New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-11-19
YALE HOPES RUN HIGH.
Forecast Points to Defeat OF
Harvard Eleven.
CAPTAIN DAILY OPTIMISTIC
Outcome of Football Battle
Hinges on Effectiveness OF
New Tackle Shift.

rrea+ homes OF defeating Harvard. 1 ne
tea,,, is a much better team fhan laceo
Princeton 1t is better equipped, phS sio"H
ard r,,ertally. 1t is certain that haie VIII
r-or,, harder. much harder than against
r,-;roa,or and is much better able to MAKE
,ha, work effective. Our hopes are h'eH
r,,s osrrae-ness and confidence were m
,o.3,,,e t-antain Wilmington of Harvard
.n6 every Harvard man, for 1ha' ma
g eouaIlv confident that Yale o"s VI
recloulnc has come. and In some way
tbe-e is moro reason TO he oplilii-''iO-
De-r-een these two fires. then. the poor
critic who is trying TO fathom the oeP'i4s
IF football form finds it easier TO point
% Harvart's clean string OF games Won
and yale's broken string Of games lost III
The effort TO determine the winner OF the
rs77le of brains and Drawn at Yale Fielo
New Haven, to-day. but scores are HIS
leading.
one week ago l had firm conVictloh
-ba+ Vale would defeat Princeton, but
,,o,,,5 find NO logical conclusion. with the
Brown game fresh in mind. on which TO
base q prediction Since then the faie
-earo has been under fire and not found
waning and consequently there appears to
he more reason for an equally firm con-
.4crjon that Yale will defeat Harvard be
-o-A the sun sets this afternoon
so different have been the fortunes OF
--e no efe,-ens this season that il is lit
tie wonder that Harvard is the favorlte-
Yale has been beaten by West Point
hea-en by Brown and tied by little Wander
b;1- whereas Harvard has beaten west
POINT hesten Brown. beaten Cornell ana
beaten Dartmouth. among others. IN a way
70 irauress those who looked on that the
mower was tremendous, the posslphlues
endless The Harvard team was oullt on
q solid foundation of players tried ana
true and carefully. patiently pointed TO the
struggle at New fsven- The Yale team
was built on 4 somewhat shaky founoa-
ION Of players more or less green ana IN
.xperienceG. hut just as carefully and pa
1ier-lv rointed to the Princeton and Har-
ward games
Al Cambridge the eleven has been work
ing along with the smoothness and precl-
sion Of a purring motor in good humor: at
New Haven the eleven has been working
along with the stop and jerk OF a spiutter-
ing motor in ugly temper Who shall say.
however. that the Yale motor viii not run,
today. as il did at Princeton, and who
shall say that its power and efflciency are
not so great as Harvard's?
have little or no bearing on games OF the
future Football form has ever been be-
wiIdering but never SO much as this year
when comparative scores lead one into q
..erfect maze Of doubt and uncertainty The
fact that Harvard is unbeaten means lit
fla or nothing even I'm the face of two
stunning defeats suffered by Yale. The
teams must be judged on their latest form,
SO that the games Of last Saturday are
the only ones which are likely TO have a
bearing.
If Yale's strength was measured by the
Brown game Yale would be an easy VIC
tim for Harvard. to-day. but Yale's
strength must be measured by the Prince
ton game. when the team rose above dis
collra genaents that had beset its path. and
50 clearly outplayed the Tigers both de-
fensively and Extensively, that the score did
not show the relative merits of the two
teams any more than Harvards small
score against West Point showed the out
standing superiority Of the Crimson eleven.
All scores aside, Il may be pointed out
that Dartmouth gained more ground by
rushing against Harvard than was the case
against Princeton, which indicates. per-
hans. that the Crimson defence was no
FtronEer than that of the Tigers. Yale
against Princeton. which. if the line is q
good one indicates that Yale also can
break down the Harvard defence for sub
Ftsntial gains.
Princeton could not make much impress
sion By straight rushing against Dart
mouth. whereas Harvard scored one touch
Gown at least by this method. indicating
clearly a powerful offence. but the Tigers
found Yale's defence a veTitable stone wall,
80 far as straight rushing was concerned.
which leads 10 the conclusion that the Har-
ward attack is quite likely TO be repulsed
as easily.
II has been said by a number of proni-
rent coaches this year that one team
must he fully 40 per cent stronger than
another TO score by straight rushing under
the revised code, and with the Harvard
team ar its best and the Yale team at its
worst IL could not be said that this differ
enCe exists As a matter OF fact the eievens
appear TO be rather evenly matched. both
individually and collectively, SO that I'M
less one or the other has devised scor-
ing play the outcome will depend on the
beenness of one or more players on either
team in taking advantage of the excep-
rlonal opportunities which present them
selves SO often in new football
The loose ball, whether in puntins, on
side kicking or forward passing, opens the
way TO these opportunities and is q con-
slant menace Much depends this year
on the speed Of the ends and the
suneness with which every man on the
team follows the ball, and on this hinges
one IF my reasons for believing that Yale
wiII Win. as Fitzpatrick has no equal, in
my opinion, in diagnosing a play and fol-
lowing the ball, while Brooks, Scully and
Paul also showed particular aptitude along
these lines in the Princeton game. The
Harvard ends and Harvard tackles are
above the average, and are quite likely TO
he just as keen and just as effective in
following a loose ball. but the advantage
If any, lies with Yale because Of Kill
patrick.
] have said more than once this year
that scoring by straight rushing appeared
80 be lost art when two teams were
fairly evenly matched, but I am disposed
now TO revise that statement. being con-
brought out Of the West by Tom Shevlin
is not only a ground gaining play but
scoring play on this I base another rea-
son for Yale 70 beat Harvard to-day.
The play in question originated several
years ago the mind of George Woodruff,
or so II seems 10 me, and was remodeled
10 suit the new conditions by DR. Harry
r Williams, of Minnesota It proved q
good ground gamer against Princeton in