New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-08
HEAVY RAIN BALKS
/! THE YALE ELEVEN
Drives Team to Baseball Cage
and Spells Chance for a
Hard SCrimmage.
BIG DEMAND FOR TICKETS
Tigers Wallow Around in Mud,
Although Some of the Men
Are Spared After the
Signal Drill.
IN TeIegraph % The Tribune.

New Haven, Nov lone Of the heaviest
transforms OF the season seriously inter
fered with the plans Of the Yale coaches
10 send the football team through an I'M
usually hard and driving practice this af-
ternoon The men no sooner reached the
field than they were compelled TO retreat
ard. practice was halo in the newly com
pleted baseball cage. 1t was impossible TO
hold any sort Of a scrimmage, so the af-
ternoon was devoted mostly to signal
practice. Strangely enough, signals have
given Yale as much trouble as anything
else this year, and mix-ups in signals have
been responsible for many plays that
looked careless and ineffective.
The backfeld, consisting of Cornell,
Spalding. Flynn and Philbin, rode the goat
into the Knights of Columbus Society last
night and came in for much horse play
when they missed a signal or fumbled the
ball to-day.
Some kicking and catching Of pants wGs
done and considerably more passing by
the centres directly TO the backs. KetCh-
am. Read and Marrying doing the passing
The backs also practised accuracy in for
ward passing, but such work could not
compensate for the loss of the regular
hard Thursday scrimmage for the Brown
game Yale has had only three practice
scrfnnmages since week ago Wednesday
and these only lasted thirty minutes each.
Howe lined up the men to-day as he ex-
pects to start them against Brown
Whether the same men start the Prince
ton and Harvard games will depend
largely on their work on Saturday The
guards will be Pendleton and Arnold.
pendleton ras played a steady reliable
game as sub-tackle, and is a fast. rangy
athlete His selection to start over
Cooney. who has played the position all
year. is in the nature of an experiment.
II ne makes good" he is likely to get the
call
Arnold was known last year to be a
hard man to- handle in the line. He Is
built much like McDevitt, is fast for his
build and aggressive. He IS sure Of his
job, at least until HARRISON returns, and
then mag land as one of the two for the
big games The only other uncertain posi-
ton is at quarterback, and here Howe
had considerable hesitation in saying he
would give Cornell the first call over
Wheeler. Their qualifications run in diff
ferent lines and it is still undecided who
IS more essential TO the team The team
then. as it will start against Brown fol-
lows:
Gallauer and Avery, ends; Talbot and
Warren, tackles; Arnold and Pendleton,
guards Ketcham, centre; Cornell. quar-
terback: Philbln, left halfback; Spaldins,
right halfback; Flynn. fullback
Everard Thompson. manager Of the
ticket department, made several impor-
tant announcements tonight The clerks
have just finished tabulating applications
for the Yale Harvard game, and between
800 and 5000 tickets could not be sup
piled This year the strictest possible reg
ulations were followed and tickets and ap-
plications were cut wherever possible, but
in spite Of this the supply does not equal
I the demand.
l. Mr.. Thompson says it will be necessary
TO make a cut by drawing out certain APP
plications. There are nearly three hun
dred men who have broken the depart
ment rules by using borrowed apphca-
lions as personal, and these VIII be abso-
lutely thrown out The rest Of the cut
will be from those graduates who have
I applied for two tickets. All undergradu-
ate applications Will be hlled according 70
the arbitrary rule now in force. but the
drawings indicated i'm the wording on the
I back of graduates application blanks VIII
come from those who have applied for
two tickets The ticket department eX-
pressedly stated IT would not promise &c
fiji all such applications.
The Yale department will take care OF
all who have applied for tickets TO the
Princeton game. and there will be no cut
For the first time in years, the Yale and
Harvard teams will hold dinners in the
Hotel Taft on the night following the
game.
The Harvard team. although reports
have had 1t coming TO Hotel Taft three
days before the game 20 practise kicking
on.Yale Field. is likely, as suggested ex'
clusively in The Tribune yesterday. to &c
20 New London to avoid the noise and
confusion.