The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-19

great Yale-Harvard game at
New Haven. Games on Thanksgiving
day have been discouraged of late
years, and the only big contest edu
ed for next Thursday is the n be-
tween Cornell and the University OF
Pennsylvania-a match that will excite
little interest outside Of the " insti-
tutions concerned. both being in the
second class this year. Cornell having
been beaten by Princeton. n Pennsyl-
vanis by Harvard.
A battle royal is expected between
Yale and Harvard. smarting under
her defeat by Princeton last Saturday.
Yale hopes TO redeem her reputation
by crushing Harvard. AS for Harvard,
she has not sustained a single defeat
this year. and II h wins out to-day
she will have atoned in large measure
for her repeated failures in the world
of college athletics during a long term
Of years. Harvard's team is reported
to be In tip-top physical condition. with
no cripples. while several of Yale's best
men suffered more or less severely in
their terrible struggle with the Tigers.
Still. Yale has a large force OF play
ers to draw upon. and the necessities
OF the OCCASION" coupled with the fact
that they are playing before a home
crowd will put the fire and fury Of dem
ons into them.
As to the comparative merits OF the
big four teams this year. II Harvard
should win from Yale by a larger total
of points than those made by Prince
ton. the students of football form would
award first honors to the Crimson. But
should Yale turn up as the winner. the
championship. although not actually
played for. would be virtually handed
over to the Tigers for the reason That
they beat Yale. who outplayed Harvard.
who downed old Penn. These compli-
cations the New York sun thinks will
always exist unless the universities
get lOktln'l VT NHht Bioi 'NN'N~
the question of supremacy. There are
many stories I'm circulation now TO the
| effect that certain combinations will be
made. but nothing authentic can be
learned" II is said that a plan to or
ganfze a triple league. with Yale. Har-
vard and Princeton as members, has
- s.--.I - tA.t a. Mill a.,r.-
Iy be contaminated. On the other hand,
a University OF Pennsylvania man says
with great emphasis hat he has receiv-
ed positive assurances from Harvard
| that the relations between the two in
stitutions will not be broken of. n
| that Princeton will be asked by uar-
ward to play Old PEN Outsiders still
believe that the best way to settle the
controversy zach yea is to have Yale
and Harvard meet. then Princeton and
University OF Pennsylvania, and then
the winners OF these contests 10 tackle
zach other for the championship. But
college men say this can never be.
Princeton has played twelve games
his year. with a total OF 26s points to
her credit. The only team that has
scored against her is West Point. which
in n tie game made five. Harvard has
played ten games. winning every one
OF them. with a total of 2io points.
against rs scored by her opponents.
Pennsylvania mas played twelve games,
making a total OF $50 points. while her
opponents made a total of 20. She was
beaten only one once-by Harvard. the
score standing ten to nothing in favor
OF the crimson. Yale has played ten
games and scored lag points against II.
She was beaten by Princeton by a score
Of nothing to six. In the eleven games
that Cornell has played she has made
?l9 points against Il. suffering defeat
only nce-at the hands OF the terrible
Princetons.