New-York tribune., 1905-11-18
COLUMBIA VS.. CORNELL.
Roth TEAMS Confident.
Indications Point to Close, Hard
Fight at ithaca.
TBy Telegraph to The Tribune

Ithaca y. Y, Nov. 17.-Everything is III redol-
ness for the football clash between the red anu
white warriors of Cornell and the blue ana "l'lte
nieskin chasers of Columbia which takes place
Of Percy Field here tomorrow afternoon Both
+eams express themselves as confident oil
,,-;rg and the struggle promises to be bat
tie royal from start to finish. 1t is game III
which II is troublesome for even the wise ones
IN fie,1re out the result, and the uncertainty as
m the outcome adds interest to the game 1hose
Columbia men who arrived here to-f1ght "i'I
the Columbia musical club expressed the opinion
freely that their team would win and packed up
their confidence with money
Go far as the games which have been played
eo there IS little on which a comparison can De
made The game which each team plaEe"
against Princeton offers the only ch'ihce
Princeton defeated Cornell 16-5 ana Coiurioih
20 Since the Princeton game Cornell has
dome little except rest. With the excepuoh vi
costello who will probably be unable to play
4t .a.r, will line up as in the Princeton game
Cos+auo,s nlace will be taken by ORourke VINO
l., haovier than Costello and q trustworthy
+oc,1e The change should not materially
weaken the team.
one change since the Princeton san4e tn".
has materially strengthened Columpia Is '"' u
Quarterback Collins seems to be better man
than Donovan in every respect, and Is hheiS
IN show speed enough TO keep the OoIHe4i uo
: fence on the jump. In the matter OF ehus
columbia is better fixed than three weeks ago
W Fisher will play the same position that ne
has held the whole season, but at the other emu
Post is faster man than Enos and less hhei'
to be boxed on end runs ao an
Naitbar columbia nor Cornell has mace an
enyiehIe record this year. Besides the deteat
by Princeton. Cornell went down pelole ?" ,i+a OF @
more bv a score of II to q. The red ana Wh.lo
was completely outclassed ana galneu g, oailS ic ~
Yards 70 324 wards made by the opposing eleven
Cornell's other games have resulted IN NictotleS'
although that against Colgate was close can
being by the narrow margin OF one poiIit' pom!
Cornell defeated Haverford. 80; western UNI
versity of Pennsylvania, 800 Hobart, ZS-o'
and Bucknell. 20
Columbia has run up big scores this sea-
son Union was defeated % to ., and a few
days later Seton Hall by a score of u to D.
WESLEYAN tied Columbia, o TO y, and W1iliams,
although defeated II to o. managed to score
with a team composed mostly of substitutes
The best that Columbia could DO against Am
herst was to tie the score Dy a goal from the
field while two weeks ago Yale inflicted the
crushing defeat of j3 to upon the blue and
white.
Cornell has met defeat at the hands of Column
bia now for two successive years. and for this
reason is all the more determined TO snatch a
victory tomorrow In 1903 Morleys pupils
journeyed to Ithaca and won by score of Ia to
H. Last year Cornell came to New-York but
was unable do anything better than score
points to Coumbia's II. In 1899 Cornell de-
feated Columbia by a score of ~ TO o. and fol-
lowed it up two years later by another victory
almost large in its proportions In 1910 and
1902 no games played between the two
colleges, that at present each team has two
victories its credit.
DR.. N II. Stauffer, of the University of Penn
sylvania, will referee the game. 5. McClave, OF
Princeton, will act umpire, and D. Fultz, OF
the two teams they viii probably line up fol-
low: