The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-11-20
The Greatest Football Game OF
the Season.
Harvard and Yale to Decide
GridirOn Supremacy.
CONTEST.
Yale Has the Heavier Team, 1t
is True
But Harvard's Men, While
Light Are Very Fleet.

Boston, Mass, Nov. 20.-Teams from the
great rival universities of the east-Har-
ward and Yale-will battle for supremacy
the gridiron at New Haven next sat
urday and incidentally for the football
championship of America 1t Will be a
championship contest in every sense OF
the word, the two elevens. having demon
strated that they are the fastest IN the
east, Harvard having administered a
crushing defeat to Pennsylvania, while
Yale Saturday showed that she is Prince
tons superior.
In years gone by there has been consid-
cradle 'quibbling over which team could
truly claim the championship, as the col
leges which make up the big four-Aar-
ward ale, Princeton and University OF
Pennsylvania-have not been able and are
not liable to agree upon any series OF
games which could positively determine
the real champion
over which teams would have eventually
met IN the conclusive game had series
terested IN football, even PennsyiNanla, :
or Princeton's most ardent rooters, would
the honor of meeting for the big game
And such. in truth, Is the status OF al
fairs, for Harvard and Yale are the only
teams which can rightfully substantiate
their claims to meeting in this supreme
test this fall.
Which will win-crimson or blue? The
hackers of the Harvard men are not say
ing much, but with that indomitable OBJ
SJlnacy which characterlzes the 19yaI
Harvard men they are wagering their
money that the crimson will be victorious.
At New Haven the students and other
Yale rooters are delighted with the show
ing of the Ellis, and they can not see how
anything short of the phenomenal Will
snatch victory from their clutches. But
Harvard may repeat the trick OF 1893,
rain-soaked field and gave Yale one OF
the worst defeats she ever received At
that time as at present the Yale people
were dead sure that Harvard could not
win. for it was generally conceded that
a SUNNI GTlTlnG
sbroad from the Cambridge camp. But
Harvard has not really slumped since the
notable game with Pennsylvania despite
reports to the contrary. One of her elev-
against Brown last Saturday, but that
was not really the university eleven. Only
those who were substituted for them did
which Ellis, Kendall, Sawin, DAILY. Hal
lowell and Campbell always display when
in an important game
Early in the week some of the men who
were injured were out and they played
.'wretchedly," 50 it is said. But what can
be expected OF men Just. coming. from the
hospital2 Even then the full university
was not in the lineup. DAILY, the great
general and captain Of the team, upon
whom Harvard depends to bring victory
to the crimson. was absent, and that in
a nutshell tells the story of the so-called
Yale has a heavy team, It is true, but
Harvard's lighter and aeeter men? Down
at New Haven many coaches are putting
on the finishing touches. but as yet it IS
not known for a certainty who will be
found in the lineup against Harvard. The
two rivals have played ten games each,
and all of these have resulted in victor
les 1t is an old story for the two, as
the early games are regarded as practice
matches to weed out the candidates. Har-
ward had two big games, one with Penn
sylvania. the other with the Carlisle In
dams. Yale was forced to contest with
Princeton and also with the red men.
Harvard has scored only 2C5 points
against her opponents, while Tale has 30S
recorded to her credit. The crimson's goal
line has been crossed three tiInes-by the
Indians, Pennsylvania and Brown on
the other hand, only two colleges have
succeeded in getting out an aggrega ton
fast enough to get points from the Ellis
and they are Columbia, the same old
Columbia which defeated Yale last fall
at New York, and Princeton.