Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-26
ON THE GRIDIRoN.
Big Teams Gradually Getting Into
 Shape.

Shape.
 Gradually the big football teams are getting themselves in condition to meet each other, and from now until the close of the season their games will not be of the easy practice variety, with a few exceptions To-day Yale will meet her strongest foe so far this season in Columbia. Harvard will have the husky Carlisle Indians for op- ponents. Princeton will line up against Lafayette and the University of Penn sylvania will tackle the University of Chicago. Despite the crippled conGi- tion of the blue and white and the loss of Berriens services, Coach Sanford's charges may surprise Old Ellis war riors In any event, it is the opinion of Columbia students almost to a man that the Yale score will be smaller than that of Haryard's a week ago.
 Undoubtedly the wearers of the crimson will have their hands full with the Carlisle Indians, who, although de- feated by Cornell last Saturday by a score of IT to 0, made the Ithacans play hard and fast football from start to finish. Harvard has not had the benefit of the wisest practice sslis sea- son. The trouble seems to lie in the fact that the same men have not been drilled together day after day, and tt->s has been offered as the reason why the crimson's scores in the minor games have not been larger.
 Last year Harvard defeated the In- dians by score of IT to ,. In order to be in the. best of condition for to- days game Captain Campbell's men have been hard at practice nearly ev- cry day this week, for while they pro- fess to have no fear of the Indians taking their scalp, they realize that a tough proposition confronts them Much attention has been given to their new tackle-tandem play, but so far it has met with but little success.
 Princeton has the easiest proposi- ton of any of the Big Four'' in La fayette, and the probabilities are that the orange and black will roll up a big score without much difficulty. The Easton lads have not given such good account of themselves this sea son. Thus Manhattan held them to score of 16 to 6 and the Orange A. c. to IT to o. The game to-day should be little more than easy practice for the Tigers, even though Coach Newton boasts that his men are in better con- dition physically than at any time this season.
 The contest between the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago will be watched with much in- terest. Last year the red and blue frounced their western opponents to the tune of fl to 0. Only last Mon- day the Annapolis middies, in a game full of surprises, trimmed the Penn sylvanians by q score of to 5 The naval cadets broke up Pennsylvania's famous guards baela-play almost from the outset and it only was occasion ally that the red and blue profited by it. Should Chicago be able to stop the Pennsylvanians on the guards back as did the middies, Pennsylvania may have hard time to pull off a victory.
 Like Princeton, Cornelrs s, task to-day should be practice of the easiest kind, and Judging from the fast game the Ithacans have been putting up the chances are that they will overwhelm Oberlin. Like Princeton, Cornell has not been scored against this season, and among their foes have been the Carlisle Indians and the strong Buck nell college team. which gave Pennsyl- vania hard fight last Saturday.
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