The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-01
FOOTBALL AT YALE FIELD
WALTER CAMP WATCHED THE MEN
 AT WORK YESTERDAY.

Harmon Graves Helped to Coach the
 Backs-More Goal Kicking from Field
 Trled-Improvement of End Candi-
 d"tes-De saulles' Return to Quarter
 To-day's Game Against Wesleyan.
 Although the weather was warm yes- terday the practice at Yale field was about the usual length. When the men first came into the field they were grouped on the steps of the club house where a picture was taken by Pach.
 The line men first went through the practice of tackling the dummy" and falling on the ball under the direction of Murphy and Rodgers. Sanford coached the center men. The backs caught punts, while Mcbride and Dash iel kicked. Harmon, Graves and w. T. Bull looked after this part of the prac- tice. Mcbride did very good work, giv- ing a better direction to this punts than usual.
 The university team lined up as fol- lows for the first half: Walton, center; Marshall and Andrews, guards; Cook and McGee, tackles; Coy and Thomas, ends; de Saulles quarter; Corwin and Marvin, halves; Mcbride, full. The changing of de Saulles from half to quarter again was a surprise to most people as 1t was expected that he would continue at half at least through to- days game. It is likely that he will play part of the game at half and part at quarter. ...-5
 The first half was closely contested and neither team succeeded in scoring. It ended with an attempt by Chamber lin to kick goal from the field. He had plenty of time but made g. poor try. In the second half a majority of both teams were replaced by new men. Townshend for the university behind fine interference made a beautiful run of sixty yards for touchdown.
 The college line still continues weak CT than it should be. The university backs are rarely stopped from making their distance and the brunt of the tackling falls upon the college backs. The position of tackle especially lacks good good candidates. McGee and Chamberlin are much superior in abil- ity to the others. Of the men who play on the college Richards alone can be expected to occasionally break up an interference of the first team. The candidates for end have made a decided improvement in their play during the past week The competition continues close and interesting and the prospect is that half dozen good end men will have been developed before tn end of tn esason.
 During the past week Benjamin and Dudley, last years regular halves, have shown up poorer than several of the other candidates for hall. Connor' s game has been the steadiest and the most consistent. deSaulleS does not follow his interference as he should. He is unexpectedly weak in bucking the line Mcbride has improved very much in his bunting.
 Walter Camp was on the field yester- day watching the men at work. The number of coachers was quite large for so early in the season. Butterworth is expected to be here for to-day's game.
 Wesleyan will line up against Yale at the field at o'clock. The Wesleyan team is not as strong as it was last year. having lost a number of its old players. But a large score against them is not expected It is not likely that they will be able to score.