The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-17
HARVARD NOW LOOKS
DANGEROUS TO YALE
Coachers and Trainers Believe
Blue Team viii Have a
Hard Fight.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Nov. TO-
Among Yale men the feeling is gaining
ground that the match with Harvard,
which will wind up the football season
for both elevens next Saturday, will
prove harder battle than that with
Princeton. Among Yale coaches and
trainers the opinion is felt that Har-
ward has been rushing along at
double quick pace for month, and
that Yale has the hardest task of the
year ahead of her to win next Satur-
gays game on Soldiers field. When
Amherst won from Harvard a feeling
began to be held at Yale that there
was possibility that the blue might
be able to wipe out the memory of the
game on Soldiers field two years ago.
when Charley Goulds eleven was
whipped, % to 0. by bigger score be-
ing rolled up by Yale this fall against
the crimson. This hope has dwindled
down to nothing now, and the Yale
leaders will feel that they are doing
we'll If they can get away with VIC
tory by comfortable margin next
Saturday.
At present the task of filing in the
gap between the two big games of
the year without the eleven going stale
or backward in their playing or gen.
eral physical condition is the pressing
problem. Many of the players will be
taken away for few days, and line
up on next Tuesday and Wednesday
for short time is all that the reg
ulars will be expected to get through
with.
The novelty of a trip to Boston two
days before the game with Harvard is
to be tried this year, splitting up the
week between the Princeton and the
Harvard games. The Yale squad will
leave here next Thursday morning for
Auburndale, and will be CHARTERED in
the clubhouse there till Saturday
morning, when they will go over to
Cambridge. The coaches feel that the
change will do the players good, even
if they are in the heart of the "enemy's
country" About twenty-five men will
be taken to Cambridge aside from the
coaches, trainers and assistants.
Yale's eleven probably will be sent
against Harvard in almost exactly the
same order that it faced Princeton AS
usual, it will be the policy to use the
fast second string of backs part Of the
game, and it is thought that fifteen. or
sixteen men will get into the play be-
fore it finishes.
Even although Yale's new plays have
been seen by the Harvard players and
coaches who were at the Princeton
game here, 1t is believed at Yale that
the Harvard coaches have not time to
map out a defense for them and drill
the crimson team up in the defense
between the present time and the game
next Saturday enough so that the de-
tense can be stopped. The Harvard
coaches can have only two days of
scrimmaging for their team at the
most, and this hardly will be enough
to teach squad defenses for all the
new formations Yale had ready and
waiting for Princeton. These new plays
ought to be good for couple of touch
downs against Harvard, the Yale
coaches think.
From this it can be seen why Yale
is eager to arrange her big games only
one week apart. Yale can learn new
plays every year, spring them on
Princeton and then have them prac-
tically fresh for Harvard, as the
crimson coaches cannot have a. de-
tense ready for them learned in the
two or three days work allotted be-
tween the Yale-Princeton and the
Yale-H Harvard games. On the other
hand, the Yale coaches can go down
to the Harvard University Of Penn
sylvania game, see the Harvard for
nations, and have two weeks to teach
them to the Yale players before they
are brought face to face with the
crimson.