Waterbury Democrat., 1902-11-18
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Considering the Chances of Yale and
Harvard for Saturday.
The Merimac- Company A football
game, which was arranged tofbe played
on next Thursday afternoon at the AthA
letic field, has been cancelled by Man
ager Sandland of the Company team,
who, however, states that his team
will play the Merrimacs on the Satur-
day following Thanksgiving day. The
Merrimac supporters look upon this
change of dates as a deliberate quit
upon Company AS part. If Company
A is beaten by the Cadets on Thanks
giving day they will not want to play
the Merrimacs two days later, and II
they should win the chances are that
they would not play the Merrimacs
within so short a time after such a
hard contest Thus the Merrimac sup
porters argue, and they feel as much
displeased over the game being de-
clared off as the rooters of the st
Thomas Cadets felt when they heard
that Manager Waite of the Naugatuck
team had cancelled the game with the
| Cadets.
There will probably be no more big
football games in this city before
Thanksgiving day, when the Company
A and the st Thomas Cadets football
teams will struggle for victory and for
the championship of the state. 1t will
no doubt be hard contest and as
close and exciting, if not more so as
last years game, in which the Cadets
scored a touchdown few minutes be-
fore the end of the day and thus won
the game. Rumors are flying thick
! and fast in regard to players which
both teams will have on that day. If
any of the rumors are true, well, there
| will be several new faces seen in the
lineup. There has been much contro-
versy in regard to which team "Jack''
Bagley will play with. He has been
playing with the Cadets and the Com.
pany A team all season, but on Thanks
giving day he will play with the Ca
diets.
49, Waterbury, Nov IS, 1902.
! Sporting Editor Democrat:
Dear Sir:-The Cadets Juniors have
been together for three years. Every
team in the city during our first two
| years was given game and was beat
en-. Last year we could not acc0mmo-
| date every team in the city as there
are too many of them, although we
have played them all but the Moon
lights and Savages. There has not been
a team in this city during our three
years. experience that has beaten us.
/ The first team that ever tied us was
the Films, and they will get return
game from Manager Kelly of the Ca
diets for Thanksgiving day for the
championship of the city. The Moon
! lights are kicking for game. Well,
the manager of the Cadets arranged
game with the Moonlights early in
the season, but the Moonlights did not
show up. Another game was arranged
and Manager Kelly of the Cadets had
| to throw down another team to play
them, but for some reason or other,
the managers did not agree on the
grounds. And a. few more lines to
Manager Luddy of the Savages. His
team was beaten by the Cadets last
season, and this season they would
have been accommodated with
game If they had not talked all over
that they could beat the Juniors. Any
way the Sayages never were known to
play square game, all they are
good for is fighting in game. The
| Cadets are not afraid of Manager
| Luddy's team or any other team in the
city.
Very truly yours,
T. MORSE, Secretary.
New Haven, Nov 1S.--It is the hope
and intention of the Yale coaches to
have the eleven line up against Har-
yard as it did against Princeton. But
| the substitutes will be carefully looked
after between now and Saturday. This
| is deemed necessary in case any of the
regular players are not able to enter
the game. Special attention will be
given to Hare, who on Saturday dem,
onstrated his speed and his ability to
/ gather up fumbles, but who showed a
lack of knowledge of the finer points
of the game. Frank Hinkey picked
Hare in preference to Coffin or Will
helmi or g. Ward.
/ Everybody here is, Of course, salts
| fed with the victory over the Tigers,
! but it is believed that had the men
done more punting in the second half
they would have scored once or posi-
/ bly, twice more than they did. Bow
/ mans ability in punting was such a
Esurprise that Rockwell did not take
| advantage of it as he might have done
whan Yale, got the lead and found that
] she could punt so well as Princeton,
and in the second half even better than
!. the Tigers.
As the old coaches have talked over
this Yale rush line yesterday, they
i have come to the conclusion that it is
the most powerful the Blue has pro-
duced, but they do not think those
rushers know as much about the fine
points of the game as the 1900 rush
line did. AS for this back field they
fdo not think it up to the 1900 back
field AS for Princeton's team, Yale
rates it high. but thinks that the
Tigers have. relied too much on one
man, namely, De Witt.
i Yale to-day does not know how to
feel about the Harvard game. Every
thing will depend upon the way that
the players recover from the effects OF
Saturdays battle. The authorities still
consider Harvard harder proposition
than Princeton h11f fnoI f1,o+ +I,n