The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-17

of his poor showing at Newton Sat-
urday. Hubbell seems the most likely
man for the place at present, as he is
considered the best tackle on Yale field
today. Conner has dropped out OF the
game, and Dick Schruppe is as good
as out with gastric fever. Behind the
line DeSaulles and Mcbride are sure,
while for the other two backs, 1t looks
at present like Dudley and Benjamin.
In Townsend and Marvin Yale has two
good sub backs, while DaShiel and
Corin will make good men in case Of
many injuries In fact BILLY" Ruil
says that Yale has better halfback
material in sight than ever in her his
tory.
AS said before, the Newton game
must be taken with grain Of salt.
The idea of a team that has never
played together holding Yale down to
touchdown is preposterous, suppos-
ing Yale played her best game. The
real test of Yale's strength will come
this week, when she meets Brown on
Wednesday and Carlisle on Saturday.
1t Is safe to say Yale will have much
trouble with the heavy Brown HE, but
on the other hand, Brown will not score
as often as she did last year when with
GaInmons and FultZ she secured three
touchdowns Yale will have an easier
time with the Indians, who are not
playing the game they did last year.
Cornell routed the boys from Carlisle,
while Williams held them down very
well indeed. The Indians certainly miss
Billy Bull and Hickok, who are no
longer in the coaching wigwam.
Coach Woodruff has INDUCED in some
more experimenting the past week.
which fold ma fariallV in the lack
Of improvement in the Quaker team
lately The idea Of heavy backs seems
to have pervaded the ex-Yale mans
mind to the degree of folly 1t cropped
out in a dream to pull Hare back to
full back, to let Goodman, who has just
come out again, play guard, and put
Outland back to tackle. This would
make the team: Oyerfield, centre; Nc
Cracker and Goodman, guards; Out
land and Carnott, tackles Folwell and
Hedges, ends; Gardner, quarterback;
Mcmahon and Harrison or Coombs,
halves, With Hare at full-a very heavy
team, but rather ineffective as it
proved For quiet prediction of the
Quaker lineup against Harvard, The
Spy predicts: Overfeld, centre; Hare
and McCracken, guards; Carnett and
Goodman tackles; Folwell and Hedges,
ends Gardner, quarter back; Mcmahon
and Outland halves; Coombs or Walk
er, fuilback. This would make an ex-
ceedingly strong combination, and one
that would be irresistible with the
Quaker style of play.
Pennsylvania score Of 20 against
Lehigh is not as large as it should be
in the face of Prineetons 40, earlier
in the season. However, Penn was
without the services of McCracken and
Capt Outland, who were at West Point
watching Harvard. With the Harvard
game but three weeks Off Penn must
get definite lineup soon and play
something stronger than Lehigh, La
fayette and State College.
Princeton has made a steady gain the
past week in their work. but is still
badly off back Of the line. HutchiR-
son, who appeared to be star quarter
back until he was injured, is in much
worse shape than was expected. In
Rosengarten and Watkins, the next
best in sight, the Tigers have poor sub
stitutes. Ayers is not yet back in the
game so that the back field is very
weak. The score of 800 against the
Naval Academy is not very good in
comparison to Haryard's score against
the soldiers at West Point. In fact,
the orange and black looks the weakest
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she can play Yale close game, as she
has good line for decisive work, but
on account of inferior backs, cannot
score we'll The report that Kelly will
be back is not thoroughly believed.
In academical circles Exeter still
seems to be in the lead She beat NJ
l. T. handily by 10 points to 0, while
Andover lost to the same team, 6 to 5.
LaWrenceville seems stronger than she
was last year. Tech took a downfall
the past week. owing to the loss of her
ends. 1t looks now as though M. I. q.
would be the victor at Boston next Sat-
urday, unless something can be done
for the positions. as M. I. T. plays the
open running game against the ends.
Holy Cross really did very well against
Wesleyan, considering all things. Their
light team got stuck III the mire and
could not hold the heavier and more
experienced Wesleyan line. There is
too great a tendency in tackling to let
a man go If he is too far away with
sort of hope that some one would
get him. In tackhngj also, the men
wait for the runner, with the result
that they miss him altogether by his
lodging or down him after a big gain
after being tackled, because Of the run
ner's momentum
The games of the week to watch are
the contests between Yale and Brown,
on Wednesday, and those between
Yale and Carlisle and Brown and Har-
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