Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-16
ON THE GRIDIRON.
Comparison of the Teams As
 They stand To-Day.

ASJ SsgSSASA s@ @~SsSs
 Tale Seems to Have the Stronger
 Attack-Priheeton is Stronger in
 Defense--PIayers on the 4ale
 Team Injured - Other Football
 News.
 The foosball sky from PhiladelpnA tn Rdsyon is obscured By a cloud or ae- wrAsssgsr. The ouakers scored only paatny dozen touchdowas agaanst Ges- s. fysburg, hence are asleep. Pflhceuon did not wipe up the checker Doalu with the fast and aggressive Lellspl Nearr: hence her attack would not uehe ui holes in butter. Colunn'Dda did not run tsp a hundred points in eacn habL Hrainst SIwarBhmore with a team that does not compare with the one tnat could tavs been pat on the field; hence tha aJtr aakaes to come will witness her ,,tter rorlt. YAIe gained in the neigh borhood of 300 yards to Holy Cross forty odd; hence Yale's defence IS us s1e paDer. Harvard has had eleven Fyoints scored against her and been beaten by A strong team. hence the crimson will be the veriest playthirg for coming opponents. Before the sea- soa1 ends the clouds will be found to be ehanaleT than present. repo4sts indicate and victories will be matters of Strength rather than weakness. Of au ths teams Harvafsl's outlook is the least promising, but teams have risen 10 the championship from conditions fully as dfscoudsaging aIs those now at Cambridge Tn 1897 every old team that Yale met was scoring en her, the Indians, for one, making fourteen points, yet Yale tied Harvard and beat Princeton. Football has its peeullari- taes and conflicting conditions. With the prevalent feebleness there never fileless is a tendency toVard an infiat- el sense of importance on the part or players that coaches have to contend against and use drastic measures to Sounteract
 New Haven. Oct 16.--Yale has number 0R injured men oal the list. Att present Kinney is limping around with a4a injured ankle Andrews got a scalp WOtAH&a WA w 0<4AacsS6EtS D 1A11AaAaUNA ss stfn troubled with water on ffle knee and Moorehead ss in the infirnary with what is sadd to be a broken tendon fear the knee. Hogan was kicked in the ribs in the game Wednesday, and 1t is quite painful t0 him! Rockwell has damaged hand. somebody having stepped on it. Boomer is believed to be a little fine, and fhe coaches are going light with hiEn in his work
 When the varsity was called out for signal practice yesterday afternoon there was a decided change in the makeup Of the team. Smith was played at center. Harris at left guard and Flanders at Tight guard. Batch cider and Morton were both oTi the field. but neither was allowed to get in the ssignal work Kdnney's place was filled by Turner.
 Two additions were made ysterday from the freshman squad, and both promise well. Orthnleyer was played at left end on the second team, and Summer. the Andover spFanter, was tried at quarter in signal practice and at running back punts during the scriamanage George Adee spent three quartrs of an hour yesterday afternoon with the backs. and drilled them ufioFs oughly in passing and receiving the ball
 As between Yale and Princeton work in practice and in games indi- cates that just now the Blue has the stronger atback the Orange and Black the stronger defence. If defence is harder 10 learn than offence then the Tiger is bebter off More ground has been gained against Yale this year through the line than last year at thfs time. Last year the problem w'as 10 Strengthen the ends, this year 1t is to brace the center. If tine present prob lem is sUaved As well as the one iast year, nothing more could be asked. It was not until the West Point game that the end question last year began So clear Up. The nnate4tal for brac- ing the center has not yet come to the surface, as it did for the ends last year, but tenbers can be pounded into shape. Yale's green center of 1883, Hichok, Stillman and McCrea, turned out to be steady as a church. Yaae has a smashing good back field this gear-fast, being quick to get under way and hard to stop-,als6 one that has in it the making of as good de- fensfve back field as last years. A Tlotlcealble timing about the preliminary practice at New Haven is that the men seem to get a good deal of sport out of it. regard 1t as recreation rather than business, and are without the tres mendously serious air sometimes found. Yet in the line-ups they are serious enough A little exchange of fisticuffs between two big line men tA4 other day attested to the earriestness. Concerning the weakness at center. the suggestion that Kinney be moved from tackle 10 guard llas been made. On this point the Yale Alumni Week ly says: With the development of a tackle who could replace Kinney. Kinney might be moved to the gap at guard in case some of the men now trying there do not come up to expec-