The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-11-18
HARVARD'S TEAM READY.
SKETCHES OF THE MEN WHO WILL
FACE THE TALES.
Left Tackle and Right Guard the Places
Considered to Be wenk-A New System
OF interference that May Work Well
students. Not So CONFIDENT as n Year Ago.

OF interference that May Work Well
Students Not So CONFIDENT rs Year Ago.
CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 17.-As Harvard played a
team of substitutes against Brown on Thursday.
football cranks are as much at sea rs ever on
the subject OF the crimson's real strength. The
coaches claimed that 1t was impossible to put a
better team in the field, as half the regular men
were already trained down too fine, This was
probably an exaggeration OF the real facts.
Frank Shaw. the centre. Is really overcondt-
toned, but the rest of the team are about as
healthy and cheerful a looking set OF men as
were ever on n football field. This is largely
due to Trainer Lathrop's influence, through
which the men have been worked up very
gradually to a point where they are expected to
be able to stand hard work.
The poor showing made in the second half of
the Cornell game was accounted for by the fact
that from the beginning every effort has been
directed to having the men reach top form on
Nov. "a. and not before.
The playing all through the season has full
filled the announcement made early In the year
that there would be few tricks. but mostly good.
honest football. With possibly one or two ex-
ceptions, the men who will play In the Yale
game have been working together for nearly a
month, and the result is that this years team
has developed a strong and powerful interior
ence. The defence used Is more after the style
used by Yale teams in past years than anything
former Cambridge teams have shown. There is
less attempt by the men individually to break
through the line quickly, but the whole line
tends rather to close in together at the point OF
attack.
The kicking department has been weak all
through the year. and as Yale Is phenomenally
strong in this very point Harvard will naturally
have to show herself superior in some other
style OF play. For about five minutes in the
Brown game a chance was given 10 see the diff
ference which two OF three varsity players
could make in the ground gaining abilities OF
the eleven. In the first half the substitute team
had been having n little the worst Of 1t with
Brown. but when Bert Waters got in at the
head OF the interference. with Charley Brewer
after him, q touch down was scored inside of
two minutes. Brewer Immediately after retired
from the game, and no particular effort was
made To do anything more sensational.
The team has been run with good judgmen
the whole season. and 1t Is reasonable to expect
the best planned battle next Saturday that Har-
ward ever fought on the %gridiron. The material
for the team has not been us good as it was last
year, and, examining each position separately.
the men do not show up in quite as favorable a
light On the ends Harvard is stronger than
last year, and Il will be the biggest kind of a
surprise TO Cambridge men II Emmons and
4" Frosty" Brewer are outplayed for a minute
by the Yale ends. Emmons shows less out
ward manifestations OF the terrible strain that
as captain he has TO bear than any man who
has led the crimson forces for years. He is in
the pink OF condition. weighs l75 pounds, and is
playing the game OF his life. He is a hard man
10 force out OF a play, aud in most OF the games
this year he has done good service in stopping
PUSHES directed against tackle as well as round
-
ly rs a ground gamer and is only a fair runner.
He has been playing a very hard and fast game
this year; indeed, his greatest weakness seems TO
he a tendency to seta hotter pace than he can
hold through two halves.
Brewer. as an end rush, is head and shoulders
the superior of Bob stevenson, who had the
place last season. He is the lightest man In the
line by fifteen pounds, and weighs but 100
pounds. Nevertheless he has shown himself
able To stand any amount of hard usage and is
perfectly fearless in jumping into interference.
lie follows the ball better than any man on the
and Is generally first man down on a kick.
tackling has been low and clean and he has
hardly missed a man during the season. Quick
as a flash TO drop ON the ball, it is generally safe
10 say that II "a punt or a poor pass is mufed
will be the first man on the leather. He
Is a fast runner. and with the possible exception
OF Waters is the best ground gamer In the line.
est sign Of weak nest shown by his opponent. and
else happens il may be depended on
that whca he lines up opposite Hinkey he will
do his share of the headwOrk.
The tackles ARE probably just about on a par
those uf lRst year. Lett tackle was the
point through which Yale made her most tell
lng gains a year agD. and IL does not seem IN
likely that IL may again prove "A weak spot. 1t
Is the Onr position about which the coaches are
still kerpingt the COLLEGE and the public AT large
In doubt. Hallowell. who has To outside APP
been the faYOFite during the past two
weeks, i not really a ilrst-class, man, Tie had
ind did 80 we'll that at the beginning Of the sea-
son EmmOns determined TO work him ONer into
A tackle. lie weighs about $50 pounds. but as
he l. over six feet I'll IL Is not possible for him
10 use his weight or his strength 10 the lest al
vantage. lie b. apt TO use his arms altogether I
100 much IL provoked. and does not always pay
~ much attention to the game as 10 the man
opposite him.
Manahan. since the eleven went into secret
has dropped from prominence In