Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-11
FOUR BIC FOOT BALL
BATTLES SATURDAY
LARGEST Yale-Princeton Crowd
Ever Assembled Will Be
at New Haven.

.hcn the foot la II season OF lGag will have
come to an end. az these six. four are
scheduled for Saturday afternoon. On
thai day two embryonic Lochnvars will
come out Of the west and attempt TO lii
an eastern prize. Michigan against the
University of Pennsylvania and Chicago
against Cornell. Dartmouth faces Har-
ward in the Cambridge stadium at the
same time. But chief inteTes, lies. nat
urally. I'm the annual Yale-Princeton
struggle. which occErs this year at New
Haven.
There has been little hesitancy among
those who have carefully followed the
fortunes Of the Blue and the Orange and
Black eleven this year tn pick Yale as the
winner. On that point opinion is almost
unanimous. opinion shared in even by
Jrinceton men themselves. Whatever
hope the undergraduates of the New .er-
sey college had of beating their greatest
rivals this year went a-glimmering TO a
very Considera BILE extent during and after
the Dartmouth game last Saturday.
4 comparison of the relative merits OF
the Yale and Princeton teams based on
their respective records this year must
OF certainty favor the Blue. 1t has
been aggressive and versatile. swift and
sure. almost from the day played its
first game. Old Nassau, on the other
hand. has gone stumbling through the
held for ties so far as touchdowns were
concerned. and even a defeat that the
Tigers weaknesses rather than Lafay-
cites strength made possible.
Worked Quietly
Yale, on quite the other hand, has gone
steadily and quietly on its way. so quietly
as to make the silence ominous. For
usually there is calamity howl of in
jured players and unexpected and unnec-
essary slumps emanating from New
Haven that makes the uninitiate1 pause
and give ear. This year these walls have
been conspicuous by their absence, and
Yale has apparently buckled down to its
real work-the infection of defeats on
the Princeton and Harvard teams. rather
than an attempt to bear the betting mar
ket. So that on their seasons records and
he inside history of their training pc
RODS Yale is conceded to be anything
between ten and thirty points better than
Princeton.
individually. the Princeton team seems
to stack up better than ii does as an
eleven. There was marked evidence in
the Tiger-Dartmouth game that IL this
material ever got together and forgot its
petty sauabbles long enough to play real
foot ball the Yale team not only would
know 1t had been through a game but
Princeton would have look in In
Cunningham the Orange and Black has
an apparently sure point maker. provided
they shall have crossed the scrimmage
line. In Mccormick. IL he can be taught
the many duties Of a linemans job in
the few days. at the coaches disposal,
Princeton has punter of no mean worth.
And apparently IL is In the kicking de-
partment that Princeton's main strength
lies
Speculative comparison points to SUI
perfor individual play in almost all posi-
tions by Yale men. Siegling. anu possibly
. Waller. will prove the exception. Indi-
ridually the Yale team of 1909 may not
compare with the stars of Gordon
Browns eleven. But neither do the pres
ent Orange and Black players size up as
the equals of Princeton men of other
DAYS Compared with Yale's team play
Princeton suffers. The Blue eleven is a
big. fast. delicately poised machine that
moves reientlessly and irresistibly to its
goal Princeton's team has produced no
such impression this year.
Can Take a Chance.
There is. too. this marked difference be-
tween the two elevens with the point
again in the Blues favor. Yale can af-
ford to take a gamblers chance when
ever opportunity offers, and perhaps car
ry 1T through on mere audacity. Prince
tons play is not perfect enough to per-
mt this. II Yale does pull of something
OF this kind and does 1t successfully IL
viii not be because of any such thing as
the yale luck" to which critics so often
attribute New Haven teams success,
but by virtue Of the plays cleverly de-
signed character and inherent daring.
long practice and perfect execution
Asa result of the whole seasons work
one has confidence. to put it buntly i'm
what Yale can do, whereas Princeton is
seemingly between the devil Of impotence
and the deep sea of unpreparedness. That
Is why the New Haven eleven is almost
unanimously picked as Saturdays win
ner AS to the final score. that. as has
already been said. swings in its predicted
totals from two 10 four touchdowns for
the Blue and no score By the Orange and
Black. unless Cunningham can put field
goal over. Nevertheless. the biggest crowd
that ever witnessed a Yale-Princeton
game has been clamoring for admission
tickets for weeks. Regardless of the
final outcome-that is to say score-the
Tiger will try 20 make the bulldog know
II has been TO a game. and il is this that
the public is going to see.
Pennsy Ready for Michigan.
PHILADELPHIA. November II.-Penn-
sylvanias foot ball team has ended its
hard work for the first intersectional
game of the season with Michigan Sat
urdsy. The condition of the team is now
such that to prevent entertaining the
coaches will take the squad to- Wtnslow
Junction. y. j.. tonight to remain there
until the morning of the game In Yes
terday's practice all of the regulars with
the exception of LambertOn and Marks
We're on the field. The latter are still
suffering with injuries received in the
Lafayette contest. The Michigan eleven
is scheduled to arrive tonight and will
do its training in one of the suburbs
Surprises at Harvard.
CAMBRIDGE. Mass, November lit
was an afternoon OF surprises at the
Stadium yesterday.
First, the long-looked-for scrimmaee
failed to material;ze. Instead the men
were lined up they were Tuesday,
the second eleven holding the ball through
the entire afternoons work The subs"
employed the Dartmouth tactics which
Coach JUNE Forster garnered at Prince
ton Saturday. and plunged away without
success at the regulars line. With the
forward pass and fake formations they
had better success. but did not succeed
in making the ground they did Tuesday
Minot was out in uniform, but did not
work.
Surprise number two was sprung when
Wigglesworth was started at quarter
back. He remained there during the best
part of the practice. OFlaherty getting
ter spent much time later by himself i'm
dropping field goals over the bars. The
coaches refused to say whether this
change OF field generals was a perman ent
one, but IL Is probable that the more
experienced O'Flatherty will be the first
string selection against Dartmouth.