New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-10
ON THE GRIDIRON.
YALE HAS ROUNDED INTO FORM AT
LAST
HER PROSPECTS FOR VICTORY OVER
PRINCETON ARE BRIGHT-"PENN'S''
GREAT BRACE-THE FORLORN
HOPE OF ANNAPOLIS.


HOPE OF ANNAPOLIS.
The three leading clevens Of the country now
within sight OF the crucial struggles of the year
On Saturday the Yale team and its thousands of
friends viii journey to Princeton FOR the annual
game between tho Blue and the Orange and
Black one week from Saturday Harvard comes
10 New Haven for the yearly contest. week
ago last Saturday Yale had the encouragement of
being played to a standstill by West Point. whose
team put up a game that demands recognition as
about the best article i'm the way OF football that
the cadets have been able To achieve Last
weeks practice at NeW-Haven was necessarily less
severe than had been anticipated. because Mike
Murphy insisted that the condition Of several az
the men was such that a letup was imperative If
they were not to so 10 Princeton below par physi-
csliy. But. for all that. Yae's game on Saturday
against the sturdy and efficient Bucknel eleven
by far the best of the season for Captain Chad
wck's men, and it revealed the fact that the eleven
is now 2 team in fact we'll i'm name. Eighteen
points in each OF the short halves played was
achievement that will make PrinCeton's coaches
sit up and rub their eyes. OF course. such score
might have been rolled up with luck and Yale's
game been still far from satisfactory. but the
fact is that the New-Haven eleven showed form
that If maintained against The Tigers on Saturday.
can scarcely fail to win As the writer stated one
week ago in this column. Yale's coaches sat
isied that they had material for a really great
team and they hoped TO whip it into entity that
should equal the greatest in Yales history. Satur
days play indicated that their hopes. If not entire
Is realized would not be likely to fall far short of
fun realization. The tremendously heavy and pow
erfuF line is fast and active it's individual
members showing agility ana promptness in get
ting into almost every play, whether on the Of
fensive or the defensive. Every in the line
seems to have the football instinct well developed.
50 that he is rarely at fault I'm guessing at what
point a play will he directed and I'm opposing an In
diligently combined resistance TO the runner and
his interference. On the offensive tho backfeld
Point game and got into motion with celebrity
and cohesiveness that formed each offensive play
into thunderbolt. and not only into thunder
bolt bat a thunderbolt with a penetrating point.
Individually Metcalf at halfback showed the most
Improvement and the transfer from quarterback
has done wonders in his ease He to be
clever DE Saulles at running back punts. and is
4 consistent and steady ground gamer behind in
reference. Bowman, at fullback. is also develop
ing and. while he may not be able TO outpunt De
Witt he will not disgrace himself if the attempt
has to be made. Captain Chadwick is not the most
brilliant back Yale had, but he Is at all times
TO be relied to do all that intelligence, expert
ence GOODNESS and a more than average amount of
strength and skill accomplish. Shevlin at end
seems TO have found his element. Captain Davis
OF Princeton will have his hands fun when he lines
up against him. Rafferty's injuries may keep him
out Of the Princeton game, but Wilhelm Is a most
acceptable substitute. In the line the giant Glass
may be relied TO play wonderful game. He
showed on Saturday for the first time his true quail
fly as a ground gamer. 1t seems safe TO say that
next Saturday Yale's line will present much more
than usually effective combination Of power and
speed. while the back field will be faster and
stronger than seemed possible fortnight
Princeton played game on Saturday, and 1t
is therefore impossible TO get a true line on her
development IN the last seven days 1t may be
taken for granted however, that the team that
meets Yale will be a stronger one than the one
that defeated Cornell. How much stronger is
question Henry will be in his place at right end
and with Captain Davis. will form a combination
difacult 10 beat. On what is known, they form
the strongest pair OF ends in the country. Just
what Shevlin and Rafferty, WIlhelmi will do
with them will be worth going long way to see
of itself 1t appears at this distance as II Yale
certainly has the stronger and faster line. She
surely has the heavier one. In backs. TOO the
Blue seems TO have the better OF H. especially since
the injuries OF Burke and hafer. II is hard 10 see
how De Witt fail to outpunt Bowman. If II
comes 10 sso5aby sure of lifting at least one
goal from the field if the opportunity presents
Yales conserving to play a kicking game Things
look more and more Ike Yale victory as the days
81 Hsirvard's victory over Pennsylvania was an I'M
fsEe4 a great brace In the face of weilngh over
whelming obstacles and great credit is So due the
est partisans will scarcely be satisfied with the
hacks lacked snap and played too much alone. and
the forwards. while hard to get through. lacked
stet a sure defeat for Harvard at Yale's hands A
year ago It was impossible to see how the Crimson
night Harvard whipped together team that has
no superior in Harvard football history VIII his
tory repeat itself?
II took all the ''middies" knew how to beat La
fayette Saturday, and II looks like a sure thing
soT West Point in the annual game. But the san
oTs have a way of pulling themselves together at
the last moment in a style little short OF amazing
There was much in the Brown-Columbla game at
the Polo Grounds Saturday that particu-
larIv gratifying TO the followers Of the Providence
university and equally distressing to the friends OF
the local university Columbia started off so well
early in the season.-she generally does that.-that
some of the best judges of the in the district
tboueht Columbia had about the best team she had
turned out in long time. The team deteriorated,
however. auickly-more quickly than usual-and II
iools as II Coach Morley will have trouble in get
ting il back 10 playing form this season; The
i,,s,r &c sad blow 20 Morley, but il has filled the
Seart OF Sanford. the old coach. with something
100 than satisfaction. II did not require the
h.ttIa on Saturday convince the critics that
pro-cn has a mighty good team this year. The
.tarE of the Providence men was OF the best
thToS1ebout and certainly entities them 10 games
ssth Eli OF the big university teams next year. The
line holds finely. and the ends are strong and ag
gressiye The backs are not only q fine set of
6iistlers; hut they strong and fast besides.