The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-05
THE FOOTBALL SITUATION.
YALE MEN ARE WONDERING VHAY
 WILL BE THE OUTCOME.
Faith in the Eleven aud Coach.r Students WiIl Encourage the Players Mass Meeting CalIed-GouId at Full back-Yesterday'sH Hard Practice

back-Yesterday's Hard Practice.
 The Yale football situation Is one tha
 Is causing a great deal of talk by tn,
 undergraduates and graduates of tho
 university who are interested in thu
 sport at have the welfare of the team
 at heart. The showing at West Poin
 Saturday and the wild talk that has
 been going the rounds on the campus
 about the team and it's prospects in the
 championship games are not in the least encouraging to the coachers an6
 to the members and substitutes of the
 eleven, and every means will be taker
 to build the team up In the next two
 weeks so that when it meets Princeton
 and Harvard, the best men and men
 who are free from any eligibility en-
 tanglement whatever will represent the
 Blue. In that event, and if the team
 is beaten, the university will have the satisfaction of knowing that it was not on account of the lack of spirit of the undergraduates or the liberal support of the eleven that caused the losing of the games but that they had met bet ter teams.
 
 lieve that the team will have hard work to beat Princeton or Harvard, and that it's condition to-day will be little diff ferent than on the day it meets the big teams, and on the other hand the great majority of Yale men who know of the men representing the college on the football field are sure that the elev en will be in far better shape in two weeks than 1t is to-day. The West Point slump Is likely to occur with ev- cry team and it is a rare thing if a team in any college goes through the season without big slump some time during the fall. The Yale team always has bad spell in its career and there is no doubt but that last Saturday was the Hateful day for this years team. Why not forget that game and begin now to make this years Yale team crack-ajack, Is the question that Yale men ought to ask themselves. It is safe to say that they are going to for get the West Point game and pitch in with the team in way that has seldom been known here.
 It was announced yesterday that mass meeting will be held tomorrow night to get tip enthusiasm among the undergraduates.
 There will be prominent football men to speak at the meeting, and every thing will be done to encourage the team. If the team once get discouraged and down in the mouth, it will be all off for the best work is impossible when the players are in that state. Hun dreds of students marched out to the field yesterday afternoon to witness the practice of the varsity and college teams, and nearly all of the afternoon there was cheering for the members of the eleven. There was more enthusi- asm yesterday than there has been at some of the games this fall at the field. Generally after a hard game the play CTS are given a rest for a day or two. but at this stage of the game day or two means a great deal with the Yale team. The result was that all the varsity men who were lined up togs and went through two 20-mlnute halves Captain Charley Gould was at full back on the varsity, and Wey- mouth played tackle on the colleges team. Gould is a fair kicker, the best they have, which isn't saying much, and If he can be sure of forty yard punt against a good team, it will be a great accomplishment. There hasn't been a punter on the Yale field this year who could kick punts averaging forty yards. Some of the substitutes may be able to boot the leather forty yards, but they could never make the team Olcott was a failure as his punts averaged about twenty yards. Weymouth has been just as unsuccess- full in bunting and it is doubtful if he averaged twenty yards. Gould will now be tried.
 Up to date there is no way for the team to score excepting through a Every big team has man that is at least fair at the art of drop with the exception of Yale. The result is that when Yale Is held for three downs within the thirty yard line she Is obliged to try for first down, instead of varying the play with try at a goal from the field. It Is one of l the most remarkable state of affairs | that the Yale coachers have ever had | to cope with. Two teams have scored | on Yale this year from goals from the | field, many games are tied each year by | } goal from the field, and many are won by a goal from the field A drop kicker ought to be developed even If 1 the coachers have to spend hours every lay with a man to do 1t.
 deSaulles was tried yesterday at goal kicking and put three out of five over the bars.
 Rafferty played Goulds end yester- lay and did fair work. There was only ,ne score, that being by the varsity after heavy line hitting. It is possible hat 35-minute halves will be played o day to get the men used to the long yame. Billy Rhodes, the former well snown Yale player and coach, arrived n New Haven yesterday and will re- main with the team for a few days. 1 Gordon Brown will be- here to-day and will stay with the team for two weeks, md possibly more. Other good men Ire expected to assist within the next hree weeks, among them being Butter worth and Bull, who will have charge if the kicking department.
 PRINCETON'S PRACTICE.
 Princeton N. J., Nov 4.-The Prince on football eleven was given only light ,ractice this afternoon in order to all