Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-10-06
FOOTBALL CRITICS
WATCH HARVARD
VICTORY OVER YALE LAST FALL
PUTS THE CRIMSON IN
LIMELIGHT.
NEVER WAS ABLE TO REPEAT
Princeton Expects Great Things from
Phil King, Formerly WIKI Wiscon-
sin-Chicago and Michigan Have
Games in the East.

The horsehide has given way to the
pigskin and the scene of Americas
greatest outdoor sports has shifted
from the baseball diamond to the foot
ball gridiron.
! The football season is officially I'M
der way and the few games that have
been played by the big college elevens
! have served to give some idea con-
corning their relative strength, al
though the real tests have not come.
Among eastern football critics there
is no doubt that Harvard is absorbing
more interest than any of the other
big teams. This is due to combina-
ton OF circumstances, chief of which
are the victory of Harvard over Yale
last fall and the succession of Presi-
dent Eliot, who tried his best to stamp
out football at Harvard, by DR.. Lowell,
a man who is thoroughly in sympathy
with all forms of college sport. These
have been the factors that have in
spired Harvard with great confidence
and Yale knows it. Furthermore, Har-
ward has splendid material from which
to form winning eleven, and in
Coach Haughton she has leader who
can get the most out of his team.
But there is also great confidence in
the Yale camp. The Ellis believe in
their past history, and, if history re-
peats itself, Yale will surely over
throw Harvard this fall. Since 1876,
when Yale and Harvard first met on
been able to defeat Yale twice in sue
cession. Yale, on the other hand, has
had run of as many as six straight
victories over Harvard.
Until two years ago it was the fond
belief at Princeton that no class ever
graduated from Princeton without see
ing at least one victory over Yale.
That precedent was destroyed in 1907.
The game Of football has grown. 1t
has grown more rapidly perhaps than
the game of rowing, because it is of
more recent origin, and Yale has so
far steadily kept in advance of the
procession, inventing new ideas from
year to year, and absorbing the best
of those invented elsewhere. But it is
not in the nature of things that this
state of affairs should continue indefi-
nitely, and we revert to the question,
when is Yale's supremacy to cease?
The man from whom Princeton ex-
poets the most is Phil King This Tt
ger alumnus is nothing if not wide
awake and versatile. When with Wis
consin he earned a reputation for
strategy that was not surpassed by
any coach in the west. Since leaving
Wisconsin he has kept in close touch
with the game and Princeton will get
the full advantage of it this year.
Eastern college men are particularly
interested in Chicago and Michigan,
whose teams play in the east this fall.
In fact, these two teams mayS settle
the western as we'll az the national
championships. Michigan has chance
to figure in the contest for western
honors by virtue of her game with
Minnesota, while her standing in the
east will be settled by the games with
Pennsylvania and Syracuse. The Chi
cago eleven plays all the big western
schools with the exception of Michi-
gan and then goes east to meet Cor
nell.