The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-25
PRACTICE DIscoURAGING.
Yale Team in Ragged Columbi


 Feared-Goss Out Of the Game.
 Yesterdays practice of the Yale foot
 ball team was not encouraging to the army oe coachers at the field. Some
 thing must be allowed however, by the
 absence of Glass, Goss, Hogan and Ol-
 cott who were not in the line up, fol several reasons. Goss has hurt his
 back and neck. which have been weak spots with him ever since last season and yesterday he was sent to his home in Waterbury by the advice of physi- elan, The injuries are such that will keep him out oe the game for the rest of the season and his loss will be felt before the Harvard game. Hogan is 1 not in condition and accordingly his playing has not been up to the standard for the last week. His place is being taken by Hamlin and it now looks as though that player would enter the big games. Hamlin is big man and as lie had plenty of experience at-teckle last year it Is thought that he will fill the place even better than the big freshman
 Glass and Olcott are showing signs of being overworked and they were not allowed to line up yesterday in the hope that they would be in fine fettle Satur- day as the result of a good rest. These two men have been doing great share of the work of the team ever since the season opened and now they are show ing it in their play. If they get stale and in any way are not in condition Saturday the chances for a Columbia victory are about even The Yale coachers and undergraduates are be- ginning to realize that the game to- morrow is one of the most important on the whole schedule and also that George Foster Sanford has a great faculty of rounding out his team so that it is in great shape when it meets Yale.
 Sanford doesn't care an old football if he Is beaten all the season so long as he can whip the blue team, which has been shown in the last two seasons. Yale's team last year is acknowledged to be stronger iii every department of the game than this years aggregation and they just escaped a defeat at the hands of Columbia by the skin of their teeth. They failed to score until the middle of the second half and but for the superhuman work of Perry Hale would have left the field beaten for the second time in succession. The team from New York this year is regarded as stronger than last years by Harvard and some of the critics who have seen 1t line up, so there is but one conclu- sion to be drawn-that is that if Yale wins tomorrow tie score will be by a very narrow margin. The Columbia Berrien, has been reinstated, making the back field compact and the line has been strengthened by the ad diticn of several new men who are now playing a better game than the men they succeeded
 One of Columbia,s much worked plays is a revolving tandem play and 1t was only yesterday that the varsity were instructed in smashing it up. The play was taught the scrubs and they carried the ball over half the length of the field and would have scored but for an underhanded piece of football by | who was playing quarter In l place of deSaulles. He grabbed the | oal from the scrub back as the latter was on the five yard line and started | lp the field. The ball was called back | md given to the scrubs on the varsity i i've yard line. In two plays they took | t over. It was put in play in the same place and again theuyarsity failed to hold. This was again repeated. Be | lore the afternoon was over, however, | hey managed to hold the scrubs we'll | rhorne, Hart, Stillman, Ely, Chamber ain and other coachers yelled and | yelled at the varsity and sent them through one of the hardest days work | ,f the season.
 Goss place will be taken by Johnson, | he crew man. Johnson has been ,ear and his work in the game to- morrow will be watched with interest, Swan has supplanted Rafferty. Will ! lelmi was again tried a, left halfback m the varsity and aside from being | low played a good game while he was n. Weymouth was at fullback and Chadwick right halfback. These backs were given a rest in the middle of the lrst half and Hart, Hinkle and Van erpoel went in The scrub backs were Fox, White and Ward
 
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