The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-11-17
YALE'S SECRET PRACTICE
YORK OF PATCHING UP WEAK
SPOTS CONTINUES

Tickets Allotted to Undergraduates and
Alumni Partially Distributed Yesterday
Spectators Obtained Possession of the
Paste-boards and Raised the Price-Seat-
ing Capacity of New Stands 1900.
The work of patching up the weak
spots in Yale's eleven was continued
yesterday, and with good results. A
formation to prevent McBride's kicks
from being blocked was successfully
tried. This weakness came near being
a fatal one In the game with Harvard,
and an extra effort will be made to
prevent repetition of it. Over an
hours secret practice was held yester-
day, and then the varsity lined up
against the scrubs for about fifteen
minutes work.
The lineup Of the varsity was the
same as in Saturdays game, with the
exception that Marshall played left
guard in place of Chadwick. Dudley
was in his old place at left half and did
some good work.
Some talk is current that slocovitch
may play left end in place of Hazen
next Saturday. This change may be
made because of the need Of weight
but other matters of equal Importance
should be considered before this change
1 is made.
To-day and tomorrow the practice
will consist mostly Of eliminating the
weak points. The eleven will not line
up on Friday.
The Princeton team and substitutes
will arrive here Friday afternoon.
All day yesterday those who had ap-
piled for seats to the Yale-Princeton
game next Saturday were busily en-
gagged in getting their tickets, and all
have not yet been supplied. The tick
cts were distributed at the Coop, and
although the men were in line from 9
o'clock in the morning until 5 in the
afternoon, and the little pasteboards
were passed out rapidly, all were not
accommodated. The distribution will
be continued to-day. Beside the tick
cts allotted to the Yale undergraduates
and alumni, and those sent to Prince
ton, there were a few over seven hun
dred end seats which were put ON sale
at Osborn Hall pharmacy yesterday af-
ternoon. 1t took just about an hour
and a half to dispose of these tickets,
most of them being sold to students
who desired more than the three for
which they had previously applied
Several persons who were thought to
be SPECTATORS were turned down. by
the management.
Despite all the efforts which were
made by the management to prevent
SPECTATORS from gaining possession of
the tickets, they secured a. surprisingly
large number Of them and were asking
all sorts of premiums. They were will
ing to pay as much as 81 for $1.50 seats.
These seats were on the end, and the
side seats, the price of which was SO,
were worth all the way from S. to $40.
The demand for tickets is far greater
than the number Of seats on the four
new grand stands, and hundreds, prob
ably thousands, will be unable to see
the great contest. About 1850 tickets
nave UGGu SGIlL 10 Princeton.
The new grand stands have seating
capacity of 1880. There are forty four
sections, and each section will seat ex-
actly 400 people. The grounds are not
fully equipped and ready for the game
The gridiron is now completely sur
rounded Beside the four new grand
stands an eight-foot tight board fence
has been built between each of them
Those admitted to the grounds will
pass through four large turnstiles.
Some dissatisfaction was aroused
among students who applied for seats
on the east and west or side grand |
stands and received seats on the north |
and south or end stands. There were
so many applications for seats on the |!
side stands that all could not be ac-
commodated.
1t has been definitely decided that
Paul J. Dashiell of Lehigh will umpire |
the game, and William Langford of |
Trinity will be the referee. Mr.. Hall
of this city will probably be one lines
man.
The Harvard Crimson published the |
following editorial on the Yale Harvard |
game in Saturdays issue:
Saturdays football game with Yale |
will go down into athletic history as a |
wasted opportunity. 1t is idle to go
into particulars. Harvard clearly
demonstrated her superiority in the
first half by holding her own against |
Yale in spite of the wind. In the sec
ond half, though the wind was in her
favor, she could do little better, and
lost the ball on Yale's courtyard line
The real game was played at that mo-
ment and Yale won, for her policy was
one of defence and in that she succeed |
ed. The team and the college have then
little to be proud of. Harvard expects
her men to rise to the occasion, to do ]