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laid Francis down twice and made the
whole series of wrestling a draw.
The line was again formed and re-
turned through York and Crown
streets to Osborn, where the upper
classmen dispersed. There was some
hazing of a very mild character and it
was reported later in the night that
some Sophomores in Pierson Hall had
been mistaken for Freshmen and given |
some of their own medicine.
The popularity of Captain McBride
and Admiral Dewey was attested by the
frequent cheering for them on the line
WILLIAM T. BULL, ’88S.
Coach of the Backs,
ot) -marcn: An unbiased observer
thought that Captain McBride was the
favorite by a small margin.
SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL RUSH.
The so-called “rush” of the Scientific
School, which is very similar to the
Academic wrestling, came off on Satur-
day night, and had a large attendance.
The parade formed on lower Hillhouse
Avenue and led by a hack load of Seniors
and the Old Guard Band, and lit up by
red and blue and green fire, took its
crooked way through Grove, Prospect,
Trumbull and Orange streets to the
vacant lot at the corner of Whitney
Ave. and Cold: Spring St., where the
wrestling was held. The costumes of
this year baffle description. There were
the well-known and standard tramps,
clowns, policemen, soldiers, sailors and
petty officers, ballet girls and coy maids
in low necked dresses; Irishmen, Scotch- —
men, Chinamen, Japs and Hottentots.
There was in the line also a very clever
impersonator of Admiral Dewey.
prevent the “Admiral” from being lone-
some at the rush, “Admiral Sampson,”
“Admiral Schley,’ “Governor Roose-
velt,” and other war heroes were pro-
duced, so that in all but the marching
the parade had a very military appear-
ance. After the proving ground had
been reached and the circle formed, the
light-weight match was called. Farley,
representing the Juniors, won _ over
Ingraham of the Freshmen. Soosmith,
1902, the middle-weight, won his two
bouts over Benner, the Junior, and
Blagden brought victory to 1902 by win-
ning handily over McWilliams, in th
heavy-weight contest. :
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Hiarvard Football.
[Correspondence of YALE ALUMNI WHEEKLY.]
CAMBRIDGE, Sept. 30—The Harvard
football squad began training Septem-
ber 20, with morning and afternoon
practice, but the morning practice has —
been discontinued with the opening of
the regular college work. Sixty candi-
dates of more than usual promise are
trying for places on the Eleven. Four
elevens are being organized. The line
men are under the direction of W. H.
Lewis, L.S. ’93, who coached in block-
ing off and breaking through without
the use of the backs, who meanwhile
had practiced kicking, catching and
following punts in charge of last year’s
captain, Dibblee, now the head coach.
The first line up was Wednesday,
Sept. 27, and the general play was
snappy for this time of year. Reid has
received most attention in punting. al-
though several of the other candidates
have shown up well, and Harvard will
not be wanting in good punters this
season. Of the ends, Hallowell played
on last year’s eleven, Campbell played
ao.
Silver; 1th
end and captained the Freshman eleven
last year and Ristoul was a University
substitute. .
The tackle positions will be filled by
new men, though Swain played most of
the games two years ago and last year
until disabled early in the season.
Eaton was first substitute tackle last
year. ,
At guard are the veterans of last year,
Burden (Capt.) and Boal. .
Sargent and Burnett will have a
pretty race for center of the team, with
chances in favor of Sargent, who played
center on his Freshman team last year.
Burnett has a reputation as a drop
kicker and has had experience in last
year’s game with Yale when he took
Jaffray’s place. Both candidates for
center weigh about two hundred pounds.
At quarter-back Daly will undoubtedly
hold his position and wins admiration
for his splendid handling of punts. _
The half-backs are Warren of last
years team, and either Parker, Ken-
dall or Ellis for the other place. Parker
played a brilliant game two years ago
on the University, but was kept from
playing last year because of low stand.
Reid will probably play at full-back
again this year. :
The team is thus almost entirely
veteran. Five men on the line seem
even now almost sure of their positions
and back of the line are four veterans.
The following schedule has been ar-
ranged:
Sept. 30—Williams at Cambridge.
Oct. 4—Bowdoin at Cambridge.
Oct. 7—Wesleyan at Cambridge.
Oct. 11—Amherst at Cambridge.
Oct. 14—West Point at West Point.
Oct. 18—Bates at Cambridge.
Oct. 21I—Brown at Cambridge.
Oct. 28—Carlisle Indians at Cam-
bridge.
Nov. 4—University of Pennsylvania
at Philadelphia.
Noy. 11—Darmouth at Cambridge.
Noy. 18—Yale at Cambridge.
