The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-13
FOOTBALL FIGHT TODAY
YALE AND HARVARD TO MEET IN
BATTLE ON SOLDIERS FIELD.
stubborn Contest Expected, but Sup
pOrters of the New Haven Eleven
Are Confident of Victory.

BOSTON, Nov. 12.-The Yale University
football team reached Boston this evening.
The football party numbered fifty-six. OF
this number forty-four were players and
substitutes. The following coachers ac-
companied the team: Walter Camp, Frank
Butterworth, the head coach; Frank Hin
key, Louis Hinkey and G.. Foster Sanford
The football train was a long one, and was
heavily loaded with Yale students. The
Yale players tumbled out of the cars, and
entering carriages, were driven to the Ven
dome. The squad presented a striking ap-
pearance. The men are all sizeable, and
there is no doubt that every man of them
is in splendid condition After dinner the
players lounged about the corridors, chatted
and whiled away the time until shortly
after $50, when they went to their rooms
BY 10 o'clock the whole squad had retired
for the last nights rest before the great
contest with Harvard at Soldiers field to-
morrow.
AS regards Yale's chances for victory
there is little to be said. Captain Rodgers
and his coachers refused to talk for publ
cation on that score. They admit that the
men are in fine physical condition, that
their spirits good, and that they are
prepared to fight the hardest kind of bat
tie. In spite of the fact that the Yale men
are not loquacious, however, it is not diff
cult to see that the New Haven collegians
are not worrying.
Quietly considerable betting was done.
Yales sports had plenty of money with
them, and they looked for and found con-
siderable at even figures. Captain Rodgers
admitted officially that COrwin would take
the place of Dudley, who was called home
by the death of his mother. The Yale con-
tingent, the team not included, claims a
Yale victory tonight but every one is look
ing for the most fiercely-fought contest Of
the year.
The Yale team will probably line up in to-
morrow's game as follows Hazen, left end;
Rodgers (captain), left tackle; Marshall,
left guard; Cadwalader center; Brown.
Hall, right end; Desaulles, quarter back;
Benjamin, right half back; Corwin, left
half back; Mcbride, full back.
A heavy rain last night turned Soldiers
field into lake, and the Harvard team went
through signal practice indoors. When the
rain ceased, soon after noon, force Of
men was put to work scooping out the pud-
dies, and their efforts, aided by high wind
improved the grounds. AT half past the
Harvard eleven and the substitutes trotted
out on the sloppy ground but the practice
was limited to catching and returning the
ball on the kickoff. After ten minutes of
this work the men went out on one OF the
practice fields where the ground was harder
and went through signals for ten minutes.
The men were spared perceptibly on ac-
count. of the sloppy. condition OF the field,
and there was no effort to practice sharply.
The lineup was follows and will prob
ably be the same tomorrow: Cabot, left
end; Swain, left tackle; Bouve, left guard;
Doucette, center; Haskell, right guard DON
AID right tackle; Moulton, right end; Gar
rison, quarter back; Dibble, left half back;
Warren right half back; Raughton, full
back All of the men in the regular make
up seemed full of ginger and in good condi-
ton. Both Cabot and Donald have got al
most entirely rid of their limpS, and the
prospect of their being able ITO last out is
much better.