Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-11-21
FAVOR HARVARD
TO DEFEAT YALE
CRIMSON RULES AS CHOICE
OVER RIVAL
EXPERT DOPESTERS FIGURE
FORM OF TEAMS
Annual Game Excites Unusual Inter-
est, Because Both EleVens Appear
Remarkably Even In Lineup
and Prospects
Especial to The Herald. ]

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NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Nov. 22.-Har-
ward VS.. Yale. The day of days In the
football circles of the United States
Harvard arrived at Red Top today
from Cambridge, after a season OF VIC
tories. to meet their time-honored
rivals, the supposedly unbeatable yale
| football eleven. One or the other must
fall tomorrow. Yale is confident OF
winning. Harvard is equally sure.
Yale will receive the united support
of the entire college, together with
thousands of alumni, who, in many
cases, have come miles to witness the
final game of the season between TWO
of the greatest opponents of the foot
ball game in the world. The game To-
morrow will tell the story. The week
ly hard luck tales from both training
! tables will have been exploded, ana
when the whistle blows to call the
teams to the field the coaching stafrs
will send their final selections out to
show the students and the public the
results of Secret practice. The teams
are finished-or will be.
Never was there so much uncertainty
in the air over a former Harvard ale
game as there is tonight. Last weeks
surprises rearranged the dope. Last
week Yale looked unbeatable princl-
nalIv because the material is or was
magnificent, seasoned timber and be-
cause her work apparently had been
cumulative and progressive. one game
| by an underestimated team Sunced TO
open the eyes of the coaches OF the
Blue, players and student pody 10 tne
| fact that a too easy schedule and many
unfortunate accidents, has left the
team badly prepared for tomorrows
game, the seasons climax.
A week ago the Yale students were
offering 10 to that they would defeat
Harvard and their money was TAKEN
Wednesday the Yale students were ask
ing even money on the same PROPOSE
tion. and still their money was grabbed
Tonight they are asking odds of 10 to
8 In favor of Harvard and they are
being literally swamped with the Grim
son coin. According to many OF the
alumni this is the first time since the
days that Bill Reid of California was
coaching the Harvard varsity that the
betting has favored the Crimson.
The bulldogs teeth are perhaps
little sore and it's back somewhat torn
from it's ferocious fight last week with
that representative of the jungle the
orange and black tiger. Again the
| teeth bit more deeply than the claws
scratched nevertheless it will have to
bite hard, deep and vitality today be-
fore 1t will stain the vast oval with
, the blood of Harvard and perhaps mo-
body realizes this fact more than do
the keepers of the traditional bulldog.
OF course Harvard knows and knows
well that Yale is never beaten until
the last blast of the whistle Is blown
which ends the final half. Yale will
play the defensive game tomorrow, and
Harvard's possible weakness will be
overconfdence.
Coy will be Yales kicker tomorrow.
He sends a long low punt that is diff
fcult to handle and should cause trou-
BILE in the Crimson back field. In the
line he will have his hands full trying
to hold big Hamilton Fish, Harvard's
acting captain.
Nourse, Harvards reliable center,
will meet his hardest opponent of the
year in Biddle. The Yale man gave
'Nourse a hard fight last year and his
hackers expect him to repeat the per-
Torrance tomorrow.
Dunlap may be outplayed by Hobbs,
for the Yale man is fast as lightning
for giant, has experience and knows
what to do all the time. Johnson will
have Husky" Rich for an opponent,
and here the struggle should be mag
nificent. Johnson has shown wonder
full development under the coaches and