The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-11
YALE FOOTBALL,

With something of d start, graduate and undergraduate yalo has suddenly awakened to the vital fact that that part of the football season given over to the minor games SO called, Is not only ended but that the two big grid iron struggles are all but at hand with the valiant defenders of the blue.
 The early season was not without it's ray of promise from Yale stand- point, Even the divers reports of mon on crutches and strctchers were taken with some oquinimitN for, peculiar as 1t may seem, such things happen near- ly every year, yet the big Yale team always manages to round into excel lent shape before the whistles blow for the 'blg games. The mood in which those reports are usually receiv- ed could in no way be better illus trated than by the short sQuib pub lisled in the Hartford Post shortly be- fore the Brown game of last Saturday. Said the Post "Rah. Rah, Rah, Yale's football team is beginning to go on crutches. Everybody knows what that means"
 It has quite generally meant" final victory But Saturdays results made Yale men sit up and take notice" Not only did Brown manage to run up tie score, but tho impartial specta- tors were quite generally of the belief that the men from Providence had the better of the argument throughout On the other hand, Harvard showed remarkable strength against the In dians As a result there are not a few Yale men to-day wno are looking for hard-fought victory over Princeton and possibly an even harder fought defeat in New Haven at the hands oi the Crimson team that is, unless there is decided change for the better The graduate coaches are this week troopng back in eoodly numbers tc whip the men into shape and make the best of the situation In worldly affairs t is usually the case that toc many cooks spoil the broth, but here at Yale 1t is singularly true that the same principle does not apply to foot. ball coaching.
 Whatever the result of the gamc here on the twenty-frst, every indico- tion points to a record breaking crowd. In the past it has been diff cult indeed for "mere outsiders" not Yale men, to get tickets for that game This year so great is the interest in the game that the athletic manage ment has been compelled to cut down the allowance of tickets 10 each grad from the usual three 10 two. Where. fore fl may he expected that there will be much wailing and gnashing of graduate teeth
 The engineers have asserted that il is an lmpossihility to enlarge tho stands in the few days which remain and it does not seem wholly advisable to do so anyway. The limit in tho height of these stands has been reach. cd already The publics safety must be considered whoever are disappoint, ed The day is fast approaching wher Yale must have it's stone or cement stadium. just as Harvard, Syracuse anC other of the colleges have Whether that will be erected on the sight o the present field or not is a vital quos ton yet to be decided. Judging iron present indications, there are nr bounds to the football enthusiasm q the country At least the Yale con tingent, graduate and undergraduate ought to be accommodated to its com plete satisfaction whether the genera public is or not, That cannot bc don, with the present type of wooder stands and stadium built of nor, substantial stuff is tho one solution