was so clean that the
first string men were unable to crash
through.
To-morrow's lineup follows:
Left field, Gates; left tackle. Shell
don; left guard. Captain Black; centre.
Taft; right guard. Gait; right tackle
terback. T. Smith; left halfback. Bling
ham; right halfback. lie Gore; fullback.
jacques.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-14
SCHOOL ELEYENS
START GRIDIRON
BATTLES TO-DAY
De Witt Clinton Faces
Fordham Prep-Stuyve-
SAINT Visits Newark

With the weak spots disclosed by
their opening games, the schoolhoy
elevens Of this city are ready for the
more arduous part Of their schedules,
which begins with the games this after
noon.
Judging by the contests already beld,
the championship issue will be as
closely fought out as that Of last year.
Adelphi and Flushing will open their
seasons this afternoon. They proved
two Of the best elevens among the
Brooklyn and Long Island schools last
year.
Only one game will be played in
Manhattan to-day, De Witt Clinton
meeting the Fordham Prep team on
the latter's field. In its opening con-
test last week, Clinton did not show
up as we'll as expected. However, dur
ing the last week Bill Cook, the coach,
has put his men through some siren
uous workouts. Stuyvesant goes to
Newark, where it will engage the strong
Newark Academy eleven in a contest
in which forward passing may prove
the greatest factor in the scoring Ct
touchdowns.
Four contests will be decided on
Brooklyn fields. Adelphi Academy will
meet Brooklyn Prep In Its opening
game, on its East New York grounds.
Coach McClave Is fortunate In having
the majority Of last years players on
hand, and for the last few weeks has
been printing his eleven for the con-
test The line Is a heavy one.
The other three games scheduled are
expected to bring about one-sided re-
suits. Hamilton Institute faces st.
Paul's School, on the la:ter's grounds,
at Garden City, and the former mould
win. Erasmus Hall should encounter
little difficulty at the hands of ST..
Francis Prep in their contest on Haw,-
thorne Field. Flushing High School,
which piled up an unusually high score
for the season last year, will test its
strength against the Freeport High
School,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-14
COLUMBIA FACES
HARD CRIDIRON
STRUGGLE TO-DAY
Blue and White Enters Game
with Vermont Hopeful, but
Not Overconfident

Columbia University's football eleven
will face the team of the University Of
Vermont on the gridiron at South Field
this afternoon. Columbia will 60 into
the fight hopeful, but by no means con-
fident. The showing made by the Blue
and White against Hamilton was any
thing but reassuring, but as Ike Teller,
assistant coach of the varsity, said:
at was tale that had to be told, and
we are glad that nothing worse hap
pened. We hope to give Vermont q
hard fight all the way through. how
ever, and then set ourselves for the
rest of the season"
II Nelson Metcalf could count on
sending a team against Vermont which
was physically fit for q gruelling strug-
gle he would be far more confident of
the result Of the game. He cannot,
however, and the outlook for victory is
none too good. Three of the first-
string men, and perhaps four, will
Dunn, right end; Kennedy, left end
and Monroe, the fullback, have been
named to start, but they are crippled
and Metcalf may decide to put substi-
tutes in at their positions. Zychlinski
the Polish sensation, is limping as a
result of few of Ike Telfer's savage
tackles, and another man may play half
back in his place.
Tho 'vorc " u-oa out For liDht drill
yesterday afternoon, but after rompng
through signals for about ten minutes
the rain came and drove the boys to
cover. Not that the varsity is sugar
coated, but drying facilities are poor,
and the boys wanted dry suits in which
to start against the New England eleven
this afternoon. Metcalf gave the squad
a long talk on football, the strategic
value Of plays, the locality of the field
in which certain plays would be most
effective, and then dismissed them.
Columbia is weak painfully weak-at
quarterback. Howard Miller, the SEN
sation of last years team, is out of the
game indefinitely, and Metcalf is crop
ing around for some one TO take his
place. Many have been called, but the
position is still open. Riamando, the
present field general, is doing as we'll
as might be expected. He is practically
without experience and has little
knowledge of tactics. However, he is a
hard-working youth, with lots of pep
and enthusiasm, and doubtless will get
the best out Of his team.
Another loss which is felt is that of
Van de Water, the big lineman. He
has been out of the lineup for some
little time, and there is no telling just
when he will be able to return. CO.
lumb unites in hoping that he will
be back in harness soon. The line is
doing nicely, playing a clever, forceful
game.
Howar! Miller is missed not only for
his strategy, but for his drop kicking,
but Wilbur, the tackle, has developed a
degree of skill as a drop kicker. and h.
may get a chance to take few shots
at the Vermont goal this afternoon.
Cochran is punter of ability and
combines accuracy with his distance.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-14
BROWN EXPECTS
HARD STRUGGLE
AGAINST AMHERST

