The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-07
Ellis Made a Poor Showing
Against West Polnt.
THE TEAM NEEDS WORK
Spectators Say They Have New
er Seen Such Showing.
Is Apathetic and Uncertain for
Such a Bright Start.

New York, Nov. This years FOOT
BAH crisis at Yale is a real one. Gloomy
reports recently sent out from New Ha-
ven were discounted by the wise per
sons who have come to believe that
bowls of misfortune invariably attend
the process of turning out a winning
yale team. But, after the showing
against West Point, almost n close
follower of football viii admit that the
Blue really is in difficulties
A Yale team wltAaut team work is
something new in I6otball, yet that IS
the style OF team ehat tackled the SOL
dtsrs Saturday. Men who have follow
ed Yale teams season after season FOR
ten years and more-there were many
on The side lines SaturdayZsatd they
had never seen a Yale eleven act eK-
actiy like his one.
And they ann believe that the o
sence of Roome makes all the diner
snqe. individually the eleven is. for the.
most part, very strong, and defenstEety
&C IS formidable. but ut showed less
knowledge OF team play Saturday than
u, many g small cOTleg
The Yale attack splatgE about the
field like the pearls Of necklace after
the string Is cut knOX VeedeT ana
Morse are football pearls Of great price,
aud Xale's problem now is to string
rad Jones attempted to do so last
Saturday and failed miserably. His be
wfIderment quickly communicated IT.
self to Morse and VeedeT, and seldom
have these two stars played such
apathetic football.
Knox alone Of the back field seemed
capable OF thinking on his feet, and with
only one good man to help him would
have made trouble for the soldiers de-
Tense. Veeder's kicking was superb,
but in other respects he did not figure.
On the offensive the Yale line, with
hha cwa1nFfan If A1rOff and fHa center
trio, was quite as strongly apathetic as
the backs. There was no steam in the
eleven, and eVeneB Forbes
fell in with the SAFFRON fashion of play
that marked Yale's work throughout the
game. -
The whole Yale team acts as If it had
not been worked hard enough. 1t is
apathetic and uncertain, u"naccountably
90 for an eleven that started the sea-
son with so much dash and head work.
The question. What Is the matter with
Jones7' may well be revised to read,
VIVA Is the matter with Yale2"
From Cambridge the information IS
being circulated that the Crimson is
preparing especially for the Yale game
and that humps by the wayside are of
no moment. But hCu Yale beat Har-
ward the wayside misfOrtunes wOul
look up with ~disagreeable prominence.
Princeton's Smoothly working machine
does not seem to have developed any
creal<s from sfhe Eeeeptr Changes ~ the
no Serious resistance last Saturday. it
is reasonable to suppo that the Tigers
are still improving. At present the Or
anEa and Black Is far and away the
best eleven in the east, and it will re-
main for next Saturdays tussle with
West Point to determine how Old Mas
sau Is maintaining this form.
Princeton's cheerful acceptance of the
new rules has been well rewarded. The
other side Of the shield belongs to
Dartmouth, which, through mistaken
policy, has dropped suddenly from the
front rank to the second division, and
may even go lower. BAD faith in foot
bail does not pay n it is good that 1t
IS so.