New-York tribune., 1911-11-25
.SOGCY FIELD FOR GAME
Yale Slight Fayorite Over the
Harvard Team in Betting.
WORK ON SIGNAL PRACTICE
Blue Eleven Use a Barn, While
Crimson Forces Trot Around %
on the Straw.


Cambridge. Mass.. Nov. Zi.-AlthOugn cove
cred with straw and has. the grtdiron IN
the Stadium win be In miserable condition
for the football struggle between Harvard
and Yale tomorrow because of the down
pour of rain. when tho Harvard player
fan through signals on tho Geld this after
noon they slipped and slid about. and there
IS every indication that it viii 10 almost
.ragmirc even n the weather clears.
Tho two teams did little work to-day.
The Yale men had planned 10 come 10 RON
A,,burndale TO get accustomed 10 tho light
ard wind drafts of the stadium, oHt tina
r,o-nine the plan was abandoned. and IN"
New Haven players found an old barn IN
which 10 run through signals.
In tho afternoon they piled into eiSnfeen
automobiles and droye about The subuFDs
for three hours. and then returned 10 tnrT
hotel \ walk after dinner, following the
usual blackboard talk. ended the day toot-
Fall concerns. and the New Haven players
retired early.
A. cambridge the condition % the field
diG not deter the Harvard team from nav
ing some work This was on signals en-
tirely. The team was out for tnree-G'iar~
tres of an hour. and then after ifs RETURN
from tho field 10 the locker building more
than fifteen hundred undergraduates and
graduates marched down 70 me Stadiun
7I,o,, had expected to see the team. and
rather than dss ppoint them captain
Fisher had his men trot hack 70 tho grid
iron again and run from one goal line "a
the other.
The condition OF the field threatens 20 hs
go had Tomorrow that both teams are
wondering what is going 10 happen Har-
ward did not begin 10 play its game in tha
uud against Dartmouth last week. while
both OF the games that Yale had lost this
wear were PLAYED on a field deep with mud
and water. There has been little betting.
but Yale is the favorite Al odds Of 70 .
Al Auburndale tonight " was announced
/ that Captain Howe was in good condition
I and would start the game, and that he was
sure 10 stay through. provided he was nor
! iured. Harvard seems 10 have decided
/ thar Campbell. and not Reynolds, VIII
/ begin the game a left halfback Potter %
down for Quarterback In the offcisl line
M but he was lame TO-DAY. He may start
! the game. as the Cambridge coaches be-
ueve that their best chance for beating
/ Yale will be 70 score early IN the contest
This Is what the team hopes to do. and
! thereby duplicate the conditions - thew
existed when Princeton beat Yale lass
/ week
/ Both Mack and Donovan. the trainers
assert that their men are in FIRST class
/ condition for the game. The Yale men,
however. are more disappointed over no
promise Of a wet field than the Harvard
men. Yale figures that It's best chance les
in having good field conditions. but these
will be impossible even should the sun
shine all tomorrow morning.
/ Late this afternoon the Harvard mon
went to the Vesper Country club for the
night and will return to Cambridge hN
! train about noon tomorrow. The fale
/ PLAYERS. with their coaches. Will leave
! Auburndale at noon. and VIII hc St the
Stadium IN half an hour.