The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-16
IN The FOOTBALL WORLD.
4 CLOUD or DEPRESSION Or
SCURES BIG TEAMS SKY.
A. te Yale ana Princet0n-The One Stronger
In offence. the Other in Defcnce--Quak.
ers sim Have . Big Lead in Total
Points ScOred-IsraCtice Of EleveRs.

Hc iOOtOdlI Sky from fnllhutlpIild W
Boston b obsoured by cloud OF depression
The Quakers scored only paltry dozen touch
downs against Gettysburg hence are asleep,
Princeton did not wipe up the checker board
with the fast and aggressive Lehigh team;
hence her attack would not dent holes in
butter. Columbia did not run up hundred
points In each half against Swarthmore with
team that does not compare with the one
that could have been put on the Held; hence
the big games to come will witness her utter
rout. Yale gained in the neiGhborhood Of
800 yards to Holy CrOss's forty odd; hence
iale's defence Is tissue paper. Harvard has
had eleven points scored against her and
been beaten by q strong team: hence the
Crimson will be- the veriest plaything for COM
Ing opponents. Before the season ends tho
clouds will be found to be thinner than present
reports indicate and victories will be matters
OF strength rather than weakness. OF all
the teams Harvard's outlook il the least
promising, but teams have risen to the cham
pionship from conditions fully as discourage
ing as those now at Cambridge. in 1897
every old team that Yale met was scoring on
her. the Indians. for one. making fourteen
points, yet Yale tied Harvard and beat Prince
ton. Football has it's peculiarties and con-
iictlng conditions. With the prevalent feeble-
ness there nevertheless is a tendency toward
an inflated sense of Importance on the part OF
players that coaches have to contend against
and use drastic measures to counteract.
As between Yale and Princeton. work In
practice and in games indicates that just
now the Blue has the stronger attack. the
Orange and Black tho stronger defence.
II defence is harder to learn than offence
then the Tiger is better on. More ground
has been gained against Yale this year
through the line than last year at this time.
Last year the problem was to strengthen
the ends. this year it is to brace the centre.
II the present problem is solved as well as
the one last year, nothing more could be asked.
II was not until the West Point game that the
end question last year began to clear up:
The material for bracng the centre has not
yet come to the surface as It did Tor the ends
last year., but centres can b. pounded INTO
AaPek Sa9 mcTea ID out e.
he'steady as q church. Yale has smashing
good back field this year-fast, being quick
TO get under way and hard to stop-also one
fensive back field as last years. A notice.
able thing about the preliminary practice
at New Haven. is that the men seem to get
q good deal Of sport out OF it, regard 1t as
recreation rather than bus mess. and are with
out the tremendously serious air sometimes
found Yet in the line-ups they are serious
enough. A little exchange of hsticgffs be-
tested to the earnestness
Concerning the weakness at centre. the
suggestion that Kinney be moved from tackle
to guard has been. made. On this point
the Yale Alumni Weekly says; With the
development OF a tackle who could Replace
Kinney. kinney might be moved to Che gap
at guard in case some Of the men now trying
there do not come up TO expectations. This
would, Of course be last resort, put II IS
slow progress. but is willing and hard
worker Morton ut guard nseds more gin
ger. Batcbelder, guard candidate, has
ability. but gets careless at times. Andrews.
Bissell and Turner are tackle understudes
and are improving
The Columbia Swarthmore game was al
most in the record class for the INJECTING of
ferfeiei tina. Way as was gained at rushing,
There was ode Play hSanS Gtb tbe
making a catch and roughing OF the full back
about TO punt. 1t was the first time, here
st least that the new rule giving the full back
freedom while kicking has been violated and
was the result OF eacerness TO block the kick
rather thnn deliberate intent: onicials az
rnie incline toward leneroy in the INJECTING
Of football penalties, but those at the Column
bia -Swarthnore. game did not, and similar
strictness would have u wholesome effect
Use Columbia made OF the fake kick between
the aS-yard lines. Swarthmore liked the
play 80 well that she at once tried II and for
rood gain. but the play did not go. as the run
was made from beyond the 25-yard line.
This and the otfside play in the Harvard
Amherst game show that the teams are hav-
ing their troubles IN asslmllatlns the changes
in the rules.
The University OF Pennsylvania still leads
her lead. Yale is an, easy second. but has
ten points on the debit side OF the ledger
the Indians. West Point. Lafayette. Amherst.
scored ea on. Harvard 5 total. considering Har-
ward a position in football, is very small. The
totals follow:
,si"iS ' 81 ssgss STiaestoa; lssS AK s4%ss
psnnsyvanls S s ssr olf f1 samss IVES,
Point iI st so t,S Se games. AnS.peils W.
Indian. Jan A1ht 2sF S ou h.!sgss
Brow . t;h5,s games; narnouth ,oo.s;
WESLEYAN IVES gam.1 eorF nNe SIS tthrse eaesO
Syracuse. los % three games: Erankis and Mar
shall as Maintain a, s 90 u three games: New
York University. S-5 tone game'.
A lot OF football betting was done in the
wall Street district yesterday; In the Broad
for ret Tomorrow NOR game advanced sharply.
A. one time they were 40 b .1 Of ~ ;r6o no ~,
With Fred Swade that Amherst will defeat
Columbia At the close of tho day 10 to
WAS being oil cred on Amherst. .OLe " tHt
late bets was made by X. W. ON ora Of 500
to $50 with George Mullarkey that Amherst
wins Most Of the betting interest centred
around the Coola A IN, sn1nT so %ns
NJ The big football contests that are to occur
later on One of these bets WAS 800 to so wag-
cred by F A. Russell. wi III BunneLi. Buchanan
4 "a that Yale defeats Princeton in the game
scheduled for Nov; a. Another was 500
70 $40 that Bunnel, Buchanan Co. bet with
Wan who did not wish his name made public,
ihaI pennsylvania will beat Harvard when
those college teams meet on Nov. J..
lot of fun was had with one OF the curb
brokers who has been active IN the bettlng
iine His fellow brokers put up job and
uot him TO betting with them on the Penn.
svlvania- Princeton game winch they tolu
him was to take place next "Wednesday.
t az saw fine arbitrage opportunities in the
odds offered and IL wasn't until ne had tiiled
his order blank with records OF bets that he
"tumbled-
In twenty minutes OF hard playing yester-
d,v the New York varsity was able TO score
hui once on the scrub. The work OF the
serond team was strong. Cragin, the, scrub
quarter back repeatedly breaking through
the varsity line and downing the ball. Later
he WAS transferred to varsity quarter, after
which Tuthill and Mcdowell. half backs,
advanced the ball to the lO-yArd line ana
RorQe pushed II over for the only touchuown;
The varsity line was severely weaKen'u
by the temporary absence OF fTiedbplS.
cesntra. Callahan. right guard. and Chamber
lain right tackle, whose places were hlled.
respe iyely, by Wolf, Van Horn and Clark,
,.. ~ Y pnt IL Although Cornell