The sun., 1919-09-29
GIANTS WILL PLAY
I SUNDAY FOOTBALL
@arlie Brickley to Pilot Pro
Eleven of Former Col
lege Stars.
MAHAN AND BLACK ON IT
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cor
!. nell, Army, Dartmouth,
All Represented.
NJ GEORGE n. uNDERwooD.

By GEORGE N. UEDERWOOD.
When the Giants made their final 1919
appearance on the Polo Grounds yes
trdny II only was to jump out Of the
ihmond onto the gridiron. To be sure
aEill not be Jess Barnes. Georgia Burns.
Bsuny Kauff and their pals who play
fopfbail, and neither will the team be
ll5ted by John McGrav. but. neverthe-
l<z. the eleven that will start profess
aunal football at the Polo Grounds
within a fortnight will be composed Of
tAs greatest football stars In the coun-
~, financed and controlled by the New
rEk club and managed by a man who
Gilnes as greatly IN the football nr1na-
msnt a. John McGraw does In baseball
r-charley Bricaley. the Harvard hero.
President Stoneham and the New Yorl;
eub last week came to an sgreement
with BrickIsy and the former Crimson
star has contracted to manage an eleven
canposed OF former famous collegiate
nidiron stars in professional games on
Sundays at the Polo Grounds, starting
o. October IL and continuing through
cut the season. The team will be called
tse Giants. Games are being arranged
Nth the crack professional elevens from
Canton and Massillon, Ohio; the Rrovl-
dsncs Steam Rollers and teams In Chi
cago, New Haven, Bridgeport. Cleveland
and Hammond. Ind
An AlI-Amertcan Lineup.
An fdaa ~ tho u+ra1Ofh - fba .lnx,.,,
The Giants will put on the gridiron under
Brickley's management can be had fro n
he list Of men who already are under
contract to the New York club or have
sgresd to represent the Giants Brick
ly has corralled an all-American line
10 Ii includes
Ned Mahan and former Capt. Dadnun
4 Harvard. Cupid Black of Yale, OIL
nhant Merriiat. Pritchard and McEwar
q the Army, the great Charley Barrett,
md Tip Cool of Cornell, Gannert anc
Ehsa Of Princeton. Gerrish. the former
dartmouth captain; Chick Meehan
Usher and Cobb of Syracuse. Cobal Of
yotre Dame. Weber of Colgate, O'Con-
aoI. the former Georgetown captain. and
Whalen. Barron and Cody OF the Blue
| md GRAY squad; corcoran and Sweet.
. Ind of Fordham, Lynch CT Holy eros,
+ 10 Pike Johnson and Pierrveti of Wash.
/ iston and Lee, former all-Southern Sc
. letipns
With the exception of Mahan. who Il
! Captain in the United States Marines
| and is now or the sea bound here to re
I eive his discharge from service, and tbs
bur former West Point stars. practically
~ of the men mentioned already arr
rnder contract TO the Chants. MahaI
has cabled Brickley he would sign &
Giant contract as soon as he receives
his discharge. Oliphant, Merrillat, Nc
EVAN and Pritchard, who are coaching
the Army eleven, DO not expect to hav,
sng trouble getting away from the Poin
for the Sunday games.
Brickley announces the team will b
directed and trained like a yarsit!
elsEen. The players win be under con
tact for the season and will have Il
take part in daily practice at the Pol
Grounds. The lone exception TO this rub
viii be made in the case OF those WIN
now are officiating as college coache
and whose duties viii help them get AM
keep in playing condition. Brickle.
says the salary list OF the club will ex
coed $4,000. Brickley will carry twenty
i've men on the squad.
This means professional football on
hf scale and may be the forerunner o
abig professional league The success
o. professional football at the Pol
Grounds viii determine whether othe
baseball men throughout the countr
nill take up the game. II the new ven
tire meets with the expected success.
National league OF football clubs may b
punched.
The 1900 .sPro" Series
This is the second time proressiona
toptbal has been tried here except on
minor scale. Several years ago Mayo
Wise Of WATERFOWL, n. Y, a forme
ogrnell star and a big manufactures
oFganized a professional team In hi
plant and Il met with such success tina
several other PRO" elevens got into az
lion. An elimination series was held 10
The championship in Madison SquaT
eerden IN the winter OF 1904.
II narrowed down 10 a final game fo
the title between the Watertown sleve,
which was captained by Phil Draper, tn
Old Williams star. and had such men q
IQm Thorpe and Bill Kindgen of Co
Iamhia, Len Sweet Of Penn State an
PETE isssI Oh Il. sTls Connie Mack
Philadelphia eleven Maciz's eleven wa
iee by Blonde Wallace OF Penn Stat
one Of the U. OF p stars. ''Curiey' d.
wilson and Doc Roller. the famol
wrestler, were among Wallace's men. II
wEtertown eleven was the favorite. bi
t2nnie Mack proved as successful
Eridiron magnate as a baseball one, AZ
he Quakers beat WATERFOWL and VIC
the title