New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-20
ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD.
HARVARD THE CHAMPION - YALE MEN
DOING SOME POWERFUL THINKING
OVER TIE PRINCETON GAME.

Haven yesterday defeating Yale badly In
clean. scientific game. Harvard leaps to top
place among the college elevens for the sea
son Of 1895. While time fails at this writing for
extended comment in regard TO the play yes
terday. nevertheless it is clear that once more
has been demonstrated the fact that the physi-
cal condition of the men has a wonderful deal
20 do with the ultimate result Harvard Is to
| he most heartily congra tulated on her magnifi-
cent game and overwhelming victory
Yale men want to know why their eleven was
beaten at Princeton. The surface causes were
certainly pretty plain. Outrageous fumolhs VI
the backs poor blocking on punts on the part
Of the rushers. two or three Of the so-called
mainstays of the team in poor condition. ana ~
| times very questionable generaship. Those
were the weak points that everybody could see
What Yale graduates and undergraduates want
| to know, however. is why their team was weak
at those points. where it has almost without eN-
ception in past years been strong. am not
prepared to answer that question fully, but
reply that will so a good way is to the ehec'
that there head coach al New-Hsveh
this year to develop the team after denhi'e
set policy from the very start. There was
| moreover no physical trainer Of long expert
cnco and policy to see that the men kept III al
| all times and 10 nurse them generally in the
way in which football heroes must be codd'ed
I, IS plain that Captain Chamberlain took 700
much work for even his broad shoulders Nhen
a captain has to keep up his own body play
has to coach AID whip a lot OF compafauNci'
| raw recruits into shape, has to round the ""oie
! into perfected team play. and IN ahni''o" -,
| that Keen an owe on each individual mans work
| and on his physical condition. It is a task mat
no man can he expected to undertake success
.JaJ any
Chamberlain had to do all this work rSn,
! straight through the season. for the hummer VI
| Yale graduates VINO hocked back to the CITY OF
| Films a fortnigh, before the Princeton game "d'
! formidable But il certainly seems to he inc
| case that Chamherlin was without the he'p
| of A strong guiding genius. such as Butter"orth
! was last year, and the poor condition OF 'ne
Yale team was to my mind largely due 10 ''''
lack With the set Of veterans that Yale started
with AT the beginning Of the season there shou'o
have been absolutely no excuse for the eXho'-
J ton that was given in the game at Princeton
and tho part that aggravated fale men "io7'
was the fact that their team showed constantly
&c carabuities both in defence and attack, ana
sbowed what superb combination it could
have been made into under proper INSTRUCTION.
A SCORE THAT WAS NOT UNDESERNED
As for the game itself II was more or less OF
enectacular performance. Poes hair-ralsing
run Of hundred yards putting the crowns o"
both sides Of the field In perfect frenzy
Poe's run was one of those plays that are oouno
10 he made occasionally even in big chaHpo''-
shin contests. and while it might properly u
classcd under the generic name o. "huke' at
the same time with Yale fumbng, as her backs
were doing. and Princeton on the close watch
| IT was pretty certain sooner or later that some
| big advantage would accrue to the Tigers IN
! the Harvard Pennsylvania game the same
! chance came In Harvards way, only al the
| kick off rather than later in the game. For
| these reasons. while Poe's touchdown was 4
nieco of good fortune for Princeton. at tie same
time it was something that was well deserved.
| ,rhe Yale men are trying to find some consoa-
! ton in the fact that their team by steady line
bucking gained many more yards than Prince
! tons team covered. also that their defence
! WAS so superb that twice on their own three
! ward line with the ball in Princeton's posses
! sion thov made such Wondrous stand as 10
| rrevont A touchdown. Such thoughts MAJ be
| more or less consolatory. but as "A usua' thinS
| nothing consoles Yale for defeat, ana TINS
! wear hcr unNise generalship in playing DE
| Sauiles. with "A badly sprained ankle; Benjamin.
| fresh from sick bed Of malaria, and McBrlde'
! with his knee all twisted out OF shape and oat-
tered up generally must he strongly criticised
! As for Yalcs line. il was the redeeming feature
Of her play though the men had not been
! taught properly to block when the backs we're
| about to punt The crowds present bore them
selves in manner of mighty good humor
| throughout the contest. and on the field the
spirit Of the players was excellent If may eX-
cept this. that one Of the Princeton guards.
whom | saw distinctly not five feet away from
me- deliberately walked up to De Saulles lying
on the ground after A tackle and spiked him
on the ankle. This simply outrageous. but
/ was the only feature that marred the sport OF
! the afternoon
THAT TRIPLE ALLIANCES AGAIN.
The talk Of a triple alliance composed OF Har-
ward. Yale and Princeton continues almost I'M
| abated. though the fact as announced In ths
column week ago. that Harvard would not
turn a cold shoulder to Pennsylvania. Is gradu-
ally being accepted on all sides. even by those
most enthusiastic for Harvard to give up her
relations with the Quakers. The ideal arrange
mcnt as every body recognizes immed ateiJ.
| would be- for Princeton TO play Pennsy lvania
every year and for Harvard TO play Yale. and
| then the two winners 10 play for the champion
ship Bur Princeton desires above Ali things
every year a Yale game. and could not be per
| suaded 20 give that up. Moreover ale ana
| Harvard Invariably want to play with eacf
! other 50 that such an arrangement WhiIe II
! Is very pretty paper. has no practical chan'e
/ Of fulflment The present situation. therefore,
! is likely 10 continue unchanged. But II cannot
! be denied that there T. feeling at Harvard as
! well as at The other colleges that the part thd'
| Panrsylyania pIavs in the football world is not
/ wholly conducive TO the good 81 the sport ms
! wear for instance. out of the eleven men Nh"
! +, present Pennsylvania. seven or eight are III
| the graduate schools and he whole tendenc! or
era 1uate players Is just trifie toward proits-
! sionalism. Moreover. an eleven mat is com
| posed 50 largely Of graduates averages ipur OI
! ,vs vears Older than a team Of undergra ates
| Ike Harvards for instance. and IL stands 10
reason that the strength and endurance OF me
! elder men should ice considerably more INA"
! mar of the calloW undergraduates. That Is the
reason that It is little hard to expect an eleven
! cou1posed Of Young players Ike fales ana mar =
| Yards 10 run up successfully year IN ana year
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