The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-03

NdS loL ullIll the BrOWn Sdllle tAe't IH9 sentiment showed itself with such strength. But after that game, at tune when 8 veteran or even an ordl- nary team would have been treated to the cold shoulder and criticism and worse, the talk was rather of sympa- thy, and every one stopped to speak or the good points, or the great brace the team took after Brown had scored, and the way it went at it's work to even matters up. The partisanship Of the audience at the Indian game rather added to this feeling, and to-day 1t IS safe to say no team wearing the Yale blue carried more goodwill from the university at large than that of Cap tain Rodgers. . The team itself is a strange one for Yale to send out. For years Yale teams have been quiet, steady, almost sullen; stiff in the defence, growing more and more stubborn as the play approached their goal; on the offensive strong and relentles, hammering at the selected spot until they forced their way little by little down to a touch down and victory. Self-confldeOt and self-reliant, almost without exception they have seldom had need of their coaches when in actual combat. The team of 1897, on the other hand, is bril- liant, sensitive in the extreme, and as full Of Whims as a child. It is eager to learn, ready to do the bidding of coaches with spirit, but when the ex- l pected result fails to come, they turn TOT new instruction as to how to pro- ceed. ...
 or the work of Harvard and Penn- sylvania, MT. Camp speaks as follows: Harvard may have been beaten by Pennsylvania regularly, but in the last two years not easily enough to make 1t sure thing, especially if Pennsyl- vacia stands still and Harvard im- proves. The advantage that Harvard must necessarily reap in point of ex- perience from the effects of the game with Yale will also be factor on her slde. But aside from the question of victory, the team this year owes it to MT. Woodruff to carry out to the full the development that he has made not only possible but practicable. Having | perfected her offensive running game to a considerable degree, it behooves Pennsylvania to make her kicking game equally secure One of her men
  catching punts, anf should be strength ened. Pennylva1}fa's defence against end runs from mass formations needs also some attention.
 | The team work is better in two re- spects-the interference is closer, and moves more regularly. To one who had not seen the teamplay between the West Point game and the game with Newton this was very evident The momentum comes more nearly at the proper time and the men composing the interference have their bodies in better attitude for resisting the onslaught of | the opposing line, so that instead of being knocked back upon their runner, as they were several times in that game, they carry the push we'll against the enemy, and force gains with more regularity. Fake kicks seem to be par ticularly favored by Harvard this year, and it would be no surprise to see a big gain made in the Yale game with one of these old-time plays. Dibblee is standing the work splendidly for a man of his build. He cuts out fast pace in every game, and is becoming daily more reliable in following his interfer- ence as long as it is serviceable. With it's increased speed it is much more helpful to him, and does not suffocate his play, as at first
 His comments regarding Princeton are:
 From Princeton, too, come tales of something of slump in the work of the team, but the game against the Elizabeth Athletic club did not demon- strate the truth of those forebodings to any great extent. Furthermore, that game showed that Edwards can play a good center. Stillman is always good man, a man who knows the game and can play it from the start. But for all that, Edwards showed up to advantage and it is pleasant to be sure of num- Der two for such an important position as that of center. In the first part of the game Princeton failed to get warmed up, and seemed to have lost one of her most valuable traits, that of opening the play at once; but before the end of the half the team was moving in great style. The Elizabeth team is the one that gave Yale such a game at New Haven last year, It is heavy and strong, and it is no child's play to get up against it. Its guards back ripped Princeton up a little, just as it did Yale last season, but the Tigers managed it after a bit, and when they got their own machine in operation, it moved down the big fellows in good fashion. There was a marked contrast between the two teams in the matter of fumb- ling, Elizabeth suffering severely from having too many thumbs, While Prince | ton was well nigh perfect in this re- gard. Here Princeton is the superior of Pennsylvania as yet, and hers will be the best team in the field this year for clean handling, if it can keep up it's present record. Only twenty minute halves were played, so that the score did not run up as it would had the time been longer, for the collegians were standing the pace better than the club men.
 Princeton feels the need of making herself more feared in assaults upon the center and guards ofthe opposing line. Could she combine the smashing power of Pennsylvania's center plays with the almost irresistible drive of her own plays at tackle and end, the op- posing line would be in difficult straights indeed.
 CORNELL WORKING HERSELF UP INTO FIRST RANK.