Yale Army game attracts large crowd and extra transport
Yale fans swarm to the Army game with demand for tickets far exceeding supply. Special trains and boats are arranged to carry New York spectators, ensuring a big turnout for the match.
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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1908
Page
7
Yale fans swarm to the Army game with demand for tickets far exceeding supply. Special trains and boats are arranged to carry New York spectators, ensuring a big turnout for the match.
A collage of college football matchups listed with teams such as Fordham Jefferson Bucknell Delaware Holy Cross Bowdoin Wesleyan Stevens Trinity New York U Vanderbilt Princeton Harvard Virginia and others. Games spread across Philadelphia Cambridge Ithaca Annapolis Easton Haverford Portland Nashville and more with traditional rivals noted.
The East’s first big football game features Yale meeting the United States Military Academy at West Point. Ticket demand is high with Yale allotted 1200 seats and over 2 1 requests for tickets. A dress parade is at 1 25 P M and transportation is arranged by Hudson River Day Line and West Shore Railroad for spectators.
Yale arrives in New Haven with captains Burch and Andrus sidelined by injuries and illness, leaving a weakened line. West Point, buoyed by a new forward pass and Dean’s kicking, prepares for the yearly clash with hopes of ending Yale’s edge, as lineup changes ripple through Yale’s front and backfields.
Cambridge Oct 16 Special to The New York Times Harvard planned to face Springfield Training School tomorrow afternoon with Burr out due to a bad cold. Ma guire would fill left guard, others listed in a full line including Crowiey Browne McKay Fish Hear Nourse Cutler Corbett and White with G. G. Browne slated to return to end.
The Olympic and Waco Athletic Clubs host a joint track and field meet at McComb's Dam Park this Sunday at 2 o'clock. The usual events will be contested and a silk banner will be presented to the winning club.
Dixie II owned by E. J. Schroeder heads for Europe after sweeping American prizes including the International Motorboat Cup. The 39 ft 6 in craft, powered by an eight cylinder Crane & Weightman engine, prepared for January shipment to compete in April races with Capt. S. Bartley Pearce and engineer Albert Rappulin in command.
Warm weather limited full drills at University Field as Princeton’s squad rested before tomorrow’s tassel game with V P I. Regulars lined up for ten minutes of defensive work, and Dawson led the team in a fast signal drill as McFadyen faced scrutiny for tackling lapses.
In Philadelphia Pennsylvanian football roster woes loom as nineteen players remain on the injured list. Captain Hollenback and Kennath are among the hurt with Dallas, Manier, Young, and others sidelined. Miller must fill in for Kennath as Sommer and Young take backfield roles while Dietrich handles Lamberton's plane duties. Brown, historically tough, is bringing its best team yet to challenge Penn.
More than a thousand on Morningside Heights watched Columbia freshmen lose to sophomores by an unclear score in the season’s first interclass football clash. Proceeds will aid the Varsity crew debt. The lineup included Kinney Porter and Oakley as captain with Grimm scoring the touchdown and Schlichting kicking.
The College of the City of New York sophomores defeated freshmen 20 to 19 at Dam Park athletic field yesterday. Capt Edward Coyle 09 swept the 100 yard dash and the quarter mile from scratch but failed to beat the college record. Athenias the freshman showed promise by taking second in both the running broad jump and shot put. The 880 yard run produced a dead heat then Merryman 11 beat Thupin 10 by a yard to clinch the meet for the sophomores.
Manual Training soccer team defeated Commercial High School 3 goals to 0 at Commercial Field Brooklyn yesterday afternoon. Match lineups list Manual goals by Bartlett Harding Ratenee and Ziegler. Staten Island Football Club names officers for the year with Livingston cricket grounds chosen for all matches this season.
Competition for the Public Schools Athletic League begins today and runs to November 14 with gold medals for the winning team and the Mackay Trophy for the champion school. Matches pit P S 32 Bronx against P S 24 Manhattan and other pairings across Brooklyn Manhattan and The Bronx.
Jerome D. Travers, national golf champion, won his first cup series matches at Morris County Club near Morristown New Jersey. He defeated Robert C. Watson and advanced to face Bert T Allen in the semi finals while Swords and Macdonald reached the second cup rounds. Travers aims to repeat last year’s Morris County chief trophy victory as the event rounds out later today.
A Brooklyn meeting of the Board of Managers created the Greater New York Y M C A Basketball Association. Officers elected include R H Boggs as President F J Slater as Vice President and Edward Elliott M D as Secretary-Treasurer. A tournament committee will draft rules for this year with a follow up board meeting on Friday November 6 at the Eastern District Branch Y M C A.
The New York Athletic Club trap shooters begin their season this afternoon at Travers Island with a new gunhouse nearly completed. George F. Pelham chairs the Shooting Committee and has arranged an attractive opening program with a liberal prize list. Shooting starts at 2 o'clock and conveyances meet trains from Pelham Manor Station.
Miss Clare Cassell won a place in the final yesterday defeating Miss Marie Wagner national indoor champion in two sets 6 4 and 10 5. She faces Miss Elizabeth H Moore four times American champion this afternoon for the trophy. Cassell impressed by besting Wagner at her own driving game.
Samuel A. Westfall defeats Joseph T. McMahon in three sets 6 1 6 3 6 1 to advance to the championship final. He will meet the Willis ton Howard Talbot winner for the title.
B Trevise swept two events winning the 30 yard dash and pole vault from scratch and runner up in the standing broad jump. Matthews led the two mile with a fine scratch time of 10 12 in the gymnasium at the West Side Branch on Fifty seventh Street.
