The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-27
IN THE yooTBALL WORLD.
Improvement. with Better Defence. At
Princeton.

PRINCETON, N. j.. Oct. 2e.-The Tigers
practised behind closed gates again to-day.
The team Ia showing steady Improvement.
and the coaches feel that every man VIII
be In the best OF condition for the game with
Cornell next Saturday. Burke, who has
been out Of the scrimmaRe with lame back
since the Annapolis game. was out to-day
The most encourage ne feature OF the work
OF the'last day or two Is the gradual strength
enlng of the defence. The line has been
slowly stiffening up In this particular. ana
the ends now play u much better game thuh
q week ago. As for the offence. the Tigers
feel that they will be well matched with the
Ithacans In this respect. COrnell's defence
has, like that Of the Tigers. been causing the
coaches worry. and with the strong. aggres'
sIve work which characterizes Princeton's
playing the Orange and Black eleven ought
to be able to make short work OF Corneli's
defence. What Cornell Will In turn DO
with Princetohs defence Ia the burning dues-
ton with the Tigers. The team Will leave
here Tomorrow night and go direct to Geneva
where they will remain Friday night. going
to Ithaca on Saturday.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Oct 20. Things looked
up IL bit with the Harvard football squad
to-day. The varsity showed little I'M
proveinent in its offensive work, while the
defence was stone wall. The second eleven,
however. was weaker than usna and that
in measure accounts for the better show
ing. In the lineup between the two elevens,
which lasted forty minutes. the varsity scored
Aye touohdowns, four of them on long runs
ing. and In this the. varsity scored twice
Herman running behind pretty interference
from the varsitys 70 YARD ne i ana Hurley ter
on 90 yard run and another on p
on short gains down the field Mills taking the
ball over, At the close Of the practice the
s seS@sd too &orR on yard
and in ten plays the second advanced the ball
but two yards IT. PnhinSs, spfEry n shoT ef
sf eho Ssi has IA shi vii Mt
IN shape to go into the he
viii also begin the. game on Saturday. Meier.
the, other promising man for this position on;
Point, game; Parker. the freshman rE guard;
who has bad ankle ran through odsl signals ,arL
the y snd S % g Sae Il 0 %hs put
game fight against the varsity YESTERDAY
while playing on the ireshn an team ~as
and put to learning the varsity signals.
NEW HAVEN, Oct. 2e.,,The college team
on end runs When the college, squad bucked
up against the varsity in line plays e.:
'varsity team. The coaches believe that
with the hard practice they have given The
the season. as the men realize now that to
drop the bail may mean getting Of the eleyen
will let up on the men tomorrow, so that they
will be IN good shape TO put Up the stronfs Ss
CACHES Of trea on snd plays
day, and he made a good sho wing In getting
away from the tackles and following the In,
Veeder, who seems to have the better. control
in kicking. were tried on the varsity and
college elsye1s MScGy and ed, 8S Sat Are Are
Columbia i game. While Rockwell and Hutchin:
SON also will be in that game. Several Of
their mettle then. as Yale expects to play
upward of eighteen men in that contest
Columbia is losing no possible chance to
work her football team into shape to show
up we'll against Yale. Coach Morley yester-
the regular sehs sG H Of practice Follow
ing usual early morning Jog OF Q mile Ct 80.
the players went at once to South Field
Practice pnsd; w was held. The afternoon practice
of the satad was Of little more importance h, ice
the field after the freshman game that no
attempt at regular scripmaGe work was
made After the work of kekns and catch
Kicking were rehearsed for twenty minutes.
MatTentnln
who did the punting for the varsity.
Yesterday's practice was the next to last
that Columbia will have before the Yale
Usual, would be in secret at American League
Park, Morley howeysr decided Si,,t th H!.,d It
be better to Terk oobn and a
parently had benefited by his rest. Carter.
ao kicked in tt the p Sast on HssnH
thas be been fsT
p Crossed 70 w Re he viii really be able to
get into the play. With Carter out. the punt
ing problem once more becomes complicated.
the best kickers on the, SQUAD. Stsngland
Is too valuable IN going down ne NED AFTER a
kick to be spared to 90 the pr ues ms Vale
game he were ", re given out by TIE New Havenites'
REPRESENTATIVES who were at Columbia yester-
get money down. The sentiment around the
s s bs studen sds dc n ss
for the Blue and white to triumph over the
c te fHts" chances Of scoring against the
Blue. Odds of 2 to against Columbia were
and at this prise so th msse sas
would not equal last years score OF rs TO o
and that the Blue would not tally Is points
n more ahan sn Student in the Columbia
Law Law Sch offered to bet that Yale would
win by at leaSt 30 10 o. All tine money ne nhu
to put up was covered quickly
Columbia freshmen scored an easy victory
vest. rday on South Field over the eleven
Of De La Sale Institute. The Os team sue
ceeded in rolling up 20 points against for
result 81 a ,fumbled pass behind the goal
line by Baekman. The De La Sale team,
although considerably heavier, failed to gain
effectively. Amazega. the schoolboy quarter
back made several long runs. His work
and that of Eddie Thorp., brother of Co.
lumbia's varsity right tackle. was the prin-
cipal factor In the showing made by the De
La Sale eleven, Hanna. quarter back. and
captsin Of the freshman eleven. played his
four long IN gums runs for an average distance for
forty yards Columbia Tailed q points IN
the first half In the latter part OF the second
half Amazega tried a goal from the field.
Hanna recovered the ball for the freshmen
on the yard line. Beekman, standing be-
hind his own goal line. muffed the pass for
a kick and r. Hogden fell on the leather for
n touchdown for De La Sale. HoRden,
De La Sales right guard. broke his collar
bone In a scrimmage.
ITHACA. n. V. Oct 26.-Coach Warner
spent ali OF this afternoon trying to put the
Cornell eleven together in the best possible
manner The only players who are fixed
in their positions are Wilder at centre Capt