The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-07
FOOTBALL TO BE
 CHIEF SPORT AT
 TRAINING CAMPS
War time Ourtailments At Colleges Bring Service
 Bases Into Limelight.

Washington, Oct. 7-Foetball will be one of the most popular sports in the various army and navy training camps this autumn, if reports receiV- ed by the War and Navy Departments Commission on Training Camp activl- ties from the athletic directors are any criterion.
 Many colleges and preparatory schools will be taboo so far as aca1s- mic and collegiate matches are een- cernedi Most of the college football stars of previous years have entered i the service, and as a result the Train ing Camp Commissions athletic d. rectors are making extensive plans 10 utilize these men in the formation of | championship divisional, regimentsl and company elevens.
 Although the galaxy pf former ooi- | lege football stars that twinkled last season in the uniforms of the various naval station elevens has ceased to shine, many players being tranaferrsd | to active sea service, athletic directors are confident that the teams will b0 | even better than year ago. | Preliminary reports received by 1 Walter Camp, head of the Athletic Division of the Navy Commission on | Training Camp Activities, make h l clear that football will form the prin-, cipal feature of the fall program for l sports in every naval station from Machias, Me, to Miami. Fla, on the Atlantic seaboard, and from Pugst Sound, Wash, to San Diego, Cal, on the Pacific Slope.
 l etc hrS | MT. Camp as athletic directors are 8 dozen coaches whose names are fa- nliliar to followers of the gridircp sport. Calls for preliminary practice have been issued by these coaches, and from all accounts the response has been gratifying.
 In the First, or Boston District,
 George V. Brown, for 15 years ath- letic organizer of the Boston Athletic | Association, is forming a league among stations in the district, and a
 score of other station football units 1 will be formed immediately.
 In the Second, or Newport District pr. William T. Bull, a former Yale coach, who last year organized an all-star eleven of old college playerA, has retired from active service, and Fred M Walker, former University of Chicago baseball and football star, and more recently pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, has been appointed Athletic Director. Dr. Bull will re- main in an advisory capacity, and his services win be utilized by MT. Walker as associate football coach.
 Frank Bergin, ths former Prince ton quarterback, is the Commission on Training Camp Activities Athletic
 Director of the Third Naval District,
 the headquarters of which are at
 Pelham Bay. He will be assisted in
 turning out football material by Lieut. w. T. Cochran, the navy athletic of-
 ficer at that station. Lieut. Cochran
 is a former Annapolis football star.
 In the Fourth District, at League
 Island, Philadelphia, Byron W. Dick son, a former University of Pennsyl-
 vania star, has assumed the duties ot
 Athletic Director. He will be assist
 ed in the football coaching this fall
 by Big BilP' Hollenbeck, another
 Quaker star.
 More than 500 candidates for the } representative football team of the . Great Lakes Naval Training Station Great Lakes, H., have responded to . the call of Coach Herman P. Olcott the former Yale star. Every unit al
 this station will have its own football
 team, and the representative Grea'
 Lakes team Is certain to make stout
 showing in its matches with the repre- 2 sentative army elevens which 1t vii
 meet this season.
 Out at Bremerton. Puget Sound, an6 the Naval Station at Seattle, Elmer c. Henderson and Arthur c. Wood ward are organizing football extensive ly in these two leading stations of the