Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-21
CLIMAX IN EASTERN FOOTBALL. Vale Meets Harvard for ss.h Time.

Vale Meets Harvard for 18th Time.
 New Haven, Conn, Nov. 20.-The climax of the eastern football season will be staged at New Haven tomorrow when the teams of Yale and Harvard universities meet in the 35th game of the intervarsity series which began in 1875. During this stretch of 40 years intercollegiate football and it's attend ant features have undergone remark able evolutionS. Numerous changes in the playing rules have been made and the theory and methods of attack and defense radically altered. All these variations in the game and play sink into insignihcance when compared with the great transformation of foot ball from the spectacular and specta- tors standpoint.
 In the early days of the contests the teams met upon the college green and fought out their annual game, ringed by a thin fringe of undergraduates and town folk. Admission charges were either nominal or entirely dispensed with and the cheering of the few hun dred spectators unorganiZed and unim- pressive. Wonderful progress in the popularity of football has been made since the initial game and tomorrow marks another epoch in the game, for the elevens of 1914 will battle in a stadium larger and more impressive than any structure ever built for col lege sport in this country. On to the turfed and lime lined arena of this stadium will trot tomorrow afternoon the gridiron squads of rival uniVersi- ties, while more than 10000 spectators cheer the players and substitutes.
 The advance guard of the thousands who will contribute fully $140,00O to the athletic associations of the two universities for the privilege of wit messing the game are already pouring into this city by train, boat and motor car. The night before gathering has taxed the capacity of the local hostel ries to an extent never before experi- enced here and the overflow has been shunted into private dwellings as a last resort for the night. This rush is but. the forerunner of the throngs that are scheduled to descend upon New Haven tomorrow With new stadium with a seating capacity almost twice as great as the former wooden stands at Yale field. additional thou sands have taken the opportunity to witness one of the football classics of the year. More than 50 per cent of the spectators will come from points outside this city. According to the sons will be moved by special trains, 25 of which will start from New York city and l5 from Boston. in addition to the regularly scheduled service.
 That. the game itself, aside from the dedication features of the new Yale bowl, and the assembling of record gathering of football enthusiasts, will prove an exceedingly interesting con test is the general opinion of the coaches and experts who have followed the work of the elevens all season Harvard is a slight favorite in the wagering, due to the showing made in the eight games played to date and the fact that Percy Haughton and his successful. coaching system holds full sway at Cambridge. Yale, on the other hand. is just finishing the first season of a new campaign Of football under thS tutelage of Frank Hinkey, former captain and end at the Yale teams of 1893 and 1894.
 This slight preponderance of SUD- port in favor of the Crimson is due chiefly, however, to the better show ing made by Harvard in the preIin- mary games of the schedule. The Cambridge eleven has won all it's games with the exception of the con- test with Penn State, which resulted in a tie at Is to 13. In six of the first seven games Harvard ran up double figure scores, Michigan alone being able, to hold Haughton's pupils to a single touchdown without the accom- panying field goals which have marked all the other contests. Yale has also proved that it possessed a strong scoring attack, but has played cratic football especially on the defense.
 Two opportunities are offered for a
 
 games against Washington and Jeffer- son and Brown. Harvard defeated the Pennsylvania team 10 to g on Oct 10 while two weeks later the same eleven won from Yale 1 3to T. Against Brown. the Blue lined up a team of regulars and substitutes in about squal proportions, so that the victory of 14 to carries greater weight than the Haryard substitute eleven's score- less tie with Brown.
 n, l9l4 teams, the Blue has a long string Of victories over the Crimson to it's credit, when the series is reviewed as a, whole. In. the earliest days of the game, when the point system of SCOT ng was unknown. Yale gained a lead which she has held so firmly ever since Since 1883. when touchdowns goals and field goals were accorded a point value Yale has won r games to Harvard's s. while 5 resulted in tie contests. In the total number of points scored, the Ellis have a big margin over the Crimson, the totals being Yale 279. Harvard 1O7. The Blue eleVens have shut out Crimson teams on 13 occasions, while the Harvard victories over Yale in which the Ellis were unable to score number but A. In recent years the Cambridge teams have developed a strength when facing the Blue quite unknown to the elevens or the, s90E In 1907 Yale ended a string of six straight victories and in the following six years won one. lost three and tied two. It was a desire to check this slump in Yale football that caused the call to go out for Hinkey. What the new coach and his system or play has done toward restoring Yale to the high gTidiron plano for merly held by Blue teams will be dem- onstrated tomorrow
 The records and statistics and prob able lineup of the two snuads -follovs: