New-York tribune., 1898-10-30
on THE FOOTBALL FIELD.
,,o,Nrs BROUGHT OUT IN PRINCETON'S
GAMEs-THE COMING HARVARD
PENNSYLVANIA STRUGGLE.


,be Tigers with an anxiety that at times was III
'-.,ooled They did not look act as II their
s,s wsre holding in, and IL, owing TO the
resonce Of some Yale men, they were caretui
-, 70 let out their full strength. Since the con-
,est in which Princeton beat Cornell by to l
,ove heard a good many people say "Psna"!
p-,nceton was not trying TO play her game. she
,as too foxy TO do that with q lot of Els watch-
,,g every play" l observed the work OF the
pr,rceton team from the start TO finish, and am
.,o-ouehly convinced that the men were work
,,e lust about as hardsa they could When an
o,e,en il only one touchdown TO the good ana It's
onnonents are keeping the bali in its terrltor! d
h,e mart OF the time it is not taking any chahces
NJ letting UP In its play. Princeton has team
oomnosed OF a lot Of heavy men. and II may pe
wat they felt so sure of victory over CorheH
hef,re entering the game that they were some
rbat stolid and were not aroused INTO the eA
oternent that q Yale game would cause l"
,ba,r vay however / think they were getting
ground about es lively as they could all iaS'
co,prdav afternoon The truth of the matter
VAS that Cornell put up 'corking good game
uor offensive interference went 10 pieces pretty
easily. but the fact stands out that Princeton
scored only one touchdown against her ana the
Pod and White kept the ball in Princeton TER
-fto-y a good part Of the time. Ihe point !"
p-inceton's play that the game emphasized was
.be fac; that the Tigers not certain OF suihihs
their gait whenever IL is necessary 70 90 So ="
che contrary there were only three or 1our oc-
casions in the Cornell game when princeton was
,layinC football after the manner she must u
win from Yale on November L. There was
=. - c,ur,sjness in the Princeton line. and al
,,oxch the forwards opened up some excellent
holes sometimes this advantage was more lhah
ofset by the frightful offside play or the rush
line Reiter did iirst-class work back OF the llhe
<- prtnce-on but the combination In the Yale
..-,e must he a much stronger one. The game
last Wednesday, when the Pennsylvania state
collage allowed Princeton 10 cross the goal line
o,lv once served 10 emphasize this with some
,b,ng ike A shock The Princeton coaches real
,z4 mis- and they viii have team to show on
November 1o that is far superior to the one that
rlayed last Saturday. Preparations for the
vile game a. Princeton are going forward rap
,al,. and TIE eye is almost dazzled by the brand
new hleaohers that have been put up on the
new Brokaw Field near and very convenient to
the railroad station.
The work of Cornell has been commented on
fullv enough in these columns and it only re-
mains 70 state the fact that the majority OF foot
hall lovers seem now TO recognize-that Is tha'
Cornell should be put in the same general class
with Yale Harvard Princeton and Pennsyl-
vana Her work entities her 10 this distinction.
CoVsTDFRARLE GLOOM AT NEW-HAVEN.
ThA work Of the Yale men against the Carlisle
Indians last Saturday was. 10 my MIND IN no
vav discouraging 70 the Blue. But the injuries
.,s, resulted 10 leading players were very un-
<-.unate The cry Of hard luck and GRIP
,1es" that comes annually from the precincts OF
Na,,-I1aven actually seems this year 70 have
,,e o,,rre IN fact for during the last week
hardly more than two or three or 1aie iesu-
lar Varsity players have been able 10 go INTO
the daily practice Some people are laying 'n!9
state Of affairs TO the fact that ale is without
the services Of a regular trainer TINS year iHs
majority however. seem TO think that II Is SIM
r,v combination of hard luck and while the
men are pretty badly bruised there IS among
them no hurt so serious that ii is likely 10 Keep
the man out Of the game by the time the fIlhce-
ION dav arrives Yale's centre has been
trengthened mmeasurably Of late by Cu''eh
brace and her halfback material is abundant
II her men get back into condition, and there
seems little question that they Will she viii put
I'D 4 hard. clean. fierce game that VIII 80 long
vav toward shattering that tradition at Prince
On their own grounds 4 rather ominous sign.
10 nv mind. is the fact that The Yale Alumni
Weekly" which IS not wont 10 comment too Sc
yarelv upon the management OF university atm
letics has come out with a redhot editorial IN
which II rakes the eleven over the coals gen
orally and predicts all Sorts ol are G,Sda'e uII
less A complete change is made Nhth thHba
have come TO this pass II would seem that there
we're really grounds for belief that the ale
eleven is rather backward in It's form. but
l.
Harvard game itself. the Els played q most
discou~9ging game. yet came 10 the front at the
critical moment in smashing style.
oUAKERs STRONG AND WEAK POINTS.
What everybody in the football world is really
looking forward 10 now IS the Harvard-Penn-
sylvania game at Cambridge next Saturday.
The hopes Of the Cambridge undergraduates.
which always seem 10 bob up sereney at the
slightest announcement, are strong for victory
TheI- seems 70 be more chance Of ii this year
than there has been fo~ some seasons past, and
one - the principal reasons for this chance Hes
IN the fact that Harvard has managed TO Keep
her men out of the hospital this fall and unless
q number Of them badly knocked out in the
game with the Indians will present compara-
lively unbroken front against the Quakers. l
look TO see a hard fierce battle with both teams
fought 10 pretty nearly standstill al the hnlsh.
The chances seem TO be about equal. Pennsy!-
yania has shown. up 10 a short time ago poor
form ali this season. She has been able To run
up only small scores against such teams as
Brown and Wesleyan. and on the offensive her
in,erferenca has been extremely SlipshOd Her
backs have been given 10 fumhling and have not
worked well together There have been changes
and experiments In the team Wnlch nave iio'
tended to its .ironrovernent All this sounds dis
couraging. But there are many and large guam
fcations 10 be made the chief one or whlch IS
that PENNSYLVANIA has the framework Oh the
same team that proved itseH las' Ytd' per iIapS ~
the strongest that the football world has ever
turned out There is no question that on ms
framework can be built UP winning team. ana
Il Seems 10 me that the Quakers are one u' 'iiose '
eleva,s maj ,nay etri,e their gait in the last
three days before the al-important harNar9 arc