Providence, Oct. 13.-Coach Robinson
has been drilling the Brown team Wig
orously all week in preparation for
the Amherst game Saturday, and
everything is in readiness for what
should prove to be the most interest
ing contest thus far Of the local sea-
son.
Amherst caught a much heavier
Brown team of its guard last year
and won by score of TO 0. While
there is no fear expressed here as 10
the outcome Of to-morrow's game, the
Brown coaches are not looking for an
easy victory.
Amherst always has light but
Shifty and clever team, which atones
for lack OF weight by speed and a
thorough mastering OF the funda-
mentals.
Brown will put in it's strongest team
for this contest, with only one regular
missing. Ward, one of the Ye;eran
tackles, has a bad knee, which will heep
him on the side lines, although in a
pinch he could get into the fray.
AMMAN, clever halfback, who came
20 Brown with a big Western reputa-
ton, will in all probability get into
the game for the first time a. a run
ming mate % Pollard.
Hillhouse or de VitAlis will play
fuliback, while Purdy will run the
team az quarter. In the line, Williams,
a former Noble and Greenough boy,
will take Wards place a. tackle, with
.he rest Of the lineup the same as 1t
was last Saturday against Trinity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-14
PRINCETON HAS
A SECRET DRILL
FOR TUFTS GAME

Princeton, n. j., Oct. ia cold,
steady rain stopped the Princeton prac-
tice sooner than usual this afternoon
With a hard game expected with Tufts
tomorrow, there was no scrimmage,
but there was a thorough test Of all
the plays in the Tiger repertory. Prac-
tice was not open to the general public.
There was a constantly shifting line
up practising, as the varsity and every
one likely to get in the. game to-mor-
row had a taste Of the frst-string
work. Eddy's play during the last week
has earned him first chance at calling
signals against Tufts, but Ames will re-
place him before the game ends; Briggs
is fixture at fullback, and Eberstadt
and Brown will be the halfbacks.
Tibbott may get in for the trst time
this season. He has been steadily re-
covering from his injury and is playing
good football. Thomas, Cooney and
Mathiasen are next in line for the back
field Highley and Wilson will start at
thv wing positions. but Funk and VIM
probably will play about half the game.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-14
HEAVY DOWNPOUR MARS
PRACTICE OF MIDDIES

Annapolis, Oct. 13.-A heavy down
pour Of rain, which gave them a sloppy
field, marred the mddies' practice this
afternoon in advance Of the really
"big" game Of their home season. To-
morrow they lock horns with Pitts
burgh.
Glen Warmers charges will arrive in
Annapolis early tomorrow. and with
their coming the Navy supporters are
looking for the stiffest game of the
local season. The coaches have not
definitely determined upon their line
up. but the indications are that they
will start the same formation which
was put in against Georgetown last
Saturday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-14
Football in Centre OF
Sport World Stage
Gridiron Games
in East To-day

