The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-11-28
PRINCETON PLAYERS CONFIDENT
or Defeating Yale at Manhattan Field on
Thursday.

Of Defeating Yale at Manhattan Field on
Thursday.
A feeling of confidence prevails AT
Prtneston. They believe that their team
Is equal in defensive work to the team of
1889. aud altheugh Yale has brseed up
wonderfully, the Tigers are regarded as
q shade bettsr. The Yale msp were
c arefully studied In the game with Hsr-
ward. and comparisons are being made.
The weakest place in she line now seem
TO be Tsylor's guard aud Tfsnehar DIS
end. Taylor lie twenty-five pounds
lighter han MoCrea, against whom ne
will probably play next Thursday. and 1t
is thought Yale may try for her gains
here. Taylor. however. has imp roved In
the past few days, and is now playing q
game so quick and tricky that he prom
ises to make no for his lack of weight. the
possible disadvantage Taylor may have
before McCrea, Princeton men feel, will
be compensated for by Holly's advantage
over Beach. They noticed with ams
satisfaction that most of Harvard's gains
in the Yale game were made one side or
the other of Beard. Holly never put cd
such a game as he Is putting up now. aud
much hope is manifested that Beard will
lind ir hard TO hold him..
& The burdens of the c~aptaincy have told
on Trenchard's playing. so the Tigers
can hardly boast of 1t so much as last
year. Then. again, the men who are dis
cussing IL today find comfort In the fact
that Hsrvards best end runs were made
around Hinkey, n feel sure. therefore,
that Yale's little bulldog" will hnd his
match In "Doggie."
Armstrong; failure to gain in his at
tempts 10 hit the line last Saturday has
caused the Princeton backs to feel en-
couraged.
With Butterworth and Thorne to make
all her her gains behind the line, Yale
will ind the Tigers line strong enough
To give these TWO meu some interesting
work
As It is highly improbable that either
Blake or Allen will be able to play full
back, it is a-serious question how this
place will be filed at all. McCsulsy has
played there recently. and great rumors
are abroad OF his work in buckipG the
line; but as to puntiDg and catching he is
not il it. He has played on the scrnb
team until last week, AID the most bril-
liant WORK he showed was In getting
around the 'varsity's end on q trick ouce
In a while. he is not q fast runner. and
is talked of for full back only on nccouut
of his buckiug qualities.
The Tigers have been practicfng some
new plays. One or 1--WE Of them worked
30 well against the scrub team in sscret
practice yesterday that the nsn have
considerable hope that Yale may be sue
prfsed by them sufficiently TO let the
Tigers steal a touch down.
Captain Trenehard said:-"Aftsr sees
Ing Yale play last Saturday we will be at
MHunattan Field this year to score"
The practice this week will he light.
1t will be cniefy a drill in the new plays
and in general offensive work. AL OF the
men were out yesterday. and in fine
form. There is no more complaint of
Dvertraining heard.
Jersey City will be- We'll represented ut
the exciting game on Thursday. One OF
the largest delegations will go from La
fayette and will take q mascotte with
them for Princeton. They pin their
faith to Big q tcn ana have had d snowy
uniform of the national colors coli.
structed for him. He will be u sable
edition of Uncle Sam. The delegation
who will act as his escort will
consist Of Joe. Ed, Dave ana Cornelius
Edwards. Fred Van Keuren, j.. Dixon
kldder, NJ. NJ. Murraugh, William Gou-
lard. John S. Watson. AL. CaOle. Frank
Rehitl, Charles Fox, Wallace Thomas,
William CLARK, G. u. Bushfield and Ed
ward House. They will start from che
home OF the Edwards brothers at ten
pollock.