Norwich bulletin., 1913-10-24
BULLETINS SPECIAL YALE LETTER
Race With Princeton Looked Difficult Experiment. Number in University Same Last Year-Veteran Football Players to Have Reunion-Four Connecticut men Take Rhodes Scholarship Exams.

New Haven, Oct. 23.-Dr. Spaeth of Princeton does not concede much hope for a victory by his crew in recent statements, and Yale crew men from their side look upon Saturdays race as & difficult experiment which, if it proves worth while may lead to an annual event on the water with Prince ton, recognizing her in crew as in the other branches of college sport, as an equal.
 Princeton has all the advantages on her side, Albert H. Barclay '9l, the rowing authority, thinks. The objective point in fl wing 0, Yale is Harvard on a four mile course, while Princeton rows a short race over a course one mile and seven -eighths long. It will De a different style of contest altogether from the race in June and will have little bearing on the Harvard race. The greatest benefit that can be hoped for is to encourage men to come out Tor fall rowing.
 Now it is impossible to get all the best rowing material together in the fall, owing to football practice, and then 1t is almost impossible to agree on practice hours. This fall the unr- versity crew has been compelled 10 practice from to o'clock in the morning. before breakfast. For the Princeton race Captain Denegre has had to build his eight around two vet eranS, himself and CroCher. Crocker at stroke is the only lightweight in the shell but in spite of the fact that he gave out in the four mile race last spring, the coaches think that he can go the shorter course. The boat IS rowing B to the minute with the Eng fish stroke, while Princeton will row much cashier, what MT. Barclay calls a get there stroke, without the form and training that is necessary for longer race In the event of either vic tory or defeat, he does not feel that the race will indicate anything in re- gard to the crew that Yale will be able to send to New London next June
 The number of men in Vale univer- sity is 3,263, according to the prellmln- ary list announced this week, and gains and losses in various departments make the figures exactly the same as last year. In the college is the great est increase an enrolment of l402, showing a gain of 72. In the graduate school, owing to the new requirement. of two years for an M. A., there is loss of 92. The Art school has gained II and the Medical school four. The Law school has lost two, the Forestry school eight, the Music school seven, and the Sheffield Scientific school six.
 In Sheffield this year there are 1133 men. in the Graduate school 334 in the Art school 53, and in the Music school 85 The Forestry school is down to g. and the Divinity school is the same this year as last with 100 men. The Medical school has 49 students, and the Law school 130, There are 571 off cers in the university.
 An interesting reunion of football men will be that of the veterans of '87, who on Novebmer 4th will be the guests at the Hotel Taft of their captain, Will liam H. Corbin, 'S8. Most of the men who made up that famous eleven, which piled up the stupendous score of 69S points without once having their goal line crossed, are coming back to and the Princeton game later in the week.
 The football of 25 years ago must have been fearful and wonderful thing, to judge simply from the scores that were made in those days. In that year Yale defeated Wesleyan 136-0, but the new game keeps the score hover ing around the 200 mark. Of course, there is the possibility of better foot ball material in the old days The names of some of the men on the 'S7 varsity would suggest that. Lee Me Clung, former treasurer of the United States, William P. Graves and William T. Bull made up the backfeld of the team, with Wurtemburg at quarter At the ends were Alonzo Stagg and Fred Wallace. Captain Corbin was center, and the famous Heffelfnger was on one side of him and George Woodruff on the other. Gill and Rhodes were the tackles.
 Rhodes scholarship examinations en- titling the successful candidates, through the generosity of the late Cecil Rhodes, to three years of study