Norwich bulletin., 1909-10-23
COLLEGE FOOTBALL.
Yale, Harvard, Penn and Princeton
 Games Eagerly Awaited Today.

Yale, Harvard, Penn and Princeton
 Games Eagerly Awaited Today. The big fellows in the football arena | all meet opponents who are likely to try their mettle fin the games this aft | ernoon. Yale goes against a some | what unknown quantity in the Colgate
 eleven, and Harvard knows the Grim
 son elevsn is in for a hard fight in playing Brown on the stadium. Prince 1 ton has a wholesome respect for the Lafayette team, and Pennsylvania is
 expecting to snap against Penn State.
 Brown Hopeful Against Harvard. A monster mass meting was held at | Brown Friday night to ginger up for i the Harvard game Brown intends to make a lot of noise in Cambridge. A
 band of 20 pieces has been engaged,
 and each studLnt will be given siren
 whitle to help out in the Brunoian
 cheer. The varsity is in fine shape and has been drilled on a special line of clever tricks for Harvard
 A criticism of Harvards middle line i this year, given by a man whose opin- l ion is worth while who has followed
 the game closely for IS or 19 years,
 and who himself was formerly man.
 age~ of a Harvard team In the early '90s is that the center men have shown ~lamentabe- lack of knowledge of what to do once they have broken through on the defensive. In break ing through on lighter opponents, he says, they did not show any versatil- 1 ity and. once through, made little sen- sible effort to break up the play or l get at the man carrying the ball past them.
 Apparently Harvard's best backfield men are of the tender variety who need constant nursing to keep them aff 6h 1,,r.-v fto1 frk s. | tion wnether~ stars. thus equipped, are
 not really less useful than men of less ability but sterner physical stamina. | Corba.t, the Crimson's best halfback, | and F. P. Smith, his running mate,
 are both missing from the lineup and Frothingham and Long are doing l fairly well in their places The left | side of the line is a weak spot. Fisher, l Captain Fish and Gil Browne make the other wing pretty strong. Perkins | and P. Wilmington are still fighting it
 out for center. O'Flaherty, Gallati and 1 Wigglesworth are conducting a three
 cornered fight for quarterback.
 Vale Wondering About Colgate. Although of course Yale's game with Colgate is completely dwarfed by the | contests scheduled for the other big
 teams, yet there is considerable inter est in and curiosity about the New
 York state eleven among football
 cranks of this section. For one l thing Colgate is new conner on the
 Yale schedule and aside from it's con- i sistent record for low scores against | the leading teams, little is known of | the eleven's ability to give Yale a l scarce Three weeks ago Brown beat i tn. team A to c and was tremendously i surprised at it's own ability. Since l that time Colgate has played easy 1 games with Hamilton and St. Law
 renee. winning both by big scores. It
 is not anticipated that Yale will have 1 great difficulty in winning handily,
 but there is no telling what soit of a
 contest Colgate may put up. Last year Colgate beat Syracuse so. which was
 one point better than Yale's score, and
 was beaten narrowly by Brown, 60; Cornell 90, and the Army 60.
 l Something akin to hysteria over
 Yale's team has arisen since the Ellis ] trounced West Point. but at New Ha- ven they regard the situation more
 calmly and critically, remarks Billy
 Hanna the New York Suns football 1 specialist Smooth sailing to a cham | pionship isn't insured by a midseason ] victory which happened to be bigger
 than expected. A slight slip here
 and there in a couple of Yale's for
 ward passes might easily have made the score to instead of IT to O.. i Shevlin's team stung West Point 20 to O. but had the time of it's life beating
 Harvard 6 to 0. Harvard and Prince ton haven't disbanded in terror.
 Rating this years team with Cor
 don Browns 1900 eleven as a mighty scoring machine is premature. Then too Chadwick's 1902 team, which eff fectually wiped out the recollection of a Waterloo the year before, is a more | recent example for the present aggre- gation to pattern after. Are the Yale ends this year as good as Shev- lin and Rafferty or the tackles as a
 pair the towers of strength of Hogan | and Kinney? There isn't a center
 now at Yale the equal of Holt, but the
 guards compare favorably with Glass and Goss. and Glass that year was in a class by himself As swift re- liable halfbacks, exceptionally adept at taking an opening, Chadwick and
 Metcalf were great. Coy, of course,
 lays way over Bowman, but there is a lot to be done before the renown of Rockwell at quarterback is dimmed. This years team as good as Chad
 wicks or Browns? It may be. but it i has a distance to go to get there, is
 Hanra's conclusion.
 Princeton Searchips or an End.
 Indications from Princeton are that | the Tigers are settling into their i stride and may be expected to give a 1 better account Of themselves from now
 on. The search for an end to replace 1 Gill is still going on, and Grainger, Ballin. Wilkins and Van Dyke are get ting trials.
 Welch will undoubtedly hold down the right side of the line, but the other end position is extremely undertrained. Tn the past it has been the policy of l the. coaches to obtain heavy ends. as ! the growing importance of this position l seemed to demand men of this sort. But it has been found that with the terial on hand this is practically im- l possible, and the coaches are now turning to the abundance of light, i speedy candidates in the squad.
 All of Princeton's early games are
 used chiefly to determine the men to
 play against the Blue. Contests with Lafayette, the Navy and Dartmouth | are expected to be hard, but are not
 causing any particular worry. The game with the Easton boys is attract ! ing a good deal of interest, because of | the excellent record of the Pennsylva- ,;ax -~I,,, F.x. o,,l I<f fna a4 4j,ot s,,