The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-15
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PRINCETON AND YALE TEAMS
KEYED UP FOR STRUGGLE
Blue Eleven Will Enter TOmOrrOws Game a Slight FayOrte but Tigers Figure
Victory Will Be TheiS-COmpaison Of Teams

Yale will enter the football game with
Princeton at New Haven tomorrow a
slight favorite on form, but there is the
usual unsuitable confidence In the Tiger
camp. One of the best contests ever
played between these old rivals Is sure
to result. The outcome Is a source of
conjecture, although what advantage ex-
lists between the elevens seems to favor
the Blue. The Orange and Black is des-
perate to ~vanquish the New Haven team.
Not since 1884 has Princeton failed to de-
feat Yale once in four years, the under
graduate career of q class. But the pres
emit senior class must witness a triumph
at New Haven tomorrow or be graduated
without the satisfaction of celebrating q
football victory over the Blue Last year
Princeton was heralded far and wide as a
sure winner. That she had the better
team was u~ndoubted, but after GO minutes
of grueiling play both elevens left the
Princeton gridiron with a scoreless result.
But this game was a bitter disappoint-
ment to Old Nassau and a triumph for
Yale.
Yale will enter the game with the dis
tinction of having preserved the sanctity
of her goal line. the only big team In the
EAST to accomplish this honor. Its score
less contest with West Point is the only
blemish against an otherwise remarkable
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 demon
stration Of merit, the coaches constantly
making radical changes In its personnel.
Today the Blu presents the most power-
full line in the East, a capable punter and
d backf1eld that combines weight with
speed. No football team was ever de-
veloped that was unbeatable, and while
Yale has played some crude football this
fall, the team showed in it's last contest
that 1t is a well-rounded aggregation. and
It will take n mighty good eleven to ac-
complish its defeat.
Yale Shy on New Plays.
Yale has exhibited but little modern
football this fall. In ali 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 un-
covered. Failure in resource and funda-
mentals of attack m modern tactics stood
out prominently in both of these games
But little Importance can b. given to this
fact in estimating Yale's true strength
and development. This is the Yale policy.
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 on Saturday. But Yale has a
new system of football. Let no one doubt
this fact. Princeton, and later Harvard
will learn when they oppose the Blue thei
the army Of coaches at New Haven hav
not been idle in modern tactics. While
Yale has closely followed old methods II
al, her games thus far, it has been GU
of choice and for the purpose OF deceivint
her rivals,
Those who saw the Princeton Yale gam
last year at Princeton, when the team:
battied to a tie without a score, saw TIVE
field generals In charge Of the eleven'
who were very evenly matched. and bott
of whom contributed feature plays 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 n
| great effect on the outcome of the game,
their second meeting will prove well worth
watching. Dillon has been playing con-
| sistent football. During the early part
of the season and. in fact, all through he
has shown all his former ability to drive
his team at top speed. He Is a wonderful
runner in a broken field, a heady man
against a stronger team and better in a
big game than he is in an easy contest.
Tad Jones has been kept under cover for
the great 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.
The backfield combinations which the
Dcoaches will send onto the field are prac-
| tlcally settled. Yale has an advantage
in line smashing ability evidently, al
though Captain Mccormick, Of Princeton,
is without a superior in this respect. The
Yale combination. with Brides, Coy and
Bomar to carry the ball, apparently has
a better chance Of making ground on
line plays, owing to the fact that all three