Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-22
YALE AND HARVARD
END PRACTICE
Big Rumpus Over Officials
Chosen for Saturdays
Battle.

Yale scrimmaged yesterday, and will again
today, when she. too, will take a day OF
complete rest. Yale's backf1eld problem has
been practically resolved by the develop
men by Knox of an injured shoulder which
makes it likely that Morse will shift to his
place and Roome go in at fullback. The
only difficulty about this solution of the
question is that Knox has been depended
on for all the catching since the fall down
of Jones, and was especially valuable in
this regard while he was the best man in
the open field for end running on the team.
Announcement was made by Coach Reid
last night of the officials selected for the
game. After two days discussion the two
institutions have finally agreed on Lieut..
Hackett of West Point, E. K. Hall of Dart
mouth, William NJ. Edwards of Princeton
and Edward Ayerault of Groton School,
Massachusetts. Ayerault will act as lines
man and Edwards and Hall as umpires
according to Reid, with Hackett as referee.
1t is said that Yale, however, objects to
Edwards officiating as umpire, but that
Harvard will insist on it. The issue of the
matter remains undetermined. Harvard has
already carried her contention for two UNI
pires.
There was another important development
yesterday at Cambridge that is broader and
more far-reaching than the consideration of
granting of permission to the athletic man.
agement by the board of overseers to sched-
ule intercollegiate contests between Deem
Der 1 and July 1 of next year. The general
question is not settled, and no foot ball
games. in which Harvard is most inter-
ested, may be arranged. Until after the
Yale-Harvard game the fate of foot ball
hangs in the balance there, although the
Crimson's supporters are disposed to take
hopeful view of the situation, owing to
President Eliot's approval Of the new game
of foot ball as exploited in the Carlisle and
Harvard game, which he attended.
Capt. Palmer E. Pierce, from West Point.
yesterday sent out another appeal to the
colleges to join in the movement to con-
tinue the helpful influence exerted by the
intercollegiate athletic conference last year,
now organized into the Intercollegiate Ath-
letic Association. The association is en-
wise control of student athletic sports, to
save what is salutary and abate the evils
that have grown up, each institution join
ing pledging to maintain a high standard of
personal honor. eligibility and fair. play,
and to remedy whatever abuses exist.
He announces that another foot ball con-
ference will be held in the last week In De-
cember to secure a representative body of
rule makers for next year, as was done last
year, while 1t is suggested the field be
widened this year and take in other sports
that need rule revision. notably basket ball.
Knox Unable to Play.
NEW HAVEN, November 22-Knox. the
best halfback of the Yale team and one of
the best in the country, will not play in the
Harvard game Saturday ii the word Of
the coaches can be accepted. This has cast
gloom over the undergraduates, who feel
that without Knox Harvard may earn a
victory. When the doctor examined Knox S
bruised shoulder yesterday 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 Capt Morse are the probable
Ones but how they will be distributed is
not settled. Some of the coaches favor
playing Linn instead of Roome. Inns
His style of attack is the lodging, wrig-
Cling variety, while Roome Is heavy line
plunger. The fact that Roome lost eighteen
pounds during his recent illness gave Linn
the call In the Princeton game. Veeder is
a necessity because of his puntng. In the
rush line Alcott will be played, not because
his work at right end is entirely satisfac-
tory. but because Burch, his chief rival,
again has been laid up and is out of the
game for the season.
High Hopes at Harvard.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, November o.
Harvard foot ball enthusiasm reached high
water mark yesterday, and was marked by
a parade of 1900 students to Soldiers
Field in pouring rain to cheer the team
in it's last practice at Cambridge. monster
mass meeting in the Union in the evening,
and another parade after the mass meeting
According to his own announcement made
in his speech in the Union last evening, W.
T. Reid will never again be the Crimson
head coach Reid got an ovation at the
close of his address which has never been
equaled at Cambridge.
Reds utterances have done much to in
crease the confidence Of Harvard men that
their team is going to defeat Yale. He
said:
1.-The eleven that will face Yale on Satur-
day will be the brainiest team that 1 have
ever had anything to do with. Further the
men will go on the field with the most
complete preparation, in the finest condition
and with the strongest personnel Of any
team that 1 have coached or played on.
Anything further than this with regard to
the score or outcome of the game I do not
care to say, except this: Every man on the
team will go into the game with the most
fixed determination that, no matter how
well Yale plays, she cannot surpass Har-
ward I"
The makeup Of the eleven that will meet
Yale was definitely announced Macdonald
and Starr will be at the ends. Osborne and
Peirce at tackles, Burr and Kersburg,
guards; Parker, center; Newhall, quarter;
Capt. Foster, left half; Lincoln, right half
and Wendell, fullback.
This team had signal practice in the cage
yesterday afternoon. short secret scrim-
mage, and then ran through signals before
the students who had marched to the field
All the plays were run off with smooth
ness that promised well. The squad left
Cambridge at o'clock this morning for
their quarters at Morris Cove.
Cadets May Lose Pullen.
WEST POINT. N. Y, November 22-The
Army coaches are worried over the condi-
ton of Pullen, the star right tackle Of the
cadet team. 1t is now feared that West
Point will have to face the Midshipmen
without the big Alaskan in the lineup
Pullen has been the mainstay of the Army
line. He is a remarkable player and the
find Of the season. His work against Yale
and Harvard was brilliant. He easily out
played the men opposed to him and was
tackling all over the field.
Early In the Princeton game he was hurt
and forced to retire. At the time it was
not thought that the injury was a serious
one. but it is now deemed doubtful IL he
will be in condition for the contest on
Franklin Field. The coaches are now busiIy