The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-23
Saturdays Game
 Very Even Thing

- FORMER CAPT. WITHINGTON OF
 HARVARD SAYS YALE HAS
 SLIGHT ADVANTAGE
 IN TEAM PLAY.
 Ears arU being held to the ground these days, waiting to catch any signs that may come out of Cambridge or New Haven. For Yale and Harvard are buckling down to their hardest work of the season in preparation TOT the objective point of their schedules Saturdays game in the Stadium. The outcome of that is as uncertain as was last Saturdays game at New Haven.
 The Harvard victory over Dartmouth was gratifying, not because Harvard showed so much good football as De- cause the team after it's beat1ngs by s Princeton and the Indians needed the confidence that only a victory could bring. The playing of Storer at tackle and of Huntington at center was so good as to dispel all doubts as to whether the combination will work out to the best end, and Harvard doubtless will start the Yale game as it did the Dartmouth game, except perhaps for the placing of Potter at quarterback. Potter has been West
 
 expected to be all right. Gardiner, however, played such a good game against Dartmouth that even should Potter not last through the Yale game Harvard will have 8 first class man to run the team.
 wITHINGTON'S OPINION
 Lothrop Wilmington, captain last year of Edwards eleven, says that it is improbable that either team will H1f he Saturday. He declares that tie. d goals and the se,zing of opportunities will decide the issue. Writing for Bos- ton newspaper. he said:
 Although the Yale-Princeton game resulted in a win for the Tigers 1t must rot for a minute be thought that Yale has been overrated nor that the chances of Harvard victory were increased by the outcome of this con test.
 :.Of the two teams. the Blue far out pointed Princeton in matter of form and team play. They were outplayed in only one department, that of fol- lowing the ball The kicking honors were about evenly divided, both men kicking surely and consistently throughout the game.
 ssYale showed but little new football and it would seem that she was either satisfied with what she had already mastered or decided 1t was not worth while to try anything new in the mud and thus have kept it for the liar ward game.
 ance of the writer it seems that the Yale team Is a better rounded eleven than the Harvard team. Far from being shy on material, Yale seems to have a wealth of excellent substitutes who play we'll up to the varsity stan- dard.
 aThe whole appearance of the Yale eleven inspired wholesome admira- ion for the precision of the execution of each play. The team appeared in the best of condition and the players possessed that confidence in each oth- CT and in the ability. of the team as a whole which welds an eleven into a unit and instills fear in the other team. It was this quality that kept the Princeton stands uneasy until the final whistle blew.
 ''Line for line, Harvard and Yale seem to be fairly evenly matched. with a slight advantage on the side of the Blue. The Harvard guards are better than the Yale men, although Yale seems much superior at the tackle po- sitions. Ketcham at center is a most aggressive player, backing up his line all over the field and being down with ends under punts.
 .The Yale ends are on par with the Crimson men. BOmeisler IS second Fitzpatrick. with perhaps lit tie less speed and brilliancy. He comes well up to Smiths standard, although not such heady player. or Felton, being a more experienced man than either of the Harvard men.
 "rhe backfield of the Crimson eleven is better combination than the Yale backfie1d. Wendell is a better and a more consistent line plunger than any vo1 hon hut 10 more than on par with the Yale trio.
 'Tn the quarterback position Yale will have a decided advantage. Howe is today the best field general in col lege football. His generalship was un- questionable in the Princeton game, except in perhaps one or two instances. On one occasion he found himself close to the side lines with second down and seven yards to go. It was the identical spot Wigglesworth was in last year in the last period of the Harvard Yale game.
 Harvard has great hole to fill at quarterback position. The absence of Wigglesworth, with subsequent injur- ies to Gardner and Potter, has caused is ratural, then, that the work of Gardner in the Dartmouth game en- couraged Harvard supporters greatly. The hole remains in spite of this, and the probability of Patter's getting in- to the Yale game ie not great.
 Taken collectively, the Yale team Is stronger both on paper and in appear ance. The development of the Blue eleven is ahead of that of the Har- ward team, and tlfe wealth of substi- -tute material gives considerable lat1- ftude in choosing the style of play.
 Harvard has a fighting chance in that she has just begun to come. The Dartmouth game gave confidence, and this week should help materially in the preparation of the team for the final test.'
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