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FOOTBALL QUTLOOK.
Four New Forwards Must Be De-
veloped Here—Narvard Team.
A general opinion is abroad that the
Yale football eleven will as a matter of
course be an invincible one this Fall.
This undoubtedly grows out of the
knowledge that a majority of the vic-
torious Eleven of 1897 were new men
who had two or more years left of
their course and would, barring unfor-
seen happenings, be candidates for their
old positions. The outlook at present,
however, does not warrant so optimistic
a view. By graduation last June the
team lost four men. They were:
Rodgers at right tackle, Chadwick at
right guard, Hazen at left end and
Benjamin at right half back. Of these,
Benjamin will return for a course in
the Graduate School and will compete
for his old position. The rumor that
Rodgers will enter the Law School and,
being eligible, will play his old place
in the line is without foundation.
Besides these losses, the center has
been left vacant by Cadwalader, who
failed to keep his scholarship stand up
to the strict Faculty ruling of 2.25, and
John Hall, ’97 S. a student in the Gradu-
ate Department, has taken the post of
Coach of the Carlisle Indians. Four
important positions must therefore be
filled in the line.
It is too eatly in the season to say
what material may be drawn from the
incoming class, but it is known that no
brilliant players are coming from the
preparatory schools. Schreiber, the
Andover end who did such good work
last year and who was coming to Yale
has changed his plans and will go into
business instead, this Winter. There
are in College at present, however,
several good candidates for most of the
vacant places. For left guard, Mar-
shall, ’909 S., who played the position
up to the day of the Harvard game is
the most prominent man in sight. He
has. been granted a 30 days furlough
with other members of Battery A, and
will begin work with the squad next
week. McGee, ’99S. and Allen, 1900,
both of whom did fair work at left
tackle, will be in training for that posi-
tion.
At the present time there appears to be
no one to fill the gap at center. Cutten,
who is still in the Theological Depart-
ment, will try for the place, but it is
doubtful if he makes it, as it developed
last year that he was very slow to learn
the fine points of the game. The only
other candidate in sight at the pres-
ent time is Hall, ’99S. For the two
end positions there are Slocovitch,
798, who. enters the Law School this
Fall; Connor, ’99, who played on the
Ninety-Six team; Hubbell, 1900;
Walker, 1900; Spreyer, a Law School
Senior; Abbott, ’99; Coy, Igor.
Behind the line there. will probably
be little change. McBride has of course
the best chance for full-back but Mar-
vin, ’990 is a promising candidate for
the place. At half-back Gilmore, ’g9,
Corwin, ’99S., Kiefer, 1901, Dudley,
1900 S. and Benjamin will contend for
the two places. For quarter, Yale has
a number of good men, deSaulles,
Sullivan, Winter and Stoddard. The -
former will not begin work with the
team for a week or two.
The preliminary practice this year
was of a very light nature, consisting -
of the gathering of a few men in various
parts of the country to be watched in
an hour’s work each day by some ex-
perienced coach at his home. Half a
dozen candidates for end positions went
to Tonawanda, N. Y. to the home of
Frank A. Hinkey, while the backs were
watched by Frank Butterworth at
Washington, D. C. Capt. Chamberlin
took ten men to the seashore at Kenne-
bunkport, Me., where light work was
done when the weather permitted.
The published reports of coaching by
Walter Camp at that place are erro-
neous, as Mr. Camp went to the Beach
for his health and has been seriously
ill with gastritis for the past two weeks,
being unable to leave his bed.
The entire squad with the exception
of a few of the heavy men began work
at the Field on Monday, Captain Cham-
berlin coaching. Harmon Graves will
coach the team on Wednesday and
Thursday and Frank Butterworth on
the last.two days of this week.’
NO HEAD COACH.
It can be stated on good authority
that the policy of Captain Chamberlin
is to have no head coach, but to depend
on the graduates for assistance when it
is needed. The magnificent showing
of graduate loyalty last year, when a
call for assistance brought out a coach
for every position on the team, would
seem to justify the adoption of the plan.
AT HARVARD.
Captain Dibblee has but four of the
Ninety-Seven squad to put in the field
this year; Boal at center, Warren right
half, Houghton full-back and himself at
left-back, but from so much good
material from the substitutes and incom-
ing class will make a great effort
to build a winning team. The men
came together on Sept. 19, and began
active work on Soldiers Field. Coach
Forbes will have entire charge of the
team.
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Yale Football Schedule.
The schedule of Yale games as an-
nounced by Manager Jamot Brown is
as follows:
Sept. 24. Trinity at Hartford. |
Oct. 1. Wesleyan at New Haven.
Oct. 5. Amherst at New Haven.
Oct. 8 Williams at New Haven.
Oct. 15. Newtown A. C. at New-
town, Mass.
Oct. 19. Brown at New Haven.
Oct. 22. Carlisle Indians at New
Haven.
Oct. 29. West Point at New Haven.
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Haven.
Nov. 12. Princeton at Princeton.
Nov. 19. Harvard at New Haven.
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THE “YALE BATTERY,”
General Hawley’s Comment on Its
Efficiency—Its History for the
Past Two Months,
Light Battery A, First Connecticut
Artillery, has remained during the
Summer in camp at the Government
Post at Niantic, Conn. From early
July there was every indication that the
Battery would be called into service at
almost any time, and early in August
orders were received from Washington
to prepare to proceed at once to New-
port News, to become a part of Gen.
