The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-23
TWO GREAT GAMES IN EAS1
Yale and HanGIt Struggle Will
be Titanic.
NAVY HOPES TO BEAT west POINT
SOLDIER ELEVEN SORE OVER THE
ROUGH WORK ON PART OF
TIGER TEAM.

NEW YORK, Nov. 23.-Just three
more big games are left to be played
before the football season of 1906, in
| the east, comes to an end. 1t has been
notable season, from the fact that
the new rules have been tried out and
that they have CARLY revolutionized
the game. They are yet to be per-
fected, but it can fairly be said that
they have been proven sound in prin-
ciple and that a great improvement
in the game has resulted. Headwork
is given a more even chance against
sheer weight and the spectators are
given a vastly more interesting game
to watch than was possible under the
old rules.
Football enthusiasts throughout the
east will be glad to know that Presi-
dent Eliot of Harvard thinks the new
! game not only less brutal than that
of year ago, but improved to the
extent that it is enjoyable.
Much of the opposition to football
| began with Harvard. Not direct oppo-
sition to the game itself, but deter
mined opposition to the manner in
which the game was being played.
While other colleges may take credit
| for having brought about the reforms
of the present season it is fact that
| 80 per cent of them received their mi
tiative from Harvard and such Of the
football critics as were willing to make
a fight for a more open game.
Can Harvard Beat Yale?
Will Harvard beat Yale? And will
the ambition Of the navy to down the
army on the gridiron be gratified this
year? These are the two questions
which are being eagerly discussed on
every college campus in the east.
On performance 1 am rather in
clined to answer yes to the first and
no to the second questions. The game
between Yale and Harvard will be
fought out next Saturday at New Ha-
ven. The fact that Yale plays on her
own ground is in her favor, of course,
but despite this fact the game which
the two teams have been playing dur
ing the latter part of the season indi-
Gates that the Crimson has a decided
shade the best Of the Blue, both in
offense and defense. 1t can be said
that neither team is quite up to the
highest mark. Neither has fully mas
tered the new rules, and there are
weak spots in both. While it is NO
sure thing either way. 1 am inclined
to believe, if I was forced to pick
a winner, my choice would go to Har-
ward.
4 Army Looks Good.
!: AS to the army and navy game on
December 1 the chances are all in ia
vor of the West Pointers. The fu-
: ture generals have, it is true, been
have only two defeats marked against
: them. West Points conQuerors, how
. ever were the three strongest teams
in the east-Yale, Harvard and Prince
ton-and they all won by narrow mar
gins, and as much through good luck
as good plays; while the navy was
and narrowly escaped defeat at the
hands of Dickinson and Swarthmore
On the play the sailors seem to have
only a remote chance of winning
throgh they appear confident.
Tigers Were Rough.
There is some talk to the effect thai
West Point will not play Princeton
next year because of the rough tactics
of the Jerseymen.
Nassau has a fine eleven, perhaps
the greatest of the year, and it il
something of a pity that criticism
should arise from any source in rela.
ton to the work of the players. If there
is disposition to find a little faul
at West Point it may be taken fol
granted that the game was rough, a.
the West Point authorities seldom hav,
! a word to say about the character O.
the contests which are played on theil
field.
Indians Great Team.
Early in the season I suggested tina
the Carlisle Indians were likely to tur,
2 out an eleven which would be able t.
make any team in the country PLAY
} all the football they knew from star