The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-11-03
YALE ELEVEN IMPROVING
GREAT GAIN NOTICEABLE IN TEA NJ
PLAY.

| day's Practice of the Eleven.
When Yale went down to New YORK
on Friday last, prepared to play Foster
| Sanford's Columbia team on Manhattan
| field, it was thought by those who had
watched her daily practice that the
eleven was very nigh to championship
form. All the week preceding the
coachers had driven the team quite
| hard, and the work done in practice
| seemed to be about the limit of the
| mems capabilities. And when it be-
came known that the team had suffer-
ed defeat at the hands Of Columbia it
was taken more to heart than other
wise, because of Yale's supposedly top
| notch form.
The work of this week, however, in
spite of the miserable weather for prac-
tice, has proved the fallacy of judging
by appearances If the team was driv-
en- hard in practice last week it has
been pushed at least twice as hard this
week, and now, as but one days prac-
tice intervenes between the West Point
game on Saturday, it may be said that
Yale's playing powers have increased
considerably since playing Columbia.
The team work of the eleven as shown
in yesterdays practice Is in every way
superior to any developed by the team
thus far this season. On the offensive
the team showed an aggressiVeness that
is surprising, to say the least. On the
defensive they have evidently learned
to use their strength and are doing en-
couraging work in that direction. And
not only in team work which is always
the first consideration in a teams sue
cess, but in individual play, is the i'm
provement noticeable, Mcbride himself
has shown the greatest gain in his
punting, which has hitherto been very
poor: and in this he is very nearly
equalled by Sharpe. The work of both
in hitting the line is also more noticea-
BILE and is daily getting more and more
satisfactory to the coachers. Gluten at
center as has been said, is proving him
self of inestimable value to the team
and plays the position in a way that
will make Yale's center plays in her
next game of much more value than for
merlv.
OF the work of Brown at left guard
little need be said. He plays the posi-
ton with the same steadiness that char
Ocott, his companion guard is rather
new to a varsity eleven, but what lit
tie grenness he possesses is wearing off !
with every practice, and in the big |
games he will probably have fully mas
tered the position. He is still being |
pushed by Tomlinson and Gaylord, but /
their work does not show such constant |
improvement
Stillman, Francis and Hale, the tackle |
candidates. are trio who are receiving |
much attention from the coachers be-
ing tried in every practice All three
seem determined to make the position
for the championship games, and az
there is but little difference in the quail
ity of their work the position of tackle
is gradually getting to be played as
good as any in the line. The two end
positions are giving the coachers some
although In the development Of
Gould and Winter a promising pair has
been found. Thomas and Schweppe, |
who played the positions in the Column
bia game, are both on the hospital list,
the former with very sore eye, injured
in the game. Coy, who played end ON
last years eleven, is disabled with a
spinal injury which prevents him from
playing.
The above named players are those
who have shown such good results I'M
der the coachers' handling during the
week. OF course the practice games,
from which ideas of the teams daily
are gained, are always
with the second eleven, and do not give
the same idea of Yale's real strength
as would a game with an outside team.
But in some of these the coaches them
selves have lined up against the var
sity and have, in no small degree,
the college eleven. In
practice Cross, Rogers
Bass, and Murphy We're in uniform and
ned up with the college even The
practice which ensued was as spirited
as could be- and more than once by
slow gains the second eleven forced
heir opponents down the field. Toward
he last half they succeeded in pushing
he ball over for touchdown but the
strength with which the varsity eleven
leld them for repeated downs right on ! {
heir five yard line was surprising and
elected cheer after cheer from the
,rowd who witnessed the practice. Cor I
)in Williams Josh" Hartwell, and |
Bun stood by and constantly urged Nc ]
Brides men to hurl them back, and
was done with clockwork regularity. t
After the touchdown had been made t
he varsity gained the ball on the r
,ickoff and in three minutes had scor- s
d a touchdown. The practice all !
Trough was much faster than any I
cen on the field this year.
What the policy of the coaches can be | a
n thus forging, as it were, the team !
nto championship form, with the Har- e
ard and Princeton games, vet some r
weeks Off is not generally understood Il
t may be their wish to gain as much e
of the teams real strength o
S possible from the West Point game, A
nd then ease up little for the Penn n
ylvania state college game. A week S t
ard ctine after that 1Mnllld lriIl o. |