The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-08

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PHILADELPHIA, Nov 7.-Lafaye tte may
lust as well stay home Saturday 4 she expects
and In its new strength is sweeping all before
situation. which the onakers have at last
solved better than they had hoped FOR.
To.day's practice and the game with Swarth-
two BASKETBALL stars, and the race for the
the, most interesting things that Franklin
Field has viewed In a long time. TO show
sISHS SlU work Y e ,;o LaWrs snd I Remain aae se took .1 up ths
job when the real thing was. on, playing In
better form than he has exhibited this season;
The solving Of the quarterback problem and
the total adoption of new football by the
coaches has placed the team in a better light.
time. The men DlSysd tosether with the vim
and dash that sent former Quaker elevens
TO victory and they showed that new football
hours serimmage the, varsity made two
touchdowns on the scrubs.
CAMBRIDGE. Mass. Nov. The Harvard
football men had easy work to-day. There
was no scrimmag &c. and a number of the regu-
KennSTd and SswhaiI were the men allowed
70 go free. The varsity men who were on
the field had a long drill in running through
as all Of the. prominent varsity backs were
on the field together for the FIRST time in
! tcNcEdl Wtchb. Oapt. fOttfT anu LluCOlus
the latter being in toys for the tirst time in
ten dsys. got Into the signal practice, So
did Parker, at centre, though he has been
1t has been practically decided to play Pierce
at right tackle, where there has been a hard
Eight eDdsh has asp Been decide. d'f ia Stars favor.
has set FOR himself tSs last week. " ~
-, NV W.! nlaSyEGS; Conn. Nov; cap, aY 2.
stss.st his Of oP fhs asr as DO s SS9 Y GS@P footbSii
teams and says that Harvard Is clearly the
stronger in the offence while Yale is slightly
the Harvard-Yal ale game this year will DO one
OF the most closely contested OF years. Tor the
Harvard line SsS on the whole sSeIIey wa m" heavier and
more powerful thanYale's forwards. but the
Crimson backs were in every way outclassed
defence was the best seen at West Point this
year. Capt. Hill thus continues the COM
the Yale ends were certainly faster than
Harvard's, but they did not seem so sure of
their tackles and had more trouble in pre-;
pass. On the whole we found II more difficult
to make our distance against Yale than against
aYale's offence seemed to me weak. con-
siderably. weaker than the ground gaining
ability which Harvard displayed. The Har-
other more. Yale was able to make first down
through our line but twice, while we had great
"fn the RicSfns departmeHt there il IS little
TO choose between the, two teams. although
Harvard may be conceded a slight advantage;
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f Refser re Sd r. ri i aiti1u ilte 70 jSdF vS% her re SS
ability in this line. That brings up another
point. ,Harvard's handling Of the bal. was
work to a marked degree. Harvard seems
to make more profitable use of the new plays
permitted by this years rules"
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candidates for the Varsity eleven. The big
showing Of gridiron material was due to the
tests Will start tomorrow. All the Varsity
men were on hand and INDUCED in light
practice. The individuals, came ip for CON-
M~cCutcheon, substitute fullback. was on the
field for the first time in several days.
PRINCETON. N. J.. Nov. Not a Tiger is on
the sick list at present, though a few are far
from perfect physical eSadaion, There vas ,Ss
result was a fierce, scrimmage. Two halves,
lasting twenty and, twenty-hve minutes re-
SIsSs'v worn W dosn nus Sy the Ser steady aus suo Of
Mccormick. Rulon- Miller and Harlan, In the
tered 1.-TWO touchdoWns by a steady rushing Of
the ball. Harlan was clever In his drop kick
ing. tie sent four clean goals over the bar
the scrub at left tackle. There is some danger
of the players going stale. The Tigers are
on edge To-day.
ANNAPOLIS. Md. Nov. In thirty minutes
Of hard work the Navy regulars managed to
Ewing, who played iullbaek, Carrying the
ball over both times. Douglass. the crack
back. was in the lineup for a short time and
made several good gains. The team had
several changes this afternoon. Magruderi
right tackle, was relocated to the scrub. and
| DiaPanl hAipu or i'll nNf of the yQmn U-ifh N had
knee. Northcroft and simpson were put &C
the tackles. NorthorOft, who played FULL
good Norton was at Quarter. but Capt.
Spencer stayed out Of the game. Ingram being
at right half, Dague and Richardson played
! shifting OF the team SO late IN the season Is
heing criticised. Injuries to players, however,
necessitated a part OF 1t.
WEST POINT. y. Y, Nov. This afternoon
the cadets We're hard at II. practising for the
the first hard practice since the Yale game;
The army expects the hardest tussle, OF all
on Saturday. The faults seen in the Harvard
and Yale games have been sifted out and every
effort Is being made to eradicate them. john,
sOn,sa running run M Of the he team to-day % showed
fore the men were on their. feet. .Hanlon
made the only score, receiving, a forward
pass from johnson on the scrubs rs yard
mark and lodging through for a touchdown.
The scrubs only made one first down. Weeks
IL showing sp n s1a IN getting J through on
AVA " NtM@ So AANA ~ 80 - NAsN
from falling into the scrubs hands. All
the regular men were out to-day and all are
In good shape.
The Fordham eleven is back at hard practice
after a day or two of rest ~followinga hard trip
and a harder gam at Worcester. The Bronx
boys are showing up In their old time form.
confident of their ability to win the remaining
games on their schedule. and even to turn
the tables on Holy Cross when the two meet
In New York on Thanksgiving Day, Booth
of Princeton, who hel ped out Coach Smith
before the Holy Cross game. is still taking
care OF the Fordham line and putting soma
finishing touches on what proved at Worcester
to be a strong defence. Booth is giving
special attention TO Coffey's punting, which,
though good In last Saturdays game, did
not prove all that was expected. In yester-
days game against the second eleven the
varsity scored two touchdOwnH in each half
by fast. snappy playing and brilliant running
by Cassassa and H.. GarRan, who made an
eighty yard journey for a touchdown. Work
in pertectinR tho quarterback kick, which
proved a big aid TO Fordhan against Holy
Cross, Ia still kept up. The end back play
has been abanOdned as too clumsy and slow.
Both coaches and students are pleC we'd with
the teams work, and predict q clean slate
for the rest OF the season.
GRoroN, Mass, Nov. 7.-GrOton School
defeated st. Marks school by IA score OF II
20 o in the annual football game here this
afternoon. GrOton was at all times superior
and scored two touchdowns in the nrst half
from which one ROal WINS Kicked. Foster