Show I Ij 0 THE t l E J J E A J l D 1 N G FOOTBALL F g t j Alt f i L i By TOMMY CLARK CLARI CLARKo o how hov taken oIl oli It ii i s n r I Important marI murl that portion or O 11 ty conch IS I II t h IiI hl Into Inlo a 11 Js Is over th the eh C k are tri for the hard int lit ts th thit t will follow one another In e ct I uCe Ilon until tho climax the worl vork over Ocr With the preliminary or of Ivi for tl a development hat tIfT lo ISO O to succesS by br md thi can RU be Out the thi weak Hirv d LooIs Loo Strong I Conolt Hau und and his ns itS aro thoroughly lly with lP Harvard IH ut at hand and Ire rc ta r decided d upon the men will us In the tho bit bIg ganO Ith Yale Nov 20 O statistIcs have a us yet been Ien n out It Is fg certain that the Her Har yard urd varsity eleven ot of lOS 1909 is going to tobe toie ie be above the in weight Par Particularly this ho bo true of oC the tho bael n which Corbett P D Smith and Minot roll laity be as the tha regular members at quarter position Corbett and Smith havo both their InItials In footbalL and t surely surel would have been a n a year yent ns ago had not kept from the gridiron So It will bo be a back field that as wol velI a ns Up tip to date the line men have been drilled particularly In defensive pl play playIng Ing Fish at has not been l playing nB as brilliantly as In tho past but no fear Is felt regarding his ability to i hold hIs own against any an op when the time comes I Huar s u ed toda today Is for fora or ora a real good kicker Ricker The rhe eleven Is a aready ready strong stron but n a punter like Burr Burl nad who have done the tho 1 fn lag for two years ars past would be n a welcome The coaches Have 1130 decided that tha Corbett Corbell must do dothe dothe the kicking this rail fall and while ho does docs doest t nicely and shows mar marked cd ability In lacIng th tWo ball ho 11 never noor bo In Inthe Inthe the aino class with his predecessors ors opposing need not have havo an any fear that Haryard will drop any nn goals from the field wh n the tho cloven Is an any great distance from the goal Joal posts The fact that at center has not yet et fully acquired confidence tn In passing the ball back for kicks haJ hia undoubtedly eon een a factor actor In pekIng scorn s em som Jom what Whatever Harvard mn may be Inciting In the eleven wJ will make up In open 1 am f forward pa passes Ses Her Har Harvard yard vard knows a whole tot lot more of the aw football so called than the tho team h has shown thus far and this new Includes several forward improvement Needed It at Yale Vale In th last few games gaines played Yale has demonstrated that the tho team Is In ragged form and that the tho players pla s have hao not b been en putting up as oed a sam game as might reasonably be from material such as Yalo I hils hits on IHn hand Ell Eli has a lot lol ot of first but buC Judging from pros pres present ent Indications the tho Is going to be beono ono one that tilI develOP vcr very The Jhc center ot 01 the ruah line IIno mit or of unsettled until An Andrus necessity drus the big guard SUard sets gets Into proper and d what ho Is likely to do this fall all Cooney has been fillIng An Andrus rus position The latter slows up the whole rush rUdl line At first there w tS s tI talk ot of shifting Cooney to o center but ut the development de ot of Hyde and Francia has hns boon heen tood enough to malta malce this change Inadvisable far tho present at least Neither Hyde Hydo nor 1101 Francis Is n a physicaL giant such as Yale In ea gone Sono b by always sought for this position Both are arc moro or of the type or of Bl dl ot of last ears team who was a man ot of good physical str lIsth and a lot of There here has hus been talk or of making II a out o of Andrus and I keeping Cooney at guard This rIlls would moan mean the dIsplacement or of Lilley who at al r present Is playing right tackle LIl Lii LIll l s work wore has been overshadowed this fall Call b by the superior and brilliant work or of Hobbs who up to date data has played the best football or of all any man on the tue team There Is no reason I why should not develop enough I to hold hit his position for lie ho has enough weight and imd with proper coaching lie he should mal make o a valuable man manTho Tho work of Hobbs this has been n 1 aheu oC if his hiM Iii II 1 IDS This full fall ho he has ed front from the very cr opening of the season I It If ho I len III his pT sen lit hI should be one 0 tile ve st t tickles In the c by the of November I antis enUs or of the rush tho are still undecided There Is for these places 1 In Ku patrick and Vaughan and In Logan LoganI I Haines and Van Sinderen Nae ele must sun still bo b counted us as a T r i ig F h 1 B t tf f jI 7 t tr tI tr I i 3 t i t tr If j 7 J r t J 10 yo J I Dr iT OO OOS S f IJ 1 l 0 t tr r J r r t ttA m l lOJ I OJ tA fj r 44 t n a i iI I t z t mf r i v W Wi f ft t ro 0 Y Yr K f r 41 I iI b bi i f A j j 1 3 f j i 11 f e 5 M 1 5 v j to r I 4 2 s J 1 f t th h n i I i t J I YO YOI r rb i Jt w wt b I if r Y J 2 o y g gI I t J JL o 1 kt tJ s l 1 ii 74 i it t r P i sio i i ift ft ci t V l t lf S r 11 7 Mr co WEST OF HARVARD WHO HAS BEEN PLAYING A STRONG GAME AT LEFT GUARD FOR CRIMSON man In the practice to data dale Logan and have hae ed these most regularly But Vaughan and Van Sinderen