New-York tribune., 1906-11-22
HARD BLOW FOR YALE.
KNOX UNABLE TO PLAY.
Mach Feeling OUer HarOard,s Posi-
ton in Choice of Officials.
rRr Telegraph to The Tribune. J

New Haven Nov. 21.-Knox, the best half
back of the Yale team, and one Of the best in
the country. viii not play in the Harvard game
on Saturday If the word Of the coaches to-day
can be accepted. This has cast a gloom over
the undergraduates. who feel that without
Knox. Harvard may earn a victory. When the
doctor examined Knoxs bruised shoulder to-day
he said that it would probably take two or three
weeks for the muscles to heal.
In the absence Of Knox a change will have
TO be made IN the back field. Roome. Veeder
and CAPTAIN Morse are the probable ones, but
how they will be distributed is not settled.
Some OF the coaches favor playing Linn instead
of Roome. Linns work in the Princeton game
was acceptable. His style Of attack is the
lodging, wriggling variety. while Roome Is a
heavy line plunger. The fact that Roome LOST
eighteen pounds during his recent Illness gave
Linn the call b. the Princeton game. Veeder Is
a necessity because Of his punting. In the
rushline Alcott will be played. not because MS
work at right end is entirely satisfactory ouI
because Burch. his chief rival. again has been
laid I'D and is out Of the game for the season.
Yale men are exercised over the atutude
which Harvard took at the meeting 10 oeciue
on the officials for the game. Bill Relo' speah-
ing for Harvard insisted on certain oflclals' OF
NO eaue An agreement was reached to-day
INT one of the Yale coaches expressed MS 1eei-
,nes rather strongly when he said to-night;
rf the tickets had not been sold for the Yale
tarvard game when Harvard's ultimetun was
given US the game would not have been plaveu'
II &c said that every official Yale suggested
mas ohiected 70 by Harvard Yale would have
baen glad 10 have Paul Dashiell, the most ex-
nerienced umpire in the country. as one OF the
,rnpires The agreement was that Yale shouio
nick one and Harvard the other Harvard Sc
rected Hail. the former Dartmouth end. TO whose
appointment Yale made no objection. yale pro-
posed the name OF DaShiell. who has umpHeo
practically every important game for hrteeh
years Harvard absolutely refused to accept
him, and tried TO get Yale TO accept Bill Ed
wards the former Princeton captain who was
not acceptable, and Dvarts Wrenn. Harvard
graduate wrenn umpired the Yale-Princeton
game last Saturday. AS there is an agreement
that no aiunnnus OF either university shall ohici-
ate at one OF their annual games, Yale balkeo
at wrenn at first, but when it came to choice
between Edwards and Wrenn she picked Wrenn
Reid then backed down and refused 10 accept
wrenn.
The whole subject has aroused much feeling
but the incident will be dropped until after the
game.
mage to-day, but the work was not Of the hard
est kind Some OF the men acted sore and
played below their best form Bomar was tried
a
of the game against Harvard.
The practice was public, and consisted OF two
short halves between the varsity and the fresh
man elevens. Captain Morse, Biglow and Knox
the only members of the varsity who did
not take part
The freshmen used the forward pass TO ad-
vantage, and ii with difficulty that the var
Eity scored just time called in the second
half, WeeineCken, one Of the substitute half
backs. carrying the ball the line through
centre. Twice during the afternoon Coy cleared
Alcotts end for long runs.
big squad OF graduate coaches was at the
field and assisted in coaching. Besides Head
Coach Rockwell there were on hand Walter
Camp, Ralph Bloomer, De Witt Cochrane Dr.
s. NJ Hammond Frank Hinkey, Carl Flanders,
j. s. Roraback, P Smith and Lydig Hoyt
Fully fifteen hundred undergraduates marched
behind a brass band 20 ths field to give the
players welcome home from Princeton and to
cheer them for the coming Harvard battle. II
was the last mass meeting of the students till
the Harvard game. The team will visit the field
tomorrow, but will do no scrimmage work
Ihe gr1diron has been covered with straw
Whicn has absorbed the light rains of the last
two days. The playing field will be in fine con-
olton on Saturday, unless either a heavy snow
or rain falls before then. Jim Foster who built
me stands ar Princeton for the game there last
saturoay. has added twenty-five hundred seats
sor the Yale-Harvard match. This brings tha
capeclty or Yale Field up to about thirty-two
tnoosano. but tickets are the scarcest IN Yale
history: Seats are selling for $40
Inc Feouot House was opened to-day for the
Iscepton or The Harvard eleven here Tomorrow
Ihe squad % fifty players Will arrive az :
. CLOCK and VIII be taken directly to Morris Cove
an special trolley car. They will rernstn +bara
III saturday az 11:45 O'clock when they will
come oy special trolley to the young Mems
cress for the game 0-'S' 70