Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-25
NJ A. C. -GALLAUDET GAME
II ONLY LOCAL CONTEST TO-DAY
Farmers and Kendall nEleven Meet at Col
4 lege Park Georgetown Game Can
celed-80,0 00P People at Frank
lin and Soldiers Fields.

I than Harvard in today's game The Dark
! Blue men will have the advantage of a
| slight difference in weight in both the
| line and backf1eld. The average of the
eleven fnen who will work for the New
Haven team is 10 pounds. while that of
| the Harvard players is 176. This slight
| advantage will likely make little differ
>ence though, i'm the comparative play of
the two elevenS, because as far as real
| physical strength goes it Is likely that
| the Crimson is Just as good as is the
| Yale aggregation. For instance, Storer
| Is the strongest man in the whole uni
versity at Harvard and yet he weighs
much less than do the majority of the
| linemen who will oppose him.
Kemp, who has been played i'm the back
field at the Maryland Agricultural dur
ing the past two weeks, has shown up ex-
ceptiOnaily well in the position, even for
| man who had been playing it regularly.
but the fact is that he never ran with the
ball in his life until the week before he
played halfback against Western Mary
land Just how we'll Kemp played the
position against the upstate team is
shown by the ground gained by him and
weighs 176 pounds and is fast enough to
have run on the relay team which repre-
sents the Farmers and which has been
defeated but once in the last two years
1t is not generally thought that Har-
ward will win today's game from Yale, but
1T must be considered that the Crimson
has shown its full strength In but one
contest and that was with Brown Since
that contest Harvard has done nowhere
near what 1t is caphble Of. and from the fact
that it will have what is considered its
best lineup in today it should stand a
better chance to win than it did against
Princeton. even though the odds were
quoted as being two to one against the
Tigers.
1t is difficult to understand. anyway,
xr-I,,, l. ,,<,l,
favorite over the Harvard eleven. Har-
ward did not place its best team against
Princeton, and after the first quarter 1t
was shot to pieces to such an extent
that it had practically a team of substi-
tutes on the field. Yet these players who
were not as good as the first string men
chased the ball down the field and scored
touchdown on Princeton by straight
notwithstanding that Yale could not
do. Even though odds are being demand
ed, with Yale on the long end. the game
is certainly nothing more than an even
bet, and at that it is very questionable
as to whether Yale can win. The chances
are, in fact, that Yale will not be able
to make a touchdown on Harvard unless
1t is by using the open style Of play. Har-
wards rush line from tackle to tackle Is
reputed to be the strongest in the coun-
try and plays together more as unit
than any other. Besides its strength
from tackle to tackle the Crimson also
has a pair of great ends, both being able
to get down under punts well and play a
strong defensive game.
Roper. the Princeton coach. contended
at the first of the season that under the
new rules it would be impossible for two
teams evenly matched to depend on scor-
ing touchdowns to win games, and said
that he thought that an eleven which put
up the best defensive game and followed
the ball most accurately would be the
one to come through the season success
full. 1t was those methods which he
taught at Princeton. and they won a
championship for the Orange and Black.
Everybody knows that the Tigers have
put up a splendid defensive game all sea-
son. and that for following the ball there
has been no team their superior. It was
by following the ball closely and MAIN
tanning their superb defense which ena-
bled them to win from both Yale and
Harvard.
More than forty thousand persons have
gathered at Soldiers Fled in Cambridge
to watch the Yale-Harvard game today
and as many more are congregated in the
stands at Franklin Field. Philadelphia to
View what is the dig athletic event OF the
year for both the Army and the Navy.
That eighty thousand people are watching
two foot ball games attests the great
popularity of a sport that is recognized