At Fordham Field on 190th Street and Third Avenue a game kicks off at 3 o clock with Fordham Varsity facing Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. The Bronx team has shown fast play this fall citing their recent victory over Amherst about ten days ago and seeks another win before the season ends.
Daniel Cox of Cox & Stevens said the Valhalla sale is not done. W. Gould Brokaw has not bought the yacht and is not in England for this purpose. Cox stated Brokaw is in this country and no deal has closed.
After a five year layoff Kid McCoy re entered the boxing ring to face Jim Stewart in a six round National Athletic Club bout. McCoy won by decision but displayed slowed speed and distance judgment as Stewart stayed largely on defense. Only one knockdown occurred in round one when McCoy landed a left on Stewart who rose dazed, while Stewart fought carefully and showed stamina through the later rounds.
At the Ninth Regiment Armory the Military Athletic League deferred action to exclude non military groups from armory games and pressed the Second Signal Corps Brooklyn to resign or be suspended. The dispute stemmed from Brooklyn Signal men fielding professional players against A A U rules. A three member committee will present a plan to restrict armory competitions to soldiers, schoolboys and municipal workers. Delegates from fifteen of twenty seven members attended. Col Morris presided and officers were reelected. The league reported a cash balance of 8425.
The Vanderbilt Cup drivers had their best practice day on Long Island with favorable weather. Willie Haupt set the fastest circuit time on the six cylinder Chadwick in 20 minutes 40 seconds, while Herbert Lytle's Isotta was 21 minutes 11 seconds in Park Way. Several cars and drivers logged laps, but many remained in quarters at various garages around Jericho, Roslyn, Garden City, and Amityville.
H J Herbert, chairman of the Polo Association, returned from Europe to New York reviving talk of an international polo meeting next year. He said English teams may visit America under certain conditions and discussed the plan with English players, Buckmaster of the Hurlingham Club highlighted as a leading candidate.
Ora Morningstar failed to maintain high form against Arthur Marcotte in a balk nine game. Morningstar averaged 20 for a string of 20 innings, finishing with 842 total and a 400 average, while Marcotte scored 148.
Fishermen enjoyed good sport on the Potomac and Shenandoah for bass while Grassy Point near Broad Channel stood out as a top weak fishing spot. In New Rochelle blackfish were plentiful with ten to fifteen big catches at the incoming tide and George Sanders reels twelve with a two and a half pounder using bloodworms.
Melvin W. Sheppard of the Irish-American Athletic Club, famed as America’s fastest middle-distance runner and Olympic hero, may be appointed a night inspector in the U S Customs Service in Philadelphia directly by President Roosevelt. The move would require his relocation to Philadelphia and sever his ties with his club. His Olympic London performance, breaking records in the 500 and 1500 meters, and a string of national titles underpin the anticipated appointment.
Baron Whips a chestnut gelding owned and driven by U. S. Case of Darlington won the free-for-all at the New Jersey Fair in Newark establishing a new record on the Olympic Park track with a time of 2 12. Edward D. driven by Swan took second. Mora won the unfinished 2 13 trot. Horace Bailey won the 2 25 trot. Romeo driven by Mose Hand won the 2 21 pace heat. Lady Bonanza beat Lady C. in the Newark heat then again to take the next. Beldias Sister driven by Theodore Maxfield won the show class blue ribbon. Boswell owned and driven by Jacob Mayer won red and Red Axworthy owned by Mayer and driven by Jack Phillips won yellow.
Jockey Earl Haynes aboard Samuel Ross's filly Lady Isabel won the third race at the Benning horse show by a head after a dramatic start. Haynes was thrown when Euripides clipped Lady Isabel, but remounted and chased down the field to capture the victory.
The horse racing card lists six races at Belmont Park with weights for entries. Seven horses contest the first race for three-year-olds and up at one mile and a furlong, followed by the Champion Steeplechase for four-year-olds and up, a White Plains Handicap for two-year-olds, the Belmont Park Autumn for three-year-olds and up at two miles and a quarter, a maiden race for three-year-olds and up at one mile, and a selling for two-year-olds at seven furlongs. Apprentice allowance noted.
Fifty thoroughbred horses from Keene Whitney Belmont stables sail on the Minnehaha to England and France for next season training. Notable consignments include Colin Ballot and Whitney horses such as Stamina and Perseus with yearlings from Brookdale Stud. James Rowe and A J Joyner led the loading of the racing seutr.
Prominent horsemen and several women attended the American Horse Exchange sale at Broadway and Fiftieth Street. Horses from Mabel Hooley Plainfield J Campbell Thompson and Powelton Farm drew mixed bids, with Whirl of the Town selling for 52500 to R Vincent and The Merry Widow at 200. Hooley’s eight horses totaled 5475. Quaker Maid and Dorothea each brought 2800 to John Considine. Reginald Vanderbilt witnessed but did not bid. other buyers included George Watson John Considine and Clarence Moore among many others.
Nazarro Wagner Lordino and twelve mechanicians sail from Genoa aboard the Koendiger Louise with three Grand Prix cars for the Automobile Club of America event in Savannah. France and Germany plan arrivals to join Szisz Renault, Duray, and other European drivers. Mercedes and Itala crews travel later.
A vintage ad notes young men’s suits and conservative styles sharing quality, with Star negligees and Iren Fall stock. It highlights hats, Weather shoe models in Shrewsbury grain, and a heavy cork sole, listing men’s and boys’ prices around six and five dollars respectively.
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