The New York herald., 1878-10-20
FOOTBALL At YALE.


CHANGES IN THE RULES LIKELY TO
BE PLAYED.
New HAVEN, Oct 10, 1878.
Every pleasant afternoon the Yale football men,
who are to constitute the team TO struggle for The re-
ention OF the championship which Yale held at the
close OF the season OF 1877, are out hard at work
practising on their ground on Dixwell avenue 10
this city. With loss favorable conditions than
those enjoyed in the last season, which will
ever be memorable in Yalo football annals the men
display an intention to make the strongest Ggnt pos
sibe with the material at hand and not unnaturally
hope and expect to keep the aurels so hardly and
well won. Yale 10 the central figure in the football
arena at the opening OF the present season. not only
from her position holding the championship. but
also on account Of her well known proficiency
at the rough hut manly and exciting game.
she stands. however, in new posi-
tion. She has abandoned the ground main
tanned for several concerning the number OF
which shall constitute her representative team.
and consequently will be compelled TO play now
game. "Elevcn men, " said one OF tho most promi-
nent OF Yales players last year, 'make up the team
calculated alone TO play a strictly scientific game"
Yao reiterated this in meeting assembled and represen
tatves OF the college met OF Harvard
Columbia and Princeton that ground in New
Haven last year. Tho outcome was that Harvard re-
fused to agree TO Yae's demands, Yale and Har-
ward did not meet during the season. Yale, how
ever won the championship, aghting as hard for
Il as II some material trophy besides the honor
had been contingent upon Its possession. Early
this season negotiations began looking TO
amicable adjustment OF old differences. Virtually
the plan was TO coeroe YALE who. whether right or
wrong maintained that her old position was justi-
fable, and that the inference she drew concerning
tho comparative science OF the relative games
correct. Nevertheless 1t became appar-
eat before tho recent convention at Spring
10 discuss the situation, tha: II Yale persisted in
standing out there would probably be no champion
ship contest this year with Yale Tor participant So
she agreed at Springfield that she would play with
fifteen men In games with Princeton and Harvard aud
made arrane eements forthwith tor practice games with
the smaller colleges
FIFTEEN MEN DIFFICULT TO SELECT
The increase from eleven nftccn necessarily in
voved the training OF than the usual amount Of
new material. The difficulty OF getting the sufficient
number well trained was one OF Inc obstacles and OBJ
jectons Yale formerly found 10 playing fifteen men.
rhe position OF Yac, as expressed by the captain
OF the victorious team last season, en-
skilled men, not with an unskilled crowd"
1t is dficul, 10 get thirty men out to practice TIVE
glory honor is attached and there is incentive
except the 'prido OF The Dluc" II essential tna
up up the team should play .oga.ner for obvious
reasons and they must also be opposed
yma az - ,ha .n ason an ths wcsr ors anso
lutcy green, and while II Is impossible to forecast
result seasons work until IL Is known Just
what material otner contestants will nave, safe
10 say that unless somc OF the new men should turn
out unexpectedly we'll the team OF 1878 must be in
ferior TO mat OF 1871 The same Old familiar sirct
discipline Will be enforced, ana there will be rigid nd
hercnce 30 the requirements OF raring, ana probably
greater efforts than heretofore made rom tho reason
that with the losing of the football cham ponship all
the athletic nonors OF tho year would DO lost There
is lack OF uniformity among the weights and sizes OF
The men who will probably work Tor the blue's
honor OF last years Team Thompson, 70 Captain
OF the University crew. weight III pounds;
Lam
weight l3o pounds; Ives, Isl, weight l7o
pounds; wakeman (Aeacai SCHOOL,, weight l5o
remain The remaining hvc were lost by graduation.
The selections viii DO made from among twenty men.
ana Farwol, 10. weight 10 pounds Banger, 'S2,
weight l45 pounds and Miller, 81 weight l35 pounds
Will probably be on the team among the new element
strictly prohibited; tho players win b
beer will be allowed, but only In small quantities, and
morning. and evening the men Will run IN a bunch
tns, these rules are compisd with. and all coIesiaSs
requested 10 report iniringemcnts Tho practice
on the fold daily Will occupy from two O'Clock until
InpoRrAsr CHANGE IN The RULES.
The Rugby game Is 10 DO played. that being agreed
upon as being the BEST There is one modification of
the rules this year, and an important one, however,
by the striking out OF the last three words from
the section, "A touch down Is where player putting
his hand upon tho ball upon the ground In touch
IN goal stops It so that Il remains dead or fairly 60"
Also this year iour touch downs may be counted
equal to one goal; one touch down, however, will
have the precedence should the game depend a
have not been coun,cd. The. exact deanition OF a
touch down view o. this asPsr'p%.G % Will % seen to
outer aud rubber inner, will be used
GAMES BE PLAYED.
No championship games wore positively arranged
At Springfield or II Understandings were arrived at
circumstances may modify them. Princeton wants
10 play at Hoboksn Thanksgiving Day or not at ALL
anu Harvards sole date for play Is November 23 the
game At Boston. The faculty inicrpose 10
prevsnt the Yale team IRON gong to Boston the 2ad
Hoooken on Thanksgiving day. Yale. however.
would prefer to play Harvard on fnanksylvlng
ior tho game .ns. Yaio has. Inc arrange.
nent was for one game each with Harvard
sna S ,slssssposa aaa ns,0ssa n ,no aay ns
Convention proceed without Us, and giving no rsa
son. Columbia also ior,ei,ed ner game wh Yale last
year, Yale counting u consequently asa game won
Amherst Will be played here october 80, ana at Am
herst November Trinity was played tho frst prac-
tcs game OF The season at Hartford this afternoon
Possibly games may be arranged win TUFTS and
WESLEYAN There IS possibility also that tho Har
vard and Princeton games may TALL through ON ao
count OF tho action oi the faculty.
PLENTY FUNDS.
The financial standing oil inc Yale team Is good.
Tho sophomore class alone has gwen about $400 aud
there will be funds enough tako the
IL s necessary some OF the Yale men ars inaisposed
somewhat. Lsmb. one oil tho bcst rushers on tho
team has an abcess ON his lett arm which temporarily
in.erleres with his practice. Harding has a
carefully yesterday. W. Z. Camp has a sprained
ankle, but was also out yesterday. Taft, VINO is in
uhiuiuHs uus spIaihcu Wflsts hud 10 what
the teams uniform VIII be IL as yet undecided. Tight
panaoons pinch, ana loose pantaoons ore easy
get hold o Tor adverssriss.
YAIE's FOOTBALL RECORD.
Something oil Yalo's football record cannot fail of
interest Tncrc are some names among me OLD
players prominent In the rccords Of other athletic
spvrts al Yale. some oi these are Bgcow, captain
OF the baseball team oi 1876 Thompson, captain OF
the UnlversIty crews OF 1875 and 1879 and member
OF the winning crew OF 1876, and Downer,
yale's. famous nrss base man. something nigh.
bs OF interest also IA reference to her
position the matter OF tho size OF the team
In previous years First, her last years. record tor
Inc cnampivnship shows that she won game IRON
TUFTS, one from Trinity, one from stevens tPoly
tochnic lnstituteb one IRON Columbia uor-
fcitcd) and one from Princeton by tho score
oi two touch downs TO nothing. Yale did
not meet Harvard, but Harvard did Princeton aud
was beaten. Not goal was lost by Yale last year
or tho year before, and last year not even touch
down. Yale played with twenty men IN 1874. In
1878 thcre compromise. Yale playing fifteen
In the Rugby game modihcd la 1876 Harvard anu
Yale each played eleven men, aud Harvard was