Vou. i%.- No: 2,
NEW HAVEN, CONN., WEDNESDAY, OCT. 4, 1899.
Price 10 Cents.
FOOTBALL PRACTICE,
J. 0. Rodgers Will Act as Supervis-
ing Coach.
The quality of football practice of the
first ten days at Yale Field has been
of a character to® give the hope that
a team of considerable strength may yet
be produced. No particular ‘man cah: be
singled out as having made meteoric
progress, but the growth of football
knowledge and zeal has been steady
among all the men and each succeeding
day sees a better practice. ;
According to the plan of the football
management announced in +the last
WEEKLY the name of the coach who is
to have supervision of the team building
at Yale this year, was announced on the
day after College opened. Few were
surprised to read the name of J. O.
Rodgers, ’98. Mr. Rodgers is now jn
his Senior year at the Harvard Law
School, and though he cannot be here
constantly, will be able to give a con-
siderable part of his time to the work.
He will have the assistance from week
to week of a number of loyal Yale
coaches, who come year after year to
offer their services.
The training of the backs in kicking |
and handling the ball has been put in
the hands of W. T. Bull, Yale ’88S.
Ir. Bull is in his second year at the
vale Medical School, and being right on
the ground can give much time to this
very important part of the work. The
coaches who were back last week were
Frank S. Butterworth, ’95, and F. T.
Murphy, ’97.. Harmon S. Graves, ’94
L.S., is expected to spend a few days
this week at the Field.
Since the opening of College the foot-
ball squad has been augmented by the
Freshmen and returning upper classmen
until it now numbers fifty-four men.
This made possible the scheme of
playing four elevens, which was begun
on Monday, Oct. 2—a part of the
general scheme to give the men some
sort of practice instead of sitting along
the side-lines. As the men in the two
lower elevens show promise they will be
moved up to the University and College
and be given a chance there. The Fresh-
man material is so green that it cannot
be said at his writing just what promise
itholds. It will have to be worked over
and weeded out considerably to get the
best there is, but every man will have a
chance to show his metal. As the eleven
which will meet Harvard and Princeton
will not be chosen till late in the sea-
son, several changes from the present
make up are quite likely. 7
Trainer James Robertson has begun
on his stated policy of removing a man
at once from the game, who has received
an injury. The wisdom ofthe plan was
_e@ wn in the case of Cunha, at center,
‘Yoho received a leg bruise in last week’s
practice, and although it was not serious,
he was at once removed and the bruise
attended to. He went into his old place
on Tuesday, entirely fit.
The men who have had the honor of
being designated as the University last
week were: Thomas and Gould left-end;
Stillman and Hale left-tackle; F. G.
Brown, left-guard; Leary and C. Brown,
right-guard; Francis and Blagden, right-:
tackle; Gibson and Coy, right-end;
Fincke and deSaulles, quarter-back:;
Sharpe and Adams, left-halfback; Kiefer
and Shattuck, right-halfback; Dupee
and Noyes fullback. Captain McBride
has been giving his time to coaching and
has not played much.
CHANGES IN THE SCHEDULE,
There are two changes from the
schedule published in the last issue of
the WEEKLY. The All-California team
at least three touchdowns.
which was advertised-to play in New
Haven, Oct 28, ha notified Managér
Rockefeller that they would be unable
to come East. Mr.
New York graduates, filled in the va-
cant date with the Columbia University
football team, at Manhattan Field, New
York. This is Columbia’s first football
team for a number of years. George
Foster Sanford, Yale ’97 L.S., is coach-
JAMES 0. RODGERS, 708.
Supervising Coach.
ing, and hopes to.bring a good eleven -
against Yale.
Another change in the schedule is
caused by the failure of the Wesleyan
eleven to play at Yale Field, Oct. 11, on
account of some Faculty restriction.
This leaves the date open.
pees
Yale, 23; Amherst, 0.
The first game of the year for the
Yale eleven was played at Yale Field,
Saturday, Sept. 30, with Amherst, and
was an easy victory by the score of 23
to o. Yale made three touchdowns in
the first half of 20 minutes, and one in
the last half of 15 minutes, when all
but three of the eleven had been re-
placed with substitutes. The game
showed a surprising strength in offen-
sive play, but a weakness in the defen-
sive. This latter was due principally to
the want of team work, which is not to
be wondered at so early in the season.
The backs, with the exception of Fincke
at quarter, held the ball well and ran
splendidly. Kiefer made two pretty end
runs of 40 yards each with but little as-
sistance, and Sharpe did some good line
plunging. It was the first game Sharpe
has played behind the line, and though
his position was new to him, he handled
himself well in whatever he was called
upon to do. Capt. McBride was on the
side lines nursing a temporary leg in-
jury, Dupee playing at fullback. Dupee
kicked well when called upon, but as
the principle style of playing was mass-
ing to give the line men some practice,
there was not much to do. The ball
was on Ambherst’s territory most of the
time, and generally very near her goal.
At no time did Amherst get inside
Yale’s 35-yard line. Four times when
the play was within 20 yards of Am-
herst’s goal, and her line unable to hold, |
Fincke fumbled in passing, costing Yale
McConnell’s
poor work at center was responsible for
some of Fincke’s bad play on the offen-
sive. On the defensive Fincke played
a good game, catching and running
finely. Just before the game was ended
Ballentine, the Amherst Captain, seized
the ball as it lay on the ground after
Yale’s third touchdown and ran the
length of the field, touching it down be-
tween Yale’s goal posts. The bleachers
Rockefeller there- —
upon acceding to the demands of many
were badly scared, but the umpire ruled
that the touchdown had been made and
the ball was dead before Ballentine
got it.
