The Sentinel=record., 1916-11-25
BIC FOOTBALL
 GAMES TODAY
VALE AND HARVARD AND THE ARMY AND NAVY MEET THIS
 AFTERNOON.
A Crowd of Seventy Thousand Is Ex- pected to See the Harvard-Yale Contest While Fifty Thousand Will Witness the Army-NaVy Game.

New York, Nov 24.-The climax of
 the eastern football season will be
 reached tomorrow afternoon with the
 playing of the HarvardYale, Army
 Navy and several other contests of
 lesser general interest For the first time in many years two of the so-
 called gridron classics conflict by coming on the same day but apparent l ly this will have no effect on the at
 tendance which is eU ected 10 break all previous records at either game. 1 More than 100000 seats have been ! distributed for the struggle in the ] Yale bowl in New Haven while close to 50.000 spectators will witness the ] intcrservice clash tomorrow at the Polo grounds in this city
 If it had been possible to accom- modate all applicants for tickets the attendance at these two games would have approached close to 20O LOGO. The total gate receipts will exceed $215.-| 00o This amount would he greatly in creased if all the Navy Army seats were put on sale but not more than third Of the service contest tickets, however, are disposed of in this man ner.
 Yale will send against Harvard the best combination that has re resented the Blue in recent seasons and while it is the first test of the Tad Jones coaching system opposed to the meth eds of football tuition as advocated by Percy Hauahton the outcome is con siderablr in doubt
 Yale has asquad of football players of more than average strength and alertness. coupled with a fighting spirit which is fully up 10 the old Eli erdiron tradition. The chief fault dur ing the preliminary games has been an cratic tendency
 1 If the Harvard eleven was compOs- ed of the veteran material of last | year the crimson would he an over 1 Nhelmine favorte, but Haughton has 1 been obliged to rebuild the Cambridge machine and some of the parts are not of the same streneth as last sea son. It strength under the circum- ! stances will lay in the smOOthness with which the team plays and the
 judgement used by the field director. : If the Crimson's lay breaks down due to inexperienced material the
 Blue playing on its own grounds and | with everything to gain and little to lose. is likely to emerge the victor l Somewhat similar conditions pre- vail on the eve of the Army Navy game The West Point team CO., tains several veterans who played previous seasons with the cadets or with other 1 institutions and who have established reDutations as gridiron stars. The soldiers backfield with Ouphant and Vidal playing contains two of the most finished all round offensive ground gathers in the country, The I line from tackle to tackle is one un- usual strength and ability If there
 is any weakness it will he found in the ends and ossibly at quarter
 The Navy on the other hand is
 comparatively a new combination.
 While it contains a number of play CTS of much promise these men have rot as yet reached the full height of
 their football power or education. The
 team has not played with the same swing or consistency as the Army in the canes to date and has not shown
 equal ability on either the offensive
 or defensive The annual contest
 however. is notable for the firecc-
 ness with which every yawrd is
 fought and form is occasionally
 thrown aside for the man-to-man game
 Under these conditions individual
 experience and ability is always the
 deciding factor and here again the Army appears to have the advantage.
 In the other games of the day Penn
 sylvapia will meet West Virginia Wes leyan. while Cornell Is resting for the
 anuaul Thankseiying day contest with the Quakers Syracuse faces
 Tufts which early in the season de-
 feated Harvard, and Washington and