New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-23
" THE FOOTBALL FIELD.
STRENGTH UNoEREsTIMATED-
HAZARD NOT YET OUT OF THE
wOODs-wORK OF OTHER
EI,EVENS,
ELEVENS.


,.,ic Club a week ago was by no means indica-
.,a n, the actual game that she put up. Both
.ns individual and team play were far more
.-.dtable and stronger than most OF the news
.oners gave Yale credit for. Most OF the reports
,s~ao-ed entirely the fact that Yales was try
ing 10 play not match game. in which every
49,, must be expended to get a score but only
n-act,ce game in which by far the most i'm
ro-tant thing was TO develop the team for fu-
80 contests For instance, the Blue never
x,ckAd the ball once through the entire game
,u, devoted the time OF the men TO practising
running game through the centre and tackles
rverv one who knows anything about the
.hsmpionship struggles on the grtdiron Is per-
,ec,ly well aware that the big games are not
won by brilliant end plays. which may nave
heen diligently practsed but which never come
of The victory is won usually through STEADY
Matchmaking and that is what Yale is steadily
practising.
For instance, in the Newton game. McBride,
Wales heavyweight fullback, did some or the
hest line breaking that can be seen on the loot
hall field to-day, and Townsend, at halfoack'
made some surprisingly good runs. To be sure
On. backs were weak at handling kicks but
then De Saules who usually takes care OF the
enenly's punts did not play at all, and sullivan
rattles around in his shoes very badly. 1t must
be acknowledged that Yale Is playing game
that is somewhat slipshod. but | expect TO see
her weak points made stronger very quickly
from now on. Cutten seems at last 10 nave
struck gait AT centre. and is doing by far the
most satisfactory work ut the centre OF the line
that has been done at New-Haven this season.
Allen. who is being tried now at left tackle
ought 70 be good man. He has in him the
pvd
he comes from a family Of athletes If he can
master the fine points of the game by Novem-
Der 70. he will be a valuable adjunct to the left
wing of the line. for he is both steady and
heady The backs are doing all right. though
Rentaroin made disastrous tumble in the
Brown game and gave the Providence boys
touchdown, but that was a fluke. Yale backs
do not DO that sort OF thing when they start in
TO play against Princeton and Harvard.
THE COACHES WIDE AWAKE AT HARVARD.
A good many dispatches are being printed
1ust now about the strength that the Harvard
eleven is displaying and the wonderful conf
dence Of the undergraduates at Cambridge. The
Harvard eleven seems to be coming along all
right but any Harvard man who begins TO
count on victory at this stage Of the game Is
more foolish than I take him to be The team
IS playing a harder. sharper, snapper and
rougher game by a good deal than ii was put
tins UP fortnight ago. and that is encourage
ing but that Improvement alone doesn't mean
victory or anything like 1t. To my mind the
most encouraging point about Harvard outside
Of the earnestness and vigor that the candi-
dates are showing. is that the coaches realize
beyond peradventurc that the games against
Pennsylvania and Yale cannot be won If Har-
ward is to rely upon brilliant end plays. Both
PENNSYLVANIA and Yale have pair of ends that
Will break UP pretty end plays in short order
The Harvard coaches evidently know this. and
are paying more attention to the kicking game
and to line breaking plays. like Yale. What
Harvard needs is practice in team work, so that,
providing she gets the pigskn at Yale's or Penn
syvania's twenty-yard line. she can work it
over by short. hard line rushes. The absence OF
that practice last year cost Harvard the Yale
game. for she had the ball inside of Yale's five
yard line and then petered out miseraby Har-
ward dispatches continue 10 talk about the great
end plays that Harvard Will make against Yale
and Pennsylvania. but those exist only in the
Oriental Imagination Of men who have never
seen & HarvardYale game The weakest point
Of the Crimson at present IS the centre-rush.
and come what will that nositon will be found
weak in the big games Sargent, the fresh
man, Is big, plucky and willing, but clumsy as
cow Burnett who has been at tackle most of
the season is taking his place, and IS said TO
be doing fairly well. but. any way. Harvard Is
bound 10 be weak at the middle Of the line
said last week that Harvards tackles would be
weak but the developments Of the week have
changed that belief To the delight Of Harvard
men. Malcolm Donald. who il a veteran, though
very easily hurt. is out at last and Is tearing
things up at tackle pretty well. Mills. also.
who was a good substitute last year, IS doing
lots Of work. and the two positions Will be
much stronger than II Lawrence and Burnett
nccp i46 he hQ Very
fast but TO my mind are too light TO go up
against heavy end players. The guards are
only fair, and It is pretty generally feared that
they will weaken under the onslaught Of Penn
sylvania and Yale. Harvard has 4 couple OF
hard games in the next two weeks, and then
she Will line up against the Red and Blue al
Cambridge. Unless the Quakors improve vastly
In the next two weeks the game against Har-
ward should be a pretty even proposition
PRINCETON HAS SOME CRIPPLEs.
Princeton has not been coming along quite
as rapidly as her admirers would wish. Her
hospital list is large-so large. In fact. that the
centre IS about the only part OF the team that
remains fairly uniform. I see no reason why
the Tigers centre positions this year should
not be superior to those Of last year If Cap
tain Hiebrand Is not bothered from his lame
arm in the big games he will take care Of the
right tackle all right and ne has fair mate
In Geer on the other side. What bad hole
Princeton would be in. however should Hutchin-
SON. the little freshman quarterback. not re-
cover in time for the Yale game. II is narrowing
FOR the Princeton rOoteTs 10 contemplate. the
coaches are trying all sorts Of men in Hutchin-
sons place but no one seems TO NIL the OIL as
he does He is a brilliant body player and IN
addition TO that runs the team coolly and with
good judgment. RosengaTten is by no means
his equal. Princeton has been preparing quietly
all the week to give good account or herself IN
the Cornell game. which was played YESTERDAY,
too late 10 have it's results commented upon In
this column until next week.
Among the lesser teams, the Brown men Ielt
NewHaven last Wednesday with smNes on
their faces They did not hold Yale down be'teI
Than 70. 5000 ~ hey crossed he Yale goal