New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-28
ON COLLEGE GR|D|RONS
Cornell Eleven Now Cured of Its
OverCOnfidenCe.
HEAD COACH LOSES WEIGHT
Worry Over Team Costs Reed
Ten Pounds in One Day
After Chicago Game.

Cornclrs football eleven, which Will face
Pennsylvania at Franklin Field Philadel-
phia. on Thursday has been cured OF its
overconhdence. and has taken TO heart the
lesson Of the Chicago defeat according to
p man who has been following the work
OF the team closely this year and who has
been at Ithaca for the last few days. lie
said yesterday:
'.When-the final whistle blew on the Chi
cago-Cornell game ten days ago. the Cor
nell football team faced a proposition. the
conouering of Pennsylvania. which, in re-
cent years has never been accompanied
with snch monster difficulties. The team
this wear al the last stage Of training de
welcomed tendencies which should have been
met. overcome and forgotten long before
midseason was reached but In the present
case n,id-season was Cornels most promis-
ing time. and since then unexpected diff
culties have cropped out which nothing but
the perseverance and grit of football man
could conquer.
Cornell has always had strong ten
dency in all her activities TO be affected TO
a slight extent by success, but. as a rule,
a single reverse has been sufficient TO es-
tablish an equilibrium which could be
maintained TO the end of the season. Quail
fcations must be set on this statement
however. for Courtney and Jack Moakley
seem to forestall the slightest tendency TO
a surplus amount of confidence, but in
these cases the athletes train for fewer
events and are kept in ignorance OF their
powers.
This fall was plentiful in confidence from
tho start The material available at the
outset was Of the finest calibre, and there
appeared nothing which would arise TO him
Ger season OF successes. The first danger
siens appeared in the Williams game. The
danger signs were manifest in the practices
which led up TO that game, however, but
only TO the coaches, and the football au-
thorities were glad to win the game even
by such narrow margin. While this
malady affected the whole team 10 an eX-
tent its most malignant outbreak was con-
fined 10 a few men. These men had ample
warning that In the game which followed
with Michigan the first sign Of disobedi-
ence to the instructions given by the
coaches the offender would be pulled out
of the game This threat had its effect,
and the team which played against Michi-
gan presented the most acceptable variety
Of football
During the week approaching the Chi
cago game Mchigan's defeat acted IKE
wine on an empty stomach, and when the
team left for the West several of the
coaches predicted defeat or a victory by a
hairs breadth. Their representations
were fulfilled and the Cornell players re-
turned to Ithaca, justly beaten, with them
selves TO blame, and whole university 10
Dame them. Fortunately for the team, the
llamc was due TO a few rather than TO
many. and with Characteristic sense Of
justice. the blame was limited to the few.
ION the return of the team Dan Reed
faced the most serious problem Of his foot
ball career. in fact, before he reached
Ithaca he bad spent much time on il, hav-
ing stopped off AT Dunkrk, his home. over
sunday. 10 think the thing out. 1t Is
matter Of fact that the strain was so Sc
we're to him that within the twenty-tour
hours after the start OF the Chicago game
Io lost over ten pounds I'm weight
con Monday afternoon following the
Chicago game the squad on Alumni Field
was electrified by his presence. W OTk
serted With bang and ended three hours
later NTH tine same hang. Night work
YEAS begun, and when the first day ended
rct a single man who played in the chi
CaGo game had tho slightest doubt Of his
ability and relative position on the varsity
eleven Reed left no room for doubt.
The successive days of the week. TO the
onlooker, We're not reekipg with noticeable
season In character. but desperate ana
drastic In strength. And an additional
feature OF these workouts was that it was
obviously = case Of the survival or the
httest Man after man, substitute after
substitute was tried out and il is safe TO
say that any feeling of overcOnfidencc has
been eradicated and that the team VIII
take the field against Pennsylvania on
THURSDAY ready TO make night that should
garry II 10 victory, If determination and
Fsaht spirit viii do it
Captain Fisher Of the Harvard football
eleven said under his signature I'm THE
Boston Herald Of Sunday
THE Haryard-Yale game has been
played, and who stands next to Princeton
as intercollegiate football champion is still
q question. Harvard and Yale have both
been defeated twice this season, and the
battle to-day save no indication as 10 which
had the superior team"
Percy ID. HaughtOn, the Harvard head
coach, said that the Crimson outplayed
Yale In every department except IN general
ship. while most OF the Boston critics agree
with him. although some say the margin
was slight.
Mel Webb saws ia THE Boston Globe:
After the game on Saturday Walter
Camp, Of Yale. I'm speaking Of the work Of
the Yale backs. mentioned casually that
MS son, Waiter Camp jr., rushed the ball
uye times against Harvard, and that he
averaged I'VE ydIOS 10 4 RUSH.
No special point was made Of this, but
in going over his OVID chart of the game
the writer was interested 10 see just what
the Younger CauiJ had done In the way Of
rushing and also 20 ind out how closely
Mr.. Camp. the elder has analysed his son
part in the rushing game Of the New
Haven team.
The Father Of football was very close.
Cump rushed six times. but one OF his
rushes was from position on fake kick,
and he gained two yards On the other
i've rushes he gained a total distance of
3 wards. his individual gains being 3, g. 4.
and wards. These gains were made
against either side Of iIsrvard's rush llue
Tho average distance that he gained wcs
mere ;han AZ wards
GIANTS LOSE ANOTHER.
Havana. Nov. 1.-THE Havana baseball
team defeated the Giants here to-day. by
.sore ~ g 70 .