The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-17

WT~l HE football season is now at
it's height There is hardly
college eleven in the whole
country that is not in the very
top notch of condition. Parti-
san enthusiasm consequently
may be said to be at concert pitch, and
the blase old earth seems to tremble
before the manifestations of human en-
ergy it is undergoing. But the armored,
bucking. dirt loving gridiron devotee
will have his way and his sway, so let
him who would restrain the tangle
haired pigskin chaser consider his per-
sonal welfare. Let him ponder over the
futility of juggling with buzzsaws and
of presuming on the good nature OF
Texas cyclones Let him go way back
and sit down.
Yale and Harvard meet next Satur-
day at Cambridge for their annual test
of arms-and legs. The two New Eng
land institutions always do their pref
test against each other whether on the
whitewashed greensward, on the dia-
monG, on the running track or on the
water. Geographically they are next
door to each other, and it is but natural
that rivalry should run to it's highest
flood when the Crimson and the Blue
clear the decks for action.
On form Yale should win. ELS sons
have been playing the real thing IN
football of late. While the game with
Columbia gave the New Haven gridiron
artists a severe shaking up, they have
ample time in which to chase away
bruises and strains. Yale's line is bet
fer than Harvard's s, although the Grim
son ends are among the best in the col
lege arena. Weymouth at full back
and Johnnie De Saulles at quarter are
YaIe's best men behind the line, and
thew NAV be counted on to repeat their
brilliant individual playing. Young DE
Saulles is similar to his famous brother
Charley in that he will not submit to
the seventies of rigid training. Charley
used to worry the life out OF the 1ale
coaches by his conduct before the big
games. but when the whistle for play
sounded the plucky Pennsylvania was
"sll there" and the men who could stop
him were few and far between during
+be two wears he called signals for Old
ELS warriors
Harvard has really nothing much to
hrag of in the way of football material
This year. Campbell, at end, is proba-
bly the best man in his particular
sphere in harness today, but unfortu-
natelv he is an isolated case. Unless
big Bill Reid, one of the greatest all
around athletes Cambridge has ever
had. can drill sensational ability or can
place a couple of genuine finds into
the team he is coaching Harvard's ad-
mirers will have sorry tales to relate
when the last down has been called.
The graduation of dashing Perry Hale
from Yale and of sturdy Bill Reid from
Harvard lost the colleges the mainstays
of last years teams. Weymouth comes
close to filing the void at New Haven,
but Harvard has not been so fortunate.
In my estimation Yale will duplicate
her victory of last year by somewhat
reduced score. / do not believe that
Harvard win cross the Blues goal
posts.
Much talk relative to series of
championship games between eastern
and western elevens has been INDUCED
in of late. This subject is given new
lease of life annually. 1t is time for
something more than specimens of hot
air." Eastern colleges are inclined to