The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-13
CLOSE GAME AND
/ THE SCORE SMALL
That's What Capt. Callahan
of Yale Thinks of TO-day's
Battle.
ELS RATHER SUBDUED
Spend the Night Here and Not
Very Clipper Lot
of Players.
Nv WILLIAM II. HANNA.

80 nv WILLIAM u. HANNA.
Subdued and quiet more than any
Yale squad that has passed through New
York in years on the way to football
game in Princeton, the Ellis spent the
night here and will go on to the Jersey
Jungle on a 10:45 train this morning.
Adverse luck in the way of numerous
Injuries has hit the New Haven folks
hard this fall but hasn't taken the fight
out of them. They scrap right we'll on
lhe football field. but very little around
hotel Hobbies.
,s The most clipper one in the lot last
might was Tim Callahan, the captain
Capt Tim has light curly hair, blue
eyes and boyish smile-typically Irish.
He was so busy trying to get tickets for
anybody who tackled him that he didn't
have much time to talk football.
How are all the crippled and wound
ed?" he was asked
Pretty fair" he responded. No hard
luck tales from Tim. It'll be close
game, l think. with a small score. and
That's about all l can say about it, l
haven't seen Princeton this year and
don't know anything about them"
Tad Jones. head coach, may be con-
fident and cheerful, but he hardly looked
the latter. '"rhe toughest season I've
ever been through he said. 'We haven't
had our team together except the last
Two or three days. In 1915 / had my
team picked at the start and kept 1t"
The Yale squad was reported in good
trim, though battle SCARED and hard as
nails seemingly, all except Dickens, the
star tackle. and he won't play to-day.
There was an air of grim determination
through and through. but If buoyant,
carefree ways on the eve of a big game
are the best prognosticati ton of success
for the morrow. then the Yale party's
bearing was not one of presaging sue
cess. There were no deep lines of worry
or undue gravity, but II was a sober
faced and anything but a lively crowd.
and one that looked as IL 1t had all the
scrinlmagng it could carry.
Trainers Are Hopeful.
The trainers. John Mack. Walter Mace
and Sid Coe. who have been handling
Yale teams for years, declared the con-
-dition of all the men was excellent and
that they were prepared to go the route
= IT always expect to win a football
game until the last play is made Johnny
Mack put it, land though we've been
handicapped greatly by injuries / think
xou'll see us go from now on"
Tad Jones said he knew how he would
start his line to-day. but really hadn't
decided on his backfield and probably
wouldn't decide until game time. 1T, de-
zpeuds" he said. ION conditions to-mor-.
row. the wind the playing field and
SUCH" ~
Nevertheless the most likely backfield
at the start, anyway, is Murphy. quar-
ferback Kelly and Campbell halfbacks.
and Jordan, fullback. Aldrich. the swift.
hard running back. is fit and ready. the
trainers say, and for as much work as
the coaches want to give him. but the
T. Iaus fcvkt hot thA
backfield would toe the mark as named.
The Blue line. left TO right will be
Cutler. Mackay. Acosta. Cross Callahan
Walker and Dilworth. Callahan Is to
play right guard and ordinarily this
would bring him into immediate contact
I with Stanley Keck, Princeton's ace OF
the line and pretty nearly the best for
ward in the Eastern arena.
Keck and Callahan.
When Princeton has the balr Keck's
offensive position could bring him
vfs-vis with Capt. Tim, and that would
De a pretty battle for the Yale captain
was q crack guard before he was a
Z crack centre. but in these days of shifts
= and unbalanced lines there's no telling
who's going TO crash into who. II was
mot with any especial idea Of having
him handle Keck that Callahan was
shifted from centre to right guard.
~ The only old Yale players around the
hotel last night were Brink Thorne and
Douglas Bomeisler. The Ellis would be
happy IL they had an end of Bomeislers
calibre TO pit against the fierce Tiger
cat. Bomeisler was OF the Hinkey. Shev-
lin. Fitzpatrick. Forbes class. Brink
Thorne talked with his namesake.
Thorne Murphy, and also with Harry
Gross. son OF the centre on Thorne's
team back in 1895. Young Cross had
his appendix taken out in September
and he is headed for the Jungle bent
on subduing ferocious felines.
we believe. however" says Coach
Fisher giving one of the reasons why
Harvard won't number It's players. that
football Is a team game and not a game
of individuals"
- Nothing convincing in that reason. IL
IL In fact no reason at all. and II IL
hard to understand why Il Is advanced.
Eleven men can do Just as good team
work with numbers on their backs as
without them. Then Fisher goes on to
tell the real reason. how Harvard has
a certain mysterious play which the
!. most discerning of scouts have not yet
? been able TO solve. and which. were the
players numbered, would be much easier
of solution.
1f the absence of numbers helps Har-
ward keep its plays puzzle. II also
would help Yale and Princeton. There
fore, Harvard. not numbering when
Yale and Princeton do. has an advan-
tsge over them by clinging 70 practice
(which they, for the larger good. have
been willing to forego.
~ FOR example" continues Coach
Fisher, "the play which was tho decid-
ing factor I'm tieing Princeton last year
was the same play which won against
Yale and Oregon. and the same play.
with q very minor variation, which tied
princeton this year"
- Too bad, II II was as good as all that.
that Harvard didn't use It once more
and beat Princeton
~ c. II. Van Week. the former Yale
pitcher, bet Princctonian that Yale
rwill make better showing against
Harvard and Princeton than Princeton
will against Harvard and Yale. bet
capable OF complications necessitating
ian expert mathematician--or an alien
LIST
What, II anything. Yale does 20
Princeton to-day II much less likely 20
: be the result of stuff kept under cover
than Of stuff used all along but bettor
. perfected than at any previous time.
Mighty few football games ever were
won by stuff kept under cover"
7" 'I'll show you my plays" Pop War