New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-12

known quantity. This IS said without reference
10 the game against the Indians. which is being
played at the time of writing and which. IL Is
quite possible, may show that the Princeton
team has at last rounded into permanent form.
The Tigers certainly did most encouraging work
in their game against Brown last Saturday. and
up a far better score than Harvard had been
able to do two weeks previous The defence of
the Tigers was not quite what it should have
been. but on the whole distinctly improved.
and the offence much more daShing than IL
had ever been before There a couple of
men in Princeton's line, however, who seem to
be distinctly lazy and who TO be prodded
into their best work only at rare intervals If
these men could be made to play football all the
time, then the only further problem would be
that of the halfbacks. 1t is late in the season,
Yet the halfback problem is still unsettled.
PrinCeton's material is not so abundant nor so
brilliant II might be- and IT is going to be
little difficult to get the exact combination In
the back field that will prove irresistible against
Yale. Between now and the Yale game, which
is to take place at New-Haven on November
25..the Tigers will have no hard contest. but viii
devote their energies to rounding out perfect
team play and to keeping in prime physical con-
dition.
HOW YALE MEN SPELL a VICTORY.
The season Of 1899 is drawing near TO a close.
and all eyes are now bent forward to the Har-
vard-Yale game which will be played next
Saturday at Cambridge. Yale has not beaten
Harvard at football since the fall of 1894, for in
1895 and 1896 their elevens did not meet; in 1897
the game tie. and last season Harvard
won decisively. Yale men declare now that
IL is about time for a Yale victory. Yales
ability to take wonderful brace at the
last moment and save the day is a well known
factor in college sport. But taking the form
shown by the two elevens to date almost every
Yale man must acknowledge that the hope or
defeating the Cambridge men on Soldiers Field
is pretty slim. Those most sanguine New Haven
supporters figure that they have a chance for
victory In the following fashion, With Cutten
at centre Yale will there be a trif1e superior 10
Harvard they say. and owing TO Browns great
ability at guard with OlcOtt mediocre. the
guard positions will be about evenly matched.
At tackle Yale expects to Outbalance Harvard,
though at the end positions Harvard is distinctly
superior Back of the line Yale consider
Flncke as almost the equal Of DAILY. If not quite,
and while Yale is inferior at the halfback posi-
tons they declare that Mcbride at fulback
will equaze matters. They believe that his
punting which two years ago was magnificent
and which has been steadily improving Of late.
will prove an immense factor In the game and
may win H.
CHANCES FAVOR THE CRIMSON.
The trouble with this augury is that II is more
sanguine than facts warrant. Cutten has not
PLAYED in a single hard game this season and
he will not be in the best Of condition next Satur
day even IL able to play at all. Yale's centre
will not be so strong on the defence as Har-
wards At the tackle positions the Blue and the
crimson may have about even thing, and
Lawrence right tackle for Harvard. may very
likely be otitplayed. But at ends unless Yale has