The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-11-21
THE YALE TEAM CHEERED
HUNDREDS or STUDENTS GAVE THEM 4 SEND OFF YESTERDAY.

THEM 4 SEND OFF YESTERDAY. Just Before Leaving for New York Prepar-
 ratory to the Big Game-Nothing but
 Signals and Plays Praeticed Yesterday Yale Students and Coaches SanGuine of
 Victory.
 The Yale football team left at 4:3O yesterday afternoon for New York pre- paratory to winning a grand victory over the Tigers at Manhattan field this afternoon or sustaining g. defeat in what, to say the least, will be one of the hardest fought battles that Nas- sau's sons have ever won.
 What will be the outcome of the great struggle is g. question that is now agi- tating sympathizers of the blue and those of the orange and black Yale men, Yale players and Yale coaches are sanguine of victory, and so sure are the Yale undergraduates of victory that they are only figuring on the magnl- tude of the score, Although up to with in the last two days the odds in bet ting have been on Princeton, one Yale senior yesterday placed $150 even on Yale.
 At S:45 yesterday afternoon about 300 Yale students gathered at Osborn hall corner to give the team a rousing and cheering send-off. The crowd would probably have been larger but for the fact that hundreds of students had all Jxr IoFH fnY York the morning and early afternoon trains Captain Bailey of the crew led the cheering of the crowd, and each mem- Der of the eleven was Siven a cheer that must have made his heart beat quick and strengthened his determina- tion to do all in his power to win Ar ter cheering the regular members oI the team the substitutes and coaches were not forgotten and they came in for salvos of rah-rah-rah's and Brek- ke-ke-keX cheers.
 The university eleven had short practice at the field yesterday after noon, beginning at the usual time. The eleven simply went through the signals and plays for todays game, without the scrub. They left the field at 5 o'clock. They spent last night at the Plaza The following men were taken yesterday afternoon, the rest of the squad going down this morning: Cap tain Murphy, Rodgers, Murray, Chad wick, Chamberlin, Bass, Conner, Ben ianin, Fincke, Hinkey, Hine, Mills, Ely. Mcfarland, Durston, Hall, Hazen, Chauncey, Van Every and DrMmmond. The eleven will line up against Prince ton as follows: Bass, left end; Rodg- CTS, left tackle; Murray, left guard; Channberlin, center; Chadwick, right guard; Murphy, right tackle; Conner, right end; Fincke, quarterback; Ben jamin, right half; Hine, left half; Hin key, full-back.
 McClung, Lehigh '93, will referee the game, and Paul Dashiel of Lehigh will umpire. The linesman has not yet been decided upon, but will be either Mar shall Newell of Harvard or DeHart ot Stevens.
 After the game this evening the eley- en will probably elect a captain for the coming year, and it now seems very likely that the fortunate man will be James Otis Rodgers '9S, who is now playing left tackle for his second sea- son on the varsity team
 Rodgers is expected to make some great runs at critical moments in to- days game. He was captain Of the Andover eleven in '93, when that team made a splendid record, scoring against Harvard. He was substitute tackleson the Yale varsity team during his fresh year. He is also one of Yale's best oarsnlen and pulled No. 1 in the Yale boat at Henley. He Is six feet tall, weighs 1sO pounds and is twenty-one years of age. His home is in Toledo, Ohio.
 Captain Murphy of this years eleven deserves great credit for the manner in which he has brought up the team from a condition where it seemed inn possible for it to win a big game to the condition in which it now is, with big chances of winning one of the hardest gridiron battles of the season. Captain Murphy has spent all his time, when not engaged with studies, in looking after the team this fall, and has infus- ed into the members a spirit and dash which probably no one else could have inspired in them He is one of the most popular Yale captains in many years.