Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-11-24
INTERCOLLEGIATE
FOOTBALL TODAY
Yale and Harvard Of the Big Four
on The Gridiron,
OVER 10000 TICKETS SOLD
The Immense Crowd Il Made Up Priu-
eipaliy OF Yale aud Harvard
One Time SIudent1

New York. Nov 2i--For the first time
In several years two colleges Of the
Big Four VIII meet today for the un-
disputed championship In the lnter-col-
legiate football Harvard, the victor
over Pennsylvania, and Yale fresh
from her crushing defeat Of Princeton.
viii line up against each other on Yale
field, at New Haven. Every seat OF the
10000 and odd surrounding the Yale
field was sold nearly two weeks ago 70
the students and graduates Of both uni
yergities. Half as many more were In
demand by the alumni Between the
partlsans OF Harvard and Yale those
seats have been equally divided, so that
a Hare OF crimson will back one side Of
the field and blur Of blue the other.
Except for very few masculine and
many feminine friends OF the "Old
Grads and students. the immense audi
ence will be one made UP OF those who
call one OF the two contending colleges
Alma Mater"
The intensity OF interest with which
such an audience would watch the
struggle under ordinary circumstances
can easily be imagined, but the special
phases OF this afternoons contest may
not be generally appreciated Since
athletic relations between Harvard and
Yale were resumed IN 1897 three games
have been played The first rsulted In
score Of nothing 10 nothing, although
the crimson had been picked as an easy
winner Harvard under the captaincy
OF ben" Dlbblee, won the 1895 game by
score Of II to 0. Last years game was
again a tie neither scoring. With two
nothing TO nothing games and one de-
feat 70 avenge. Yale has all along pro-
claimed today's game as the most i'm
pOrtant contest Of the season, and Yale
men have all the fall been cheered by
the wonderful collection Of giant foot
ball players that this year wear the
blue. Harvard, on the other hand, be-
gan the season with less promise than
usual, developed a splendid team. and
now comes TO the all-important game
hopeful Of victory, but not over conf.
dent Outside Of the students Of the
two colleges themselves. Yale Is the un-
doubted favorite. This belief is due
probably to two things, namely, the
widely heralded stature and weight OF
the Yale players and the blues i'm
presslve victory over Princeton Yale
has a team of giants who know most
thoroughly how to play football. but
as the students OF New Haven point
out, their team has not yet been brought
70 the crucial test Prnceton's eleven
was too weak for great significance to
be given TO Yale's easy victory last Sat
urday, and II remains yet TO be seen
whether the slowness inherent IN a
team OF giants has been sufficiently
minimized.
or the real strength OF Harvard team
perhaps even less IL known. The Grim
son Is outweighed by the blue. but the
discrepancy Is not great, Harvard, too,
has team OF giants, but somewhat
smaller giants than those at Yale. The
most apparent advantage that Yale has
over Harvard lies in the greater ex-
perience OF the blue line from tackle
to tackle. and the more effective dis
tribution OF weight. The crimson's APP
parent advantage lies In her star back
field Just after the Haryard-Pennsyl-
vania game three weeks ago. foot ball
critics were as one man declaring that
Haryard's speed was more than enough
to overcome Yale's advantages Of
greater weight and experience in the
line. Since that time, however, the
Yale team has gained In dash, while
Harvard's Improvement is uncertain
From the crimson press censor have
come dlscouraglng reports but at
Cambridge the most knowing regard
this apparent slump as merely an in
territorial let-up In the work given the
Varsity stars so that none will go into
today's game overturned,
The contest Will depend chiefly upon
team work II Haryard's line works
with the llghtning-like rapidlty shown
in the Pennsylvania game and II 1t is
backed up by the men behind the line,
the crimson ought 20 stop Yale's
Tackle and back" plays as It did
Pennsylvania guards back" forma-
tions, namely, by hitting and smother
ing them before the play Is under way.
on the offensive, Harvards agile back
field ought TO score ten. for Yale's de-
Tense is comparatively untried on the
other hand, II Yale can add the requis
tie speed to her powerful formations.
she VIII win. and that by large score,
There is now absolutely no telling
which team has gained the balance Of
speed. In a word. the game Is one OF
| the most uncertain. therefore, is In an
| ticlpation one OF the most interesting
games The probable line up Of the
two teams and the weight Of the play
ers follows: