The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-06
IN EAST
Prospects Are Bright at Yale,
Harvard and Pitt.
Army and Navy Are Both Big
Puzzles This Season.
BY FRANK G. MENKE.

New York, Sept. 6.-The Office boy
ambled into the workshop and said:
Guy outside to see yuh.'
who is he?"
How should I know" responded
the junior hireling. 81 didn't ask him.
amt one of those nos-y persons, I
amt
But you should have asked him."
we rebuked.
well, he aint no prize fighter and
he don't look like no bill collector"
"Oh, that's different; let him in
A minute or two later a huge goofer
steamed up to the desk, and began:
My name is Eastern Football I
just got back and I'd like to get little
writeup."
What about?"
About what I'm gonna do-and
amt gonna do-this fall was the re-
ply. Zone of the things 1 amt gonna
do is let that Yale crowd make such
a Joke of me as they did the last two
years Gosh, that was fierce. 1 never
was so Inundated in all my career as
up in New Haven last year. Wasn't it
terrible?"
1T was-and a bit more"
Conditions Changed.
well. it aint gonna happen again.
said our visitor. Tad Jones is on the
Job up there now. He's good coach.
That'l help some, but the greatest
help will be that the frat stuff don't
go any more. You know it was some
thing of a rule up there in Yale in
l1914 and 1915 that If you didn't be-
long to a certain secret society you
couldn't get on the team, no matter
how good a player you were That S
why things went on the blink at Yale
But it amt gonna be so no more.
Glad to hear it. And now about
Harvard"
Harvard? Well, oh, it will be there
or Whereabouts. don't you worry. OF
course, Brickley Mahan. King, Hard
wick and the rest of that gang that
made history up there for few years
have gone. But OF Pere' Haughton is
still on the job. And Perc', no, is
some coach"
"PrinGeton?' we asked.
They've got what can be called the
nucleus of a fine team up there, an
swered our visitor. Il wouldn't be
surprised to see those Tigers right up
! in the championship fight. You know
the team wasn't so heavily hit by
graduations and that means they've
got some cracking players left"
Pitt Prospects Bright.
What do you think of the Pitts
| burg outlook"
"Bright-very bright Pitt, you
know went thru the 1915 season with
out suffering defeat and lost only one
game in 1915, which is quite record.
Pop Warner has some great material
left for this years team. Pitt is 60
ing to put it's one year residence rule
into effect this fall but that isn't go
ing to hurt 'em any. They've got some
great veterans"
| "Cornell?'
They're a problem, those Ithaca
fellows. Charlie Barrett, you know,
was the bird who helped Cornell dur
ing the past two years. His great
playing last fall helped the team go
thru the season without suffering de-
feat But now Chuck has gone. Some
folks say that Cornell was a one
man team. They predict that without
! Barrett this season the Red and White
team isn't going to amount to very
much But don't bet too much on
that dope Cornell's going to be in the
fight, all right
Army and Navy Puzzle.
How about Army and Navy?''
"Oh, you never can tell about those
boys. Hard job to dope them out.
Maybe they'll have great teams, but
most likely they won't"
| Eastern Football arose from the
| chair he occupied, donned his head
gear and prepared to depart
We'll, 1 guess I'll be beating it,
| he said Hope you'll find room to
give me a little writeup, now that I'm
back Think you will?
"Yepl Au revoir. And by the way,
Send in your brother Western Foot
! ball will you. Like to give him lit
F., tie publicity too
Sure; I'll have him drop around
next week. Bye. bye