The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-11-22
BIG GAME NEAR AT HAND
TALE AND HARVARD PUT ON
 FINISHING TOUCHES.

poets to Win-Oficials for Game Se-
 Iected After Long Period of Wrang-
 ling-Harvard Team Coming To-day
 With the exception of Knox, Yale'a plucky little half back, the entire Yale team is in the best of condition and the coaches expect decided victory over Harvard Saturday in the first game of the season.
 The Ellis unexpectedly showed up their line in excellent form. It was thought that Forbes was too unfamiliar with his new job to play end properly yet he acquitted himself nobly Tad Jones and Yale's punt-catching depart ment were thought perilously weak, yet with the aid of Knox every kick was handled in fine shape and Tad Jones played the game through without making a single bull.
 Again the Yale center, where McCor- mick was expected to blow through as often and far as he liked, stood up like a rock, with big Hockenburger on the job, and last, but most important, Cap- tain Morse, proved himself in condition to play the whole game through with out once calling for time.
 It will be a hard blow to Yale if Knox is not in condition to play against Harvard. He has been relied upon for end runs and for running back punts. If he should be out of the game Roome will play in his place The backfeld will then be Roome, Morse and Veeder, a very strong combination. The addi- tion of tRoome will give the team a plunging half-back, which the Blues will need against the strong Crimson line.
 The Harvard football team cannot for aminute be overestimated. By good coaching their team has arrived nearly at the top notch. They play a game unequalled by any team except Yale The game Saturday will therefore be one of the greatest In history.
 When we said that Yale would have an easy game Saturday we overlooked the steady development of center trio in Kensburg, Burr and Parker, a pair of tackles in Osborne and Pierce that rank with the best on the gridiron this year. We also, perhaps, overlooked that little Starr, last years great Har- ward quarterback, was this fall being transformed into one of the best ends in the country, and while this was go- ing on his. substitute was coming 80 fast that he (Orr) has now supplanted all 4J,a Al frf 11h 1iyo giving the Crimson lightning pair of sure-tackling ends.
 Of course we had to notice the good work of Wendell, for he has shone out as a fullback par excellence, but may be we thought his running mates, Lock- wood and Lincoln, were exceedingly poor-and so they are. But again. we forgot that last year Wendell was halfback and that he might be put back there again before the Yale game see ing that, in Appolonio, Harvard has another fullback better than either Lockwood or Lincoln is as halfback
 And again, as he hasn't played in three weeks we forgot, maybe, that Foster, the Harvard captain is slowly coming around to play the other half back against Yale as well as the job has ever been done before. If Foster, Wendell and Appolonio compose the Harvard backfield against Yale, with Newhall-who has proved himself an excellent quarterbaok-to direct the play, Harvard will be in a position to make Yale fight much harder than she did against Princeton, and the Yale tesm may be lucky to escape from the big Nrimson team with tie score
 The arrangements made by the New Haven rNad to take care of travel on account otv the Yale-Harvard football game Saturdsy include a large number of special trains from New York, Bos- ton, Springfield and Hartford, there be- ing upwards of thmty special trains, composed of parlor Cars and coaches. It is reported that the following will attend the game, occupying private cars to and from New Haven:
 From New York-Harvard club w Delaney Kountze, H. J. Hazlehurst G. l.. Hoyt, J. w Geary, H. o. Have meyer, jr,, Woodward Babcock, Nor man S. Dike, w. A Barstow, R. ID Wentworth, Price Collier, George n Widener, T. Dewitt Cuyler, P. B. Thompson, L. F. H. Betts, E. R. Dun- ham, Henry Rowland, G. c. Clark, John McGee, M. E. Stone, jr George W. Darr, c. M, Fleischman, H. c. Duval. Richmond Talbot, W. D. Chalmers and Henry R. Req. In addition there will be number of cars occupied by indi- Viduals.
 From Boston-Zeta Psi club, A. D. club, Kalumet club, Puritan club, Por- cellian club, Sphinx club, Prince party Mayor Fitzgerald, Woods party, Sleep CT party, Delta Phi club, Tennis and Racquet club University club, Alpha Delta Phi club Cotton party, Nople and Greenough party, and Leavitt and Pierce. There will also be a number of cars occupied by individuals.
 As it Is expected that the game will be over somewhat earlier than previous years, by reason of the revised rules, the first coach train for New York has been scheduled at 4:30 p. m., sections to leave at frequent intervals thereafter so that passengers going to New York will ind trains in readiness.
 Trains for Boston and Hartford will leave at frequent intervals after 4:3O D. m,
 Information bureaus will be in opera tion at the platform at Union station on Saturday, from which persons de- slring information as to departure of the trains after tba game Or as fo To-