Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-09-04

else. is the removal of the Yale-Praceton
game from the metropolis. New Workers
have grown to look upon this annual con-
test between the Tigers and the sons OF
Old Eli as one of the fixtures of its fall sea-
son, and it did not yield to its being taken
away without bitter protest.
But the more conservative college element
is well satisfied with the change The game
will lose somewhat in its spectacular ef-
fects. and, no doubt. as far as the public
is concerned, in popularity; but II Will be In
every sense more truly college sport
played by college men and for college men
The party that has advocated its removal
from New York has argued that the annual
contest was outgrowing all bounds AS
played in New York it was no longer a sim
pie test of the strength and skill of the Two
colleges. but a spectacular performance.
which rapidly falling into the hands of
professional show people and ticket scalp
ers 1t was becoming altogether too pom
derous for undergraduates to manage
IaIc's Gloomy Outlook.
This year, with the game played in New
Haven. the wearers Of the blue have an
unbeatable advantage. You can't lick us
in our own yard has been for years one OF
Yale's favorite ta"ats. ard generally it has
not been a vain one. Her clans gather to-
gether and cheer more Justify when there is
less provocation for cheering than any
other collegiate clans in the country; and
cheering often counts more in critical
In every other respect, however. the odds
against Yale are greater than she has had
to contend with In the last five or six years.
Her last years team. which was beaten de-
cisiyely by the Tigers, has been sadly weak
ened by the loss of at least six of its old
men, and of the freshmen who matriculated
last June there are few who give much
promise of varsity form. But. although
there is gloom and foreboding in New
Haven, there Is no reason to wager reck-
lessly against her. 1t is an old confirmed
habit they have down there of looking on
the blue side up to the last moment, and
then by some occult process turning out a
team that will thrash the heart out of the
most seasoned and complacent veterans
Prineeton's Prospects Are Rosy
Princeton's prospects are of a hue bright
er and warmer than the orange of her ban
ncrs That Of itself is evil omen. They
are always rosy when she loses and SOM
Ter when she is victorious But on form
she has far more formidable team than
any of her adversaries. Eight. at least. Of
the champions of '96 will return. and Capt.
Cochran has promise of excellent material
to fiji the vacancies. With the element of
herd luck eliminated, IL seems difficult for
the Tigers to finish anywhere except at the
top of the heap. Harvard. with the pros
poets of a team not much better than that
which was beaten by Princeton and Penn
sylyania last year. must face her old enc
my from New Haven this year. and also
play with the Tigers in their own territory.
The course of training of foot ball teams
has been changed radically in the last two
or three years The starving methods.
deemed essential short time ago. are now
quite obsolete. Foot ball trainers have
learned that they are not turning out prize
fighters. and that the Young man of twenty
cannot stand the same course of physical
training that veteran bruiser of thirty
cen. So the candidates eat and drink about
what they Please. and care is exercised not
only to see that they do not overdo it, but
that they do not go to the other extreme
and become stale from too much training.
Getting Foot hall Material.
Obviously the first thing to be done in
the work OF developing a championship
team is TO get the material. The rivalry
nowadays is so fierce that the methods
which prevailed eight ten years ago will
not suffice today.
The preparatory schools are the greatest
foot ball feeders. All of them have their
own teams. and the foot ball tirneber which
seems TO give promise of varsity form is
spoken for months in advance.
Each year aE-ents are sent out from Yale
Princeton ana Harvard to canvass the
players among the four big schools of the
efsf-Exeter, Andover, st. Pauls and Gro
ton. These men offer almost any induce
Eaents in the way of college fraternitfes and