The score and summary:
YALE, PosITION, AMHERST.
Th :
pe t oes left-end-right_.._ Ballentine (C.)
ee i P
pores sete o. left-tackle-rig ht wane anne Gladwin
F. G. Brown . Burk
Giavs Capnyt -left-guard-right__...._.. ; Tones
McConnell =. 2-0 <2 center>: BR A, Larkin
Lear :
C. Besa t comers right-guard-left __...... Otis
Franci .
Blaeasn t ec lake right-tackle-left..-.._...._. Morse
Gibson: 226. right-end-left... 2: 3c Dudley
Fincke And
deSaulles t Ec eee quarterback _.__._. } . ‘Swilt
Sh :
See ~no epee e left-half-right_....._......- Roise
Kiefer . .
SExtick (eo right-half-left -... 2.22... Clark
Dupes 7... 3 talibeck 2. Washburn
Summary: Yale 23, Amherst o; touchdowns,
_ Dupee 2, Thomas, Kiefer; goals from touchdown,
Sharpe 1, F. G. Brown 2; umpire, W. S. Moyle,
Yale ’91; referee, Mr. Fitzpatrick of Naugatuck;
linesmen, Talcott B. Hull of Yale, F. G. Blanchard
of Amherst. Time—first half, 20 minutes ; second
half, 15 minutes.
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New Chapel Services.
The change in the College exercises
has gone into operation so. smoothly that
the break is hardly noticed. Friday was
the first morning under the new order
of things, there being no Chapel service
Thursday morning, the day College
opened. President Hadley was on the
platform in his robes of office and Prof.
Bernadotte Perrin officiated as chaplain,
reading a portion of the Scriptures and
a prescribed prayer. The appearance of
the choir in its new dress, a black robe
with an edging of Yale blue cord around
the yoke, was a great improvement.
Choirmaster Harry B. Jepson will en-
deavor to have, during the year, more
conscientious and thorough work from
the members of his choir. There was
no change whatever in the Senior bow,
as President Hadley walked down the
aisle to the door. The life of this old
custom seems guaranteed for some years
to come.
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Intercollegiate Tennis.
Owing to the late arrival of a number
of the contestants in the nineteenth
annual tournament for the Intercol-
legiate Tennis Championship, the first
matches were not played until Tuesday,
October 3. The tournament is being
held on the courts of the New Haven
Lawn Club. The prospect of fast play
throughout the tournament is in no
way diminished by the loss to Harvard
by graduation of the champions Leo
Ware and Malcomb Whitman, as
Dwight Davis, Holcomb Ward, E.
Marvin and Thomas are equally strong
representatives.
In R. D. Little, Alexander and Ogden,
Princeton has the strongest team which
has represented that University in many
years.
The Yale players are H. H. Hackett
and J. A. Allen, 1900, and Plummer.
Hackett and Allen are expected to do
exceptionally well, as their performance
this Summer in winning the Western
double championship has proven them
formidable players.
Joseph T. Whittlesey, Yale ’675., of
New Haven is acting as referee of the
tournament.
These are the officers of the Inter-
collegiate Tennis Association: Presi-
dent, Dwight Davis, Harvard; Vice-
President, R. D. Little, Princeton;
Secretary and Treasurer, J. A. Allen,
Yale.
THE RUSHES.
Yale 1903 Shows Up Well—The Sheff.
Ceremonies.
The annual Academic Sophomore-
Freshman “rush” as it is still called,
was held according to custom, Wednes-
day night, before the opening of Col-
lege. Although the result was a tie
the spirit of the Freshmen seemed a
better one than for the last two or three
years, on similar occasions, and the
wrestling was of the first class. . The
parade was formed at 7 o’clock in front
of Osborn Hall and headed by the Old
Guard band marched with the Omega
Lambda Chi step to the historic wrest-.
ling ground at the Hopkins Grammar
School, by the unusual route of College,
Crown, York, Elm and High streets.
Each man of the seven hundred who
were in the line carried a kerosene
torch, and not less than 600 of these
torches, leaking as only a kerosene
torch knows how to leak, scattered oil,
sometimes lighted, indiscriminately
over the heads and clothes of the zig-
zagging crowd.
Arrived at the wrestling ground,
Captain McBride of the football team
and Captain Allen of the crew took
charge of the ceremonies. Morris U.
Ely; ’98, was the umpire. The Fresh-
men were slow in responding with a
candidate for the light-weight match,
but finally George Spencer of Water-
town, N. Y. came forth and met John
B. Hart of Cincinnati, O. These men
were so evenly matched that the time-
- limit expired before either showed he
was the man. In the second bout
Spencer was fortunate enough to get a
hip-lock on his opponent and threw him
neatly in 2 minutes and 13 seconds.
In the’ third: bout. Hart: reversed: the
previous result, with a similar trick of
the hip, in 59 seconds. This event was,
therefore, a draw.
The middle-weight contest was easy
.for R: A. Lincoln, 1902, who threw
Payne, the Freshman representative,
Tgoo.
Captain Yale Football Eleven.
MALCOLM L. MC BRIDE,
but the heavy-weight contest was excit-
ing. B. Francis was the Sopho-
more, who was looked upon as able to
throw any two of the incoming class,
and his formidable appearance caused a
long delay and much debate in the
Freshman ranks. Finally George Goss
of Waterbury was prevailed upon to
get into the sanded arena. “I never
wrestled in my life,” said he to a friend,
while getting ready, “what shall I do?
“Throw him,” was the reply, and Goss,
remembering that he played a good
game at guard on the Hotchkiss eleven,
