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Show I FOOTBALL DOPE ABOUT COLLEGES Yale Starts Off With Good Material. This College Has Best Eleven on Paper of Any Great Preparations Are Being Made at Harvard and Princeton Innovations Inno-vations Started by Reid I Manager Kdward White baa annount ed Yale's official football schedule for the pen son of 1905. Eleven games are listed, the usual number. Eight are to be play ad Bt home, the matches with Harvard. W est Point and Columbia alone being on the opposing elevens' cr und. The only new team given a place !b Brown, whom Yale has not met for three vears. Brown has been given the place nexl to the Harvard ind Princeton games, after the West I'd I iml "oluin-bla "oluin-bla matches The Pennaylvanla Btati and Springfield Training school elevens, v ho played Yale such close games last season, finve been given dales later In October Aside from Brown the ten rivals met are the same as last year. The sch'-lnle. Saturday. September .A Trinity college at Yale Held; OctobC I. Wealevan university at Yale Held; October Octo-ber 7 Syracuse university at Yale field; October 11. Springfield Training BChOOl at ""ale fleld; October 14, Holy CrOSS at Yale field- October 21 Pennsylvania Stat.- at -.Hie Raid; October 28, West Point at "West Polm; November -i. Columbia at Kew York November 11, Brown nt Vale field; November IS. Princeton at Hie field; November 2F., Harvard at Cambridge. Cam-bridge. , Onlv two Wednesday games are scheduled sched-uled for next fall. Yale has declined to meet any Western rival, although challenges chal-lenges were received from several The programme ..f races for the annual Yale-Han aid regatta at New l.-.iidon has been announced, All three events will be rowed on the morning tide In each Inst&nce a time Is fixed for an after-roon after-roon race should m rnlng conditions be unfavorable The four-oared "varsity Biibstltutea race will be statted from the upper end of the course, finishing at the OQvy yard, rowing down stream. In case of postponement thla will be called al i n m and will be started at the drawbridge, draw-bridge, and 'inish at the navy yard, rowing row-ing up atream The freshmen race will be started u the navy yard at 9 JD m . tr.d the finish will be at the drawbridge f the race goes ocr until the after-roon after-roon It will br. called at 4:30 p. m.. and started at the navy yard sowing up nr. am Tbe 'varsity race will be started from the upper end of the course at 10.90 a in., anr the finish will be at the bridge In case of postponement the race wUJ be rrwed up stream, starting at C o'clock. The Yal rowing authorities announced that Yale will nol I nil r a crew It. the all-college all-college event of the American Henle-, al Philadelphia. Mav They give as a reason for this decision that Yale will be unabl" to develop a suitably representative representa-tive crew At Cambridge. Although Harvard has hflped In the making oi football history for mure than fifteen years, (here never has been B 1 )irlod when preparations equal to those ioi the aeason of 1906 have been madi With the coming Of Held as football j each a new era is predicted: Certainly it will not be the coach's fault If the Crimson fal'.3 to be represented by a fast eleven this autumn. Innovations have Veen tried St Harvard along football coaching lines heretofore, but nothing equal to th' thoroughness of Reid ever bns been seen here His latest schesie l will bring him into ton. h with the entire pOBSlbUltTea of Harvard from a football standpoint. Three thousand five hundred cards have j, keen distributed among the student nesting them to answer questlona as to their weight, age, height, favorite athletic pastime, football experience, if any; pre paratory school and other details from Which COach Reid can gather tin. possibilities possi-bilities of each student The man who return these cards will be visited by mem- 1 hers of the special committee where their physical qualifications nppear to wnrrantl it. If the pons- possibilities from a ! football standpoint they win be Invited to meet Reid at a certain time for an interview. Members of the same committee commit-tee have also been appointed to attend li student gatherings of, all kinds and to single out men who nppear to possess the necessary requisites of a gridiron war-j war-j rlor Dormitories, rne-s iiarlcrs. rertta- " tlon rooms and all other reaoxta of the undergraduates will be haunted by these committees and no promising material win be allowed to escape. The same tac- f tics will- he adopted with the In. Mining freshman class text fail According to H Reld's programme, nothing but a miracle lj will permit high-class material for the I s. piail to escape obscr vatlop ; Princeton Outlook. j. The Dnlversltj athletic authorities are much exercised over (he lark of Interest shown by the football players In the , spring practice which la being tried this I year. Princeton has lost a number of last J vear's team through graduation and the working of the eligibility rules nnd the coaches feel thai spring practice, is ab- s . . : 1 1 1 . i necessary tor the development of n powerful eleven next fall, only eight men have turned out so fnr for the positions posi-tions of Center and quarterback and for kicking practice The authorities feel that the fall season Is too short to rlc-velop rlc-velop a team to its full capacity and nro making strenuous efforts to get tho candidates can-didates out for the spring training. Columbia's Chances. Robert S, Stangland, formerly captain of the Columbia University football eleven has left the college to go Into DUSlnea In the South For three months Stangland had practiced with the crack SqUad and his withdrawal Is a heavy loss f., the tealrn. t ouch sjertberg had been counting oh him in the coming intercollegiate intercol-legiate hammer-throwing events Stangland Stang-land Is one of the most prominent football foot-ball plavers who has ever represent el Columbia ten several times during last season Stangland's physicians advised him to quit the game because Of the. enlargement en-largement of the heart. The captain de-layed de-layed however, until the close of the season He has secured a position as a mechanical engineer for a Tennessee tlrm. He d.-. lared before leaving for the South that he Intended to drop athletics entirely. |