The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-07
SPORTING NEWS.
Football Teams in the East
Weak This Season.
Princeton Appears as Good as
Any of the Elevens.
PLAY YALE ON NOV. Is.
Tigers Show Much Ability in
Kicking the Leather.
University of Pennsylvania
Takes Decided Brace.

Chicago. Nov. THE News says: Ow-
ing to the overwhelming interest in the
game between Michigan and Wisconsin
played Saturday, the eastern teams
We're generally neglected by the fans
in the west. The victory of the Maize
and Light Blue lead to frequent com
PARSONS between the Wolverines and
championship eastern elevens, as the
Yale team of 1900 last years Harvard
squad and the great team Woodruff had
at Pennsylvania is 1899. Some of these
comparisons were creditable to the east
crn and some more favorable to Yosts
aggregation, but until a schedule of
games is arranged annually between the
leading athletic institutions of the east
and west no comparisons can be made
that will not be odious.
Admitting that the Ann Arbor team
Is the champion of the west. it would
probably find most of the teams of the
"btg five of the east unusually weak
this year. Harvard does not boast
team comparing in any way with last
years and Yale's appears from compar-
alive scores to be even weaker, at least
at the present time. Princeton appears
to have as good a team as any of them
with Brown Columbia and West Point
also among the schools whose eleVenS
play the game from the ground up.
Harvard and Yale. which. with Prince
ton are always expected to turn out
great teams, seem TO be finding difficult
ty in getting the proper material The
advantage so far this season and are
bending every energy to be a the eli
max of condition when they close their
season against Yale on November 10
From present indications a victory for
the Black and Orange would not be
surprising though the warriors for old
Eli usually brace uD at the last mo-
ment and present a more formidable
front than had been anticipated
Yale has been especially weak in punt
ing and the work of the line men has
not been up to the standard of the last
two or three years. The work of the
men against the soldiers at West Point
last Saturday shows clearly that they
have not arrived at the perfection of
the Crimson team, who played the ca
diets two weeks ago and beat them IA to
6. The soldiers have a strong team this
year. Shannon, who is playing quarter
back. is said to run the team as only
Charlie Daily has done heretofore. DAILY
is not playing this year. but he has been
coaching the men and has brought them
to much higher perfection in the knOwl-
edge of the game than usual and they
are already claiming the victory over
the naval cadets of Annapolis in the
game to be played on Franklin field.
Philadelphia, November %. Weight was
in favor of the Blues against the cadets.
but the soldiers were cool and fought
desperately. so that the ball was in
Yale'S territory most of the time Yale's
ends were not so effective, either. as
West Pointers. The coaches at New
Haven are disappointed in the poor
showing of the team. Wilhelm, who
was regarded as great conner for this
year and played in many of the big
games of 1901, has been found wanting
and the coaches are contemplating a
change Rafferty, will probably go back
to left end now. while Shevlin is looked
upon as a fixture at right end Bowman,
the freshman, who holds his position at
fullback by virtue of his Dunting abil-
ity found himself Outclassed against
Graves of West Point.
Harvard is probably about as strong
as at this time of the season last year.
Coach Warner of the Carlisle Indians
says the offense Of the crimson team is
powerful but only so because there are
powerful men behind the line to carry it
through. He regards Graydon. Herman
and Putnam as the greatest back field
he ever saw put together. fast and
heavy men with a peculiar ability OF
shaking off tackles. The crimson line
is not as strong as desired. however,
but before the final game with Vale
there is time for great Improvement.
One place where there is room for con-
siderable Improvement, according to the
records of games played by the Har-
ward team, is in catching punts. Mar
shall. the quarterback, is improving
slowly, but the coaches still complain of
this fault.
While these bear stories are being fos-