New-York tribune., 1907-11-25

scores for what they are worth West Point has
team that IS not far behind Yale and Cornell
II this line is a true one the Navy team VIII
have to play better football than ii did against
Swarthmore and Pennsylvania State if victory is
TO be won. There are football ability and foot
ball brains among the midshipmen, however
and in the games mentioned the full strength OF
the eleven not in the field! Further than
that. the team has been carefully trained and
pointed to the struggle Saturday, and from
what have seen of the men 1 know them to be
fighters who will not acknowledge defeat until
the last whistle blows The same thing can be
said of the Army eleven, and with the defeat OF
last year to be wiped out there will be no sur
render without a fierce and bitter struggle. It
viii be a great game TO see.
The Yale Alumni Weekly" in commenting on
the football season of 1907 says in part:
Two years ago there was such hue and cry
after football that it seemed very probable that
the game would be abolished by people who
had never dared play it, and that the few spec
tators who would journey to Yale Field on No
vember l6, 1907. would largely be recruited from
old ladies' homes. while the contest which they
would nervously come to see would be cross
between tiddledeewinks and checkers-the par
ticipants in which would be politely ordered to
the sidelines if they moved a muscle. We
thought then that the popular demand for the
abolition Of the game was One-tenth ignorance
and nine-tenths hysteria. We have not been
disappointed. Football has survived
the concerted attack made upon II, has been
rejuvenated through rules that make it much
more interesting TO play and see, and is less
likely to fall from favor than 1t
The game is worth playing for purely physical
reasons. is worth study as calling for strategy
and quick brain action, is educational Of sand
and the cooperative spirit for the chief actors,
is productive Of loyalty and all sorts of things
for the undergraduate and graduate body, and.
when il IS conducted on the lines of nearly open
practice good sportsmanship, collateral scholar
ship and manliness so noticeable in the Yale
eleven this year. is a mighty good thing for any
university. The victory over Princeton
splendid triumph of Yale spirit an oppo-
nent who never throws up the sponge till the
whistle blows and who can then in defeat show
an even higher type of courage"
Most Of the $4,000 persons who watched the
Yale-Princeton game and most Of that host who
saw the Yale Harvard struggle on Saturday
will heartily subscribe to these sentiments.
New York University closed it's season on
Saturday with a well earned victory over Union
by score Of u to z. which represented the mer-
centre. has done wonders with the local eleven
this year, and with little fresh material has en-
abled it to win five out of seven games. The
team at University Heights has suffered for
years for lack of a definite coaching system
Not In six years has coach succeeded him
self. and a result every team has had to
start at the bottom If the New York manage
ment IS wise it will re-engage Ocott set
tied policy at New York should soon make
strong teams the rule there, and this city might
then count affording good sport for the tens
Of thousands of lovers of the game who live
here. One player of the local team has been
consistently good this year to deserve
mention. This is G. Young, 10, who is an end
of exceptional promise. He is heady, quick in
covering punts, and strong in the eXecu-
ton of the forward pass. Captain Mowen. too,
has played excellent game.
It is far cry 10 the football season Of 1903
but it is interesting to note that Yale, Prince
ton and Harvard will lose many valuable men
by graduation next June. Princeton will have
to fill five places, Yale seven and Harvard seven.
Princeton viii lose her star ends. Wister and
Brown, together with Mccormick, fullback;
Phillips, centre. and Harlan, the clever drop
kicking halfback- Yale Will lose Tad Jones
at quarterback, H. Jones and AIcott, ends:
Biglow and Paige, tackles: Congdon. centre, and
Bomar, halfback- Harvard will lose Grant at
centre; Parker left guard; Burr left end; New
hall, quarterback; Apollonio. fulIback; Starr.
left end, and Wendell, left halfback.
HERBERT