Evening journal., 1909-10-28
YALE LOOKS
LIKE CHAMPION
Blue AdherentSWi illing to Bet
Even Money Harvard and
Princeton Will be De-
feated


one n the strongest impressions gain
cd by the gridIrou history made satur-
day is that Yale is going to have pretty
plain sailing toward acquiring undis-
puted right TO the Eastern football cham
pionship this year Already there are
any number OF adherents OF the blue who
are anxious to bet even money that the
New Haven eleven VIII beat both Prince
ton and Harvard. From what is happen-
ing down in the liar OF the Tiger Il looks
as though Il we're all over but the shout
ing for Yale when the oldtime. rivals
clash on November i3. At Cambridge
though. there IS possibility that the
crimson viii be able TO put up a rather
sturdy nght There was a good deal OF
satisfaction In the way the crimson line
got together against Drown and STAYED
off score on It's own l-yard mark. The
line has been the problem with which
Percy Haughton has been wrestling ALI
season. and the evidence given satur-
day that II Is able 10 show better pow
er on the defence will undoubtedly en-
gender hopes OF good things against Old
! Eli
At Princeton they say that they have
the finest material IN years yet the pre-
liminary season has been more or less
disastrous. In practice at Osbourne Field
the Tigers certainly look as though they
should do wonders against any team, but
when il comes 20 a game there is always
something lacking. With the wealth OF
available men OF experience the results
up 10 date do not speak very well for tho
new coaches that have taken in charg,
the football fortunes OF Old Nassau. T,
an unbiased observer & seems a case o
"too many cooks spelling the broth"
Like Cornell, Princeton has now taste,
defeat at the hands Of a minor colleg,
eleven. and an odd thing about the con
test with Lafayette was that the final mo
ments we're almost duplicates Of tn
Prlnceton-F -Fordham struggle. In the lat
ter luck was with the Tigers, and Gun
ningham drop Kick saved a game tina
they did not deserve to win on the re
spective playing merits Of the two team
in that game. Against the Eastonians tn
same play exactly was tried to snatch
victory, but this time the luck was tn
other way and old Nassau had to swsi
low a nightly bitter pill.
There are Just two more tests for tn
Tigers before the supreme conflict agains
yale. The Navy VIII be the opposing iOrc'
next Saturday. and Dartmouth the follow
ing week.
Yale's work Saturday was once NOR,
an impressive showing Of its scoring ct
fectiveness. Colgate had some little rep
utation as a scoring machine but YALE
knocked that all to smithereens and still
preserved an uncrossed goal line. Coy'i
ability to kick field goals from Ions
marks is going to worry Harvard an,
Princeton. even IL the blue team coulC
show no other means of tallying. Every
thing points TO Yale having one Of thu
finest eleyens In its history.
The result Of the Pennsylvania-"Pen
State contest must not be taken to meal
that the Quaker varsity is a poor one
Any one who has ever seen State pla
/ In the last year OF two knows that tn
colfegians have a combination that
> little short OF the best on the Easter
gridiron. They all know football an
they are not weaklings by any mean
big Bill" IIollenbach, their coach, wa
one Of the best players in the country
his day. ande he has developed first
class team.