New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-07
EARL KISER,

developed to the limit OF speed possible for men
| OF their weight to achieve. Bloomer was kept
from the game. presumably to save his bad
shoulder from possible injury. but otherwise the
| line was as IT will be next Saturday. The work
| of Hogan, Trip and Kinney Is described as
| being very fast and aggressive. that of the two
| guards being said to be the fastest guard play
seen on Yale field in years. We shall therefore
see in the Princeton match whether group of
heavy men can cope with group of men only
a trifle less heavy but trife quicker their
feet One feature of the Brown game must
prove OF great encouragement TO Yale and of
corresponding depression to Princeton. This
feature is the kicking of Hoyt. In him Yale
seems to have a really first class punter. He
got off kicks that averaged ffty-hve or sixty
yards. and no punter has done that on any of
the big teams this year. Certainly Ruion- Miller
did not begin to equal this showing in the game
with the soldiers Thirty to thirty-flve yards.
with occasional forty, appeared to be about
his limit It was enough against West Point for
the Army's punting unusually bad, but,
matched with kicking like Hoyts against Brown,
II will be found severe handicap. especially if
Princeton is pressed hard. OF course. 1t is to
be remembered that IT is a deal easier TO punt
well against inferior team and behind line
that is almost sure to hold imperviously than
against equal eleven whose aggressive for
wards well nigh certain TO get through In
the twinkling Of an eye. All the same, it looks
as If Yale had really first class punter in Hoyt,
while Princeton has at best only second rater
to do her kicking. And the difference between
good and bad punting has often proved to be
the difference between victory and defeat But
whatever the result. spectators of Saturdays
great match are pretty sure TO see game whose
issue will not be decided till the last whistle is
blown Princeton has probably her best team in
years. Yale certainly has her heaviest and
strongest and expects to win 1t will be g bat
tie to a finish.
At first sight Harvards chances FOR success
on Yale Field appear to be small Soundly
beaten by Pennsylvania. she is tied by Dart
mouth. although only after desperate struggle
to ward off defeat. and only q narrowly missed
goal from the field sent the Hanoverians home
without victory. have not been able to see
Dartmouth play this year. but there is doubt
that she puts up gilt edged article OF football
She has way of doing it STILL 1t does seem
that If the Cambridge team is to cope with
Yale she ought to have made better showing
against her New-Hampshire opponents. Some
times a score. as in the Yale-West Point match.
gives an inadequate idea OF the relative strength
of two teams But In the case Of the Harvard
Dartmouth match it seems to be a fair measure
Of ability. Harvard fairly played to a
standstill. She rushed for 1853 yards and Dart
mouth for l64 There were bright spots in
Harvard's dark cloud. Pruyn. who replaced
Fley at left end. gavs the best exhibition of end
playing that any Harvard end has shown this
year. especially in the vita. matter OF stopping
the running back Of punts. In this particular
Filley has all along appeared incompetent, and
the coaches wisely gave him up Little Starr.
too, who the team quarterback appears
to have covered himself with glory. 1t ne
and he only who saved Harvard from defeat
when he got through two Dartmouth interferers
and downed a runner who would certainly have
scored but for his ski and mitableness. 1t
seems a pity that the Cambridge coaches could
have discovered this remarkable football
player before the last month of the season, and
rather odd, too when it is considered that he
went to Harvard with the reputation of being
one of the most brilliant of preparato y school
players. Harvard teams have way of develop
ing sometimes with extreme rapidity in the last
days OF a season, and there cases where
she has turned out in those last weeks a win
ming team from what seemed quite hopeless
material 1t may be that this is what is TO
happen this year, but If she were to meet Yale
to-day there could be no doubt OF a victory for
the Blue.
Aside from the Yale Princeton match, the
most important game next Saturday will
be that between Columbia and Cornell at
American League Park. Columbia has been
taking things easily since her terrific drubbing
at Yale's hands. but this week will some
hard practice. and the Columbia players are
said to be confident of victory. 1t is hard to
see any good foundation for their confidence,
if it really exists Cornell came out of her
match with Princeton in good shape, and the
whirlwind game she put up against Lehigh on
Saturday shows that the Ithaca machine is III
fine working order, even though Lehigh has
weak team this year Columbia's physical con-
ditiOr is not Of the best, several OF her crack
players not having recovered fully from the
effects of the Yale game but their long rest
ought TO set most of them right. 1t should be
a good match from any point of view, but it
is hard to see how Columbia can staye off one
more defeat from adding to the total of a rather
disastrous season.
NewYork University will go to West Point
saturday, and, OF course. scarcely expects to
do anything more than make plucky showing
Fultz is handicapped by the youth and light
ness of much OF his material l have not the
statistics of the age OF the local players but
there is no doubt that the football squad of
NeW-Iork University would be more formula
ole II It's average age were greater. Harvard
should nave comparatively easy game with
Holy Cross. which seems TO be weaker than
usual.
While total scores of the big elevens, COM
pared with the tallies opponents have run I'D
the difference in the calibre of the elevens each
team meets. a brief survey OF the achievements
of few of the big fellows will be interesting
OF the Eastern teams Yale has the best show
ing. having scored 1914 points 10 her opponents
20, West Point and Syracuse being the only !
teams to score against her. Princeton's record
is second, with Isl to D. Annapolis. Cornell and
West Point dividing the opposing honoTs be-
tween them. Pennsylvania has made lao points
to for her opponents, Swarthmore he!ng the
only team to score against her. Columbia has
rolled up total of los, but her adversaries have
Tailed 81, while Harvards opponents have
scored only II points. while the Cambridge
totals, however, all the Eastern teams have I'd
retire to the extreme rear and be seated when
compared with the University OF Michigan
which seems in a class by herself OUT west
The Ann Arbor team has piled up the enormous
total Of 543 points. while the total against her
Is only 10. II would be one OF the most inter