Morning journal and courier., 1890-11-17
YALE,s FooT-BALL STRENGTH.

FOOT-HALL STRENGTH. It is Conceded by the supporters or the ssOrange and Blacks,-Noticea.
 ble Improvement in the Playing or the Yale Foam.
 The football game Saturday between the Yale and University of Pennsylvania eleven afforded an opportunity of judg- ing of the relative strength of the Yale | and Princeton teams, between whom the l great battle for the championship will be fought in New York, Thanksgiving day. The supporters of the blue have every reason to be confident of Yale's success at that game, and barring unforeseen acci- dents the championship ought surely to return to New Haven this fall. Nor is the fact that Princeton with Captain Poe and it's strongest eleven in the field was only able to secure six points against the Pennsylvania team, and that only after the hardest kind of struggle argues for the success of Yale, who so easily defeated the same team on Saturday, scoring sixty points to their op- ponents nothing. The Yalensians are put ting up a very strong game, and while their work is not altogether perfect their improving in all points of the game is very marked especially in team work This point was particularly noticeable in Saturdays game, the whole eleven players working together almost as one man, every man working for the success of the whole, while every man seemed to be in just the proper place at the right time. A noticeable improvement is also apparentin their blocking, but perhaps the greatest !, s..L IT.. rush line, which bids fair, if Saturdays play be taken as criterion, to keep up Yale's reputation for "stone waIl'' rush lines. The only noticeable weak point on the Yale eleven seems to be at quarter back. Barbour is undoubtedly trying to do his best, but his passing is far from what it should be, and at the same time he and Holcomb do not always seem to un- derstand each other. Crosby at right play, is even yet little prone to lose his head occasionally at critical points of the game, but notwithstanding this fact he is the best man Yale has avail able for the position. The team through out is playing an unusually good game, and one very hard to beat. In exactly what estimation the Princeton men hold the Yale team is very clearly set forth in the following article from recent issue last Friday-of the Princetonian, which says as follows: t'The team as whole is tackling is fair, their rushing is sharp and heavy, and their general team work is of a very high order. Harvey is the regular full-back, but is now laid up with bad ankle. He is long punter, his running and lodging are good and he is sure tackler. McClung is playing an elegant game as halfiback. He rushes hard is 8 good fast runner, tackles low and sure, and does the drop and place kick ing. The other half-back will be either Williams or Bliss. The former is large, a fast runner and good scorer; the latter though smaller, is fast runner, but has not had Williams experience. Barbour. is playing quarterback, which position he held on his class team last year. He has done good work this year in passing and tackling, and is good man for the place. Hartwell, P. G., of last years team, plays his old position on tho left end, and has improved very much since then. He | tackles low, follows the ball well, but is a | little slow in his movements. Crosby, on | the right end, is 8 new man, and is built about as Hartwell. He also tackles we'll, does not follow the ball as we'll as Hart. l well, and is rather slow. Rhodes and Wal lis are the tacklers, and are both good men
 Rhodes is hard, low tackler, blocks hard
 and follows the ball; he captains the team
 Wallis is a stocky, heavy built man, tackles and runs well with the ball. His mode
 of playing is very similar to that of Gill
 Yale's center is supposed to be the strong
 man and is perfectly acquainted with thu
 position of left guard, where he plays; ht
 tackles well, and breaks through the line admirably. Morrison plays right guart
 and is doing well in that position. H
 blocks we'll, does not break through witt
 the effect of Hefiefnger, but cannot b pushed aside. Holcomb is playing center
 but is not doing as good work as he dit
 at tho beginning of the season. He bother
 his opponents considerably and puts tn
 ball in play himself fairly well. On tn
 whole, the Yale team is heavy and the
 play hard rushing game. Captai
 Rhodes has picked his team from yer
 raw material and has. developed his me
 with great skill.
 Manager Mellor, the manager. of tn
 Princeton team, is reported as being of tn
 opinion that the Princeton team of thi
 year does not compare with that of las
 year and is too light in weight, physical
 and mentally.
 KICKS BETWEEN THE GOALS.
 Moffatt 's4 is coaching the Princeto } team.
 Thus far but six points have been score
 against Yale.
 McClung is to do all the goal-kicking fo Yale this fall
 Beecher, Yale 'sS, has been coaching th football team lately.
 sStagg, Yale 'SS, played with Orang
 against Harvard last Tuesday. The Harvard freshmen will play the Yal freshmen November % on Jarvis field { Harvard. The Harvard faculty has refused to allo
 the football team to go to New York to pla
 Princeton.
 Walter Camp has an article in Noven
 ber's Outing entitled Football Studies fc
 Captain and Coach"
 : The Hillhouse high school eleven defea ed the Hartford high school eleven Satu day by score of $ to o.
 : A football prophet has predicted tn, 3 Harvard will beat Yale 20-6 and that Va will beat Princeton 1926.
 Eastern yark, Brooklyn, where the Val Princeton game is to be played, will SCI 1S,000 people and has space of 450x5( feet for coaches.
 , The Yale eleven won rather easily fro, the University of Pennsylvania at the Va
 field Saturday by a score of 60 to O. IT
 l work of the Yalensians was more tha
 usually strong. The teams played as fo . lows: