New-York tribune., 1907-11-15
ON COLLEGE GR[DIRONS
NEW H1VEN WAKING UP.
Yale EIeren Has Last ScTimmGge
for Princeton Game.
IBy Telegraph 70 T-he rrIbune. ]


New Haven Nov 14.-This city is alive with
the rush of preparation for the Yale-Princeton
football game on Saturday. The advance guard
began to arrive this afternoon. and many went
to Yale Field to get look at the eleven in its
closing practice The main thoroughfares of the
city took a gay air of intercollegiate color.
the flags of Yale predominating, but intermingled
in many public places with the iaring Orange
and Black of Old Nassau.
Inquiries at the leading hotels OF the city to-
night brought forth the response that every
thing has been taken. The recent fire at the
Hotel Garde has lessened the usual accommoda-
tiOns available. and many Of the guests will
spend tomorrow night in the hotels at Meri-
den ana Bridgeport, and even as far away az
Waterbury and Hartford.
The initial undergraduate outburst pealed
turned out TO give the varsity team testt-
monial Of confidence. loyalty and encourage
ment Usually the turnOUts embrace students
from the academic, and, to n lesser degree. the
scientific, departments This afternoon every
department sent its enthusiastic quota. and
some two thousand undergraduates We're IN line
This was the first and only demonstration by
the undergraduates this fall and it was Justify
carried out to an energetic completion. FORMING
on the campus, the procession marched out OF
College and Chapel streets to the field, headed
by a brass band. Songs and cheers for the
Princeton game given with a vim, ana
every player cheered In unusual meas
the varsity eleven this fall possesses the
confidence and good will Of the faculty. stu
dents and alumni. Captain BiglOw and Knox
the head coach, have handled the eleven IN
such manner that they have united both the
radicals and the conservatives among the uni
versity leaders in support of the eleven, which
is one of the most thoroughly representative
ever turned out here
versty. came out to-day in favor of organized
cheering. He said:
THE coaches. the captain and the players are
doing their best TO win and it Is the duty of
the undergraduates to supply the cheering. The
man on the stand who does not do his best Is
much To be scorned as the player who shirks
his work"
Late applications for moro than eight thou
sand seats for the game have just been received
by the Yale management. 1t Is Impossible 10
fill any of them. There are about thirty-three
thousand two hundred seats at the field and
every one has been sold. Two years ago when
the Tigers played here last, there were only
thirty thousand seats, and less than thirty
thousand were filled.
John Mack. the Yale trainer. looked the play
ers over carefully this afternoon and said that
he was delighted at the condition of his men,
Howard Jones, left end will play with ban
daged head. the result Of cut ear received in
the Brown game. but otherwise he is in fine
condition. Paige left tackle, has fully recov-
cred from the injury which kept him In the
hospital for two weeks. He has not yet trained
long enough to be sure of lasting through the
game Saturday. and Graham Foster, law
student. who has been a substitute for two
years, will probably replace him late in the
second half
In talking with Yale men the general opin-
ion appears 10 be that the team will beat
Princeton by score OF l2 to T. II is thought
that Harlan may kick a goal from the field
but that the Tigers will not be able to cross
Yale's goal line. There is little or no Prince
ton money in sight yet and consequently
Yale is favorite around to l.
Two old players joined the coaching squad to-
day-ReX Finn fullback two years ago. and
Bob Forbes. end last year and head coach
at West Point this season. Forbes accom-
panied by Captain Smithers head advisory
coach at West Point Both were delighted with
the appearance OF the Yale players and pre-
dicted a Yale victory Forbes said that Yale's
improvement in attack since the West Point
game was remarkable and that the Yale eleven
was in splendid physical condition.
The varsity went behind closed gates for
half hours signal work and then got ten
minutes Of scrimmage work. During that time
the scrub took ball and used Princeton for
nations TO try the varsity line. on the sev-
enth down Denny, the scrub fullback, took the
ball over.
Knox said this evening that no more changes
in the Yale team seemed possible. The revised
list Of officials for the game on Saturday fol-
lows: Referee, Michael ]. Thompson. George
town; umpire. +. j. Okeson, Lehigh; field Judge
a. T. Whiting, Cornell; timer, Charles f.
Young, Cornell.