The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-22
ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD.


Ne Trust 60 Ne Placed IN "EoFTn0 When
nnssd upen the werk sf Teams In Practice
-CeuAparisen OF Vale and Ole Fenn MATES
It Appear That They Are Evenly matched.
Yale's great victory ovor Princeton on Sat
urday was something in the nature of an OBJ
jcct lesson. IT. proved that football is an UNI
certain sport, that physical condition counts
for more than q mere knowledge OF the In
tricacios of the game, and that overconfdence
n possibly q fatal fault. 1t also showed how
worthless form is when based upon the per-
formances Of the big elevens in practice
games. Tho Tigers remarkable record this sea-
SON Of not having q touchdown made against
them mp to the Yale game, was used as an
argument that Yale would not score, espe-
cially as the wearers Of the Blue failed to cross
Harvard's goal line. Tho fact that four teams
OF minor Importance had scored against Yale
seemed to ba excellent ground for the belief
that Princeton would have no trouble in getting
o man over the magic line, and yet all calcutta
lions wore upset on Saturday when Yale
scored ak points and the Tigers were white
, washed"
( Another point that has been made by those
' who watch football closely is that Yale made q
wise move in playing O hard rame ono week
h before the Harvard game, while the Crimson
f9aid OF for ten days, and thereby went par
tally stale. Tho same thing applied to the
/ 3rnceton game, for Yale played IL one week
EATER the battle with Harvard, while the Tigers
, hnd enjoyed o rest of two weeks. From these
= tncts tho impression 10 created that in order
10 season Q big 'varsity eleven the only method
7 b procedure 10 to keep the men actively en-
fGseed and to drive them hard up to the very
last moment. Coach Butterworth know this
! when he hrst took hold of Yale's candidates,
! end he trained them solely to DO in shape to
Atneoe Harvard and Princeton. He paid no at
pNention to Yale's minor games, and simply de-
fvoted bis time TO selecting the best possible
/ players from . very long list Of talent. Al
| though ho was handicapped In various ways,
: 10 persevered until to-day he Ia acknowledged
bto b ono Of tho great mon identified with
T EslS's athletic affairs. Butterworth is not an
old timer, neither IL he Q younP, inexperienced
beach. He IL Q cool.headed. impartial judge
Tho Yale eleven has established . record for
: endurance that win DO hard TO excel. In two
have been on the field, In each instance. at the
3nish. At Cambridge II. was a noteworthy fea-
some experts did not regard this as particularly
| strange. for they Pointed as out that the nor ha apyaS
..,2a lesiils P Prinoe aoItnY Iow sSsa.' tie Yale player:
we're put to a real test, for the Tigers played
F, hard football at al stages. The Yale men 3
the hour. Just as a horse is trained for a great
Ian, so the New Haven football experts were
. gradually developed until they were absolutely
! OF them was laid out on the ground for even a
single minute on Saturday shows that they were
more @oa easily than N the s" Unfortunate Tigers.
Another reason why Yale men were not hurt
in tho games with Harvard and Princeton was
S SGSSdis MIA law al" among football players for years rs
1ans f th9 b isfase hHrs. PMlt Men who shs s lssi into sea a game ne
tearing, injury arc generally the ones who are
sas sres foo d | up 81 b Tas cane msn pls sHs s Ss%
Haven that it was evident early In the games
that their opponents were perplexed by such tao;
players put on the hospital list and that Yale
men escaped without scratches convinces stu
and power to Withstand hard work than her
opponents. Football players Of experience con.
aggressive snT ssfS ~ they claim ~ that y the SA mom n Mt "a a
man f. feels Dis TN timi a. he mig might 1t Just as we Wei auit, or
the rule. Men like Cochran and Baird Of
Princeton were not injured on Saturday be-
cause they were timid, but because luck was
against them. Cochran's injury was received
while he was in the act of making a most ag.
+. before he went on the field. Kelly, on the other
hand, while suffering from a general poor condi.
ground R't than any sH " other Princeton hnas No back scin and % aise
escaped without a scratch.
AihsVtoh anu IChubS v III
are trying to figure out which is the stronger
bly, there will be more persons to proclaim the
Sunkers champions than those who will lay
reason for this is that Yale played only a draw
With Harvard in a game which the Crimsons
s ssfSaais have Won Ts sas HiglY from 1Sr p sSs 3SSas%fGs; r Sen.
S %nG; st is Y seneed fSII.p iis L. si better %sIs w feHtb Ssrt than
when 1t Is not taken into consideration that
Yale played Harvard away frcm home and q
week before the Blues We're supposed to be in
HsrVTard p Si sSn Pennsylv 1n .a at P S6nsa ihahnia.
where over 10000 persons rooted, for the
SSSaabsaddi and f'4Hh %EySsa had daG met Rl& 2sfe at at
New Haven there might have been such results
and pennsylvania are pretty evenly matched.
Tho uncertainty of the game. as shown al
EssS con M%Esn on So ssttHhn st Il IS %nSt i%popss 1ibais t te
draw definite conclusions: If Pennsylvania
instead of Princeton could have met Yale last
Saturday under the same conditions that ex
Would have been just just as IS Close Sas toEf in TO Form aa tn
G Z t6e sa have e, all a Kifs bee been T considered abou'
The Pennsylva%ppia eleven Sill wind up tn
the Cornell men. The latter have had a goot
Test and as they are trained particularly To-
The experts look for. The QuaSerss Ai may b,
over-confdent. as they look upon the contest a
to other biz elevens before. The other game
of Importance on that day will be played a
Cincinnati and Chicago. The Carlisle Indian
Xind up their season at Cincinnati, and tn
New Jersey A. G. will meet the Chicago A. G
at Chicago. The Jerseymen leave here to
morrow for the West.
PRINCETON, Nov. ol-Yale's unexpected vic
tory over Princeton yesterday has cast a dec
gloom over the town as well as the university
The defeated players returned from New Yorl
tonight. There is mot a man who was in the gam
that does not show the effects of the hard play
ing. Cochran is the only one, however, who 1
injured to any extent, His weak shoulder wa
badly wrenched while making u tackle, an,
he will have to carry his arm in
face is a mass OF bruises. resulting fror
the hot struggle between him and Chad wick
Edwards says that Chadwick caused all tn
trouble by deliberately tramping on his loot jus
after the game began. Cad walader wore Boot
out by his aggressive tactics, and Baird an,
Barnard were not injured, but only exhauste
by their attempts to gain through the Yale lin,
lteiter WIS taken out on account OF his poo
showing.
The players did not caro- to talk about tn
game tonight. and their friends refused to dis
cuss IT in their presence. in consideration q
their feeliUpa. II Ia npreeu that the emma wa