Morning journal and courier., 1889-11-22
YALE NOTES.

The Greas Joke or she Hour on she
 Campus - The Yale-Harvard Game
 Saturday-Harvard,s Team - Yale's
 Toam-COmments on Harvard's Ac-
 ton.
 The Yale-Harvard game is the talk of the college. The general impression Is that uu- less accidents occur to some of the players, Yale will win by 0 small score. It is not ex- pected that very large score on either side will be made. Harvard will undoubtedly put into the field the same team that played last Saturday. Cumnock is the best end rusher in the league at present. He follows the ball down the field very well and is a sure tackler. He is everywhere and in the right place at the right time. The right end of the Harvard rush line will be filled by Crosby, who made the first touchdown in Saturdays game. He Is fast runner and if opportunity to get the ball after huff is given, he is there ready to oross the line with the ball. Upton and Stickney, the tackles, are pretty good men to block and make holes fairly well but when they meet Rhodes and Gill they have their equals, If nos superiors in football. Cranston plays a
 very good game as left guard. He weighs 1s0 pounds and uses every pound to good
 advantage. He breaks through line in fine
 style and blocks hard. He is under dis
 advantage for he broke his nose a short time
 ago and has to wear Q muzzle to protect the
 nasal organ. Trafford has had experience as
 a right guard, but 1t will be hard for him to
 hold Heffelfnger, whe will fsce him to mor- row. Hilton, the center has 190 pounds to
 put into the game. He played good game
 during the first half with Princeton, but
 after that all the rushes by Black were made
 in the center of Harvard's rush line. Dean,
 the quarter passes well, but during the last
 half of the game last Saturday, the Prince.
 ton rushers broke through and were on him
 before he could pass. He is very active and
 interferes in good style. Lee, Saxe, and
 TraAord back of the line are all good tack lers and swifr runners. Trafford kicks ac-
 curately and if any opportunity is given he
 can kick goal from the field with ease.
 Yale's team will play a shrewd game. It
 will be by team work, doggsd perseverance
 and fine interfering that the blue can come
 off victorious. Yale will play game very
 much like Princeton's, but Harvard may
 also play as strong game throughout as she did during the first half Saturday. Stagg,
 left end, gets down the field we'll and is ready to take advantage of everything. Gill as left tackle is without superior in the country. He understands football in every way, and like Cumnock, is everywhere. When Charley gets the ball he always gains several yards. He follows his interferers we'll | and tackles sure. Charley is the fairest foot ball player in the league and has never been known to slug man except for good ethical | reasons. Heffelfnger breaks through the op- posing line with the force of a battering ram, and Yale may depend upon him to spoil
 some of tho plays back of the Harvard rush | line. He tackles hard and covers a good deal
 of ground. His blocking is rather weak at times. Hanson has played good game as center rush. He blocks we'll, seldom letting his man through him. Newell has played
 a very good game lately and will prob
 When Woodruff 's9 played opposite him
 Monday he made it very hard work for Woodruff to hold him. Rhodes, as right
 tackle, is mate to Gill. He playes the game for all 1t is worth, and is very successful in making a hole for the half back. He runs fast and interferes finely. Hartwell is fine end rush for interference and blocking. He does not tackle at times as we'll as he ought. Wartemburg passes poorly at times, but generally gets the ball in the right place. He is swift runner and sure tackler and plays
 better in large game than in practice. Mc- Clung is ss good half-back as Yale has had for some time. He is quick and starts with c rush that carries him several yards through the rush line. He will do the goal-kicking tomorrow. Ben Morrison plays @ pretty good game and punts fairly we'll. He is a
 heavy man, and when once started makes his Ave yards In . scrimmage. Mcbride is
 the surest tackler on the team. His inter-
 ference Is great, and his bunting will sur- prise Harvard. He proves himself able to
 kick the ball under the greatest difficulties
 This will be the makeup of the team, and
 six or eight substitutes will be taken to
 Springfield. The greatest weakness of the
 team is the tackling and their lack of energy
 and activity. They may show better work
 In the game than they have in practice.
 The team and substitutes will go to
 Springfield this evening and will stop at the Massasoit House. Hard practice will not be indulged In this afternoon. The tricks and fine points will be improved and tried this afternoon.
 The action of Harvard in withdrawing from the football league is regarded as rather | nasty. Such action coming directly after a defeat puts one in mind of the fox and sour grapes. Before Yale withdraws there will have | to be better reasons than there are ct present. Professionalism can be eradicated from col lege athletics by judicious regulations, and Harvard is not much purer in that respect than Princeton. Harvard proposed last Feb ruary to form dual league with Yale in | base ball and then in football in the fall. | Yale of course rejected such proposal, for | Princeton must be regarded as e worthy op- | ponent, seeing that she won second place while Harvard took third place in both these lines of athletics.