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GOSSIP OF THE CRIDIRON
Blevens Of the Great Universities Passed in
Critical Review.
YALE SHOWS UP STRONG THIS YEAR
Other Eastern Teams Make nm Indif-
fcrcnt Record In Early Games,
Princeton Bcing wcnk-wcst-
crn Elcvcn- Active.


have to prepare for the big battles that are
scheduled for this season is getting short.
Less than a fortnight now remains before
tho games that draw from $4,000 to $4,000
people will be on, the vast crowds of parti-
sans will cheer as their own side adj
vances the ball near the opponents goal,
the flag OF one color will wave VIGOROUSLY
over those of another, and wads OF the long
green will change hands. The prelimi-
nary practice has been finished, the compost
ton of the big teams is pretty we'll decided
upon and the adherents OF each are seeking
to get line on their own college team
from the practice games that have been
played with the minor college teams.
Yale is showing up strong in its games
with the minor elevens, these constituting
Yale's long suit this season. as was the case
last year. There is but one game of any
importance on the New Haven schedule this
fall and that is the so-called Champion
ship game with Princeton, though Just what
this means Is rather indefinite. Yale will
be champion over Princeton, II the game is
won and vice versa. Pennsylvania issued d
manly challenge to the Yalensiaps, and II
is commonly reported that the players them
selves wanted the challenge accepted, but
ttat moss-covered tradition of allowing one
or two alumni to dictate Yale's athletic
policy again asserted its strength, and a
fiat refusal was sent to the Quakers Next
to the Princeton game, which will be
played at the last of the season, Yale's
most important game is the Brown game
This was played on Wednesday last, and
won by the score of IS to o. AS Brown on
Saturday defeated Amherst, a team that
had already played Harvard a fairly close
game, by the score of "A to g. 1t must be
nd cd hat tln DhAI ell hA..g ha
another strong team this season On Sat
urday Yale continued its good work by de-
feating the Orange Athletic club by IL to o.
Two touchdowns were made in the first half
and one more in the second no goals were
kicked, which does not look well for the
New Haven drop-kckers Yaes line has
its usual strength The ends, Bass and
Conner, are better than the ends for sew
eral seasons. Captain Murphy and Rodgers,
the tackles, are old, reliable men. Chad
wick is again seen at guard. The other
guard on Saturday was Chamberlain, but
IL Sheldon comes out the new man will
probably go back to the scrub. Hnkey has
been changed from end to fullback, and is
said to be doing good work. He punts well,
but when 1t comes to buckng the line he
Is a bit shy. Banjamin is the best halt
back but is not doing the work expected
of him. and Ely, at quarter is not especially
strong. Since the games with Brown and
showing so far Yale men think that they
have a cinch on their only game of i'm
portance. IL they were to play Harvard and
Pennsylvania first some of their abundant
energy might be used up, but as II is they
will probably have a great reserve force
of strength by the latter part of Novem-
Der. a.
Harvard has not yet done any work that
should worry its three most formidable
opponents, Princeton, Pennsylvania and Cor
nell. II has played three games and won
them all, but the work OF the eleven has
not been up to even the crimson standard,
On Saturday the Newton Athletic associa-
ton team was defeated, IS to o, in two
twenty-minute halves. Considering the
number of old college stars that lined up
against the crimson, the result was not
bad. Trinity was defeated, "a to 0, a much
better showing than Yale made. Harvard
plays Cornell, October "a; Princeton. No
vember Z, and Pennsylvania, November 81.
Until Lafayette's tie game with Princeton
the Harvard supporters had about given UP
hope of winning the game with the Jer-
seymen, and they have never had much
confidence about This years result with the
Quakers. The crimson team has taken
brace during the past week, however and
its supporters announce that they will bet
on the Princeton game, II nothing of great
importance happens to mar their prospects.
1t is not likely that they will make the
sad mistake Of offering odds OF to 1, that
they made just about a year ago. The
Cornell game will be played at Ithaca one
week from Saturday next and 1t must be
admitted that the result of the game is
very much in doubt.
Harvard's great strength is once more in
its backfeld. Captain Wrightington will
play the game of his life at halfback and
Sullivan or Cozzens will help him along
we'll. Beale may be regarded as a fixture
10 Il n II.
before. Cabot has been changed from end
to fullback. II is to be hoped that a great
end has not been spoiled to make an in
ferior fulback as has been the case so
often. Richardson and Moulton, the latter
a substitute of last season, are at the ends
of the line. Donald and Haughton from
their experience of one year should do well
at the tackles. The two Shaws and
Doucette are the best Of the big men for the
center trio.
Princeton has not done anything yet to
arouse any great hopes for victory over
Yale or even over Harvard. On Wednesday
two fifteen-minute halves were played
with the unusually strong team from
Lafayette, and the Tigers could not score.
Neither did their opponents score, but were
we'll satisfied to keep the Jerseymen away
from their own goal. In this game and in
Saturdays game when Princeton defeated
Lehigh, 16 to 0, there was a terrible amount
of fumbling. Both Smith and Poe have
been tried at quarterback but neither has
done good work. Suter, formerly of Penn
sylvania State college, who did such great
work for Princeton in the Harvard game
last year. may be given another trial
AT quarter, though his work last
season fell of after the game with
the crimson. Captain Cochran Is again at
end, but has been Handicapped by illness.
Church at tackle and Tyler at guard show
up well in the line, which is none too
strong. king" KellySan Barnard are do
ing well at alf-back. save for helping in the
fumbling. which seems to be the teams
worst fault. Baird at fullback shows no inn
provcmont over last year, and he was not
star then. The team is largely the same as
IL was last year, but there must needs be
great Improvement If the orange and black
is to win majority Of Its three hard games,
those with Yale, Harvard and Cornell.
Pennsylvania Is generally thought to be
tho strongest team on the gridiron this fall
but so far Is has failed to roll up any
wonderfully large scores. Dartmouth was
defeated on Saturday-y16 to 0, which is twice
the number of points that were scored
against the Naval cadets on Wednesday
Minds is making "a great halfback, doing
even better work than he did at tackle. He
will do most OF the punting for the team
though Woodruff has been practicing on
goals from the field, rather unusual voca-
ton for a guard. Captain Wharton the
other guard, Is a tower OF strength and
on Saturday played the whole game himself
Colbert, one OF the hardest runners to