Yale vs.. Lehigh, At New Haven
Harvard VS.. North Carolina at
Cambridge.
Princeton W. Tufts, at Princeton
Pennsylvania VI. Swarthmore at
Philadelphia.
Cornell VS.. Williams, ut Ithaca
Columbia vs.. Vermont, at Now York.
New York University vs. Haverford.
at New York.
Army vs.. Holy Cross, at West Point.
Brown VS.. Amherst, at Providence.
Washington and Lee vs.. Rutgers, at
New Brunswick.
Franklin and Marshall vs.. Syracuse,
at Syracuse.
Wesleyan VS.. Bowdoin, at Middle
town.
Dartmouth VS.. Massachusetts AZ
gies, at Hanover.
Trinity VS.. Springfield, at Hartford.
Navy vs.. Pittsburgh, at Annapolis.
Lafayette VS.. Ursinus, at Easton-
Lebanon Valley VS.. Villanova, at
Annville.
Penn State VS.. West Virginia Wes-
leyan, at State College.
Stevens Technical VS.. Middlebury,
at Hoboken.
Union VS.. Worcester Poly, at Sche-
nectady.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-14
PENN STATE COACH
WORRIED BY INJURlE

State College, Penn, Oet. e..
Harlow, Penn States heac eos', ID
discouraged by the regularly 80
which his best men are being IV .;st
to the sidelines by injuries ana rts.
ness. To-day the worst came; "A.
Hess. the best defensive back " hli..
squad, developed something re'eH'
typhoid fever. x,..,
The doctors are not sure JUST Nab II.
wrong with the big line eresSs,'s sr:
they have ordered him away from ron rs =.
work until a complete diagnoiL. N,
been made. Harlow saws u lo0,, ~
tough shedding with Hess opt " ,cy
game for a fortnight, or lonse'
sibly. g.. Make.
about his shoulders to-day 81. s,,,
lowed his team in is serin.iaSg,s e. D
the freshmen. Harlow THINKS "a ,,i
at the top Of his game right n0s ss,iJ
he doesn't want to oyer;raln 'Hs
fullback
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-14
CORNELL ELEVEN HEARS
TALK AT BLACKBOARD

Ithaca, y. Y. Oct. 13.-Rain induced
Coach Sharpe to give the Cornell foot
ball team a blackboard talk in the Ba-
con practice hall this afternoon, in
stead of the light workout planned be-
fore the Williams game tomorrow. Red
Tilley, the man on whom the coaches
are banking TO bolster centre. will be
in toys for the frst time next Monday.
Sharpe tonight announced his line
up for the Williams game, naming
Ryerson and Eilenberger, wings; Gill
lies and Jewett, tackles; Miller and
Anderson, guards; Brown, centre;
Shiverck, quarter; Benedict and Hoff-
man, halfbscks, and Captain Mueller,
fullback.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-14
STEVENS HAS LIGHT
WORK ON CRIDIRON

The Stevens varsity football squad
held light practice and signal drill yes
terday, in final preparation for the
clash with Middlebury on the Castle
Point Field to-day. Last year these
two teams struggled to a scoreless tie
on the Middlebury field.
Coach Rodgers to-day paid particular
attention to the linesmen, and in the
endeavor to bolster up the weak spots
that showed up in last Saturdays game
he used many new men from the sec
ond squad.
The probable lineup will be: Cen
ire. Captain Middleton; guards, Moeller
and Etzel; tackles, Ford and Johnson;
ends, Hopkins and Braun; the back
field will consist of Musk, Marshall,
Deghull and either Bloss or Anderson.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-14
Finds No Difficulty in
Entering Field, Despite
Secret Practice

New Haven, Oct. 13.-Ex-President
William Howard Taft this afternoon
witnessed his first football practice al
Yale since he was an undergraduate
He appeared at the secret drill, but
found no difficulty In obtaining en-
trance to the field, and took an active
interest in following the hours work
up and down the gridiron. He ad-
mitted that business cares had inter
fered with his enjoyment Of football
but promised the Yale football coaches
to try to do better in the future.
Additional interest has been lent ia
Professor Taft's football enthusiasm by
the selection Of his son, Charley, fol-
centre rush on the Yale eleven. Young
Taft. now an academic junior, will to-
morrow start his first Yale football
game. He has been chosen for centre
rush in the bout with Lehigh. His
father not only saw him practise TO-
day, but hopes to be able to shape ms
engagements tomorrow so that he can
see him play. A.
Although young Taft captained the
Yale basketball five last winter, his
fathers business duties prevented his
witnessing a single game. Charley is
regarded as the most valuable reserve
player of the Yale eleven. He has been
at end, tackle, guard, centre, halfbacs
and fullback as substitute since the be-
ginning of last season. He won ms
"Y" by playing in the Yale-Harvard
game last year. He has won two
honors this week, having been elected
to Phi Beta Kappa as one of the lead,
ing twenty students of his class and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-14
YALE AWARDED
TITLE PLAY OF
SQUASH GAMES
Dates Announced for Different
Glasses in Championship
Tourney

