The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-11-21

Cambridge, Mass, Nov. 2i.--The Har-
ward and Yale football teams will meet
or Soldiers field today az 2 o'clock for
the first championship gsmc between the
two colleges inside the new stadium. IL
will be- the 2ith time that the two coll
leges have met I'm football since 1878. or
the games already played Yale has won
16 Harvard 4. while three have been ties.
But Harvard and Yale scores nowadays
are usually figured from the renewal OF
relations I'm 1897. Since then each college
has won two games and there have been
two ties. making today's gamc the rub
bcr' for the scres. 1t is Haryard's turn
10 win II the fates keep up the success
sion Of victories Besides this Harvard
has never been beaten by Yale on Sol
dlers field at football and all through
the season the short odds team has Won
In this there IL plenty Of food for the
superstitous, ana undergraduates are
very apt to bank considerably on this
All I'm all the Harvard undergraduate
are looking for very close game, and
they feel that their team has even
chances. They are sure that they have
team tnat viii fight from start TO fin-
ish and that IL will give good account
OF itself even II defeated.
ne team has Dteu tOiliuB WHY last
during the past week. The offense has
become much faster. the men are work
ing better together and on the defen-
sive they have stiffened UP a great deal.
Coach Cranston after the practice yes
terday afternoon said: THE team knows
more football than IL has ever shown
I'm n game, and ] think il will show II
II the team plays the best and hardest
football that II knows from start to I'm
fish / think we can win"
Trainer McMasters said: "The men are
all Mt for the game and their condition
~ such that they should play the best
football they know. We have not yet
lost by any means, and think the team
can win"
Yale has been at Auburndale since last
night and the men there are all TT and
trim for the game except Bloomer, and
he will probably he unable 10 go into
the game. They certainly have a strong
idea that they are going to win.
Harvard's lineup will probably be just
as it was in the Pennsylvania game, with
the possible exception OF left tackle.
Aieir had not fully recovered from the in
jury No received in the Dartmouth game.
aud his arm may not permit him Ia play.
His absence will weaken Harvard, for he
has been the best fighter IN the lfne.
Derby viii go in his place.
Yale has the better OF the averages
for the game The total weight OF the
Yale team is 206S pounds. tho total weight
OF the line is 1872. and of the baclxfie,d
CSC pounds. This makes Yaie average
whole team. 1S2; hne POI; backs -3. The
average height OF the Yale team IS 6 feet
and the average age II - years months.
The Harvard team weighs 2040 pounds.
the line 1892 pounds and the backs $50
pounds; making the average team 1914
pounds, the line lao pounds, backs l72
pounds.
GAMES TO-DAY.
Harvard VS.. Yale. at Cambridge; An
napolis VS.. Virginia p. J., at Annapolis:
New York university VS.. Union. at Ohio
Field: Indians VS. University OF Virginia.
at Norfolk; Lafayette vs.. Lehigh at
South bethlehem; Buckneh VS.. Buffalo,
Mt Buffalo; + and NJ. VS. Rutgers. at
New Brunswick; Manhattan VS. Lau- !
reate Il. c., at Jasper Oval; Hobart VS..
Alfred, at Geneva; Georgetown vs. Gal |
laudet, at Washington; Tufts VS.. Uni |
yersty OF Maine, at Medford