The Topeka state journal., 1899-11-21
SPORTING NEWS.
Who Will Be the Champions at
Football.
Yale Harvard Contest Gives
Princeton a Chance.
BIG GAME SATURDAY
Should the Tigers Defeat Yale
on That Day
It Would Solve the Problem =
The Crimson Depressed.

New York, Nov. 21.-Just one way
remains to settle the eastern football
championship, and that way is rather
remote Yale and Princeton will meet
Saturday in New Haven. Let Prince
ton amass an unquestiOnably decisive
total against the blue and the tigers
consistently may be regarded as the
champions. Let Yale do the same trick
and Yale and Harvard necessarily
must be regarded as joint claimants
for the high hOnors, as those two col
leges to all intents and purposes fought
each other to a standStill Saturday, as
a to 0 score indicates better than
tie result with points.
Reports seemed to indicate that Har-
ward, on the whole, Outplayed its rival.
Victory for the crimson was very near
at least once and Yale by a valiant
stand averted defeat. A defensive show
ing at a trying moment and inside
five-yard line, as this was, is worthy
of the greatest COmmendat1On- Ana
even if a team is Outplayed to some lit
tie extent with such circumstances at
tending it must impress fair-ninded
person as absolutely unfair to say that
the eleven should be beaten anyway
II that is unfair, then it must be re-
garded as nOnSenSical to say that team
lost the championship because it was
OutDlayed. In this case it is a question
if Yale was OUtplayed to any great eX-
tent. The cipher ScOre-and such a
score is nine times out of ten sufficient
would be evidence to the contrary.
Harvard's inability probably struck
some critics as a great surprise. It Ger
tainly was a surprise, but only mild
one at most. Far more unexpected
than that result was the outcome OF
PrincetOn'S game with Washington and
jefferson. The tigers won by the dis
appointing score of to 0, when the ng-
/ ures seemingly should have been 20 to
/ 0, or more. For Washington and JET
| ferson has had no particular rating in
| the east.
Yet that 6 to 0 score looks a little
/ suspicious. 1t always has been more
or los 0f frln
time of the year for a big team like
/ Princeton barely to beat an inferior
| team in this way a week before con
| test like that with Yale next Saturday
to put its prospective opponents OF
| their guard. 1t is true that Princeton
played raggedly, but even that might
! have been part Of the ruse-
| Harvard Men Depressed.
| Cambridge. Mass, Nov. 21.-Every-
| body at Harvard is depressed The sur
prise is over and now the men are talk
/ ing about the game and wondering why
! they feel as they do. NO matter how
| much they discuss the points of the
/ game, they can not arrive at any salts
/ factory conclusion as to why the Grim
/ son could not score. In fact, no Har-
/ ward man has dared to say why the
/ game resulted as it did. but all have
/ cOntented themselves with cOnceClng
! that Yale is a great deal stronger than
| the majority OF people had oeheVeu.
Yale Team Uninjured.
! New Haven, Conn, Nov. 21--Yale's
] football players returned to this city in
! fine form. They were greeted by a Wild
! " enthusiastic crowd as their train
! rolled into the depot. They were car
| ried at once to their training table at
! the New Haven house. Head Coach
/ James Rodgers said, when asked about
! the players:
Every one is in fine condition. De-
| spite this all will be put through only
the lightest kind of work this week in
! anticipation of the Princeton game Sat
| urday''
Being asked if Princeton undoubtedly
| would be defeated by Yale, he said:
Z can not say anything, for the out
| come of the game is wholly problemati-
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