The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-19
IN The FOOTBALL WORLD.
BIG SEASON FINANCIALLY FOR
SEVERAL TEAMS.
SIS 900 Taken In At Yale.PrincetOn Game
--liarvard's Guard Change -Corneil
Coaches Fear Lest Players Become
Too Confident Res artiing Quakcrs.

OF the $4,000 II l. estimated that the two
football associations will have at least s?5.0oo
to split w evenly. This game was. OF course,
Princeton's biggest source of revenue in an
athletic way for the year Financially all
the biz colleges will probably do exceedingly
well. Princeton had good crowds for the
games with Columbia and Cornell Harvard
and Pennsylvania have played to several
crowds OF most profitable size. Harvard In
particular, the Pennsylvania, Brown, In
dian and Dartmouth games, each drawing
10 coo or more persons. Then there i the
Yale "a mo to come, which II tho weather il
suitable for spectators. will attract the big
pest gate of the season. The stands M
New Haven have been enlarged TO accom-
Inodate $4,000 person. one who knows,
having had n hand in the business arrange
m"nts of big games for several years. says
tn" big games on college grounds are bigger
sources of revenue than were the games pla y"d
on Manhattan Field in this city. "" points
to the 2o.ooO crowd AZ Princeton last saturday.
the expected 5000 and more crowd AZ New
Haven next saturday. and the 20 400 crowd
NJ the Harvard-Ya" game at Cambridge
last year n proof of his assertion. The seat
iuy capacity nj Cambridge. New Haven,
Princeton and also ut Franklin Field. Phila-
dclplia is greater than at Manhattan Field
Manhattan Field could seat about 1000
although room could b" made for several
thousand more with the aid of boNos on the
north side of the field and coaching spaces
The remarks of Chancellor Day Of the
University of Syracuse that mass play ia
football ought TO 70, will I've seconded bv n
great many lovers of the great college game
Frank Buttcrworth spoke truly when lac said
the game WAS being made too intricate and
that return 10 more open play was desirable.
These bone-craCking. back-ot-the-lne for
"a 81.
ing line apart. but Just as many points were
scored and the gam" was just as exciting in
the days when the four backs were the only
players behind the line and all seven forward
played in the line. There can be- Drawn with
out the beef that smashing formations put
a premium on. and skill without the more
comp cated methods of attack that latter
day football requires Every big game that
is played nowadays ia noted for its fierce
ness. whereas speed and dash were attr-
butes heard OF oitener a few years back
The long passes and swift dashes in the open
that Princeton used against Yale in 1893
are re,nem bered distinctly to this day, and
that fine game. which Princeton won. to q.
stands out in marked contrast TO the massine'
smashing tactics OF tn" present day. Then
there was Yales 20 TO 10 victory over Prince
ton In 1895. probably the most spectacular
game ever played. For broken-held running,
vigorous dashes through the line and uncer-
| tainty 1t has had no equal and the backs did
| most oil the ground gaining; and II the for
| wards carried the ball they ran from their
positions in the line There is no rrettier pla y
than to see a forward run from lie place in the
| line, take the ball and twist through the
| other wing The work done by capt Rodgers
| OF Yale against Princeton IN 1897 was strlk-
| ing instance of the efficacy OF this play.
The Boston 0iob. SAYS Barnard of Harvard
| played left guard against Dartmouth last
| SATURDAY, and that the change. which
| very important one, was not generally noticed.
Barnard has been paaygg right CHI, guard 70,
| flank IL to be continued for the Yale game
il means that Barnard will not face Glass.
and d That ' Marshall viii have Gi".. in front
| OF him. Possibly harvard ngurss on making
fo, mss her 0S s and r What thar,
| reason Is putting her best guard. Barnard,
opposite Goss. counting Oh Marshall to hold
| Glass level
The Cornell season has been noted for its
| have it. Since the decisive defeat OF Lafayette
| the players are once more confident o! de-
| frating Pcnnsylvanla on Thanksgiving Day
and the coaches are in a state Of mind lest
| this confidence become too SrAt Cor
hell has the sail for this game, put Cornell
| did but very little better against III" Indians
| than did Pennsylvania and no better against
Princeton than PENNSYLVANIA did against
| Harvard, at present rated "a stronger team
thar, Princeton. Any team that can brace
as the Quakers did against Harvard has
another brace lett
| The University Committee for the West
ponAnnePos game 5ib,S anmog Yos that The
| The allotment was made more than u week
| ago and every seat at the disposal of the COM
| mitt-e was asst ,ned There Were 300 more
| applications than there were availa BILE seats
New ENGLAND weather prophets say a
| speedy cold snap may be- expected, as there
has been . large flight Of wild geese South
ward Harvard and Yale pickets are watch
n nTn mfoSnd and 1 20 hs other 10 not
Yale. like Princeton. is erumbling over
Umpire Dasheis work last SATURDAY, For
one thing II Is said he put Mike Murphy on
the held for GoaGhithg from TIE side line.
and talking TO Princeton players
Notwithstanding the fact that Columbia
plays Annapolis to-day the football candi-
dates we're put at hard work yesterday after
Hpt io4s Sst dniS heT tro wa5 ma
up tho team for the Thanksgiving Day game
John 6 jack, on. who played at end in the
Yale game, but who had TO retire on account
OF parental objection lie j. q good man
Of last years freshman team. came out also
and wa. put on the scrub, Other new men
Fiuhrer, Tone, Willis, Pierrepont and Sibly
Richards. a former Yale player. sl.o reported
| Shaw l. playing again AT guard after an alb
| seuCe OF IA week and Thorpe had on his foot
| ball clothes for the first time in two weeks
| Coach Morley now has the assistance of
half "A dozen gradual" players. Fisher, who
| has been playing half back. has been shitci
70 quarter back With some success. He IL
| heavy and knows the game and can be de-
| pended uyou II Goodman's lame shoulder
| cornpels him to leave the game to-day. Ais
berg will essay Thorpe's place AZ tackle
| lie has been playing guard all along but ha.
| Played fast game at tackle this week
Staneland goes from full back to guard
against Annapolis, DUEL taking his place In
the back field No other changes are con-
templated In the Columbia line.
| CAMBRIDGE, Nov. is.-The Dartmouth
| game showed Harvard TO be deplorably weaL
| on the defence. and the cner ges of the coac hes
| will be to bolster up this part OF the game
| Yesterdays work was short and light not one
OF the men who played saturday going into
| the line up against the second. To-day how.
be played in the Yale game. Force seems ia
have displaced Sugden at centre and Mills
has become the regular left end This late
shifting Is not taken to v'ry kindly by tho
| Harvard Undergraduates. who have seen The
| evil OF such policy In the Varsity crew 80
| often on the whole the Harvard under
| graduates ara disposed TO look upon the Yale
| game as almost hopeless Bets of 5 to = are
| being passed M in Cambridge and a few Yale
| men hgyc sent up money AT the odds of
to The practice this afternoon vas In
couracing The Varsity scored three touch.
| downs on tn" second in two short halves
| and the second eleven was unable to gain OF
| til" Varsity