Waterbury Democrat., 1902-10-21
ON THE GRIDIRON.
The Big Six are Discovering and
 Strengthening the Weak Spots.

Strengthening the Weak Spots. Ithaca, N. F., Oct 21-The game on Saturday in which Cornell was over thrown by the Indians from Carlisle school was not a good exhibition or football, but what was shown was ln favor of the visitors Both elevenS fumbled great deal, and not a touchdown was made on what could be called straight football The one great fault with the Ithaca team all through the season has been weakness 1 in defense, but so far as offensive work is concerned it is far ahead of last years team. It is hard to ex- plain why this Is so. With the ex- lception of center every position in the line is filled by members of last years team.
 Philadelphia. Oct 21.-Pitiab1e weak ness in the back field was responsible for Browns victory over the Univer- 1 sity of Pennsylvania on Saturday and unless there is an improvement shown l by Wednesday another defeat may be chronicled aE the hands of the naval cadets at Annapolis. On Saturday Quarterback Strong twice failed to stop Barry in the open field and each i Gus II second half. Weede, who succeeded peatedly. His mistakes were largely irresponsible for the two tries Brown had for field goals, one of which proved successful.
 Cambridge, Mass, Oct 21.--The Grim sons showing against the cadets of West Point on Saturday was so un- satisfactory that there is talk of big i shake-up in the line. The coming contest with Brown has caused the coaches to do heap of thinking, par l ticularly since the Providence team oyerpoWered the Quakers. Tn the 1 West Point game Harvard showed she was much weaker on the defense than anyone had thought It is probable that Lewis, the old center. and the greatest defensive coach in the Har-
 H.rd corps will work the Crimson fine men harder than ever this week
 Not only was the line weak, but the backs failed to give it any support from behind. The men showed dis tinct inability to open up holes against lighter opponents, and on the defense i failed to break through with any great aggressiveness.
 Princeton, Oct 21.-The Tigers be- gan yesterday a week of hard prac- tice in preparation for their game with
 Columbia on Saturday. They will continue to rely on an open and kick ing game. The team is not excep- tionally heavy, but it is playing a pret- ty fast game at present. Tn the game
 with Washington and Jefferson college on Saturday the Tigers stood the test of their strength, which for two weeks had been anxiously awaited, in
 a manner which has made Princeton s
 future look brighter than it has yet
 appeared this season. Previous to the game with Haverford, the team at
 times played the poorest kind of foot f ball, but in last Saturdays contest
 both it's offense and defense were the finest that has been seen on Prince
 toms gridiron since the championship
 team of '99. It was not an unex- peeted weakness on the part of Wash
 ington and Jefferson, but an extraor- dinary improvement of the Tigers, < which accounts for Princeton's decis-
 i've victory.
 Only two of the s'Big Six'' will be
 engaged in more than one game this
 week, Princeton meeting Dickinson
 college on Wednesday at Princeton,
 and Pennsylvania lining up against
 the naval cadets at Annapolis on the
 same day. On Saturday, however,
 nearly all of the big combination will
 be put to another severe test. Al
 Princeton the Columbia eleven will
 receive the first chance of showing
 whether it can be rated as a first class aggregation; Yale will have Univer-
 sity of Syracuse as an opponent; liar yard will face Brown. conqueror ot Pennsylvania: the Quakers will line up against the Bucknell University students of Lewisburg, Pa, and Cor
 nell and the Oberlin College boys o1 Oberlin, O., will struggle at Ithaca New Haven, Oct 21.-Owing to the : hard game with Pennsylvania State , college Saturday the veterans of the Yale team were not called upon tC practice yesterday. The work vii : be severe enough to-day, Wednesday
 and Thursday, and on Friday there will be let-up. Football men here , look upon the game with Syracuse 9: probably the hardest of the seasor outside of the tussles with Harvard [ and Princeton. It is the intention o1 the coaches to bring out the stronges eleven on Saturday, and to have tn, : men well versed in several new, com ? plicated plays. The Yale coaches art 3 not at all discouraged over the smal
 score against the Pennsylvanians o1 : Saturday. If Captain Chadwick, wht went to West Point to get a line oi
 Harvard, had been in the game, it il 2 confidently believed the result Woult f have taken on a different aspect 2 There is talk that Charles Rafferty g the end rush of last season. may ge
 his conditions in his studies off and b . able to play again. More coachin;
 will be given the ends this week thai 8 any other positions on the team. The. s have appeared in less satisfactor, D form with every succeeding game. ] t call has been sent out for ex-Captaii s Hinkey, Yale's greatest player in thi D position.
 New York. Oct 21.--So far this yea
 the coaching at Columbia has bee
 principally for the benefit of individ
 ual candidates. but from now on tear
 development will be the special fea . tllre All the students at Morning