Princeton at Wesleyan (CT)

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  , November 6, 1889

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  AS TO FOOTBALL. Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Union of Pennsylvania, Wesleyan. WHO’LL WIN THE CHAMPIONSHIP The annual season of the college football mans” greatness Is upon US Once more hat worthy Is a power In the land While his groveling fellows who prefer mathematics to athletics are plotting i’m sginary curves and angles and calculating theoretical velocities, on paper. he is describing actual curves and angles and becoming acquainted with extremely matter-of-fact ~velocites, on the field His bookish companions are plodding along In the hope Of achieving fame at some distant day. The football man may make a national though, perhaps, ephemeral-name for him self In the next two months Shakespeare says ‘‘some men have greatness thrust upon them” The modern college football player Is sure to have greatness thrust upon him, II greatness of no more pleasing kind than the avoirdupois greatness Of the opposing ‘‘rush line” In the language of the familiar phrase he may awake from the state Of coma caused by the sudden descent OF his opponents’ bodies upon him-to find himself famous. Now that the ten months OF chrysalis existence of the football man. In the bookish atmosphere Is over and the dull bookworm Is ready to bud into the athletic butterfly, the football players and would-be football players in all the great institutions OF learn ing are bestirring themselves. The devotees OF the game at Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Wesleyan and the University OF PennsyL vania are the chief objects OF interest to lovers Of the sport, inasmuch as these col leagues compose the intercollegiate Football association And, although the season Is not yet fairly under way, the all absorbing queston, “Who will win the championships Is already a mooted question In the eastern col lege world. 1t Is too early yet TO draw accurate conolusions, but on the basis of precedent Yale should carry of the championship Gags. Since the introduction Of the Rugby game In 1876 her representative kckers have scored something like 500 goals to all their opponcnts’ combined total OF less than half a dozen goals, and but once In these thirteen years has the pennant wandered away from her keeping. Hence precedent would seem TO name her as the champion OF 80, but her wonderful record is sure to be broken sooner or later, and very likely this may be the “otf year” Whether or no the championship remains at New Haven, 1t may be pretty safely as sumed that the actual struggle for the PEN nant will be confined to Yale, Harvard and Princeton. Wesleyan and the University of Pennsylvania oftentimes put very fair teams Into the field, and their opponents play foot ball as hard as they know how. They have never come within cannon shot of the championship, however, and crack football players naturally ally themselv es Will n Couckc III WuOso ser NlCo tnelf proves may be rewarded by victory. 80 1t Is that Yale, Harvard and Princeton always have and nave had better football material than either of their rivals. That being the case, their successive teams have more expert advtsers In the persons Of former members of the varsity elevens. Then again, at the three leading colleges, football has been reduced to a science, the traditions left by previous football stars are more carefully i 1.t,tyt.-t or tv.,.rnu.t ..Aa-n- - “ terest In the game, and, hence, encourage ment for the players, are manifested by the college at large. Thanks to all these advantages, Yale, Harvard and Princeton have forged ahead of their rivals in the game. This year Yale Is more unfortunate than any of her rivals In the loss OF members of her last years team by graduation That team was made up in this way; Rushers-Wallace, 80; Rhodes, ’0I; Hefiefinger, ’9l s.; Woodruff, 80; Gill, 80; Cor bin, 80, and Stage, T. G.; half backs-Graves, 81, and McClung, ‘o2; quarter back-Wurtemberg, 80 s. full back-Bull, P. G.. As appears from this showing, five of the eleven graduated last June and Bull, who was taking a post graduate course, has completed his studies. One of the five graduates glib has returned this fall for post graduate study, SO that the team loses but five old men; but the i’ve men lost were the mainstays OF the team, all being old and experienced players or the old team there remain as u nucleus for this years eleven Gill, Stage, Hefleinger, Rhodes, McClung and Graves. All of these men will doubtless play this year, so that but 1--we new men will have to be broken In. Nc Bride, 70 g., who was a substitute on last years team, will probably mako the team this year. Hartwen, Harvey and Newell, also substitutes last year, are still In college, and may get on the team, though 1t is scarcely probable that more than one of them will attain that honor. 1t is too early to tell what football talent may be hidden In the OBSCURE ty of the freshman class, but Capt. Gillaheady has his men at active practice and the coming men Of might will soon be discovcred. Judging from the practice games So far played at New Haven, the team for 1889 will be fully as heavy as that OF last year. Some Of the new corners at Yale who have % far showed up well in the practice play are Barbour, who captained the Exeter team last year; Bliss, who halls from Andover, and Fallows, who was formerly an instructor in the Exeter gymnasium. As yet no one who has got drop kicking down to the fine art to which Bull of last years team had reduced il } has been found, though Mcbride may possibly I’LL the bill. Football lovers will remember that but for Bulls magnificent work In the field at last years Yale-Princeton game the wearers OF the blue would probably have bi, the dust Another unpleasantly big hole to be filled is that OF center rusher vacated by Corbins graduation Substitute Newell played center rusher against Corbin in the practice games last year. and may train up TO Corbin’s place. Corbin was a very steady, reliable and cool player, however, and Newell viii have to improve a good deal II he wants , to ill the shoes OF the departed great man. Harvard has lost most of her last years players, but she has plenty OF trained men on hand, and the team for 80 will probably be fully as strong as its predecessor, II not SUI perior. The eleven last year was: Rushers, v. Harding, Davis, Trafrord, Cranston, Carpenter, woodman and Cum. mock; quarter back, G. Harding; half backs /; Porter and Lee; full back, Sears A majority of these players will be missing /: this year when the crimson s~tockinged mer slime up” against their football adversaries, Full Back Sears, Half Back Porter, Quarter Back Harding and Rushers Harding and Davis being among the a5sentees. Last year, center rusher, Cranston, has returned. HI Is a capital center rusher and snapper back.

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Princeton leads 13–⁠0 in 13 meetings, counting the six since this game.