New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-18
YALE READY FOR TIGERS
New Haven Fills Up on Eve OF
Big Football Game.
SEND-OFF FOR PRINCETON
Weather Causes Uneasiness-
Blue Eleven Favorite with
Those Who Must Wager.
IBy Telegraph to The Tribune. |

BY Telegraph to The Tribune
New Haven. Conn. Nov. 17.-Following 4
| light signal drill at Yale Yield this after
noon, more for the purpose of limbering
up the muscles Of the players than for
practice In playing the Yale eleven is
ready to meet Princeton tomorrow after
noon at o'clock. Unlike last year. when
I Yale left for the Princeton game only half
prepared. the team is now ready for any
| sort OF a game Princeton can produce.
Although most OF the Yale undergradu-
ates have found Princeton money scarce
unless odds OF ten TO six are offered. some
Of the Yale coaches report that the Tigers
are accepting eva money at the Princeton
headquarters, and this indication OF conf
dence is not being overlooked here. Yals
expects a hard and desperate game.
Everything Is in readiness except the
weather. and that IS causing some uneasi-
ness. Alumni are arriving in town in the
vain hope Of getting late tickets which
have been returned, but they have only q
SNOWFALL chance The 5000 seats are all
sold end the number could have been 5000
The city is filled with returning graduates
and their friends.
The work to-day was short and snappy.
the varsity team merely running through
signals. There were so many graduate
coaches on hand and eager 10 play thst a
graduate team was organized on the spot
for tilt with the third varsity. The
grads completely outplayed their opponents
and were made still happier By winning
by three touchdowns They laughed and
had great time in the game
! The first touchdown came when Ted Coy.
playing a left halfbsck, shot one OF his
accurate forward passes 10 Springer
| Brooks q resident coacn and varsity end
| the last two years, who ran ten yards for
away from q scrub back end Logan, end
on Coys team and now at the Harvard
Law School. grabbed the ball and went
| over for another score. Steve Philbin. the
| all-American halfback Of Coy's team.
/ made another or the brilliant lodging END
runs which made him famous, and scored
after a sprint Of twenty yards.
| Johnnie Field played quarterback for
! the grads and the entire resident staff OF
! Yale coaches, including Art Brides. Buck
J Morris, Springer Brooks and Earl Kistler.
was out.
| All of the Yale players are In perfect
condition. Not man is injured enough so
I as to have II interfere with his work to-
morrow. Yale is looking especially for Cap
| tain Howe to do something tomorrow
| An injury TO him will be disastrous 10
! Yale, and consequently I'm all OF his plays
| Howe viii be carefully protected He is
| counted on to make at least one field goal
| Jack Field, the head coach. absolutely
| refused 10 say anything about the game
! tomorrow or its outcome. He saws he will
I YET the game the team plays do his tslkins
! There has never been wear when fbe
entire attitude Of coaches and players was
I SO quietly confident.
| Field said that the opposing captains
would not make any agreement before tho
game regarding interpretations of the rules
! 10 prevent repetition of the freak goal
which marred the Princeton Dartmouth
game. This will be left TO the officials.
Tom Shevn said tonight that Yale wa
ready 10 play her best game and that he
personally felt confident OF the outcome.
Yale is spiendidly coached team man
for man. said Shevlln. land is capable OF
playing any sort OF game"
Bomeisler and Avery have switched ends
for the game TOMORROW. and Charley Paul
half and Dunn will play fullback Yale
will take the field as follows: Avery, left
end; Scully., left tackle; Francis, lett
guard; Paul, right tackle; Bomelser. right
end: Howe. quarterback; Camp, left half
back: ,spalding, right halfback; Dunn,
! The field is covered with straw tonight
and huge piece of canvas TO protect il
against the frost.
Princeton, n. j., Nov 1.-THE football
season at Princeton is over. the last prac-
tice of the year being held on Osborne
| Field this afternoon just before the team
left for Bridgeport, Conn. where il will
remain tonight. leaving for New Haven
! tomorrow morning.
! The practice this afternoon was of a
! light order, consisting OF a short drill in
punting for Dewitt and Andrews and a
fast signal practice, with Pendleton rum
! ming the eleven at quarterback The
, Princeton squad is I'm excellent condition,
with the exception Of the two big guards
! Duff and Wilson, both Of whom are still
| limpiug and while they will start the game
tomorrow neither probably will be able
to play the game against Yale that he did
against Harvard.
The Princeton lineup will be as follows:
| Left end, White: left tackle, Hart; left
guard, Wilson: centre, Bluethenthal; right
guard. Dun: right tackle, Phillips. right
| end. Dunlap: quarterback, Pendleton; left
| hafback, Baker: right halfback, De Witt:
| fullback. Vaughan.
The scrub team, substitutes and coaches
! left Princeton for New York at 40 o'clock
| tonight. They will spend the night at the
| Hotel Cumberland. New York.
! Every undergraduate vino had not left
! for the big game ''paraded' down 10 the
! station 10 see the team off. What the
! crowd at the station lacked I'm numbers
| il made ND i'm enthusiasm. There il no
feeling that the present team contains the
/ best material of any since the one Of 1890.
| which tied Yale Consequently the hopes
! ~ the undergraduates arc high. The
| strength OF the Blue eleven Is recognized.
and that IL will be well Verscd in all the
J tine points OF the game no one here doubts,
! but whether the Tigers will know as much
/ i'm The opinion of many the result of the
! hinges This fact