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Por
Opening College Games,
The opening game of the Harvard
football season was played with Wil-
liams at Cambridge on Saturday, Sep-
tember 30. The result, 29 to o in favor
of Harvard, is hardly a fair score by
which to judge that team’s playing, as
Williams, according to reports, was
extremely weak. The Harvard Univer-
sity Eleven lined up: Campbell, le;
ewan, Lic Boao s CC Sarcent..<:
Burden, .to.*) eaton +t. Fallows,
t.0,;° Day. C7 ateer 27D nen
dall; 7:h.b.; and: Reid, f.b.. Many sub-
stitutes were played in the second half,
The running of Gierasch, who made
two 50 yard runs for touchdowns in the
second half, was the feature of the game.
Daly. ran the team with excellent gen-
eralship. It is generally conceded that
the tackles are Harvard’s weakest point.
Pennsylvania played the Lehigh
eleven in Philadelphia, Saturday, Sep-
tember 30, and won by the score of 20
to o. The play of the Pennsylvania
team lacked vigor. The Lehigh team
on the other hand, although it has had
only a few days practice, held Pennsyl-
vania four times for downs and succeed-
ing in getting a first down twice by line
bucking. All the Pennsylvania team,
except Hare and :McCracken, who
played a consistent game throughout,
fumbled badly. When the majority of
the substitutes were put in the game in
the second half Pennsylvania only
scored once. The men who played the
first half were: McMahon, l.e.; De
Hare, l.g.; McCloskey, ¢:;
McCracken, r.g.; Wallace, r.t.; Hodge,
re; “Gardiner, q:bit: Kennedy, Hob.
Outland, r.h.b.; Reuggenberg, f.b.
_ Although Cornell won the game
played with Hamilton College at Ithaca,
September 30, the score,-12 to 0, was
not as large as was expected. The
Cornell team still showed its lack of
proper coaching, for while the men
worked well and hard and the individ-
ual playing was excellent, the inter-
ference and mass plays were ragged for
even this time of the year. Hamilton
showed the result of Sweetland’s coach-
ing. Sweetland was Cornell’s tackle
last year. Caldwell and Warner, the
heavy Cornell guards, made good holes
in the line and Captain Starbuck played
well. He was forced to retire in the
latter part of the game. There is fine
material in the Cornell squad for a
good team.
Other games played on Saturday,
September 30, were: |
‘ deciding factor at all times.”
Middletown—Wesleyan 27, Ambherst
-Aggies 0.
Worcester, Mass.—Brown 17, Holy
Cross 0.
Lewiston, Me.—Bates College o0,
Boston College o.
Hanover, N. H.—Dartmouth 16,
Exeter 5. ‘
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Lessons of Last Season,
In closing up an article on the foot-
ball season of 1898, in Outing for Sep-
tember, Walter Camp says: ‘The con-
clusions to be drawn from the season’s
play are that at last there is more gen-
eral appreciation of what all-round play
means, and that a team of only one style
can hardly expect to win. Kicking was
demonstrated to be of the greatest value,
and those who have advocated a more
extensive use of that part of the play
have had their views conclusively con-
firmed. There was practically nothing
new developed in the running game, ex-
cept that Chicago showed greatest pos-
sibilities in secondary passes and Penn-
sylvania further carried out the delayed
pass. The season was especially re-
markable for the overturning of former
victors, and this overturning was ac-
complished, not by some new trick play
or by a single unusual long run or a
lucky kick, but by superior general play
in all departments. That is the way
Harvard defeated Pennsylvania and
Yale, Berkeley defeated Stanford, and
North Carolina defeated Virginia.”
THE KICKING GAME.
In an article in the same issue of Out-
ang, George H. Brooke of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania writes on the de-
partment of kicking. He goes into the
history of the kicking and the kickers
of the past and prophesies an increasing
importance to this part of the game in
the future. Indeed, he says, in answer
to a criticism that the American game
is not a kicking game, that a careful
analysis of the “important contests for
the last six years will show that pro-.
ficiency in the kicking game has been the
The arti-
cle contains a technical description of
the different methods of punting, with
illustrations and comments of the work
of one or two remarkable kickers, par-
ticularly Herschberger of Chicago,
whom he describes at standing without
a peer in distance punting and placement
kicking. He thinks Herschberger ought
to go further in the science of the game
and develop the whirling punt. For the
encouragement of young kickers, he calls
attention to the fact that Hudson, the
Carlisle Indian kicker, attained his ex-
traordinary skill only after the longest
practice. In one Summer vacation, he
used every day for practice.
