Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-24
THE TEAMSCO COMPARED.
Interesting Gossip About Yale, Har-
ward and Princeton Elevens.
POINTS In FAVOR OF HARVARD.
Bostons Nay Eefeat clevelands To-Day and
Win the Championship.
POINTS In FAVOR OF HARVARD.
GENERAL SPORTING NEWS OF THE DAY
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NEW YORK, Oct. 23-The past week of
football has not been quite so full of sur
prises as was its immediate predecessor, but
IL has, nevertheless, developed some de-
cidedlv interesting features. The general
result has been to strengthen the view that
the Harvard and Princeton teams are both
at the present time superior to the Yale
eleven. The Williams eleven gave the first
opportunity for a comparison of Harvard
and Yale, and the result was not fiattering
to the latter. Yale played Williams on
October IL and defeated her by a score of
81 TO in Commute halves.
Three davs later Harvard met virtually
the same team, and rolled up score of 55
to Q against it in Commute halves
Although it would be rash to predict sue
cess for Harvard at Springfield on account
of this superior showing, it cannot be de-
MED that Harvard is now putting up a bet
ter game than Yale. Harvard's team work
was the feature of the Williams game last
Saturday. The work of the rush line was
magnificent. The men put up strong, ag-
cressiye game Back of the line consider
able weakness was to be noticed.
There Was Lots of Fusnbling.
There was great deal of fumbling, and
the backs did not take advantage as much
as they might have done of the heavy in
reference which was available. Harvard
plaved lively game, making one touch
1owr bv four successive rushes down the
field.
The com parison made possible by Will
Jams having PLAYED both Yale and Harvard
could not but result in verdict favorable
to the latter, but since her game with Will
Jams Yale has shown wonderful improve
ment.
The difference in the condition of the two
teams is not SO great as it appeared to be on
Saturday last. Yale's poor game with the
Manhattan Athletic Club team, coming SO
soon after her far from favorable showing
against Williams, set the coaches who have
the New Haven men in charge to thinking
with great earnestness. As result of their
deliberations, Yale defeated Amherst by a
score of % to 0 on Wednesday of this week
in the best game that the Blue has put up
this season. The Yale team PLAYED with
brilliancy and dash in marked contrast to
their slow unsteady work in the Manhattan
game.
The Good Points of Princeton.
1t is Just about as easy to compare Yale
and Princeton at the present as it is to COM
pare Yale and Harvard, and the two first
named elevens have not vet this year played
the same team. In fact Princeton COM
pares very favorable with either Yale or
Harvard. The Orange and Black men have
not done much shouting, but they have
kept steadily at work in the little New
Jersey town, and have on several occasions
shown remarkable good FORM In their
practice games they have invariably put up
a good game. Although they, have avowedlv
PLAYED for scientific points only in all their
games, they have in several instances rolled
up good sized scores.
Forty to against Lafayette and so to 0
against Lehigh are showings which would
be creditable to any team. Princeton GER
tainly has a remarkable amount of good ma
terial from which to evolve an eleven. With
five men shifted about into comparatively
strange positions in the Lehigh game, she
managed to make one OF the largest scores
of the year. The score, too, was exactly
the same as the one scored in 1890 at the cor
responding time of year. With Holly, Hall,
Homans and King PLAYING throughout the
entire game, the score would doubtless have
been much larger and the team work of bet
ter quality.
To sum up the football situation at the
present time. Harvard seems to have the
better individual players, while Yale excels
in team work