The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-01
YALE'S SUPERIORITY
DUE TO CONDITION
Harvard's Unexpectedly Strong
Showing in Yale Game and
Explanation.
HARVARD BETTER IN ROWING
Enormous Football Receipts at
Yale-To Organize Basket
Ball League.
HARVARD BETTER IN ROWING
Ivy MANHATTAN.


NEW YORK. November so.-well,
the football season of 1907 has passed
into history. and what interesting his
tory It is. Yale wears her Champion
ship honors with becoming dignity, and
doubtless her football men arc duly
thankful for the right to wear them
at all.
While they won fairly and squarely
by honest. straightforward play. Yale's
superiority Is held by none so great
margin as to warrant increasing the
size. of her hats.
l have spoken several times of the
utter futility of forecasting future re-
suits from past performances in foot
ball. The eliminating game of the
season, that between Yale and Harvard
is Il case in point. Harvard was beaten
easily by the Indians. and more than
easily by Dartmouth. Princeton took
the Indians into camp with ease, and
Yale beat Princeton. On the dope Yale
ought to have scored against Harvard
at will. but she didn't. AS matter of
fact, she had just about as much as
she wanted to win the game by small
score.
Why is this? Every fellow has his
own answer am inclined to believe
that it is in great measure due to the
condition of the teams Yale, for eS-
ample, had to play with every ounce
of her strength to beat Princeton just
week before she played Harvard. As
result. it is natural to suppose that
the Yale men were little beyond the
line which marks the perfect condition
Of an athlete. Had they recovered the
ginger expended in the Princeton game
doubtless the score would have been
greater. But then. If Princeton had not
lost some of her snap before tackling
Yale. the sons of Eli might not now be
CHAMPIONS When one gets into the
region of perhaps all sorts of re-
suits can be figured out. AS matter
of fact, Yale is champion.
OF all the games of the year none
appeals to me like the clash between
the Army and Navy. These young fell
lows play the game like they mean it
from start to finish. This years game
was no different from those which had
gone before. 1t was such battle as
would have put warmth into the veins
of snow man. There was not a mo-
ment in it when every one of the adj
mirals and generals In force were not
on tiptoe and there resulted a game
worth going miles to see.
Harvard Superior on Water.
While Harvard finds Yale too strong
for her on land, on the water condi-
tions are reversed. 1t Is natural, there
fore, that the Cambridge men seek
forgetfulness OF their gridiron bruises
by turning their attention to the
crew.
! Harvard has a system for securing
rowing material which Is undoubtedly
tho best used in American colleges to.
! day. When Coach Wray suggested last
! year that each of the college dormi.
| tories organize crew of it's own t.
compete against other dormitors
| crews in a fall regatta the idea was
| received with enthusiasm.
! AS SOON as the term opened ,hi:
year the organization of the dormi
tory crews was taken up just as en-,
| Enthusiastically as football was begun
4 on Soldiers Field, Indeed the cnthu
siasm In rowing Is so keen at presen
| that 1t is n question whether rowing
(, has or has not supplanted football il
| the hearts Of the Harvard students.
/ During the fail The fifteen dormi
/ tories housing Harvard students
! turned out ten Fights Each crew takes
the name OF its dormitory, and tn,
/ following reported for training at TIL,
new boat house every afternoon: Rus
.lsell, llollis-Stoughton, Matthews
4 GraNs, Randolph, Weld. Holyoke
/ Westmorley, Craige- Waverly and Col
5Ilege House.
4 Largest FOtbnll Receipts,
/ The Yale football officials have heel
i footing mp their receipts for the sea
son, and they tigare that they will b.
about $4,000 the largest in Yale