The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-17
FOOTBALL.
Practice at Yale Field Somewhat Dis-
 cOuraging.


 The practice at Yale field yesterday afternon was not in the least encour- aging. It lasted about an hour and the greater part of that time was devoted 10 attempts to kick goals from the field by Captain Chamberlin. The univer- sity team seemed to be entirely unable to keep the men from the college side breaking through the line and blocking the kicks. Time and again Chamberlin was unable to get the ball away Sev- eral times when he did succeed in kick ing not more than five yards was ga h. ed Once Chambarlin realized that he was unable to kick and ran down the field. In this way he gained about thir- ty yards. The playing of all the men was listless and wholly devoid of spirit. The line was the same as it will prob ably be in the Harvard game, Cutten, center; Brown and Marshall, guards; Chamberlin and Stillman, tackles; Coy and Eddy, ends. Coy sustained an- other injury to his sore neck and was compelled to retire, Schweppe taking his place. Ely played quarter ack. He has improved much in the past few days, but he fumbled several times yes terday. This was probably occasioned by the fact that the ball was greased The coaches have resorted to greasing the ball in the hope that the men can be taught to hold out the pigskin and guard against costly fumbles. With the ball in this condition it is extremely difficult to hold it and the coaches think If the men can hold out a greased ball they can one which is not, It is now almost certain that Ely will play quar- ter in the big game, as de Saulles has not been tried at all this week and his ankle is still in a very bad condition. Sullivan, who has played well all fall will doubtless be first substitute quar- ter. Corwin and Durston were at half and ToWnshend was fullback yester- day.
 Mcbride is being given a rest because of his injured knee and he has not been playing as well as he should for sev- eral days. He will, however, be in his old position at fullback in the Harvard game. At present it is a race between Durston, Corwin and Townshend for half. with the chances in favor of the two former. Durston can be used to good advantage when Captain Cham berlin drops back for kick, as he has had some experience at tackle and is very heavy. He is also splendid line bucker and several good gains were made by him yesterday. Corwin can be used for the running half, as he is speedy and plucly player. Town shend also plays a fast game, is a good runner and bucks the line we'll Yes terday Eddy was used in the back field on the defensive and made several splendid returns with the ball after catching it from kick. He is a fair dodger and quite sure on the catch.
 There were a number of coaches on the field yesterday, among them being Dr. Wurtenberg, Stillman, Greenway, Bliss, Thorne, Winter, Armstrong. But terworth and Hinkey. One of the coaches who has had considerable ex- perience in football and especially in training teams was asked his opinion as to the outcome of the Yale Harvard game. He said that Harvard had a splendid team, that they played a fast game and should give Yale a close rub. but he thought Yale should win. He said the defeat would not be by a very large score.