New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-06
YALE GAME THE REAL GOAL
HARVARD PREPARING TO PERFECT HER TEAM
PLAY IN THE NEXT FoRTNIGHT-AN
ARRAY or COACHES
ARRAY OF COACHE,

Cambridge. Nov (SpeciaD.-With the Pennsyl-
vania game passed into history the Harvard
coaches will now settle down to the hardest task
OF the season-to turn out a team that can beat
Yale The Pennsylvania game Is considered one
Of the great games 10y all Harvard men. but every
sunnorter Of the Crimson lives in the hope Of being
abe TO beat Yale and would almost be willing to
lose from now on evermore 10 every DINER coHese
Il few victories over the Blue were guaranteed.
If il evident to everybody that the eleven which
faced Pennsylvania is inferior TO the one mat VIII
face the Blue. These last two weeks mean every
thing to both colleges from the view Of team play
Harvard men expec. their team TO pick up I'M
menselv from now or. There will he plenty oil
coaches on hand. and coaches Of the right sor'.
The one grea. endeavor OF the Harvard coaches
will be 10 fill the players full of that herce' as-
gressve spirit that is evident in the great winning
football teams Sometimes it is called yale
spirit" but the same thing has been known at Har-
ward The year that CumnOck was captain OF the
Harvard eleven that beat Yale. some eight years
ago, the Harvard team had snap and go IN II
that have never been equalled in Cambridge
since that time One Of the men who played
on that team said that the "go" in the team
Of 1880 could be accounted for by the fact that The
coaches talked Yale TO tho all the time. Be
sides telling Of the wonders that the Yale team
would do the coaches, led especially by George
Adams made il a point to insist that to play on
losing team was OF diss than any OF
the players would want to bear This year it 80
happens that Harvard has some Of tho coaches
who did the great work in 1890 working with the
eleven They will be out during the next two
weeks They will tell the players what the coll
lege expects from them, and try to bring the team
as a whole up 10 the pitch that the coaches sue
ceeded in enforcing in the days when Harvard
won.
There is a general satisfaction throughout the
college with the way the men have shown UP
Jack" McMasters Harvard has been one of the
best things that could have happened for Harvard
football interests He has given the men more
practice in the week, and he has made the practice
longer II anything should help the men TO stand
the long halves OF the Yale game this should His
saltwater baths have been voted a success by the
men, and also by DR.. Brooks. who for ti2e
NcMasters has been the vgOr and lasting quality
OF the players. II has not been true r years TIA:
Harvard team has been able TO 20 through 2
West Point game tussle with the Indians ana
have practically the same team start and finish the
game And with this strength the men have be-
come less liable to injury.
II has now been about definitely decided that in
the Yale game Harvard will not rosor; 10 the
trick plays OF yore. that never could be relied
upon 10 do anything but spread the reputation Of
their inventors 1t happens on occasions that with
a minute to play Il Is worth tho while to Try a
trick and take the chances but This year tho llar-
ward authorities will steer clear OF tricks for all
purposes Of real football, and the team that faces
Va . will be trained 10 rely mainly it, ne-buck
scrub will be utilized a wall against which tho
Varsity backs and -buckers VIII be hurled Good
defensive play will also be worked mp, and II the
men do not show up q good strong line after two
wee ks II will he because the coaches DID not know
how 10 teach them the game Of football