The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-05
lafayette may
Get CAME With
COLUMBIA team
Contest With Stevens on
Nov. 16 is Cancelled At
Last Moment.

Lafayette may have a place on the
Columbia S. A. T. c. football sched-
uie as a result of the cancellation
yesterday by Stevens Institute of the
game scheduled with the Morningside
Heights eleven for November 16. The
Stevens official notified lowering Ty-
son, graduate manager of athletics,
that because of the Spanish influenza
epidemic and the inability to hold
practice it had been decided to give
up the sport for the year.
With Stevens off the list, TYSON
Immediately began to reopen nego-
tiations with Lafayette, which asked
the Columbia management some time
ago if it would be possible to arrange
a game. At that time the Columbia
schedule was completed with the ex-
cept1on of the arrangements for the
game with Cornell on Nov 30
If Lafayette is still DESTROYS of
playing Dawson's eleven the game
will be promptly scheduled. There
was rumor that Rutgers might get
the Nov. 16 date and color was lent
to the report by the fact that George
Foster Sanford, coach of the New
Brunswick eleven, was at the Am
herst-Columbil game on Saturday.
1t can be said positively, however,
that Columbia will not schedule a
game with Rutgers 1t is expected
! that the question of a game with Cor
nell will be definitely settled this
week. No word has been received
from Ithaca canceIling the tentative
proposal, and the Columbia officials
believe that inasmuch as Cornell has
informed both Pennsylvania and
Michigan that it would not play them,
it & still planning to send a team to
New York for a game on the last day
of the month.
Charley Shaw, the star halfback of
the eleven, about whose intended de-
| parture for an aviation training
| school there has been much doubt,
will not be available to play against
! Union on Saturday next, according
to reliable reports yesterday. He was
| in football toys and went through a
! short practice in the rain, but it is
| probable that he will leave the post
! before Saturday, as it is understood
! that his orders have already been
prepared by the commandant.
Dawson found that his eleven was
{
( game, and for that reason he did not
( pretend to have a regular practice.
The second eleven and one of the
( battalion teams had a scrimmage on
/ the field, and the few varsity men
who reported had a chance to get a
| limited workout. Lieut.. Chester
/ Robb, quarterback of the eleven, was
stiff and bruised, and did not get in
/ to a uniform, and it is not likely that
he will play today either.
/ Zychlinski, who played right half
/ back, was out nursing body bruises,
and Stevens, left end, did not get in
! to toys either. Houlihan was led up
| in the barracks with an injured ankle,
although Gus Peterson, the trainer,
said he hoped to have him around
again this afternoon. Robson, the
right tackle, scrimmaged for a few
minutes despite bruised elbows. The
other varsity men practiced, but
Dawson called on them to do little
Changes in the line are expected
either today or tomorrow, when the
eleven will get down to hard work
again. The left flank is weak, and
Dawson will take measures to bring
it up to the standard set by the right
This may mean the shifting of For
sythe from end to tackle, resulting
in the displacement of Kraus and
bringing Tomberg from the second
eleven to left end on the first. This
shift has not yet been definitely de-
cided upon but some such rearrange-
ment will undoubtedly be made.