hare lItO been crowding two hard and has not yet et had an opportunity to lo do himself justice Thero Is In this squad great for these two places Haines flames was I playing a fast genie gamo until lie ho was hurt and was taken behind the tue line IIno In order I to lo help out In the punting game gume Tho quarterback material Is not coming along as fast filst as It should Ford Johnson who showed good abil abilIty abilIty Ity lost last fall has not yet et got back Into form lIe He is slow In running tho team and this same samo crIticism applies to both Howo and an Ul the other two most promising quarterbacks I I Corey Is a possibility 0 Of his level headedness and his all roun round ability its as an athlete J tt present howe to have mot admit r h 1 ii Cm faster celS gets mor sHill into lie play lilay field Hel situation la an inter stin lI Field FieldI and I Jolt lIghting Jt It oui for tho wo tso positions bo be left heft no noW I It t that hat Captain CO Coy Is Ig back In harness Princeton Has over the record m mado de by the Princeton PrInceton eleven to date one ona fin finds s It to enthuse but tim tho fact re rc remains mains that the tho Tigers TIger have lie tho mo ma tonal and the tho coaches to turn out a strong cloven cleven the team learn Is Isery very ery powerful and has J ull demonstrated demon demonstrated It but the tho men do not play to toI get gather her ns as It they ought to after almost a months Practice I is partly caused by the quarter quarterback quarterback back problem m D IDason shows good in running the team and has hos lots ot of life Ure but many times timos he missed punts and when ho he did got thorn them waS not able to run them back effectively The only oth other r available man seems to be Chrystle and ho Is weal weak In just the points In which Dawson Is strong and versa The choice of ends has sell led down to four Gill Meigs and the tho first two having the tho call nt at All these men nien are good but that is all that can be rOt for them The most thinS thing about the lest Iest of the line I Is tho ho fight that Bam Bamman man mati and are arc having forthe for forthe the center position It Is n a contest of speed against weight and nn an enforced la layoff orr or of MacFadyen en has enabled the tho lighter man to set get Into all the tho games so 80 far ho he hM shown up ox cx well One guard positIon seems assured to er and is 15 isnow now occupying the tho other regularly but I is a strong factor and does not need to play pla much better batter to toI I supplant the ho other men man Captain lIng and McCrohan at the tho tackles have been open opening Ins big holes and play pla plain playing in ing as well as 08 anybody on the tho squad but tho tha latter atter sun still has a lot to learn When hen Read Bead and McCormIck I have b been en In tho ho back field together they have formed a I combination that lies has not yet et been stopped d though most of their gains have hae been through the holes made b by the stron Doth Bath I Read RealI and Sparks who substitutes for or him are backs who are aro reminders or of lie great Tibb tt tl o of last year car for they are aro fast and fight un till the they get every overy Inch possible one Is in condition yet ot to stand stan a long hard game gamo play piny so ar can bo be char characterized characterized as distinctly ragged and tho faults are arc so apparent and mistakes so I frequent that lint It looks as Ir if It vero go to tal take c a lung Ions lute o to eradicate I Ithem them I Penn Eleven Fast If lie tho kind o of football tho Uni o oC has been the lie weeks Is a safe criterion the Red Rell and team this season wIll be quite asgood as soo good as that of 01 last year eur In the tho last u 11 ELEVENS SiZE IZE UP three f ames the tho Quaker back fIeld played well selI together and the different men showed up strongly In every do dc the game with Dickinson the tho coaches have been working to develop a Cain of substitutes In III which the lie see orld t team am vIii be th equal of the tho first I I This Has been partially I with the result that the competition for or places JS so keen that hardly ly ono I I man on the tho feels certain of oC his position In developing such II a squall squad as this tile the conches coaches have given Iven I I I ills only IJ Ii In his punting The coaches are looking for one halt half halfback back or of the end running type and the theother theother other a line Uno Sommer who 1185 been II a substitute for two yearS car looks like a certainty for the tho line after aCter the exhibition i gurno gamo lie lIo against Dickinson which ho he save gave weighs pounds antI hits hilts lie tho line Uno w with great force while ho he Is vary ory hard to knock off his feet Marks the center wile hn has b en working In the back mck Ibid seems to toI I have the better beller or of the race for the i 1 7 t i 1 f std t tl M H b bI I I Ji 3 t k t S j f r t l 7 i 1 I A Jf i f 4 A WJ t rJ Jr I l a t 1 fo 1 C 0 ir t m 1 t j 1 0 f i J 1 v J 7 o Y ot A r I 1 7 4 1 f r i j J iz k c 1 i d I A 1 f jJ I 7 4 1 1 Et ft J pi 1 t p i t r k 2 t t J JI t tL f 1 I fk M nt j L V I r I Z JL IM t I t JOCKEY JOE NOTTER WHO IS TO RETURN SHORTLY Y AFTER t A SUCCESSFUL SEASON IN GERMANY lion ot of their determination to have n a team that plays at top