The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-20
LOOK GOOD HARVARD IS COMING
Walter Camp Says Yale Has Good
Reason to Fear the
tssz:sss Crimson.
Yale Has Stronger and More Varied
ATTACK, but Harvard Has
* ..s:.., Better Subs. .

Walters Camp the we'll known east
er1f football expert, in a Boston daily
thus sums :ups the Yale-Harvard con-
test, Tomorrow: .-e
It will be a meeting. Of q team (Yale)
of known strength. and fairly consistent
progress but with scarcely any possibili-
ties beyond what 1t has already shown,
and a team Harvard) Of distinctly inferior
performance during the early part of the
season, with some measure. of promise
during the middle, but with a final chance
Of great, possibilities as indicated in the
work Of the reorgantzed eleven during the
last two weeks Of the season. In other
words, 1t will be like the meeting Of a few
years ago at Cambridge, only that the po-
sition Of. the. two teams will be reversed.
That was when Yale and Harvard met,
and altho Harvard had distinctly the adj
vantage on earlier form and was. very,
largely the favorite, the result was a tie.
The possibilities of team that is in
the football Yernacular coming" are
always 50 great that they may upset cal
culations most decisively on the day Of
the contest and that is Harvard's position
this season. It is also one Of the pleas
urab.e features Of football that there is
always a chance Of such rising to unex-
pected heights by some team on the day Of
the. big match: -
Harvard certainly deserves all the
chance there Is in this for the logged
persistence of her men and coaches
rendered the progress Of the team there
prevailed up there the first Of November.
1T always pays to teach men the furda
mentals and keep hammering at them I'M
til they. can do certain plain and simple
things well, rather than to look for short
cuts to. victory and ignore the value Of
good preliminary training.
Conditions have arisen at New Haven
from time to time this season which have
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less than had been hoped for, but these
conditions could. hardly have been for
seen or forestalled. Accidents have had
| a greater effect than In several seasons
and have Glanced to men who were more
important to the team. Furthermore,
they have been strung out among the men
so as to prevent aecontinual practice so
| necessary to team perfection. And this
| has rendered difficult what has come to
be a usually accepted fact, namely. that
| Yale should improve very rapidly during
| November in the -smoothness OF attack.
| On the other hand, Yale has been fortu-
nate in the production Of another excellent
| kicker in Mitchell, whose work, particu-
| larly In conjunction with that of two
star ends, has been and will be most serv-
/ iceable. 49,
| Harvard viii present heavy, powerful
rush line, with one end, Bowditch, most
texperlenceu- veteran IN fthes business WITH
q. fair sprfnkling OF experience tfruout the
line and with plenty OF power to back UP
plays. Yale will meet this line with five
i veterans and two green men. these two
men being situated in the middle of the
/ line. !. 81 IS III . I.s
!. individually the veterans, of the two
4 lines are not SO very far apart, with ar
/ advantage. however, In. the aggregate with
Yale. The two green men In the middle Of
Yale's line, however, are so4untried as t.
be an unknown quantity until the game L
on. Back OF the line Rockwell Of Yale Il
more fancied for his generalship and pow
1 er to drive a team rapidly, but the ex-
Iperience OF Marshall and the Harvard
i coaches In the Pennsylvania game shoult
i certainly have rendered 1t possible FOL