Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-17
new STADIUM TO
Be DEDICATED
NEXT SATURDAY
Crimson-Blue Battle Also to
Decide Football Cham
pionship of East-Penn
Football News.
py EpwARp r. BUSHNELL


eussing the Harvard Yale football game
which is 20 celebrate the opening of Yale's
immense stadium on Saturday. In the
first place this game will settle the inter-
collegiate gridiron championship Of the
East, II not of all America as we'll. That
is distinction enough to turn all eyes
toward New Haven. But in addition the
game viii be witnessed by the greatest
throng that ever saw a football game or
any other athletic contest in America. Be
tween 10000 and $1,000 partisans OF these
two universities will fill every inch Of
sitting and standing space in this i'm
nense submerged bowl. This is about
twice the size of the biggest previous
crowd, crammed into the Harvard sta
blum, which heretofore held the record
II As for the game Itself Harvard Is deserv-
edIy the favorite, and probably will continue
30 be so. Had Yale been able to hold It's 1910
rtzers to score their two touchdowns in the
last ten minutes of the game, there might
have been disposition to rate Yale as
Princeton 200 and did Il more easily than
Yale ran up 10 points against Princeton
that the Princeton attack got going and
this thought for Yale c coaches aches s' because Har r.
ward played almost the entire last quarter
asainst Princeton with substitutes. and the
second string men just as strong as the
regulars This means that Harvard is much
better equipped with substitutes than Yale.
YALE HAS GOOD PASSING.
The issue is likely to turn on Harvards
ability to stop Yaie,s complicated forward
and lateral passes Il the Crimson defense
as2Ssd 2Ss tS % hhe n ss's Is pretty certain that
no no tenn can, Yale Yale has met has been able TO stop
n ~ arA huu
pared. Nor has Yale been opposed to the
sort OF attack that Harvard has built up.
Harvard falls to stop Yaies ssnsationai i' pass
ing game The Els may score with 1t, but
( to Offset the rushing, running and Kicking
stack Which Harvard has built up. Harvard
strength as its own attack Harvard ng TimsUH breaEs
running the BAH back In Ss'sptns tSs iast Two yaIa an6
James am, Harvard made more ground running
the ball with them. This year HaryRrd,S IvSTgs
serSnse Tor these PLAYS has been quite as
tbay tMbay & and they viii probably use 1--WE men Ntrs on
Sut.s Sut Tor the Yale passes, and with the usual
Assuming that Yale connot gain eonsstsn,,,
With the passing game ana Is Obliged 10 res
bavs 20 b,s Mne 2innging, Harvard will certainly
5,a 5aarvard backs fought their way 10 two toueb
so nd RRsfF Rs his .hS saSaS xhSS Length o. hs
geore Yale showed no such scoring pe sS,it iIfSona a
beeavsea aast PrnSeton For these reasons and
sn ssnnostltnte players. most football men expect
PENN SPIRIT WRONG.
nsr aaGs to TO 5dtSP dogPeSS 81 ShS3gS
~ psnIs, az Branklln Field, the UnIversity
tho right direction, but It is question wbether an
Ss fesalf5 SSa fs VIII Bs1s go to the Lengths
@ wrong With the spirit. OF the team when Il
sas ee demoraIzed % and oyerwhelmed twice in
sn 40 90 n, cut out BY the roots before the team
PennSSlyaSIa ]HstiSe and measure up to the
The The hardes, problem the coaches have TO
v1 ousrterh.cI9 wIhether or not to make change at
Iell ans,yers every demand. He is a splendid
Speh Sppl hn nei1 runner ana sure in catching punts
Sl-r,1i nna L0I,ows too closely previously arranged
Issue in an original manner Hgs'i9s Hs 9ss,r every
open up the same as the coaches had told
ward pass which had such fatal results espiv
IN the second period.
man to take his place would be Murdosk TSbs Tiis
soeehes know right now that Murdock would
Eell, but they don't know that he wouidn't
sa &c a peter leader and select plays with more
can decide only by trial, and Its 1retty
risky making experiments when there Is only
is no sense In sticking to a losing combins
tion and the change to Murdock might be the
II the coaches put Lundberg In the back
neh he will bo an experiment. pure and sim
pie. He was slated for an end aRainst Dart
mouth but at the last moment the coaches de-
oided not TO change. He has lots Of nght
and he may be Just the man for a halfbacE
position.
5hS ThSls SIsoIIt situation e. e very ellsh one
fommittee and coaches can bestow on it. And
In this connection there has been less assiat
nnee from old players and former coRehes
than ever before. Any sort OF a suRKegtIon
ought TO be and probably would be Welcomed
fight now.
II any one had any lingering doubts as N
the strength Of the Cornell eleven. that smash,
ing 2s-ls yictory. over Michigan on Saturday
have not ony the best team thaf sSss seem to
with Harvard and Dartmouth as The strong. tTenKs
ent OF Cornell % repeat what ahy hSs bsee5 aga
inherently sia touchdowns stronger than Penn
more from, her previous hSrd schedule than
did Cornell but even then Cornell smashed
her way through the Michigan eleven in The
ness but because Of COTnell's power
Spectators who journey out 10 Franklin
Field on Thanksgiying Day viii see a diner
ever sent here boesop sRrpa say sh15 bas cSans has
made nyer Cornelrs football spirit ana this |
cornssl sl team es eleven ,s agh!ins with the same
track and the water II 10 an aroused Cor
nell but, better yet is playing basicaiiy sound
foobtall. and it viii test Psnnsyivanis's in
from winning In overwhelming manner AZ
they did year ago. From the way the |
lthaeans baekneld, composed OF Barrett al
and Hiil at fulihaek played they seem "a |
mouth or Harvard.