Wade’s division, which was to go to
Porto Rico. The quick closing of the
war of course caused the revocation of
these orders and left the Battery still
at Niantic.
The receipt of the order had been
hailed with the greatest delight by all
members of the Battery, both those in
the Yale platoon and the others, and its
revocation was accepted with as much
grace as possible. It was the greatest
disappointment to the men that they
did not have an opportunity to see ser-
vice, as they. were all as fit as could
be, and eager for it.
Gen. Joseph R. Hawley, the Connec-
ticut Senator, who is Chairman of the
Committee on Military Affairs, visited
the State camp grounds on _ several
occasions and was particularly inter-
ested in the work of the Battery. He
spent nearly all of one day in August,
making a very thorough inspection. of
the command, going through the
stables and looking over all the equip-
ment. He watched the drills with the
greatest care, and referring afterwards
to his visit, in a letter to one of the
Yale graduates who was interested in
the organization, he said: “I do not
believe that a better Battery was ever
enlisted in the United States.”
This sentiment was especially satis-
factory to the Yale members of the
organization, who had worked so hard
for its development. Capt. Honce had
the greatest confidence in the ability of
Lieut. Weston, Yale ’98S., who, for
a number of weeks, had entire charge
of. the Yale platoon, and often of the
whole Battery. The effect of his work
was most Satisfactory.
After the close of the war the men
waited patiently, as they had for the
four months before, to learn the pleas-
ure of the War Department in regard to
LIEUT. FREDERICK TOWLE WESTON, ’98 S.
LIGHT BATTERY A, FIRST
CONN. VOLS,
their further service. Although the
opportunity for any particularly inter-
esting service was removed, and a very
large number of the Yale men wished
to return to College or pursue their
studies elsewhere, no movement was set
on foot to petition for the muster-out
of the organization, or to secure dis-
charges. At the end of last week, how-
ever, thirty-day furloughs were re-
ceived for the entire Battery.
The interests of the men at Washing-
ton were frequently brought to the
attention of Connecticut and Yale
representatives there, and the latter
responded with the utmost zeal in
efforts to secure a good assignment.
Mr. John Addison Porter, Yale ’78,
Secretary to the President, frequently
consulted with the Adjutant-General,
while Senator Joseph R. Hawley and
Congressman N. D. Sperry, from the
New Haven district, exerted themselves
to the utmost. Gen. Hawley and Mr.
Sperry redoubled their efforts just at
the close of the war. As a result
General Hawley received Gen. Corbin’s
personal assurance that the troops
would be moved within a very few
days, while just before the suspension
of hostilities Mr. Sperry received a
despatch from Washington in answer
to one of his own, definitely announc-
ing the assignment of the Battery to
Gen. Wade’s division. The end of the
war overturned all of these plans.
Had the Yale men been allowed to
carry out their scheme of a distinct
horse battery, according to plans
which had received the special commen-
dation of Gen. Miles and Sec. Alger,
they would probably have been early
called into service. The refusal of the
State government to accept this as part
of Connecticut’s Troops, made it neces-
sary for the men to give up this plan.
The second effort on their part to fur-
nish a distinct organization in the shape
Full-grown Men
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THE SUN.
CLOSE BUYING
In very nice furnishings is not
always possible, and often un-
profitable. Choice things are not
desired because they are a little
cheaper than some other choice
things.
BUT THERE ARE TIMES
When you can pick up the best
things at low prices. This is
one of the times at our store —
particularly in the line of fancy
socks and string ties. Special
reasons for it.
SHASE .& CO.
NEW HAVEN HOUSE BLOCK.
Henry Heath Hats.
FRANK A. CORBIN,
TAILOR
TO THE
STUDENTS OF YALE
AND TO THE
GRADUATES
in all parts of the country.
Address:
1000 Chapel Street,
New Haven, Conn.
of an entire Light Battery, was also
vetoed by the State government. In
spite of all this, they joined most whole-
heartedly with the Branford and Guil-
ford platoons in forming Light Battery
A, and in developing it to its present
high state of efficiency. The Yale men
conducted themselves in Camp in such
a way as won the good will of their
fellows, and of all the people of Con-
necticut.
It is probably true that most people
were very much relieved that it was
not deemed necessary or advisable to
bring the Yale Battery into active ser-
vice. A number of others, in close
touch with the members of the Battery,
shared with them the keenest disappoint-
ment. Their ambition sprang from the
most honest and deep-seated patriotism,
and it seemed almost cruel that they
should have been entirely disappointed.
They have, however, made the very best
of the conditions which were given
them, and their record is one that has
added to the good name of their Uni-
versity.
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Courtney Will Remain.
An Associated Press despatch to-day
from Ithaca says: “Coach Charles E.
Courtney said to-day relative to the
report that he thought of leaving Cor-
nell to take charge of another crew
that there was no doubt that he would
stay at Cornell, but he would ask the
management of the navy to give him
control of affairs at inter-collegiate
races each Spring so that the incon-
veniences caused by the little mis-
understandings at Saratoga and New
London last June would not arise
again. He said that he was entirely
satisfied to stay at Cornell under these
conditions and did not care to coach
any other crew.”
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