New-York tribune., 1907-10-28

work and all the coaching that will be possible
this week in preparation for the games on
Saturday. which promise close and hard fought
contests. Yale should have a comparatively easy
time in defeating Washington and Jefferson,
which Princeton disposed of by score of 40 to
a few days ago, but Harvard, Princeton and
Pennsylvania must meet worthy opponents while
the University of Virginia will give the Navy
plenty TO do. and West Point will not find Col
gate easy foe, the upstate collegians held
Cornell to 4 score of. Is to o. Harvard will line
up against Brown at Cambridge, and it is safe
10 say that any weak points in the Crimson
team viii be exposed before the game is over.
PENNSYLVANIA beat Brown in a hard fought
struggle by a score of IL to O. but the Provi-
dence team, which is a particularly good one this
year, learned d lesson that may make 1t posi-
BILE for it beat Harvard. Pennsylvania Will
take the field against Lafayette and after the
defeat at the hands of Carlisle cannot expect an
easy conquest, in spite of the fact that Lafdy-
ette was no match for the strong Navy eleven.
Princeton will have to improve TO beat the Car
lIse Indians who humbled Pennsylvania on
Saturday. and showed remarkable strength ana
versatility.
Chief interest naturally centres in the Prince
toni Carlisle game ii Will be played on the
Polo Grounds in this city. 1t is the one impor-
taut game Of the season which local followers
of the sport and enjoy without taking Il
more less tiresome railroad journey, and 1t
is safe 10 say that standing room will be at a
premium when the eleNenS llne up Tor the IlTSl
sCrlmmage. The Indians would be drawing
card no matter what team they played, but with
the Tigers as their opponents there is an added
interest, and those planning to see the game
would do we'll to secure their seats as early as
possible. A few days ago the game was looked
on as a good hard practice for Princeton, but
since the Indians played havoc with Pennsyl-
vania and Princeton bowed TO Cornell on Satur-
day it promises a struggle which may not DC
equalIed this season, with the outcome in doubt
until the referees whistle ends the contest. The
Indians have everything to gain and nothing 10
lose; the Tigers must fight TO hold their proud
place as worthy rival of Yale.
The Yale team may or may not be stronger
than when West Point played it to tie a week
ago Saturday. The Vilanova eleven was not
strong enough to furnish a good test As a
matter of fact there was a loOseness in the play
that dsCouraging to the Yale coaches-and
The wonder is the score was so big. Brickes
played particularly well in his new position on
the end and is likely to be fixture while Cong
don at centre and COOney at guard appeared TO
work well enough to justify the coaches TO keep
them in these positions. 1t may be some con-
ISOLATION 10 the Tigers to have Captain Slavin of
ViIlanova say that Yale, in his opinion, was not
so strong as Princeton. Captain Slavin may
be right, but Yale men will not believe it until
the night of November 16, and perhaps not then
PENNSYLVANIA must begin all over again. The
Carlisle Indians showed that the eleven has
much TO learn if 1t is TO claim place among the
first four teams of the country when the season
is over
The writer is in receipt of letter from an
enthusiastic follower of football who ranks the
teams to date follows: Yale, Cornell, Prince
ton West Point, Harvard, Annapolis. Carlisle
Indians PENNSYLVANIA, Pennsylvania State,
Brown, Dartmouth Swarthmore. Amherst and
Williams. He may not be far wrong. but there
are plenty who would give him argument
that might lead into the cold gray dawn.
It looks as If the Navy coaches had found the
right man for the right place in placing Nc
Gruder at fullback. He is just the kind of a
man TO strengthen an otherwise strong back
field combination. HERBERT.