Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-03

New Haven, Nov 3.-The Yale team showed that 1t had been to football game when 1t assembled on the field for light work yesterday. The men were stiff and sore, but, according to Mike Murphy, barring a few bruises the team came out of the contest with Columbia in very good shape. Sure 1t is that none were very much hurt, and the coaches are congratulating them selves over the fact. Both team and coaches expressed themselves as being well pleased with the result of the game in New York. They were disap pointed over their failure to score in the first half, but laid the blame to the fact that the men had not played to- gether as they are capable of doing, and as they did do later. Secret prac- tIca will be resumed later fin the week. Many of the old veterans will be here to assist in preparing the men for the two big games still to be played with Princeton and Harvard,
 The Young Nutmegs of Ben Mohr defeated the Quakers of Railroad Hill by the score of to Q at Town Plot Sunday morning The Young Nut megs would like to play the Young
 
 fun. money or marbles.
 There have rarely been as many fine ends as this year 'fWeak at the end,'' a not uncommon complaint, has been conspicuous by it's absence this fall. Harvard has Boditch and Lemoyne; Yale, Shevlin and Rafferty; Princeton, Davis and Henry; Pennsylvania, Weede and Metzger, not to mention RioI,o.& oF Cal11Ya1afo oy11 Gn111n oP An napolis.
 Under the new rules the kicking game has become one of the leading features in football this season, In ability to use mass plays in the center g of. the field to gain the required dis tance when the opposing team is strong forces teams playing on the aggressive to resort to the bunting battle, and the consequence is that this department of the game has improved corresponding ly.
 Harvard started on her final week of work to-day in preparation for the big game with Pennsylvania on Sat urday. Tomorrow and next day the practice will be stiff, with light work on Thursday when the men leave for philadelphia. The week before the Penn game in others years has been q time for putting on a few finishing touches. but this fall the situation in Cambridge is decidedly different. Not only has the offense got to be perfect CT, but the defense has practically got to be built up from the very founda- ton. Never has Crimson team been in a cruder state at this period of development than is the present eleven.
 The football guide posts point to a clash of Titans when Yale and Prince ton come together on November IA, and to a game on which the champion ship of the east will depend. 1t may be that Harvard or Pennsylvania will yet make a bid for championship hon. ors, but it does not look so now. How ever, the close call that the willy In- dians gave the Crimson should not be allowed to obscure the fact that with the score Il to against them Harvard jumped 'in and won. When team can do that its play is not without encour- agement. Therefore if Pennsylvania can defeat this team and this team de- feat others football s devious windings may yet bring Harvard or Pennsyl- vania into touch with championship honors-honors which are further away from either at present than from Yale or Princeton.