F. T. MURPHY, ’07.
After studying such a-careful article
as this, it makes Yale men the more
pleased that the kicking department of
the Yale game was taken hold of at the
very beginning of the season by such a
master as Mr. Bull, who is going to
generously give to it a great deal of time
in the next two months.
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Connecticut Academy Anniver:
sary.
~The. Connecticut Academy of Arts
and Sciences, which organized in this
city in 1799, will celebrate the comple-
tion of its first century on next Wednes-
day, October 11, by public exercises in
North Sheffield Hall, and a reception of
the delegates and invited guests, in Win-
chester Hall. The program at North
Sheffield Hall is as follows: |
AFTERNOON SESSION, 3 P. M.
1. Reading of written communications
from corresponding societies, by Alex-
ander W. Evans, Ph.D., Secretary of the
Academy. :
2. Address -of Welcome, by . His
Honor, Lyman A. Mills, Lieutenant-
Governor of Connecticut. |
3. Address; The Debt of This Cen-
tury to Learned Societies, by Professor
Wm. H. Brewer, Ph.D., President of
the Academy. :
3. Address: The Debt of This Cen-
Nineteenth Century, by Professor Wm.
North Rice, LL.D., of Wesleyan Univer-
sity. .
At the close of the addresses, an op-
portunity will be afforded for any oral
communication from delegates of Cor-
responding Societies.
EVENING SESSION, 8 P. M.
5. Address; [he ..History of the
Academy during its First Century, by
Hon. Simeon E. Baldwin, LL.D.
Reception by the Academy of dele-
gates from Corresponding Societies and
invited guests in Winchester Hall from
QO {6 -11° P.M.
Guests are requested to present their
cards of invitation for the reception at
the door of Winchester Hall.
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Divinity School Alumni,
Over 150 of the alumni of the Yale
Divinity School, in attendance upon the
recent International Congregational
Council at Boston, held a banquet Sept.
26 in Tremont Temple. Rev. C. A.
Dinsmore presided and addresses were
made by Professors Porter and Curtis;
Rev. 4. 1. Brown...of..Salt.. Lake City;
Rev. W. L. Anderson of Exeter, N. H.;
Rev. W. J. Mutch, Rev. E. Lyman
teed ang... S.: Mactariagd. .. The
meeting was a most enthusiastic one
and messages of hearty allegiance wete
sent to President Hadley and .ex-Presi-
dent Dwight. A committee consisting
hye fee vioulton of Yale: Rev.
T.-T.. Munger, D.D. of New Haven;
and Rev. Lucius Thayer of Portsmouth,
N. H., was appointed to arrange for
the organization of local alumni associa-
tions. Definite steps were taken after
the meeting for the formation of a Bos-
ton association.
—
Un Athlete.
{From l’Llustre Soleil du Dimanch, July, 1899.]
Tous les Parisiens qui fréquentent le
Bois de Boulogne connaissent le magni-
fique terrain de courses a pied si par-
faitement organisé par le Racing-Club
de France qui en ouvre souvent les
portes toutes grandes aux autres sociétés
et a l’Union des Sociétés Francaises de
Sports Athlétiques. —§ C’est la, entre le
Grand Lac et le Pré-Catelan, que se
disputérent lautre dimanche les cham-
pionnats de France au milieu d’une foule
nombreuse de sportsmen et de gens du
monde.
Il y avait la une série de photographies
d’actualité que nous n’etimes garde de
manquer. Glissons sur la vue du joli
chalet du club et sur les coureurs du
100 métres prenant le départ, bien que
les poses de ces athlétes soient fort -..
téressantes. Houdet gagna cette épreuve
en 11” 4%. :
Et venons-en bien vite a ce merveil-
leux Sheldon, vainqueur du concours de
saut a la perche. Agé de vingt-six ans,
mestirant Im 96, ce merveilleux sauteur
fut pendant sept ans champion de la
célébre Université américaine de Yale.
Il y franchit notamment 1m 86 en hau-
teur et 3m 50 ala perche. Depuis deux
ans il ne pratiquait plus les sports,
quand il entra, il y un mois au Racing.
Il y retrouva vite sa belle forme d’antan,
démolissant l’ancien record de saut a
la perche en sautant 3m 15. Si, le jour
des championnats, il n’a pas dépassé 2m
g5—notre gravure de premiére page
montre parfaitement la beauté impres-
sionnante de ce saut—il faut remarquer
que Sheldon venait de s’adjuger trois
records de France sautant sans tremplin
6m 34 en longueur, Im 75 en hauteuf
et lancant le poids de 5 kilogrammes 4
11m 80. Quel magnifique athlete!
