Waterbury Democrat., 1902-11-07
ON THE GRIDIRON


 Yale Does Not Seem to Be in the Best
 Form.
 The Go "A team will play the Naugar tuck football team in this city on Sat urday of next week.
 The St Thomas Cadets will play the Naugatucks in the Rubber town on Thursday, November 20. The Cadets will play Torrington at the Driving park on Sunday, November 16. The Merrimac and Go A teams will play later in the season.
 Those two old rivals, the St Thomas Cadets and the Merrimac football teams, will meet once more on the gridiron on Sunday afternoon to settle the question of supremacy. The same teams played earlier in the season and the Cadets won by a small score, but since that time the Merrimacs have been strengthened by the addition of .Bill' Hotchkiss, Dunn, Mcdonald and other players. The Cadets have also been strengthened, but the Merri- macs are confident of reversing the score of the last game. The game will be played at the Driving park.
  present as many close games as last Saturdays list of fixtures, but makes up for this in the importance of two or three of the games. The schedule follows: Harvard vs Pennsylvania, aC Cambridge; Yale vs Bucknell, at New Haven; Columbia vs Brown, at the Polo grounds; West Point vs Union, at West Point; Lafayette ys Annapolis at Annapolis; Syracuse VS Hobart; Yale freshmen vs Princeton freshmen, at Princeton; Rutgers vs New York uni versity, at New York; Lehigh vs Uni veristy of Virginia, at Washington; BoWdoin vs Bates, at Brunswick; Georgetown vs Gallaudet, at George town; Carlisle vs Susquehanna, at Carlisle; Colgate vs Hamilton, at Clin- ton; Amherst vs Williams, at Amherst; Wesleyan ys University of Vermont, at MiddletoWn; Cornell vs Washington and Jefferson, at Ithaca; H,aYerford vs Dickinson, at Carlisle. Princeton can- celled the game scheduled with the Or ange A. Q. ill order to be more fit for Yale next week. This is the second time within two years that Princeton has cancelled a game week before the Yale contest. Tn 1900 the Tigers cancelled game they had scheduled
 
 their defeat by Columbia and they were so. fit for the Yale game that they were smothered to the tune of 29 to 5.
 The Bucknell team. which meets Yale tomorrow, is not lacking in weight, and as Yale has slu1nped this week and several of the varsity play CTS are suffering from too much work, 0 To fo7 O. h O score is slim. Under the circumstances Yale doubtless will be content with winning. This is rather late day for players to get too fine and the chances for Yale victory over Harvard and Princeton are not as good as they were a week ago. Valuable time in the per- lection of formations is being lost. but condition is an essential and the sur cease from hard toll is advisable though at a critical time. Betting on Yale's two big games has begun all ready. A New York broker was will ing the other day to risk goodly sum on Princeton at even money Not Withstanding the depression at New Haven he probably will be able to get better odds before the game As an in- stance of how bets may be made ire spective of form, Yale was quoted as a 100 to 70 favorite over Harvard in Bos- ton last Monday. Either the Harvard supporters who ask such odds. are tfaint-hearted. or they are trying to bear Harvard's stock with a view to getting a. nice Whack at Yale money The plan of having leather straps at tached to the waist has been used with good effect by Dartmouth this year. There is strap at the back and one at each side and with man lifting from behind and one at each side, the runner has been yanked through oppos- ing lines at a great rate on several oc- casions. The lighter Williams men found the strap method of advance ment entirely too much for them. The thing has to be deftly done, else the man with the ball loses the benefit of l his impetus.