The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-02

SPORTING NEWS.
The Big Football Game of the
East Nov. %.
Yale and Harvard Will Clash at
Cambridge.
YALE AHEAD IN 1900.
Crimson Eleven Determined to
Wipe Out the Stain.
Both Teams Working Hard For
the Contest.
YALE AHEAD IN 1900.

New York, Nov. 2.-Footban teams of
Harvard and Yale will meet in the final
game of the season. on Soldiers field,
Cambridge, November g. It is for this
great struggle that the coaches of the
Crimson and the Blue have been striv-
ing all year and is the elimination of
the seasons work
1t is not safe at this season of the
year to predict the outcome of this, the
greatest game of the year. Throughout
the season of 1900 these two teams were
SO evenly matched that there was little
choice at the time they met in New Ha-
ven Oh November "a But the line of the
Blues was invincible and the Crimson
went down in defeat. % to o.
OF the Yale football squad OF 1870
nearly every one of them was placed
on one of the three An-American ele-
vens by Walter Camp Brown, Bloom
er Hale, Stillman, Olcott, Fincke ana
Chadwick were on the first; Gould, 10y
and Sheldon, on the second, and Sharpe
on the third. OF these veterans. as a
nucleus about which to construct TINS
years team. only five are in school TINS
year and eligible to play on the varsity
eleven-Holt, who was suo-center;
Gould at left end; Olcott, last year
rear's center and playing at left tackle
now: Chadwick, still at right half, ana
Rafferty,, a sub-end-
The sons OF Old Eli have not put on
their speed for the final preparation Tor
the contest with Harvard Columbia
easily defeated by Harvard early IN the
season, scored on the Blue and held
them to a low score
back field is being developed that
no eleven need be ashamed of DeSaul-
les at quarter is one of the cleNerest
field captains of the year. Chadwick
is a veteran that knows the game from
the rudirnents up and is a splendIo
ground gamer, with speed and pluck
Weymouth at full, is giving good ac-
count of himself, and if he can learn
to kick will be a rival of the great
plunging Perry Hale The only ques-
ton in the back field is over W1lhelml
and Hart at left half. Wilhelm has
played in most of the games this sea-
son, though Hart has actually gained
more ground in the few he has played
than any other two of Yale's backs to-
gether. The coaches say he is too nghI
only 145 pounds. 1t is to gain ground
that there is a backfeld on a football
team and to the man who can gain 1t
should be given the place on the team.
In this respect Hart has outclassed
Wilhelm
Yale's line is heavy and solid, and
knows the game well, with one or two
exceptions. Gould, left end; Capt OIL
colt, left tackle, and Colt, center, are all
veterans of a championship eleven
Glass, right guard, one of the football
finds of the year. Hogan, right tackle,
has not been doing the work expected
of him and has been a failure carrying
the ball. Mike Murphy says he has the
ability to make a great player and pre-
diets that he will be a credit to the
team before the season is over. Swan, 4
right end, was a substitute last season,
and Hamlin, left guard, was also a sub
last year, trained in the line for heavy
tackling.
HARvARD'S WORK
Harvard is being trained this year
with only one object in view-the Yale
game Games with Pennsylvania, Car
Isle and the other schools are taken
and the scores, large or small, are re-
garded philosophically. Last season the
coaches brought the men to the top
notch for the Penn game and then tried
to keep them there until the Yale con-
test This fatal mistake will be avoid
ed this year and all hinges on the bat
tie with Old Eli Coach Reid is essen
TALLY a driver and there are fears ex- |
pressed by a few critics that he may
get the men on edge too soon, but he |
realizes the blunder of last year AMI
says he will not overlook it, End runs. |
slightly modified from last years form |
alton, combined plunges against tackle. |
are the prime features of Harvard's |
play this year.
The selection of the team is slow and |
careful Little attention was paid to |
team work until the Carlisle game Dur L
from now on a steady, though slow, de-
velopment may be looked for.
In the back field are Herman at full,
a speedy and pluclzy plunger; Ristine,
Putnam, Devens, and Miff1in' fighting
for halves, with the honors in favor of
the first two. and Leo Daily, Mathews
and Marshal at quarter. DAILY has
shown the most brilliant work, while
the colored quarter, is re-
garded as a clever man in the position,
-
regarded as good as Marshall.
In the Harvard line are five of last
years veterans. Lee is still at left
guard, Lawrence has played at left
tackle, though it is not probable that
he will play regularly. Campbell is
back at left end doing as brilliant work
as ever; Ristine is at right end and
Sargent at center. Roberts, the giant
guard, has played a game or two, also,
but Will not be on the regular eleven