Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-14
THE HARVARD TEAM.
Only a Few Days Left for Them to
Line Up Against Yale.
A STRONG TEAM GUARANTEED.
Lively Playing Expected To-Day Among
Local Teams of Rugby Style.
GENERAL SPORTING NEWS OF THE DAY

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE pIsPArcH.l
BOSTON, Nov. 13.-Harvard has just ter
days in which to choose and perfect hel
team before the game with Yale. The choice
may be said to have been already made, fol
the team will doubtless be made up as fol
lows:
Ends-Mason and Hallowell
Tackles-Newall and Waters.
Guards-Vail and Mackie.
Center-Shea
arter-back-Cobb.
Half-back-Lake and Corbett.
ull-back-Trafford.
Upton has not recovered sufficiently from
his attack of typhoid fever to allow him to
play, and he will not be on the team this
year Cobb is not sure of his position >
quarterback, and Mason may not play at
end, but otherwise the team will be as above
indicated.
Up to Monday the uncertainty of the
faculty's decision in the cases of Waters,
Mackie and Corbett had made the eleven
backward in team play, but work has
already been begun on this point, and a
marked Improvement is looked for by
Saturday. There is no doubt now but that
Harvard has very strong team, which
will be fully the equal of her eleven Of
last year.
Better Than Last Year.
Yale's present team is considered slightly
better than the one which she presented at
Springfield last fall. so that there is every
prospect of magnificent struggle on the
21st. The contract for building the grand
stands at Springfield has been awarded to
G. NJ. Burnham, of that city, and work has
already been begun on the grounds. Pre-
parations are being made for $1,000 spec
tators.
After today no one will be allowed to
watch the Yale team practice at the Yale
field. This rule is to be enforced more
strictly this year than it has been heretofore,
and will exclude all persons whether Yale
men or not, except those connected with the
management of the team. The purpose of
this is to prevent the other colleges from
studying the style of game which Yale will
play.
The Princeton Q University of Pennsyl-
vania game demonstrated two things of i'm
portance to the teams of Yale, Harvard and
Princeton. One was that the team which
relies on the center-bucking system of play
cannot win this year, and the other was that
holding in the rush line is apt to be dan
gerous experiment with good umpire.
About Pennsylvania.
If Princeton lost the ball once for holding
and of-side playing at Philadelphia, she
must have lost it dozen times at least, and
as the Pennsylvania team copied Prince
tons play in every particular it also for
feited the ball at critical times for the same
trmsgressions. There was great deal of
criticism bestowed on Mr.. Coffin on account
of his strict rulings in Saturdays game, but
he is an old hand at the business of football
umpirlng, and his decisions, though ag-
gravating at times, were manifestly
just. The fact is there has been
great deal too much holding in the
rush line among the big college teams,
and during one practice game this season
some Of the players were 'ioff side" almost
the whole time. At New Haven in the Wes-
leyan-1al game on Saturday another devi-
alton from the rules was rebuked by the
umpire, Walter Camp, who gave Yale 25
yards for an attempt at tripping on the part
of one of the Wesleyan's rushers.
If the hints by Messrs. Camp and Coffin
are not taken as warnings there will be
much surprise and dissatisfaction in the
coming championship games. 1t will be
that in 1888 Cowan, Princeton's
best rusher, was ruled off the field in a
the game with Harvard by Walter Camp
for tackling too low, which is another habit
that may create trouble for the big teams
this month.