The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-10-26
In Most Colleges Where S. A.
T. G. Demands Most
of the Time
CORNELL CONFRONTS
GREAT DIFFICULTY
Because of the Short Time
That Is Allowed for
Practice

New York, Oct. 26.--The difficulties
under which football practice and play is
being attempted at number of the
eastern colleges is typifed by the expe-
riences at Cornell and West Virginia.
An outline of the time possible for ath-
letics is given in a recent article on the
subject, printed in one of the university
publications. In part it is as follows;
Hours that have been set aside for
recreation and sport purposes are
Wednesday afternoons from to o'clock
and Saturday afternoons. An additional
period has been granted for practice of
the football team, from to 8 o'clock
Monday afternoons. Thus the football
team will have four hours outdoor prac-
tice week besides Saturday afternoon
for playing such games as it may be pos
sible to arrange.
"As the war department is emphasiz-
ing athletics for recreation, track ath.
letics are likely to be of an informal
character not unsimilar to the programs
that Coach Jack Moakley has arranged
In the past for intercollegiate and inter.
company games. An attempt will be
made to provide sports and exercises
that will be of physical benefit and at
the same time be entertaining.
"The general scheme of recreation that
Professor Young viii work out will be Of
an intercompany nature. Competition
win be stimulated among the various
units of the S. A. T. c., the naval men
and the marines and efforts will be de-
voted to encouraging large number of
men to take part in the games. Each
company will organize teams to take
part in the competitions
Football plans are not vet completed
but the S. A. r. G. will turn out some
sort of team. On account Of limited ma
terial, limited time for practice and the
very late state, it will not be possible to
turn out an eleven that viii maintain the
standard of football played by Cornell in
recent years. Inasmuch as all other col
leges are facing the same conditions,
however, no one team will have any spe-
oial advantage over another"
Military authority rulings have neces-
STATED complete Encouragement of
football plans and schedules The entire
student body of about 600 men has
been divided according TO their military
classification into three groups, styled
the engineers" the 'arts and science, !"
which includes medicine, agriculture, etc,
and the vocational" Teams are being
developed in each of these groups Each
of these three teams viii have distinct
organization and will meet on the grid
iron. After Oct. 2s the coaches will Sc.
lect about 30 men from all three squads
and these will be the real varsity team
for the playing out Of the schedule as a
representative team during November.
This is the new plan that has been
brought out of the war departments rul.
ing and it is believed that it viii work
admirably. An hour and half will be
allowed each day for practice, In No.
vember games from the old schedule
stand as follows: Rutgers at New Bruins
wick on the 10th; Camp Sherman at
Morgantown on the 23d; and Washing
ton and Jefferson at Fairmont on
Thanksgiving Nov. and viii be filed
with home games at Morgantown.