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Show MAJOR CAVANAUGH TO QUIT FORDHAM Announcement Made After New York Game. Those who saw that big Fordham team crush a vaunted New York university uni-versity outftt into the Polo ground's sod hardly expected the announcement announce-ment made by the coach who taught these Maroon players the game of football. Major Frank Cavanaugh will make this his last year at Kordham, he said, with the direct comment on his action, "I don't want to die here." This can mean only one of two things. Either the major wants to teach his method of winning football games to another otilfit for a change, or he wants to give up couching. That It cannot mean the latter was signified signi-fied by the major's statement that he Is not ready .o give up football. And when i: coach says that, there is only one guess to make he'll be out giving giv-ing the boys lessons when next season sea-son comes round. Just where he'll be doing this, no one has any Idea, and the major least of all. He finds that the eye trouble which affected him last year Is definitely defi-nitely cured and he feels fit as a fiddle, Sn the football hot-stove league can now pick a team which needs the major. At least two items of importance face Coach llanley of Northwestern. The Minnesota battle clearly showed him that the reserve strength will have to be built up. while a running attack, aorely missing Hank Bruder, was conspicuous con-spicuous hy absence. Tile work of Sid Burnstein and Os Baxter, sophomore halfbacks, was so Impressive that Haniey may also experiment ex-periment further with these men. Dr. Bert Kennedy of Lawrence. Kan., former Kansas university football foot-ball coach, says night football is not new. Kennedy recalls playing a night football game In Madison Square garden, gar-den, New York city. In 1902. Kennedy Ken-nedy says among his opponents were Glenn "Pop" Warner, now coach of Stanford university, and two former Carlisle Indian stars, Bemis and Haw-ley Haw-ley Pierce. Football aione of Cornell sports returned re-turned a profit during the fiscal year ending August 31. Football cost Cornell $76,981.61 with receipts of $222,171.33. a net profit of J145.13H.72. All other sports showed a loss as follows: Baseball. $11,979.29; track, $31,919.58; crew, $28,997.21; basket ball. $5,583.54; wrestling, $3,-160.14; $3,-160.14; soccer, $2,525.62; hockey, $1,-817.29; $1,-817.29; lacrosse, $3,143.96; tennis, $3,-328.31; $3,-328.31; fencing. $2,517.20. The profit from football thus paid for the losses In the other sports with a balance of $50;212.58 to spare. Although 200-pound football players are becoming more or less a rarity on the fast modern-day elevens. Coach Kipke's Wolverine team boasts five men over the 200 mark. Hayden, sophomore tackle, hits an even 200 pounds, while Draveling is five pounds heavier. Gembls also is just 'over 200 pounds this year. Brown, substitute center. Is another "porker," while Morrison, sophomore fullback, tips the beam around 210. Walter Hagen, British open and American professional golf champion, after playing an exhibition match, an. nounced that he will retire from active golf and devote his time to business. Conflict of the little world series with the major league championship series has caused American association magnates to decide on a shorter shed-ule shed-ule for next year., George Cadigan of Mount Vernon, N. Y., has been elected captain of Amherst college freshman football i team. Cadigan Is the yearling quarterback quar-terback and one of the outstanding men on the freshman team. West Virginia and West Virginia ' Wesleyan have met on the gridiron 22 times. Davie Brown of the New York Giants' soccer' club has two claims to distinction. He is the best American. born player In the game and Is also one of the tiniest, standing but 5 feet 3 Inches. - E. V. Huggins, '29, one of the outstanding out-standing players of the Yale lacrosse team last spring, has bwm named freshman lacrosse coach. Huggins played varsity lacrosse for threo years at Yale. Other coaching appointments announced an-nounced through the Athletic association associa-tion recently were Arthur Hudson, 27, who rowed on the Yale crew In 1925. assistant class cYew coach to work with Sam Shaw, and Paul L. SalTo, a studeni in the Yale Medical school,' to be assistant coach of class football. Elmer Ripley, varsity basket hall coach, has charge of Yale's extensive class football program. Ripley came to Yale this fall from Georgetown. With the release of Dutch Henry to the White Sox by the waiver route, reports filled the air concerning the shakeup that was sure to come to the Giants before their 1930 measurements measure-ments were taken. Maybe so. Rut it ' wouldn't hurt McGraw's chances for him to take his hopefuls aside next year and instruct them in the art of beating the neighboring Robins and the Importance of playing play-ing the same type of baseball In July that they do In September. |