The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-29
EASTERN TEAMS
WORK AT DEFECTS.
Football Followers Can Get Lit
tie Line on the Big
Fellows.


Boston, Oct. 28.-Harvard men are
blue-not Yale blue-but mentally blue.
team made against West Point. They
have much reason for disliking
it. Harvard did not play high-class
football.
Calamity stories have been emanat-
ing from Cambridge to the, effect that
the material under Reid isn't all that
might be, and if the West Point game
were based on chunks of solid truth.
Harvard has a team great deal
like that Of last year. There is beef
in plenty, but there isn't any action
with 1T. The players are slow, unre-
sponsive and UNCERTAIN about getting
into formations. The ends have just as
much to learn as those of two or three ,
toned.
Nearly all that was hoped for in the
matter of aggressiveness and better
grasp Of the fundamentals of the
game by seasoned players has failed to
materialize. It is true that some Of the
more important men are not quite ready
for the season, but when they are ready
it becomes evident that the crimson
must improve both in offense and de-
Tense to meet Pennsylvania-the first
hard game of the year-with confidence
n themselves.
Yale Confident.
Yale caught little more in Penn
sylvania state than had been antici-
pated, but, bear IN mind that Yale
to 90 3 II. if it did take some work
That seems to prove, If It proves
anything, that Yale is playing with con-
Gdence in itself and that the team is
ready to grapple with hard problem
and solve it satisfactorily to the sons
The Yale backs are still as formid-
able as any that at. have played ai in IA. uni
advancing the ball has not been ex--
celled by any team, and it is assured
that they can be relied upon in all con-
tests that they are to play during the
remainder Of the season.
With good backfeld to give con-
fdence.. the work Of coaching will be
directed to improvement in the line,
known to place good lines in the field,
even when the outlook was somewhat
dubious, it is rather safe to predict
that when the date Of the Princeton
game arrives Yale will face the tigers
with confidence shared both by the
coaches and the undergraduate body.
Thus far the generalship displayed
in handling the team has been excellent,
and while there is no Rockwell this
year there are two quarterbacks who
have shown unmistakable evidence Of
knowing how to direct the attack and
how to follow it up.
! PENNSYLVANIA caught tartar in
Brown Saturday afternoon, and from
some knowledge of the game which had
been played by Brown it was not SO
very unexpected.
! HPennsy $" weakness. was in fun
! bling, a fault which worried the coaches
all the fall, and which became evident
the moment that the Quakers were
asked to face team going at higher
speed than anything which had played
on Franklin field during the year.
, It was costly pass by Stevenson
; which gave the Providence players their
only chance to score, and to make the
8 touchdown more humiliating it came
limit in the second half had almost
2 expired and the Pennsylvania players
3 were sanguine that they had Brown
2 shut out.
5 So weak was the Pennsylvania de-
Tense that Dennie, Browns left end,
: shot thru the players when he saw the
s ball 90 to the ground, grabbed it up
8 and was off and away before one of the
q Pennsylvania men could check him. He
s outmaneuvered "Pennsy's' furthest
back. and toward the latter part of his
run was practically unmolested. The
outcome of the game did much to shake
{ the confidence of the Pennsylvania play
ers in the superior strength of their
team this year, and hard work will be
the rule from now on to place the
4 eleven in such condition as will insure
: a possible victory over Harvard.
4 No game fooled the critics and foot
: ball enthusiasts in general so much as
Q that between Princeton and Lafayette.
I is whether the tigers are stronger than
q q were supposed to be or the Lafay-
y cite team weaker.
o The speed of the orange and black
= was the most surprising feature Of the
g game. AL! the season the tales from
o Princeton have bemoaned the slowness
y Of the men and their inability to make
E all out Of their chances that was pos.
n sible, yet in the first half Of the con.
9 test against Lafayette they succeeded
o in scoring sixteen points and, as one
n account Of the game reads, Hfairly
played the Lafayette men off their
So confident were the Lafayette stu
dents of the worth Of their team that
IT they were inclined before the game be
), gan to wager even money that they
!, might win. Ten minutes Of play taught
m them that their hope was will-o 1.-The
;, wisp. The tigers were alert for every
{, move made by their opponents and wer.
,e successful repeatedly in jumping init
d the attack and breaking up the La
Q, fayette formation before they could b,
n got under way. Guess Princeton is not
r very slow if that is sample Of theil
n work. Shuster managed to kick ont
m goal from field for Lafayette, but th,
d three or four which had been predicted
4 never materialized. The Princeton
e. players were too quick to give then
opportunity.