New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-23
HER BIG BATTLES NEAR
HARVARD BEGINNING TO WORRY OVER THE
PRosPDCT-MAKE-UP OF THE TEAM

HARVARD BEGINNING TO WORRY OVEN lhb
PRosPECT-MAKE-U OF THE TEAM
Cambridge Mass. Oct. % (SpeciaD.-Harvard rs
almost on the OF her big games. In week
como the Indians. and II they are as strong
as usual this year there will be plenty Of excite
ment on Soldiers Field. Then on the Saturday
after comes the Pennsylvania game. This game Is
the one at present which is most talked OF. Har-
ward men are In awful doubt over two ponts-first'
as to the result and. secondly. as 20 the effect OF
a defeat on the men.
Early this week there decided slump In the
work Of the team. The satisfactory work at West
Point and the tary which was piled on tho team
we're too much for them. On Monday they played
football that would have been a disgrace to some
OF the fitting schools about the country. IN
Wednesday there came the Newtown game ana
in n sop that better suited to water polo 'hc
men chased around after an elusive pgsKn ior me
greater part OF the afternoon. But this game was
valuable in many ways. 1t gave the men sa'hp'e
NJ incle,nent conditions and II forced the use OF
line nlays for no man could stand up while ne was
going out around the end on such heId Inc
Crimson team played fast ball from the start.
They rushed at the line In a RAPID SUCCESSION Oh
rushes which seemed to take the Newtown men on
their feet. There was more endurance IN tne men
than usual. and this is due to the work OF Trainer
MacMasters But even as II is. he says that the
men do not play hard enough. and II ne has MS
wav there will be still further increases IN the
speed and dash Of the men
The best features OF the week are the deVe'op-
ments OF the tackles. Burnett and Lawrence VINO
naved there at the of the season, Will hardly
got a chance 10 play Mills has kept up pace
that seems bound TO give him place. and even II
he fails to get there Percy Haughton will. Haush-
ton is playing at tackle exclusively now anu l.
only called back for the extreme duties OF prnt NJ
when DAILY is out OF the game lie Is much more
IN his element at tackle than at fullback, and Is
Ia
any lack Of dash and sand. and on the whoie Is
about all that Is needed. The only trouble is that
Mills is trfe better at present On the other
side OF the line there is still more encouragement
Malcolm Donald who had done some brilliant WORK
for short stretches in the big games OF the last
two years or more. is at work. HIS game Is as
aggressive as ever. and his stopping OF the oppo-
nents backs has been as certain as lale III nc nc
Burnett. who has been playing left tackle: na as
been transferred TO centre His game is not OF tne
gent is at present on the hospital list but the in
jury is not Of serious nature men ne rTtu liz
~ will probably get the centre place without dls
nvta n there is a dispute It Will be from Burnett
and that will only be after big brace from the
Boal has been used rushing more ana more ms
week. and II the present system nous NE, W. ~anes
His line bucking is simply OF the tearing hatuf :, T.
He does not seem TO be going very hara ana ne En- 10
apt TO Sn hsEs 9 tdske4. Of as easily as can His
best point !; his most a6Yoste so6r bis work and
very well! too 49,, ,,,hAioo petd and
1,rrep ave the men who will I'll the positions Re-
bind the line and it only rfma Kend 10 'e who 90 has
I,.oH ocond fiddle 10 Warren, has come up rnuch
in his work that now he seems ms 10 &c end pays
Vel and tackles "for keeps" Brayton; VINO taht s
Reas place slow but locomotive b wren nosit,o1
b iv y he makes n good line bucker Gierascn mas
played in Dbbees place for b the SqSn s Class
me me n'S ,hn and why. with endless amount OF
grit sawin played on Wednesday IN me paue
Day VA, Al q nace and dd some good running HIS
passing was all right considering me aay a g that
9afenre was fair. stu. he Is not tho man 'h'''
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