The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-18
YALE HAS BUT TO DEFEAT HARVARD Great Eli Eleven Will Then Have a Corner on Foot
 ball Honors. RECORD SPORT FOR CROWD Omaha Wants Holding of Ten his Tourney on Her
 Grounds.
RECORD SPORT FOR CR0W[

In the light of Saturdays game, the aspiration of Yale to the football pre- miership of the country now lacks for fulfllment only a victory over Har- yard, and in view of the fact that the crimson banner has twice been trailed in defeat in the last fortnight, the title this year will apparently rest with the wearers of the blue
 The games of Saturday on the va- rious football arenas were among the most interesting that have been play ed for many years with the victory of Yale over Princeton as the leading event. Pennsylvania put out Michi- gan; the Carlisle Indians, who had defeated Pennsylvania, disposed of Minnesota; the Princeton team, which had defeated the Indians two weeks ago, was beaten by Yale, and Dart mouth, after playing through a com paratively easy schedule of games during the season, shut out Harvard Cornell beat Swarthmore and will contend against Pennsylvania on Thanksgiving day.
 In the game at New Haven Yale's supremacy was severely threatened by Princeton for a time, but while the victory was narrowly won, it is re- garded as sufficient to give the New Haven college a clear title to the pri- macy, with only Harvard as a possi- ble bar. The possibilities of modern football strategy, with the onside kick, the forward pass and the vari- ous formations which the new game has developed, were shown to great advantage on Yale field.
 The football season, as far as New England institutions are concerned, practically ends next Saturday with the Harvard Yale game at the Cam bridge stadium, but there remains numerous contests scheduled for Thanksgiving day, and on the follow ing Saturday the game between the Army and Navy elevens will probably be fitting wind-up to the great con- tests of the year.
 American football now ranks with that of England in popular favor, for 85,000 people witnessed the Yale Princeton game and over 30,000 saw the Dartmouth- Harvard, and between average attendance at the other lead ing games in the country. No other sport in this country attracts such crowds, although 1t has still to attain such proportions in the way of attend anee at single event as that which marked the contest in England be- tween Birmingham and Manchester.
 Omaha Wants Tennis Tourney.
 Formal application has been made by the Omaha Field club of Omaha, Neb., through the United States National Lawn Tennis association for the hold ing of national clay court champion ship on it's courts, The application has the support of all of the big lawn tennis organizations throughout the middle west. Members of the national executive committee who are principal ly of eastern men, have favorably dis cussed the advisability of sanctioning tournament in the west. The lead ing western players, 1t is argued, rare- ly compete at the casino at Newport, R. l., in the national championship meeting, and the establishment of such championship would do much to hold the western lawn tennis players in line.
 Weston Far Ahead.
 With S62 miles behind him, two- thirds of the distance of his journey from Portland, Me-, to Chicago, Ed- ward Payson Weston, the old time pe- .destrian, sixty-nine years old, rested Sunday at Gainesville, o, He is twen- ty-seven miles ahead of his record made over the same course forty years ago, and but for the bad wealth CT and head winds and floods he has had to face he undoubtedly would have been farther away from the old mark. His wonderful endurance es- pecially attracts the attention of ath- letes.