Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-10-16
WEEKLY BULLETIN OF
ARMY AND NAVY SPORTS
Football at Camps.

w aSnington.-FOO tDall VIII be one
OF the most popular sports in the va
rious army and navy training camps
this autumn, if reports received by the
war and navy departments commits
sion on training camp activities from
the athletic directors are any critic
rion. Many colleges and preparatory
schools have announced that football
will be taboo so far as academic and
collegiate matches are concerned Most
OF the college football stars of prev
ious years have entered the service,
and as result the training camp COM
missions athletic directors are making
extensive plans to utilize these men in
the formation Of championship divis-
ional. regimental and company elevens.
Although the galaxy of former COL
lege football stars that tWinkled last
season in the uniforms of the various
nacal station eleVens has ceased to
shine, many players being transferred
to active sea service. athltic directors
are confident that the teams will be
even better than Year ago.
Preliminary reports received by Wal
ter earn, head of the athletic division
of the navy commission on training
camp activities, made it clear that
football will form the principal fea l.
! ture Of the fall programs for sports in
every naval station from Machais, Me.
to Miena. Fla. on the Atlantic Sea-
board, and from Puget Sound to san
Diego, Cal, on the Pacific Slope.
Installed in the naval stations by Mr..
Camp as athletic directors arc a dozen
coaches whose names are familiar to
followers OF the Eridiron sport. Calls
for preliminary practice have been is
ued by these coaches, and from all ac-
counts the response has been graft
flying.
In the first, or Boston, district. Geo
Y, Brown. for fifteen years athletic
CrganiZer for the Boston Athletic AS
ISOLATION. is forming a league among
3tations in the district and a score Of
other station football units win be
formed Immediately.
In the second or Newport. district,
DR. William T. Bun. former Yale
coach, who last year organized an all
star eleven Of old college players has
retired from active service and Fred
M, Walker a former University Of Chi
caEO baseball and football star, and
more recently pitcher for the St. Louis
Nationals, has been appointed athletic
director DIR. Bull will remain in an
advisory capacity, and his services
will be utilized ny Mr. Walker as as
sociate football coach.
Frank Bergin, tho former Princeton
quarterback, is the commission train
ing camp activities athletic director
of the third naval district. the head
quarters of which are at Pelham Bay.
He win be assisted in turning out foot
ball material by Lieut. w. T. Cochran,
the navy athletic officer at that sta
ton Lieut.. Cochran is former An
napolis football star
In the fourth district. at League Is
land, Philadelphia. Byron w Dick
son, a former University of Pennsyl-
yantt star. has assumed the duties #
athletic director He will he assisted
in the football coaching this fall by
Big Bill" Hollenbeck, another Quaker
star,
More than five hundred candidates
for the representative football team Of
the Grea Lakes naval training station.
Great Lakes. Illinois, have responded
to the call Of Coach Herman p. Olcott
the forme Yale star. Every unit at
this station will have its own football
team, an the preventative Great Lake
team is certain TO make a stout show
ing in its matches with the represen-
tative army elevens which Mt will meet
this season.
Out at Pemherton, Puget Sound, and
the naval station at Seattle, Elmer c.
Henderson and Arthur c. Woodward
are organizing football extensively in
these two leading stations of the north
west Both have had experience as in
ter-cholastic coaches in that section
for years.
Andy Smith, the former University
Of Pennsylvania fullback. has just
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