speed evory minute of tho thio game As for backs thc they arc having a strenuous timo ot of It IL At t this writing there thero arc aro only two mon man who seem to have havo their positions These are aro Captain 11 Miller er at quarterback and Hutchinson on nt at fullback but both of these men aro beIng berng hard pressed b by substitutes The Tho worle vork or of Hutchinson against Dickinson was of tIm tho sensa ensa baa or order er Hutchinson In fact looks I to he be a second Hollenback His work I I In running bade back kicks and rounding tho ho thoI ends was almost almo t on n a par with the I b best t ever did Hutchinson i I 16 ii II a short stock stocky player with dous speed and very hard to stop lie He HeI I also picks his openings unusually well other halfback Young YounS Irwin and Ramsdell are aro all trying for Cor back field positions so 60 that the light continues to bo be an open one Ramsdell as lie he I Inow Is Isnow now playing looks look to be elated for Cor substItute fullback The Tho coaches are now congratulating themselves over the excellent excelle work worl of oC oCA ofA A Tha er at quarterback lie Ho is a and tennis player He Is al already l ready making Miller hu hutie tle to hold his I position As ho Is a star punter and and drop I kicker leker It has been suggested that be moved to right end and Thayer er bo played at quarter Prospects prospects for a winning teem has steadily brightened with the tho thelast last few weeks The good work of Allerdice Tt Ben brook Watkins r Ranney LocH RHey I and Casey eight Mj I men tr trying for Cor Corthe forthe the team Is causIng Coach Hurry Hurr Up Yost considerable satisfaction ills HIli chief delight Is In Iii the tho woric of tho ho new men sono or of hom tire are ox ex expected to the older players rs a hard battle battlo r I Yost Is doing this season what lie he has long wanted to fast Cust shifty mon men In the tho line There Thero are arc likely to bo be few giants on the Michigan team learn this year eat Benbrook Riley and Conklin welsh weigh each or moro more To accomplish his purpose Yost Is using former back field men at tee tae Ida klo and even guard and while lie tho team this year will probably average pounds lighter than recent elevens It will vill make maleo up in speed what It lo es In weight Tho surprise of the tho team up to date ate has hs been tho ho work o of tho ho now candi candidates lutes dates Benbrook and Bertrand Yost has been working Benbrook formerly a guard SUard on thai tho team at con center er the thc first da day ot of practice anti amI to the tho surprise of every ono one the lie big en soan has hns shown well at the lie now po pe sillon If ho continues lie tho pace hero thero ill be n a merr fight for the pivotal position between Benbrook and nn LocH who hio played center on the tho 1906 eleven cloven when the faculty kept Schultz from plaYing at quarterback Is handling t the tite signal practice more accurately than ever Captain kicking hits has been the ho feature or of the tho Waiver r ones earl genies Outlook In the Wet West rite fhe right fight for the football slut shill of the lie middle west Js is clos closer r than Over Vcr this season TIm Tho Minnesota Chi Chicago cage cago and Wisconsin elevens appear lr to tobo tobe bo be evenly matched Tue Tho showing of Minnesota In its ftH games thus far Car thu season stamps Conch Coach a A team that thac enn run Mm up Ui II a score Jf to 0 against Lawrence In twenty and fifteen halves with only ye days das must be of stellar players pla elS n 11 go good l condition The Tho clever running aud dodging of Captain McGovern have I been the feature or of tanDy many or of the Go C pliers Games this season I The Tho Chicago eleven while not lIOt as powerful as they were lat last season Is 13 out to capture the tue western con conference J I championship but not wIthout a strub sic gb Coach StasS Stagg is ono one ot of the closest observers ob i servers ot of scrimmage work In the west and Ito ho discerns In an Instant the mis mistakes 1 takes of the tho varIous pla players and tlc tIes them Item on the tho Ho He Is a stickler I for fOl team play flight hero It mn may be stated that lint In ever every formation which Is used by Chicago there t a particular function for fOI eV every ry player on the tho team to perform and Stagg generally seen that bus Is The work of Page who Is trying to till Stef place at Is 18 being watched with Interest The great little player was taken from his favorite po no altion at right end nd and placed at I tar ter Coach Stagg 1 to make mako this i move but there wa was no other candidate i who showed shoved an aptitude fo for the lie place I and Pago was vas forced orew to pia play the tho post pOlI iou On the tho he Is being used i as smashing an and defensive run full runback fullback S back Chicago has a line IIno In Badenoch at center Bunion Ehrhorn und and as guards ani Kelley an and Hoff Hoffman man as tackles In addition to this quIntet of veterans cher and Smith or of last years freshman team have all three showed well this season of o Iio h line Coach Stagg has two good ones itt In and Other candidates fOl foi back backI and end positIons who vIrn have shown well I are arc Sauer er Daven port Dc Both and Samson Coach Barry Barr of Wisconsin Is con confident |