The national championship tourney
was awarded to the Yale club by the
executive committee Of the National
Squash Tennis Association at meet
ing held ct the Princeton club last
night. The title will be decided be-
ginning February 3. and the officials
hope for bigger entry than the record
number that started last year.
Other dates were also announced
but the arranging of-the schedule for
the Metropolitan Glasses A and B team
championship play was left in the
hands of Frank S. Keller and Milton
l.. Cornell, both of the Columbia club
The sport will begin on November "a
with the fall scratch play ut the
Princeton club, to be followed by the
national handicap tourney at the Har-
ward club on December 8. On January
IL the national Class B championship
gets under way at the Columbia club.
Seven men will be eligible on team
in the class A tourney, with the Yale
club entered for the first time. Other
contestants will be Columbia, Harvard
Heights Casino and the combined
Princeton squash clubs. In the B tour
nament five men will form a team. with
Yale. Princeton. Columbia and the
Crescent Athletic Club being the en-
trants, the latter making its first eff
fort. Harvard. winner OF the title last
year. without defeat. will not defend
it's honors. The series will be a round
robin one.
A stringent rule adopted will compel
all clubs TO see that their courts are
finished in a standard varnish of a
used this year will be two and seven
certain thickness. The ball TO be
eights inches in diameter and capable
OF withstanding an air pressure OF
forty five pounds.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-14
m. Y. u. FOOTBALL
TEAM is SEEKING
REVENGE TO-DAY
Violet Will Endeavor to Turn
Tables on Haverford
Team
By BRIGGS

Captain Bernstein will lead the New
York University football team into &C
tion against the Haverford College
eleven on Ohio Field this afternoon.
New York will try to lay a ghost that
has stalked the campus since last fall,
when the Quaker team ran circles
around the Violet and won by . score
OF 81 to 8.
The general feeling Of tho student
body on University Heights is that
Hsverford will be beaten. This Is not
the usual enthusiasm Of college boys
over the team, but is founded on the
showing made by New York against
Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute last
Saturday, when the engineers were
buried under three touchdowns and q
field goal
Frank II. Cam, director of athletics
at New York University, said yester-
day that the team was in good condi-
ton and that while q few of the boys
were nursing minor injuries they were
ready to pitch in and give Of their best.
Practically the same team that OPP
posed Rensselaer, will go out on the
field against Haverford this afternoon.
Howard Cam, the crack left halfback,
is expected to shine, as he generally
does. Howard is one of the best backs
that ever wore the Violet. He is a re-
msrkable punter, skilled as q drop kick
er and has few superiors as a ground
gamer or defensive man. Floyd Egan,
the former Manual Training High
School star, is holding his own at end
and bids fair to be one Of the stars of
the season on the Heights.
Little work was done yesterday. Tho
boys were stiff and sore after their
furious scrimmaging on Columbus Day,
and Eustis, the head coach, would not
risk any rough work. A romp through
signals, a punting drill and the boys
called il a days work. Leaving the
field, there was short lecture deliv-
cred by Eustis, in which he outlined
briefly the plans for the game this
afternoon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-14
KEADY, OF LEHIGH,
UNABLE TO SEE
HIS TEAM PLAY
Football Coach Ill and Unable 10
Accompany Squad to
New Haven

