Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-12
CHEERFUL AT HARVARD.

Confidence Has Been Restored In the root
Ball Team, and There Are Now Great
Hopes of Victory Because Corbett,
Waters and Mackie Will Play.
CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 11.-[Special There
was no sign to-day of the cloud of gloom
which has been settling over Harvard s
campus of late. Confidence has been res
tored, and now Harvard's football team has
settled down to solid work, backed by an
enthusiastic constituency. The general
feeling seems to be that the playing OF co.
bett, Waters and Mackie will raise seeming
defeat to victory at Springfield on Novem-
Der 81 They were needed badly. Capt.
Trafford had been holding off in the hope OF
securing them as members of the team, and
that is why the team had not been selected.
Now there will be revival of interest In
Harvard team, and there will be seen no
more of the careless playing which has
characterized the work of the eleven in the
games thus far played. The makeup of the
Varsity eleven will be materially changed
from this time Mackie, who has been
playing on the second eleven regularly, has
completely outplayed the other candidates
for that position, and is undoubtedly the
only man in college who can stand up
against the mighty HeffelfngeE He weighs
about 1876 pounds and is very hard man to
block, as he plays strong, aggressive game.
He will play regularly on the team at right
guard after this The football men are
elated at the possibility OF his playing, as
he will strengthen the center materially.
The makeup of the two other center posi-
tions is the most puzzling question at pres
ent. Dexter at guard seems to be disap-
pointment. Vail and Highlands, the other
candidates for the left guard, are very
evenly matched, with the chances slightly
favoring Vail. His advantage over High
lands lies in his watching the play more
closely and devoting more energy to tack
ling than to worrying his opponent. Bangs,
who is playing center at present regularly,
is not very satisfactory. Shea is improving
very rapidly, and in the practice yesterday
afternoon, when he played center on the
second eleven, simply played with Bangs.
He broke through him at almost every
scrimmage, and once went through so
cleanly that he stopped Trafford's punt, a
very unusual feat for center rusher. AL
though the center is so completely unsettled,
and probably will be up to within a short
time of the Yale game, it would not be sur
prising to see it made up of Vail, Shea and
Mackie. This would make very heavy
center, Vail weighing about 185 pounds,
Corbett's work at half-back last year is
too we'll known to need comment He is
probably feared more by opposing rushers
than any halfback in the country, and with
Lake will make the team wonderfully strong
back of the line. Waters will undoubtedly
play left tackle. He is as strong a man for
his weight as any on the field and plays
hard game throughout. His great weak
ness is in being easily blocked off But if
he can overcome that he will be invaluable
to the team, as he is splendid tackler
His strongest point is ground gaining. He
goes through the rush line in much the same
manner az Lake.
1t is highly probable that the varsity
eleven that will face Yale will be made up
as follows, center being the doubtful posi-
tion:
Left end, Emmons; left tackle, Waters:
left guard, Vail; center, Dexter; right
guard, Mackie; right tackle, NEWELL right
end, Hallowell; quarter back, Gage; half
backs, Lake and Corbett; full back, Traf-
ford.
Lake will not play for few days. He
has been trained down too fine and will be
laid off, Trafford will also do little more
punting than usual in order to give the
team more training under the kicking game.
Unless things greatly change he will in the
Yale game, punt~ery frequently. McCor-
mick, the Yale back, is certainly no match
for him at that point. Trafford's individual
rushing has fallen off very much of late in
its effectiveness. To be sure, the rushers
make no holes for him near the center, but
that weakness does not account for the visi-
BILE slowing up which he shows in entering
the line.