New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-05
ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD.
HARVARD AND PRINCETON WILL NOT MEET
THIS YEAR.
ALL THE TEAMS IN BETTER CoNDITIoN-GooD
AND BAD POINTS OF THE PLAYERS.

ALL THE TEAMS IN BETTER coNDITIoN-GooD
AND BAD POINTS OF THE PLAYERS.
| The most interesting development In the college
football field in the last few days the movement
| to arrange a game between the teams Of Harvard
and Princeton. But unfortunately 1t is probable
that there will be game this year between these
two colleges Negotiations, however, reached such
promising stage that the Berkeley Athletic Associa
ton in the interests of good feeling offered the use
of the Berkeley Oval for game after Thanksgiving
| Day. The obstacle which prevented this arrangement
| rule Of the Harvard faculty which forbids the
college athletic teams from playing outside OF New
| England. DR.. John S. White. head master Of the
Berkeley School, and president Of the Berkeley Ath
letic Association and Harvard graduate, and c. G.
| Cuyler well-nown Princeton graduate, were active
| in this movement. DR.. White visited Cambridge
last week, and found that the players and students
| there anxious to have a game with Princeton
The Princeton men want TO play, but they would not
care to go to Cambridge. But the efforts to bring
! about game have resulted in showing that both
colleges DESTROYS of letting bygones be bygones
| and that in the near future they will contest In
athletic sports as they have in the past
| Harvard has great team this year, and at the
Princeton Columbia game yesterday close observer
of the games, whose predictions have several times
been realized i'm this column, offered some interest
| ing figures. lie predicted that the Yale Princeton
game would result in victory for Yale by a score
| OF about the ratio Of IL to o. For the Harvard Yale
| game he gave Harvard the victory by score In
the ratio Of from 90 to &c for Harvard to to for
Yale. lie is watching all the large teams Closely ana
| says that this is Harvard's year.
| The championship season opened Saturday and
will close when Yale and Princeton decide the cham
plonshp at the Eastern Brotherhood Park On Thanks
| giving Day. This las been rongh season ana I'll
teams in the Intercollegiate Football Association nave
suffered considerably from tn" loss temporary ana per
manent OF valuable players. But barring further acci
dents Yale Is in the lead for tile championship
Of the association But II might be recollected as
modification that Yale In the lead In the famous
! game at New-Haven in 1885, up to within few min
utes before the close when Lamar made his great run
| and won the game for Princeton Yale has strength
and weight In her sline, and the question Is whether
Princeton can hold the Yale rushers. The Yale men
are playing aggressive game for the cene OF uhe
rushlne and it will take unusually strong men to
hold Holcomb Hefelfnger and S. Morrison when they
hammer at the centre. Bliss Is running well around
the ends and McClung and Harvey arc doing gooo
work. Barbour is a fair quarterback, but ought 70
| do well behind such solid ushllne. Harvey Is
| overrated, and it not for the strong rushnne
would not make the showing that he has. AS an indi
vidual PLAYER Hocomb is also overrated But asso-
ciated with Hencfnger and s. Morrison, he does good
work. Still he will find Riggs, Of Princeton, hard
| man to handle and "Od" John Cranston, OF Harvard
will undoubtedly do better against Holcomb than he
did against Corbin when they met several years ago.
Yale has been playing the following men:
| Rushers, Hartwel, Wallis, Hefelfnger, Holcomb,
CENTRE. S. Morrison, Rhodes (captain) and Crosby;
| ouarter back Barbour; halfbacks, McClung and L.
! Eliss; full back, Harvey
Princeton has made great improvement in the last
week. and IL Captain Poes plans are carried out some
fine running passing and kicking will be seen rom the
Jersey Tiger Princeton has light team. and 1t mas
been described promising secondly year team that
IS at the end of two years it will develop into strong
combination Poe is fertile In plans and an excellent
captain. The are all gritty" but the r'hine
| misses the strength Of Janeway, Cowan and George
and the agility Of Donnelly and Cash. But there are
some sharp and sandy" players in the rushine, in
| ending Riggs Warren, Furness and Speer. Riggs Is
playing centre, and his tactics may confuse his op
Moment lie fairly his head into the ground and
gets the ball from opponent before the latter knows
what Riggs doing. Moreover, the young man is not
exactly cherub when he IS in training 1t Is rurnored
| that after all George may resume his old place at
centrerush as he is said to be still connected with
Princeton 1t Is also reported that Jere' Black may
recover from the injury 10 his knee in time to return
10 the rushline for the Thanksgiving Day game King
| Is running finely and spcer and Romans are kicking
we'll Poe is playing his old trustworthy game at
| quarterback.
| The team has been playing the following
men Rushcrs, Warren Woods Jefferson. Riggs
CENTRE Thomas speer and Furness; Poe, quarterbacK
played on the eleven for several years and Is now
| pursuing course in the Theological Seminary.
The Harvard eleven is fulfilling tho predictions made
at the opening Of the that 1t Is the best foot
ball eleven that Harvard ever put into the field The
eleven has been playing the whirlwnd" game and Is
| now in shape more. The weak spot In the team
has been centre rush, but 1t seems now as IL John
Clanston would remain there. If he does 1t is not un
likely that Harvard will have the champion football
team this year. SO far Harvard has rolled up the big
scores Of the season Last week the crimson mon de
feated Cornelrs team II to 0. The rushers
are playing q strong, aggressive game. In Lake and
Corbett Harvard has probably two of the best half
backs that ever the crimson colors; Lee. the
famous sprinter who was habac Tor three year, lar
Lake tears through his opponents with much force
that he has Ie PeS p ls o
bett is a remarkable dodger and runner. Ben
full back but he seems to have been lying low ant
practising goal kicking 10 secret for he has not don'
c The "a team may play as follows: Rushers, Cum
mock captain. Upton. Heard or Blanchard ;, or Shaw
quarterback, Dean hafbacks, Lake and Corbett full
back, Trafford. u.-,
their games November -, in Washington Park. IL
| brooklyn The indications are that they will hav'
nave Sei the stronger the scores that ey saS
| both made can be considered as criterion. whicl
playing the following EusheIs. WatSins; Dewey
Thornton Adams centre BoTser @an,t9 and schS i,
5acE Tnsyer Wesleyan has been presenting the fol
| lowing men Rushcrs, Leo, Bckford, Cuts, Fogg
| centre Newton, More and Sarromore quarterback
Parshley halfbacks, Gordon and slayback; fullback
| Hall.
Princeton and the University OF Pennsylvania viii
| play on saturday, and November is Yale viii
play with the University. When the latter game has
ecn PLAY cd the strong and weak points Of both Ya,
| and Princeton, and their methods OF play Will be
| more apparent Harvard will play Yale on November
| o. at Springfield. That will be an immense affair
| ID Is expected that 10000 people will the game
| II is reported that the Harvard glce club will sins
before tie game undoubtedly after Harvard wins
TWO CLUBS HAVE TENNIS TOURNAMENT
| lawn tennis tournament held yesterday after