Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-15
TOP FOOT BALL
GAME TOMORROW
Yale a Slight Favorite Over
the Princeton Tigers.

Probably the most important foot ball
game Of the year in the east will be
played by Princeton and Yale In New
Haven tomorrow. One of the best con-
tests ever played between these old ri
vals is sure to result. The outcome Is
source Of conjecture, although what ad-
vantage exists between the eleVenS seems
to favor the Blue. The Orange and Black
is desperate to vanquish the New Haven
team Not since 1884 has Princeton failed
to defeat Yale once in four years, the I'M
dergraduate career of a class. But the
present senior class must witness a trl-
umph at New Haven Saturday or be
graduated without the satisfaction of
celebrating foot ball victory over the
Blue Last year Princeton was heralded
far and wide a sure winner That she
had the better team was undOubted. but
after sixty minutes of grueiing play both
elevens left the Princeton gridiron with
a sCorelesS result. But this game was d
bitter disappointment to Old Nassau and
triumph for Yale.
Yale will enter the game with the dis
tinction of having preserved the sane
tity of her goal line. the only big team
in the east to accomplish this honor. Its
scoreles SIS contest with West Point is the
only blemish against an otherwise re-
marka0le record Yale's DEVELOPMENT has
been along lines that have prevailed at
New Haven for two decades. The team
Was worked slowly and carefully during
the early and middle season without any
special d. monstration of merit, the
coaches constantly making radical
changes in it's personnel. Today the Blue
prese nts the most powerful line in the
east, a capable punter and a backfeld
that combines weight with speed. No
foot ball team was ever developed that
WIS unbeatable, and while Yale has
played some crude foot bali this fan the
team showed in its last contest that it is
well-roundcd aggregation, and 1T will
take mighty good eleven to accomplish
its defeat
Yale has exhibited but little modern
foot ball this fail In all her games she
has adhered as strictly to old methods as
IS consistent with success. In the West
Point and Brown contests nothing what
ever in the line of varied attack was I'M
covered. Failure in resource and funda
mentals of attack in modern tactics stood
out prominently in both of these games.
But little Importance can be given to this
fact in estimating Yale'S true strength
and development. This is the Yale pol
icy Never show your trump card unless
1t is to take the last trick. One of the
last two tricks in the New Haven hand
will be uncovered aSturday. But Yale
has a new system of foot ball. Let no
one uOuDl tllIS ldCl ITllCetOii, anu ldleT
Harvard, will learn when they oppose
the Blue that the army of coaches at New
Haven have not been idle in modern tao
tics. While Yale has closely followed old
methods in all,her games thus far, it has
been out of choice and for the purpose of
deceiving her rivals.
Those who saw the Princeton Yale game
last year at Princeton, when the teams
battled to tie without score, saw two
fed generals In charge of the elevens who
an0u of r
whom contributed feature pays to the
contest, Tad Jones of Yale and Eddie
Dillon of Princeton are again pitted
against each other, and, as the running
of the respective elevens is to have
great effect on the outcome of the game,
their second meeting will prove well worth
watching. Dillon has been playing con-
sistent foot ball. During the early part of
the season, and. in fact. all through he
has shown al his former ability to drive
his team at top speed. He is a wonderful
runner in broken field, heady man
against a stronger team and better in
big game than he is in an easy contest.
Tad Jones has been kept under cover for
the greater part of the Yale season, but in
the Brown game last Saturday came into
his own and showed conclusively that he
had retained all Of his former brilliancy.
Yale Works on Defense.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, November 15-
The final practice of the Ya-e eleven be-
fore the game with Princeton was held
yesterday afternoon at Yale Field. All the
regular players were in the positions in
which they will face the Tigers, The
lineup was: H. Jones and Alcott, ends;
Paige and Biglow. tackles; Cooney and
Goebel, guards: Congdon. center; T. Jones,
quarterback; Brides, left halfback; Be-
mar. right half back; Coy. fullback.
To further develop the defense Of the
varsity the first team was put through
a scrimmage with the scrubs, the lat
ter keeping the ball all the time. The
scrubs found it hard to get around the
ends, and the line Of the varsity as
whole was strong. Brides played almost
up to the line and made several bril-
liant tackles. one in particular when the
varsity had been pushed back to the g.
yard line and the goal was threatened.
The scrub team made one touchdown,
Denny, its fu.lback. going through the
scrub center from the 3-yard line.
Three times that the varsity had the
ball 1t had countless chances to score.
Tad Jones ran back the few punts
that were made. but was stopped by
the coaches without gains. Brides neat