New Britain herald., 1916-10-20
HARVARD WORKS
 ON A MUDDY FIELD
Crimson Begins to Show Spirit
 As Cornell Game NearS

Cambridge. Mass, Oct. 20.-Sol- |diers Field was @ quagmire yesterday afternoon in the heavy rain storm, but the Harvard football players made the most of the bad conditions. Not since the early season practice had the players had any experience handling a wet ball, and in their scrimmage with the second team there was no variation from the desperately hard play earlier in the week. The first and second teams fought hard for about half an hour, one touchdown being scored when Hitchcock broke through the scrubs line near the goal. The varsity has been thoroughly aroused by the coaches this week, and yesterdays play showed that the spirit of fight has been injected into the entire squad. Clark, the varsity right guard, was able to get back into { the play, so that Wheeler at left tackle \ is now the only substitute lineman Wheeler has not had Taylor's experi- ence. but has been playing a slash1ng game all the week, and will be in a \ race for a regular position down to I the finish.
 8 The line material has received an- other hard blow however, in what may be the final loss of Richards, who was progressing fast at tackle. lie has fractured his arm and probably seriously enough to keep him out or the game for the remainder of the g season. Today, while there will De no scrimmage, the regulars will work hard on their plays. The Massachu- setts State college game is not ex- pected to be much of a test, and the Crimson is now putting In all the licks possible t4 get into trim for Cor nell. ,
 This week. with Crawford Blagden \ at Cambridge for the line, the work I has centered about the work of the A forwards, all of whom not only nave had more real coaching than ever 8 hefore. but have been worked harder than in any of the practice games.
 The team handled the wet ball very well yesterday and continued to inn prove as a machine If the regulars can come through the Massachusetts State game without injury, the coaches A will feel that they need not fear being beaten by the Ithacans on October 28.
 Penn Loses Billy Ncill. Philadelphia, Oct. 20.-Pennsylva- nia's gridiron warriors went through
 
 yesterday afternoon in preparation for the game with Penn State on Satur day The practice was marked by an other shift in the back field. Folwell sent Graves Williams to right half in place of Shorty Loucks, and announc- ed that Williams would be in that po- sition at the start of Saturdays game The faculty committee on athletics at the university yesterday declared Billy Neill, the right guard on the Red and Blue eleven, ineligible to take part in athletics because his time limit has expired. Neill played three sea sons on the Whitman college footbal team at Walla Wala, Wash, and las season with Penn. His place will b' taken by Swann, but Neill expects tt aid the team in practice each day D. working with the scrubs
 The Sanford multiple kick will be rome 8 weapon in the play Of Penn soainst State if the Red and Blu eleven can perfect the trick in tim for Saturdays game, but Coach h>ol weII fears that his team will hardl
 master the play completely by tha lime. The State formations were use
 hv the scrub against the varsity, bu lbev gained little ground, althoug
 inc scrub pounded the first team 10 half an hour from the 'varsltys ten yard line.