The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-11-23
RIVAL TEAMS STATISTICS
YALE's CHANGES FOR GRTDIRON
 VICTORY TO-DAY ARE GOOD.

Yale Players Win Find Themselves op- posed by strong Players-The Two Lines Equal in strength-Yale's Advantage Is Back of the Line--Great Interest in the Game Evidenced Preparation and Deoi- ration in Honor of It in New York-Sta- tlstlos of the Two i1leVens.
 To-day the Yale and Princeton foot ball teams will try for supremacy on Manhattan field, and by sundown to- night Yale will have either won her great game of the season or, what is unusual, will have suffered defeat,
 Everything is in readiness for the big game. The prophecy that interest in football would die out if Yale and liar yard did not meet at Springfield Is not borne out by the number of applications for tickets and there have been fully 5000 more tickets applied for this year than ever before. Every seat has been sold, and in New York even admission tickets are at premium, while hun dreds have bought tickets for positions on Deadhead Hill, just back of the field. These, together with those who Will watch the game from the Viaduct, will swell the crowd of sightseers to fully 25,0OO.
 Nor is the interest In the game by any means confined to football enthusiasts and society people, which in the past have always made up the chief ele- ments of the crowd. In former years the New York merchants used to begin to decorate their windows day or two before the game. This year they start ed in much earlier.
 Ever since last Saturday Broadway Fifth avenue, Twenty-third, Fourteenth and Forty-second streets have been ablaZe with blue and orange and black. Every shopkeeper of any prominence has decorated his window. The haber- dashers display ties, socks and under wear of blue and orange and black; the dry goods houses set forth cloths ana silks of the same colors; the upholster- CTS have nothing but wares Of those colors in evidence; the florists seem to have but two varieties of flowers, chryS- anthemums and violets; and the sport dng goods houses have their windows filled with footballs and canes, to which are attached flags with the letter or F woven in them in white or black, as the case may be. The photograp phers have also withdrawn the photographs usually seen in their show cases, and now one sees hardly anything but group pictures of the competitive teams and photographs of the individual players,
 From all indications the interest man. afested in to-day's game is greater than ever before in the history of American collegiate football. The blues defend- CTS will find that they have no easy Harvard team in front Of them, put each man will have opposing hlm player of merit and experience.
 Bass at Yale's left end will find him. self opposed by Cochrane, who although aighter than Bass, has had more experi- ence. He is quick and these good qual- ities ought to make the battle between him and Bass a very even thlng, Wlth the odds slightly in favor of Bass Cap- tain Lea of Princeton will face Rodg- CTS, Yale's left tackle, and right here it is feared the most expensive gains will be made through the Yale line, as Lea outclasses Rodgers in every re- spect. But when big Chadwick, Yale left guard, and Rhodes, Princeton 5 right guard, come together then Will be the battle royal. Chadwick, who was clumsy at the first of the season has, like Stillman before him, developer into a. first-cIass alert and active guard Rhodes is slightly the heavier of the two and has had little more experl- ence tbut Chadwick gives promise of holding his own.
 IT. Cross for Yale and Galley at Princeton's center are matched, but Cross has an advantage in weight ano in activity.
 Riggs, Princeton's left guard, will however, give Harry Cross the tussle of his life, as Riggs is a player with more experience and is more aggressive He will block Cross when the latter at tempts to break through, but will tino Cross is in the game when he tries te get through Yale's line. Riggs, now ever, has a slight advantage.
 Murphy and Church, as opposing tackles, will put up an interesting game. Murphy, however, is slightly the better runner, the better tackler and the better man at bucking the line and should therefore outplay his oppo nent, though he will have by no means walkover.
 The opposing ends are Louis Hinkey and Hearn. Both are good men bu light, and are evenly matched. In fact the two lines are evenly matched, ant the two wings are of equal strength anc activity. Any advantage gained bJ either side will be in the wings. Should Captain Lea, however, be unable to fin. ish the game, as is more than likely Princetons line will be decidedly weak ened, and the balance thrown in favor of the blue.
 Behind the line is where Yale ha! the advantage. There Fincke the guar ter back, is quicker and more aceurat