The St. Louis Republic., 1900-11-23
Final Practice Game the Occasion
of Rousing Demonstration
by the Students. @
ELEVEN IN SUPERB CONDITION.
Coaches Expect 10 Defeat Harvard
To Morrow and Admit 1t
Frankly Work Has In
proved Marvrlously.

| REt'l Bl.lt SPECIAL.
New Haven. Conn. Nov. @2.-;rhe iina
practices of Yates football eleven this even
ing was the occasion for demonstration
in which 1900 students participated Tha;
| number marched 10 Yale field. q distance ..
more than mile.
At o'clock the undergraduates assembled
with the student band and rehearsed the
songs for the game. Pop" Hirsch. author
OF the ..Roola" chorus. led the singing. He
stood on the top rail o. the fence and LED
the crowd with baseball bat. Hirsch acted
as marsha; in the parade to the field. The
enthusiasm was great, and not for mo-
ment was there lull in the singing along
the line Of march. At the field the cheering
was deafening. the huge empty stands ring
Ing with the sound.
The varsity and the scrubs went through
5 spirited half of thirty-fve minutes in Sc
cfet and shorter public exhibition The
VOTE, Mork was not remarkable. but it was an
improvement over that OF yesterday. and
the coaches We're satisfied. They expec, to
win. and admit 1t frankly.
Any one who TecollecteI the 'yarsitv's
practice of last Monday would scarcely have
peheved it was the same team that PLAYED
to-day.
But. in the open work. there was causs for
slty players We're not expecting a clever
run back OF iale's kickoff, and Easton. the
scruh left half back. ran from the iv,-
yard line to riidfied before the regulars
were ready. Hale kicked off too hastily l,ut
COY threw Easton at center. Had he pass ii
10Y the Held would have been clear for a
touchdown.
The scare this exhibition of cara,essness
gave the team shook them together. and
sharpe. by END runs. and Bloomer, in IA rk-
yes pack, put the ball back of the goal
posts IN one minute and forty-eight sec
enas Sharpe carrying II oyer
Iackless back never worked better rnr
Vas II Played with more vim. Sharpe was
tired at kicking field goal, several extra
;1 ,hro,,p ps'hg h played on the scrubs to break
sharpe got the, ball over from the twenty
on For 'ss two minutes, the varsity was played
on the defensive on their five-yard. Tha
scrubs failed to gain by their attack and
me ball went to the regulars on downs
ann a.s phntea h d., to midiiell. and Coys speed
.anderpool. and a second iater caue,t tta
haii: This drew a round Of cheering. ''
ec1i 1hites the team practice Sharpe kicked \
the posts. All the backs We're s;ven itoiE ho1t
maging 'le setha-
The The team team will go through signal work On
formation tomorrow. SO far as physicai
concition is concerned no team cnmj,I L
In better form. N'''" pe
.r,,.h hnrvard Eleven at Meriden.
REPUBLIC SPECIAL.
Meriden. Conn. Nov. 22-Hayins left
cambridge this morning among the chsers
OF the Harvard students. the Harvard foot
pni pali squad arrived in Meriden at j o'clock,
crowd which was at the station Io srast sst
mem the;. Went straight to their quarters
at the Winthrop Hotel
hour dhs rs 5sSeE passE DRESSED rss!d fer an
practice, which was held in Hanover park
I'm. Tse W work consisted Of punting and catch
tng fng ,is1a q, pnnts OR backs and line practice
puhtlfs 20 DAILY and Kendall while Lewis
the coach. gave the lnemen a severe drill
n, ,b;l .u,,sl,s ns, ana quick starting. Following
nal practice for which the first ,aanr ,;'s,I
up as follows: '' ''''eA
LEFT fefs suspd sRd Campbell left tackle Eaton
gaara' sint, 1 Barnard right tackle. ]; Lawrence:
Tlshf ISt hef e1d' ,aallowell Quarter back Daiy
issi kenda sT t SneS baeS saTn; M1s right half back
e, IN TINS practice the backs were slow at
first. but soon got off as quickly as the line
men. men Ellis. who was off In form for the
to-day was on his toes. going through with
the pal, well. The three center men plunged
low and did excellent work
The team seemed to be under perfect self
control, and there was no off-side playiny.
There was no fumbling and no missing of
signals. and there was good. speedy inter-
ference on end and tackle runs The work
seemed gratifying to the coaches.
While at dinner the players were inter-
rypted by the entrance of W. II. VialIe of
Boston. who presented Captain Daily with
a silk hat. with Instructions that the tall
est man on the team should wear 1t.
A similar incident occurred two years
ago. when Jaffrey wore the hat. and, ac-
cordinely. Tonight. when the second hat
was given by DAILY to Roberts. it was called
the winning hat and was considered
harhinper a nf VICTORY