The sun., 1919-09-21
SchoolboyS Preparing for
Busy Football Season
Stuyvesant, Commerce, Clinton and Morris High Boys
Are Out in Force-First Games Will Be
e. SCI Played Next Saturday.
ny SCHOLASTIC.

When tho signal is given next Sat
urday afternoon ushering In the 1913
intersoholastio football season the teams
which take TO the field will be found
f1t and ready. Although the lads only
returned to school two weeks ago the
coaches in the various institutions lost
no time in getting their charges on the
field for practice, and as a result they
are in tiptop form. waiting with eager
ness for their opening clashes.
With the return OF Stuyvesant to the
favorite sport the season promises to be
the best ever. The East Side institu-
tion was forced to abandon its team last
year because of the war, as most of the
star players of that school enlisted in
some branch of the service. leaving
Coach Mason with no material to form
another eleven. This year. however.
Stuyvesant, like, Morris, Clinton and
Commerce, has been strengthened con-
siderably by the return Of the many
schoolboy war heroes.
sa1tman stuyvesant Coach.
stpy,vesant, which started practice last
week at Central Park, will be without
the services OF its old coach, Appleton
Mason, who guided the team tho last
three years. Coach Mason's successor
will be c. Saltman. a physical culture
teacher at the school, who two years ago
played on the basketball team at the
College of the City of New York The
new coach has a large number of candi-
dates from which to pick team besides
four veterans from the eleven of 1917.
The 1917 veterans TO report are Brown
ley and Leavith, who play the backheld
positions; Nearpaff and Rubensein,
ends. With these four veterans and
thirty new candidates Saltman should
have little trouble in turning out fair
eleven.
Prospects at Commerce are Just as
bright. The Blue and Gold this season
will be coached by Frank (Bucl) O'Neil,
who ten years ago played on the Com
merce team and who has been a prom
inent figure In local interscholastic
football circles for the last ten years.
o'Neil is to succeed Gerald McCann.
Coach o'Nen CONFIDENT.
With the return of flve veterans and
nifty new players Coach O'Scil Is con-
fdent OF turning out a championship
eleven. The men around whom O'Neil Will
build his team are weidman, a tackle
Rabinowits, last years fullback; Ger
brick, who last year played quarter;
Johnson, a halfback, and Levy at centre.
So large is the number of candidates a.
Morris that II has been decided to form
two teams The main buildings eleven
will be coached by William Gaylor. the
same man who guided the team two
years ago, while the second team. which
win represent the Washington Heights
Annex. will be coached by f. ]. Cava-
naugh. who last year COACHED the first
string men.
Coach William Cook of De Witt Clin-
ton Is confident of repeating last years
performance. when the Red and Black
won the championship. Coach Cook
has a number Of last years lads back
besides an abundance OF new material.
A preliminary practice was held last
week by Cook, with the real workouts
CT ming this week.
Bright Outlook I'm Brooklyn.
The prospects for successful season
in Brooklyn are just as bright as they
are on this side of the bridges. Erasmus
Hail. Poly Prep, Commercial, Manual
Training, Flushing, Adelphi, Brooklyn
Prep. New Utrecht, Boys High and St.
Johns Prep. have all been practising
daily for the past two weeks and are all
waiting with eagerness for their opening
games.
Coach Herbert Bonnet of Poly Prep,
who last year guided the Blue and Gray
when it won the championship of that
borough. has most of last years stars
back and is confident of repeating last
seasons performance. Erasmus, runnerup
for the title last year. has been strength
ened considerably this season and should
not be overlooked by the Poly coach
The Buff and Blue squad has been re-
ceiving instruction from Richard E.
Elliffe, Jr., the school coach, and is in
excellent shape.
Marquand School will start the ball
rolling in Brooklyn to-morruM After