Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-11-24
GREAT FOOTBALL GAME
Contest Between Harvard and
 Yale at Springfield.
BOTH CONFIDENT OF SUCCESS


 Two More Evenly Matched Teams Never
 Faced One Another-ny Reason of
 Prestige Yale Is the Favorite In Bet
 ting, but Harvard Has Moro Friends
 Than Ever.
 SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Nov. 24.-At- this afternoon on historical Hamp- ton park the elevens of Yale and Har- yard will compete in their annual foot ball contest. The young athletics of both colleges have never trained harder than for this great event. The change in the rules requiring a more open game has been means of equalizing the re- speetive strength of football teams all over the country and has made the prob able result of this contest more prob- lematical than ever. Each team has it's partisans, but Yale. by reason of the prestige gained by her sturdy kicl1ers in the part 20 years, i'll which time Har- yard has only won one game, is a favor ite in the betting at about 3 to 1. Harvard was never more confident. She has the best eleven that has worn the crimson in years, and Yale's defeat last year by Princeton has shown that the representatives of "Old Ell'' are not invincible. Consequently Harvard will have her friends and more of them than ever.
 Charlie Bowers accident has forum ately proven not as seriously as was first thought, and the Cambridge boys will enter into the game with her full team and all the players in good con- dition.
 Neither team will have any advant- age in weight. The elevens that will face one another do not vary but a pound i'll the aggregate, Harvard's gross weight being 1900, and Yale's 1891 pounds. Two more evenly matched teams never faced one another. It will all cone down to case of team work. The one that shows the most ability in this respect will win. Individually there seems to be no advantage for for either Both have new men on their teams that have never taken part ill Varsity" contests of importance of one. Both, too, have seasoned veterans, the heroes of the big games in previous years, who, when they face each other in the arena, will fight to the death for the glory and honor of their alma mater
 It will be battle royal and will be viewed by thousands of excited enthusi- asts Gray haired, sedate graduates will view with shock headed exuberant undergraduates in shouting the college slogans, and the fair friends of the ath- letes will lend beauty and enthusiasm to the sport as they only can. As a specticle it will be grand one, as a contest it will be remarkable Both teams took their last practice before the great game yesterday. Secret prac- tiee has been indulgod in by both and the plan of battle to be adopted is, of course, problematical. The famous De- land, the originator of the flying wedge and other less momentum players in years past, has been a constant attend ant at Harvard's practice and is said to have originated some new moves under the present rules which will cause more sensations and possibly Il victory for the Crimson club.
 Yale has had the nonstate attendance of al ot her famous players of past seasons and can bo expected to put up her usual never say die" game The uncertainty ot the result was never SC i much & matter of doubt.
 Arrangements for the game have all been completed and crowds are taking Springfield by storm.
 The team will line mp as follows un- less something unavoidable happens: YALE.