Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-11-09
ROUNDING INTO FORM.
Great Elevens Nearly Ready
 For the Falls Big Battles.
YALE, PRINCETON AND HARVARD.

Personnel of tho Rival EIevcns and the Re
 markabie Growth In Popularity of Col
 lege Football During the Past Score of
 Years-The Sport n Century Ago.
 Will Yale again defeat Harvard? And will Princeton again defeat Yale! arc two questions that interest moro football cranks throughout the United States than any other questions that could bo asked concerning the sport. These three col lcgcs are not only the leading opponents of the sport in America, but their students come from all parts of the country, and their lcgions of graduates arc scattered from Maine to Texas and from Washing ton to Florida. In answer to the first question, the probabilities are that Hale will defeat Harvard In the past II years Yale and Harvard have mot ninc times, and of the nine games Harvard has sue ccctlcd in winning one, the great game of 1890, when the score was: Harvard, l2; Yale, 6. Both teams arc well trained and powerful this year, hut Yale prestige and the fact that Yale's eleven is showing somewhat better form lead careful obscrv CTS of the sport to believe that Yale will again win this year when the rival clevens meet in Cambridge on Nov. 24.
 Football has been played nt Yale in one form or another for at least a century. In the carly days of the sport the old rough and tumble kicking game, with an unlim- itcd number of players, was very popular, and for n score of years, beginning in lSi0, a great annual championship match was played between tho entirc sophomore and freshmen classes. The modern game began in 1872 and 1873 and was intro duccd by ID. .. Schaff, who had been at Rugby and who urged Yale to try the game under Rugby rules. Schaff was elected the first president of the Yale Football association, and in 1873 an in tcrcollcgiate association, consisting of Yale, Princeton, Rutgers and Columbia, was founded. Harvard was urged to join,
 but declined. From this small beginning in 20 years tho modern scientific game has developed until it is now played at nearly every college and school of importance in the United States.
 The game at first was moro liko the Association than the Rugby game of to- day. Touching the ball with the hands and running with it wcrc against tho rules; the touch dHwn was unknown, and
 up to 1878 thcrc were from l , to 20 players on side instead of II. During the past ten years the teams have been doing less and less kicking, mainly relying for their gains upon expert running, momentum plays and the brute force cxCrtcd by brawn and avoirdupois. Under this years new
 rules, however. the old kicking game is be- ing played, n style of football that is much
 more interesting tn the average spectator. This year Ialc has two or three good men for about every position on the Varsi- | ty eleven. Thornc, ButtCrworth and De Witt seem sure of representing Yale back of the line. Buttcrworth, who is n son of Congressman Ben Butterworth Is gcncr- ally conceded to be one of the greatest | runners, puntCrs and line breakers in col | lCgr. In the line are such giants as HiCkok and Stillman, tho hammer throwCrs, and McCrca, each uf whom is n tower of strength. Captain Hinkcy is at left end, | as in years past, and right end Is looked | after by GrUrnway, another veteran. Ross IIickok. n brother of the big hammer and
 shot champion. will probably play right tackle. Murphy will play left tackle and Morris quarter hack. With such team | of veterans and such n stone wall center | is it any wonder that Ialc men arc say
 ing. How can they beat us;"
 Football has also hCcn n Princeton pas
 time for many years. The Tigers were among the first tO adopt the modern game, | and they have made better showing against Ialr than Harvard has. During | the past II years Yale and Princeton have
 met annually. and of the II games Yale | has won S and Princeton 2. Princeton victorious years were lSH1, 1889 and 1893. l The Tigers Scrm 10 have n pCnChant for winning about every four years, and if the
 coming game with Yale. Dee. l, Is decided
 on this hypothesis lS94 will provo an of | year for Princeton. The fact Is, however,
 that Princcton's team Is largely composed
 of the same veterans who downCd Yale
 last year, and as they will meet n EalC ,f | who wcrc beaten then by score of to Q, | 1t would seem that victory might again | perch on PrincCton's banners. Owing tC
 the longer time this year between the
 Yale Harvard and the Yalc-PrincctOn | game, Yalc will doubtless bc in much bet