New-York tribune., 1906-11-13
ON COLLEGE GR1DIRONS
Plants from Princeton and Yale for
Bag Game Saturday.

Judging by reports from Princeton and New
Haven. there is disposition to bettle the chances
of the football elevens of Princeton and Yale in
their coming struggle Saturday. The plaint
comes from New Haven that Captain Morse is in
bad condition, while the tale OF from Prince
ton indicates that Eddie Dillon. tho clever quar-
terback still suffering from hard usage
in thefWest Point game. and that the whole team
Is I'm poor condition physically. 1t is the same
old story, which must be accepted with grain
of salt
Captain Morse will probably be ready for his
best effort Saturday, and Eddie Dillon Is likely
he the life of the Tigers II either should be
absent their respective te ans will suffer, as Cap
tain Morse is second only to Knox as a consistent
ground gamer for Yale. while Eddie Dillon has no
equal at quarterback for Princeton. In comment
ing editorially on the Brown game. the Yale
News says
rejection the game With Brown ~ IS satgFiay sT
pre.aton OF the game as test est OF o ts 1smanIng
games Of aa the ., It must % admitted
Yale was by means the equal of Brown IN tn, the
first half for the latter gained almost at Will ooth
around the ends and through the line Their team
worked as unit and al their plays were on tbe
other hand. seemed bewildered by Browns swift.
a Vain attempt to stem the onslaught. The second
half. however. had different story to tell Brown %
The team showed that il had considerable streng5. e \
GefsRee IN this half the men in the line Went
the game hard and smashed plays which In the the
nrSt ndlt, tney hdu aiOWeu 10 Slil
secondary defence. In the latter part or the
game things well because every man pitched
in and fought for what got The university Is
suuarely behind tho captain and the team 10 en-
made during the coming week of preparation and
in the game Saturd ~. Nothing more cou!d pc
asked and the body of undergraduates will rightly
place the utmost faith in their team.
THE Princetonian," in commenting on the West
Point game says:
The result of Saturdays game at West Point, al
though not all that the undergraduates expected.
fair. West Points ability TO advance the pan
and force kicking game showed a lack of defen-
sive strength more clearly than had been foreseen
In addition this, the fact that the university
team was utterly unable 10 gain ground consistent
" until toward the close of the second half comes
a surprise TO Princeton men. The only other
game which gave any indication of lack of offen-
slve strength was the first period of the Corneil
Army team during the last two weeks, there was
every reason for expecting most difficult contest,
and whether comparative scores count for any
thing is a matter for the future TO reveal. The
9s that of the previous week. and. whatever the
cause Of this let-up. a great deal of hard work
must he accomplished during the present week.
The great danger of a slump and particularly the
too we'll known to the coaches, and IL the present
indications point in that direction it is safe to
that they will be carefully guarded against. Sat
urdays game valuable revealing to the
it impossible to discover IN the Dartmouth
game and its result will show the line of work
which must be pursued in correcting them during
the final week of preparation for the game with
ters pertaining 20 football Princeton and must
beat Yale, and let II not be said of any that
he has shrked his share OF the last weeks work.
even II It consists only In supporting the team.