Syracuse at Cornell

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  Evening star, September 22, 1898, page 9

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  ON THE GRIDIR0N College Teams Preparing for the Foot Ball Season. CORNELL DEFEATS SYRACUSE Senators Beaten by the Cincinnati Reds. CURRENT SPORTING NEWS Harvard’s foot ball practice on Soldiers Field. Cambridge. Mass, was quickened by brisk foot ball air yesterday, and marked Coach FORBES avowal that the policy this season Is to be the same as that of last it is clear that at the present time. at least the training Is much harder. In the afternoon practice of an hour and a half the men We’re divided into three squads, and considerable progress was made with the elemental formations and plays by the elevens. For the first time the first eleven kicked. Tomorrow there is likely to be a practice game. Foot ball practice at Princeton yesterday started with vim and push which hereto fore have not characterized it. Thirty men were on the field. a large number of promising freshmen came out for the first time, and the team of the afternoon was as follows: Arthur Poe, 1900 right end Miles, 1892, right tackle; Edwards, 1900, post graduate, left guard; Geehr, ’99, left tackle; Palmer, post graduate, left end; Rosengarten. 80 quarter back; G.. La thrope, 1900. right half; Better, seminary left half back, and Crit Ayers, 1900, full back. The candidates for the Yale foot ball team were given their first hard practice yesterday afternoon. Captain Chamber lain lined up two full eievens and gave the men fifteen minutes for hard work. Both the varsity and the scrub team got near each others goal, but neither one was able to score. The varsity team was made up as follows: Ends. Schweppc and Coy; tackles, Durston and Rich ards; guards, Brown and Young: cen ter, Walders; quarter back. Sullivan; half backs, Beard and Dudley, full back, Dash iell. This was the first time that Brown the big guard of last season, has played and despite his lack of practice he was the best in the line. Rowlins, the Hawaiian, who has just entered the law school, was given a trial on the scrub team yesterday and did such good work that he vas put on the varsity. The feature of the practice was the accuracy with which the men caught the ball. Cornell won an easy victory over SYRIA cuse University eleven on Percy Field gridiron at Ithaca yesterday afternoon running Up a score of . to o. The Wis 1tors were entirely outClassed and at no time did they threaten COrnell’s goal. Throughout the twenty-minute halves the 1thacans kept the bah in the visitors ter ritory. Coach Warner of Cornell said that the team was doing better work than at this time year ago.

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  New-York tribune, New York [N.Y.], September 22, 1898, page 6

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  FOOTBALL. CORNELL SMOTHERS SYRACUSE By THE SCORE OF % TO 0-ITHACANS SNArPY WORK Ithaca. y. Y. Sept 9l.-Cornell won an easy v’c’ tory over the Syracuse University eleven on Percy Field this afternoon running up score o. = 10 “ The visitors were entirely outclassed and at no time did they threaten CcrnclFs goal throughout the twenty-minute halves the Ithacans kept the hall I’m the visitors territory Cornes playing WAS snappy throughout. showing that the early practice at Richheld Springs hal had good erect on Interference play Captain Whiting Nnasor al right halfback. Slelcier. Starbuck ana QUARferbnck G. Young were the stars OF the game. Coach Warner OF Cornell. said that the team was doing better work than at this time year aSo’ Tho llne-up:

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Cornell leads 23–⁠11 in 34 meetings, counting the 26 since this game.