The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-18
Monday, November IS, 1907.
OUTDOOR REFLh CTIoNS.

The people of the city of New Ha- ven are particularly fortunate in the opportunities which are given them to improve upon their ordinary refec- tions on life and it's ever-pressing va riety of emotions. These opportunities are provided by the undergraduates of Yale University, whose athletic en- terprises attract here annually thous- ands of people from every part of the country and to watch whose conduct is to broaden ones horizon. Saturday gave an extraordinary chance to reflect in the open. The weather was ideal, the football contestants represented the highest development yet reached in the science of the game and the crowd was representative American crowd in every sense of that term. Awarding as it did victory for the home players, the day may be said not to have a parallel in the entire history of outdoor sports.
 The fact was borne home more em- phatically than ever Saturday that the annual football game on Yale Field differs in every respect from the annua, baseball game with Harvard during Commencement week. Besides belonging to the general family of out door sports the game of football diff fers so completely in the emotions 1t arouses as to command on the part of the spectator an attention of it's own. The game has more of the qualities of . battle and on that account calls forth from the spectator greater in- tensity of interest, at least in its out ward expression. At critical moments in all out of door sports the sudden change in the fortunes of the con- testing teams by some brilliant indi- vidual play appeals with like force to the watching crowd, so that one can say with truth that the enthusiasm which overtakes an audience at such moments on the football and baseball field is the same in tone and quality, but in no other respect can a com parison be made. Tn addition to view ing the game more as battle between opposing armies, the season of the year in this section of the country sharpens the appetite for the quality of gore which football game dis penses. It must be flercer in charac- ter to satisfy, just as in the summer season the emotions respond less pro- foundly to acts of similar skill The crowd itself brings to New Haven different mood. It is more tense ar tlcle of human conviction. The very raiment the men and women wear suggests the difference in the tenn perament of the two major sports just as one will look in vain on the river for the emotions which are universal on the field. No wonder Professor Vim cent of Chicago University has written so delightfully."- upon the physchology of the crowd.
 But if an interest of that suggestive character was provoked by the foot ball game on Saturday, how much larger an Interest was permanently provoked by the varying character of the contest itself. A Connecticut poctess has declared that songs lie asleep in the grasses" A moralist n.'siit have found lesson in tEe game with Princeton. Ths players from that distinguished institution of learning brought here an experiencing under standing of the possibilities of the game and they brought it to an insti- tntien itself acknowledged to be a master of the science. For full half the fighters from Princeton had the fighters from Yale puzzled and mysti- fled. The wearers of the blue could not understand what had happened to their team. The alertness, gimp and the energy which were expected oi them were lacking and when the cur. tain was rung down upon the first part of the game and the score read 10 to 0 in favor of the visitors, the Yale spirit Jagged and dropped. The beginning of the second half presented for reflection a rejuvenated Yale team. The watchful coaches had learn. ed the lesson of Princeton's skill dur. ing the fearful minutes of watching and had taught it to the players 1T the quiet of passionate conference The noralist would be well within hi! professional understanding of thingl should he tell us that in the racl1inl experience of the first half of tht game the Yale players found the Ike! to life. Puzzled and mystifed by tn, wit and cleverness of their opponents the moment they understood the phil
 osophy of it all they knew that the!