South Bethlehem, Penn, Oct. 13.-lt
is hoped Lehigh in her struggle with
Yale tomorrow will get more breaks
of the game" than have come TO her
the last week. Hard luck stories dur
ing the football season are usually
taken with a grain Of salt, but the
Brown and White is now experiencing
a real one.
Practically no advance has been
made by the Green eleven the Iast
week due to the fact that Coacn
Thomas Ready has been lndlsposeu'
Hoping against hope, Ready mad ex-
pected to get rid Of his attack OF
tonsillitis in short time, but II got
worse, and for several days he has
been compelled to issue orders from
his bedroom.
He will not be able to go to New
Haven tomorrow. Quite a different
eleven from the veteran team. wnlcn
last year held Yale to a 10 score
will be the one the Brown and White
will send down tomorrow. Seven OF
the eleven players are men who nave
yet to undergo a real test. In the
light of what Yale did to Virginia last
Saturday, Lehigh has no illusions as
to the attack to be faced tomorrow.
Only a brief signal drill, coupled
with some dummy tackling, was acid
this afternoon. Then the two dozen
athletes started for New York, where
they will stay at the Cumberland to-
night, going up TO New Haven the first
thing in the morning.
Lehigh's lineup will be: Quist and
McCarty. ends; Good and Tate. tackles;
Pons and Mccarthy, guards; Mcdonald,
centre; Chenoweth, quarterback; Wy
socki and Drummer, halfbacks, and Ma
ginnis. fullback.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-14
ARMY PREPARES
FOR HOLY CROSS
in RAINSTORM

West Point, N. Y, Oct IS.-Is'
Army worked out in a hard rain y,
afternoon in final preparation Tor Wv
Holy Cross game tomorrow. The a.
diets are confident of being returned
winner, although they are rlghul
afraid of DAILY. the visiting full0s'a
whose ability at drop kicking Is w
being overlooked.
The slippery pigsk;n was sosN.
Of considerable trouble to-day. a.
was the first time the cadets nave ~ y.
TO handle a wet ball On the rno.'
the practice, while light was 49, ~,
factory. The coaches said to-nign, - ~,
although Vidal, their star drop &C., .i
would not start tomorrow, they ~0'''
present another strong lineup.
Last year the two teams tied o. - :.
IL, and the soldiers are awaiuns :,
opportunity 70 wipe this game o.. a,
their memories by decisive deieA' '
the Worcester team tomorrow
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-14
ST. BENEDICT ELEVEN
DEFEATS ORANGE HIGH

Newark, n. j., Oct. 13.-St. Benedict's
Preparatory School football eleven won
its first game Of the season from the
Orange High School at the City Ath-
letic Field this afternoon. The score
was IL to 0.
August Desch scored both touch
downs for st. Benedict's, one in the
first period and the other in the second.
He got the first by going through the
line for ten yards and the second
through an end run for twenty yards.
The nearest Orange came to scoring was
in the third period, when Bill Regain
attempted drop kick from the 35-yard
line, missing by foot.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-14
REAL TEST TO-DAY FOR
SOUTHERN ELEVENS

Atlanta, Ga. Oct. l3.-The first real
tests OF the 1915 football season for
Southern teams are expected in games
scheduled for tomorrow. North Caro-
lima, beaten last week by Princeton,
will meet Harvard at Cambridge. and
Washington and Lee. defeated by the
Army q week ago, will play Rutgers.
Vanderbilt expents a worthy foe in
Kentucky State at Lexington. Other
games OF interest are:
Florida VS.. Georgia, at Athena; Ten
nessee W. Clemson, at Knoxville; Chat
tanooga We. Mississippi A. & NJ, at
Chattanooga; Virginia VS.. Richmond
College, at Charlottesville. and Vir-
ginia Polytechnic vs.. West Virginia, at
Charleston.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-14
C. c. N. Y. HAS STRONG
SWIMMING MATERIAL

In spite Of the fact that D. Bosworth,
crack ffty-ysrd man, and Ike Klemis,
diver, have left college, c. C. n. Y.
looks forward to a successful season.
Auerbach, Liebner. Bsehr and Cord
ing are all veterans, and they will be
materially assisted by young Broones,
the freshman who decisively defeated
Baehr, the varsity 220-yard man, re-
Gently.
In water polo, too, c. c. N. Y. OK
poets TO make a better showing than
last year. The team, led by Captain
Frank kerekes. has been strengthened
by tho addition Of several prep school
stars.