The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-09
YALE'S HARD LUCK.

VIII BE = to L FaTOrite-
time in the memory of the oldest
kicker, Princeton will go to the post a
favorite over Yale in the great annual
football game. Also for the first time
in many seasons the yearly game be-
tween the elevens of these colleges will
not take place on Thanksgiving day
Instead, it will be fought on the 21st of
the month, the Saturday preceding the
day set aside for the consumption of
turkey.
1t will be a great experience for the
boys who wave blue flags and wear
boutonnieres of violets to be asking for
odds and getting them, but this will
undoubtedly happen unless the I'M
looked-for comes between. If Yale and
Princeton met today, the Tigers would
easily be two to one favorites, and
even at these odds it would seem like
coming money to bet on the yellow and
black. That this condition of affairs
is uproarously pleasant to the Trenton
boys and monstrously gloomy to the
New Haven chaps there is no gain
saying. There are swarTns of sons Of
millionaires at Yale, and it is part of
their religion to bet the best part of
their incomes on the annual game with
Princeton. To meet this golden oppor-
tunity, the Princeton boys have for
the past month been resorting to all
manner of unusual economic devices,
and they expect to cover each dollar of
Yale money with two of the Tigers.
While Yale is discoura ged, it is not
yet beaten, and in the two weeks which
elapse before the great battle hercul-
can efforts will be made to get the
team into better shape. This will be
difficult matter. If the trouble rested
with one, or two. or three players the
evil could be remedied by placing them
on the side and drawing on the sub
stituteS. But a more difficult problem
confronts the coaches. The whole team
is decidedly weak in comparison with
the brilliant eleven of Princeton. It is
not lack of beef, as the men are as
heavy as usual; neither is it lack of
sand as they have stood some mighty
rough handling in the games played to
date. Captain Murphy has worked
like Trojan, and there have been
more coaches on the field than in any
previous year.
POOR RAW MATERIAL.
The trouble seems to be with the
quality of the raw material which the
coaches had to work upon. While
there was a great host of candidates
for the team, not one of them showed
brilliancy or exceptional ability. This
is rare thing, for Yale has always
been fortunate in securing d.
football material from the preparatory
schools.
Then the team was handicapped by
the absence Of many of the best of
last years players. If these had pre-
dominated, the team would have been
of much higher class, and the standard
of work demanded of the new players
raised in proportion.
Yale has not yet recovered from the
Generalization of the practical defeat
at the hands of the Carlisle Indians.
These wonders have only practiced
one-half hour every other day, and
have been Coached but once a week
by Hickok, the former Yale player;
yet they are the equal of any varsity
team in the country. In view of this,
Yale feels that her position is desper-
ate.
The team which the Blues will put in
the field against the Tigers will be
made UP as follows. unless some i'm
portant changes are made: Bass at left
end, Rogers at left tackle, Chadwick at
left guard, Chamberlain at CENTER Muir
ray AT right guard, Murphy at right
tackle, COnnor or Hazen at right end,
Ely at quarter back, Van Every at left
half back. Benjamin at right half back
and Hinkey at full back These are
the hest men on The team, but as it
stands today it is far below the average
of what Yale annually turns out on the
gridFron.
STRENGTH OF THE TIGERS.
Pitted against them is the strongest
team thu, Princeton has turned out
in years. The best of last years men
are ON the team, and this in itself is a
tremendous advantage. The men work
like a piece of machinery, a fact which
speaks volumes for their admirable
training. In individual work the mem
hers of the IL can stand comparison
with any players on the gridiron today.
Cochran ranks as a premier at right
end. Smith DIT quarter back is one of
the surest ground gamers that has been
seen in many a day, and Church and
Hildebrand at tackle are invincible, Hill
debrand being the most powerful man
that has wrestled for the pigskin in
several years. For the half backs
Princeton is particularly fortunate in
having four crack men to select from
'Rosengarten, Bananrd, Kelly and Rster
and each one of them is of the first
class Galley as center last year was
credited with being the best man at
that position in the country, and he
still holds The claim.
THERE MAY BE SLUGGING.
While many of the very rough plays
have been abandoned during the past
year, it is not improbable that the game
on the 21st will be rich-i in smuggling.
Yale players have never taken kindly
to defeat, and it may be that some OF
them will lose their heads and smash
their opponents. If this should be tried
the Princeton men will meet them more
than half way Cochran, the captain.
has never displayed any backwardness
when smuggling was going around, and
there are two or three other men on the
Princeton II who would rather rough
it than not Murphy the Yale captain,
smashed Pierre, the Indian lett tackle,
in the last half Of the game with Car
Isle, and if anything like this should
happen with Princeton the SC, 900 spec
tators may see something not on the
bill
If a player wore all the appliances
now in use for protection against in
Jury he could be in the center of a
smuggling match and scarcely know that
he was hit The proper shoes are of a
double thickness, and padded with thin
felt TO guard against the small bones
in the feet being broken. The trousers
are of heavily padded moleskin, with
bullying knees a foot thick. There are
solid panniers for the hips, and leather
protectors for the stomach and kidneys.
Leather bands protect the wrists, and
leather pads shield the elbows and the
shoulders.
The newest helmet covers the top of