The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-24
HARVARD AND YALE
FIGHT FOR HONORS
Will Play Most Interesting
Game in Years
BETS ARE ALMOST EVEN
National Supremacy Would Unques-
tionabIy Have Been Decided Had
Not Vanderbilt Defeated
the Indians Thursday.

Cambridge. November 2S.-(Special.)-
1t will be a fitting. close to a great season
when the Crimson and the Blue come to-
gether to settle the question of suprem-
acy between them. But this clash means
more than the mere proving which OF
these two colleges has the better team,
more than settling the championship of
the east: the team that wins this battle
can lay claim to the championship OF the
whole country Yale has fairly bested
Princeton and Harvard by a close score
beat the Indians, who last Saturday, with
comparative ease scalped Minnesota, the
best eleven that the west can claim.
The only thing which adds an element
of doubt to national supremacy OF the
winner of the great game is the defeat of
the Indians by Vanderbilt on Thursday,
by the score of to 0. Vanderbilt by this
victory steps forward and takes a new
place in football annals and in Champion
ship games the south must in future be
reckoned with.
Have Been Saving Men.
That both Harvard and Yale have been
aware of the Importance of todays strug-
gle cannot be doubted when one notices
the way the coaches have been saving
their best men. Even in the important
game with Princeton Roome, one of
d
for fear that his already slight injuries
might be made more serious. At Harvard,
Captain Foster has not been in game
for several weeks. and Burr did not go
into the Dartmouth game at all. In TACT,
as soon as the Crimson had piled up a
large enough score to insure victory, sub
stitutes were rushed in to relieve the
regulars, so that at the end of the game,
there were only two first team men on
the field This accounts for the great
showing Dartmouth made in the second
half.
The way Dartmouth rushed the fighting
towards the end of the game showed one
lamentable weakness on the part of the
Crimson. viz, a lack of substitutes. And
this may prove her undoing, for more
than one man usually have to go to the
sidelines in the big game. Harvard's CEN
ter trio. Parker, Burr and Kersburg are
as powerful a bunch as can be found
anywhere. and Starr on the right wing is
a terror to fullbacks catching punts The
first string of backs, consisting of New
hall, Wendell, Foster and Lincoln works
finely together. but first class substitutes
are lacking Where the Crimson is weak
est this season Is at the tackles. Osborne
and Pierce never having shown any great
power this season.
YaIe's Power Unquestloned.
Since the Princeton game, in which
Yale showed superiority to what was
considered for good reason the best team
In the east. nobody is questioning the
bull dog power both on offense and de-
Tense. With a powerful lot of men to
nick from the coaches at New Haven
seem to have been bringing their team
into shape by degrees. Because of this
slow development the Blue has been
somewhat of a disappointment all sea
son, though 1t has never lacked reserve
power enough to win at the critical mo-
ment 1t seems now that the Yale eleven
will have reached the most powerful
stage in its development by the time the
clash comes tomorrow.
Little to Choose.
There really does not seem to be much
TO choose between the two elevens, and
the betting a rule is at even money,
with Yale hackers in predominence Some
of the Ellis will give as much as to 4.
The records of the two teams are as