The Washington herald., 1918-10-08
GRID GAME IS
ARMY PASTIME
Great American College
Game Will Be Played
at All Camps.

Football will be one of the most
popular sports in the various army
and navy training camps this autumn
IL reports received by the War and
Navy departments Commission on
Training Camp Activities from the
athletic directors are any criterion
Most Of the college football stars OF
previous years have entered the serv-
ice, and as result the Training Camp
Commissions athletic directors are
making extensive plans to utilize these
men in the formation of championship
divisional, regimental and company
elevens.
Although the galaxy OF former col
lege football stars that twinkled last
season In the uniforms of the various
naval station elevens has ceased to
shine, many players being transferred
to active sea service, athletic direc-
tors are confident that the teams will
be even better than a year ago.
Preliminary reports received by Wal
ter Camp, head of the Athletic Divi-
sion of the Navy Commission on
Training Camp Activities, make ii
clear that football will form the prin-
cipal feature of the fall program
for sports in every naval station from
Machias, Me, to Miami, Fla. OIL the
Atlantic seaboard. and from Puget
Sound, Washington, to San Diego
Cal. on the Pacific slope.
Installed in the naval stations by
Mr.. Camp as athletic directors are
dozen coaches whose names are
familiar to followers of the gridiron
SPORT. Calls for preliminary prac-
hv these
coaches and from all accounts the
response has been gratifying.
In the First. or Boston, district,
Geo. V. Brown, for fifteen years
athletic organizer for the Boston Ath-
letic Association. is forming league
among stations in the district, and
a score OF other station football units
will be formed Immediately.
In the Second. or New York. district
DR.. William T. Bull, former Yale
coach, who last year orgdnized an
all-star eleven OF old college play
ers, has retired from active service
and Fred NJ. Walker, a former Uni
versity of Chicago baseball and foot
ball star. and more recently pitcher
for the St Louis Nationals, has
been appointed athletic director. DR.
Bull will remain in an advisory ca
pacity. and his services will he utiliz-
ed by Mr.. Walker as associate foot
ball coach.
Frank Bergen. the former Prince.
ton quarter back. is the Commission
on Training Camp Activities athletic
director of the Third naval district
the headquarters of which are al
Pelham Bay. He will be assisted IN
turning out football material by
Lieut. w. T. Cochran. the navy ath-
letic officer at that station. Lieut.
Cochran is a former Annapolis foot
ball star.
In the Fourth district, at League
Island, this city, Byron W. Dickin-
son. a former University of Fcnnsyl-
vania star, has assumed the duties
of athletic director.
More than 500 candidates for the
representative football team of the
Great Lakes Naval Training Station,
Great Lakes, Ill, have responded to
the call of Coach Herman P. Olcott,
the former Yale star. Every unit at
this station will have its own foot
ball team, and the representative
Great Lakes team 10 certain to make
a stout showing in its matches with
the representative army elevens which
it will meet this season.
Out at Bremerton, Puget Sound
and the naval station at Seattle Ell
mer c. Henderson and Arthur c,
Woodward are organizing football
extensively in these two leading sta.
tions OF the Northwest. Both have
had experience as interscholastic
coaches in that section for years.
Andy Smith, the former University
of Pennsylvania full back, has jus
been appointed by the Navy Commits
sion on Training Camp Activities t
the post of athletic director at Mare
Island.