Votume VI. No. 7.
NEW HAVEN, CONN., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1896.
PRINCETON HAS THE LEAD,
What Yale must do to Overtake Her
on the Twenty-first.
There is a tradition by which Yale
men have ever set great store, that
the “boys in blue’ on the gridiron al-
ways finish strong. Nor is the belief
local and confined to New Haven
alone. It is generally accepted by all
those who take an interest in the.
game as a strange but certain fact
that the last two weeks of the foct ball
season finds the Yale eleven coming to
their perfection most rapidly. The
hearts of their sympathizers, although
wrung for weexs by the backwardness
of the team and their narrow escapes
from disgraceful. defeats, bound up
with new hope in the week before the
final match.
And almost never has a Yale team
disappointed them. But there must be
a limit to such sensational finishes
and sometime Yale will fail to catch
the leaders on the home _ stretch.
Whether that time has come this sea-
son is a question, but surely Prince-
ton has a long lead this time and one
that has been earned by steady, per-
sistent effort, and not by a sprint.
Princeton’s team is largely a veteran —
ene and made more so by the hard
games of this season. The men work
tcgether, help one another, keep cool
and quiet under work and generally
exhibit those qualities that go so far
toward success. In the Harvard game
it was more the steadiness of their
play and the assured way in which,
even with one half gone and the
minutes of the second flying by with-
out score, they stuck to their syste-
matic play that eventually landed
them the victors, than any very
marked superiority in offense or de-
fense. Their kicking department has
been made perfect and Baird, with his
substitute Wheeler, insures the qual-
ity of their work. With this is coupled,
as shown more in the Cornell than in
the Harvard game, a higher grade of
team offense in the running game.
To meet this, Yale has a week orten
days. Hinkey is a made kicker if the
expression be ~ permitted. He can
hardly expect to match Baird or
Wheeler in distance. Yale has no
kickers of note and he has therefore
almost of necessity stepped into the
gap. The game of to-day depends so
largely upon kicking that it is hard to
read Yale’s title to more than a fight-
ing chance. But in a kicking game
there are opportunities for muffs and
fumbles and the best man may make
a Slip. So here’s a chance, although
it may be the wrong way and Yale
may do. the muffing.
The two lines that face each other
will be strong at tackles, four good
men filling the places in Church and
Hillebrand, Murphy and _ Rogers.
Those most vulnerable points of at- |
tack in the game, as it stands to-day,
have certainly been well looked after
by both teams. The center trios are
rather stolid by comparison with the
dash of the tackles.
At ends Princeton is the safer, Yale
the more dashing. But in the running
game behind the line Princeton has
the better of it in the unanimity of
her men and in having first-class sub-
stitutes for emergencies.
The game should be on a pleasant
day, for Princeton’s team isone worthy
of the best conditions and the stimu-
lus will nerve Yale up to geced work
too. A rainy day would cause the
match to degenerate much, would ma-
terially lewer the standard of the play,
- Geer. Reiter.
Bannard.
Thompson.
Schwartz.
Armstrong.
Church.
Prick Tren Cents.
Edwards. Hillebrand.
Pardee. Kelly. Tyler. Gailey.
Booth.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY FOOTBALL
and while not greatly affecting the re-
sult, would render it a far less satis-
factory test.
WALTER CAMP.
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McLaughlin Prize Subject.
The subject for essays in competi-
tion for the McLaughlin Memorial
Prize was announced in last Satur-
day’s bulletin. It is “A Study of Ten-
nyson’s Idylls of the King.’’ The fol-
lowing lines of study are suggested,
but not required:
I. Tennyson’s interpretation of the
legends from which the poems are
drawn: (a) in respect of the main
characters, Arthur, Guinevere,
Launcelot, etc. (b) in the conception
of chivalry. (c) in the Grail legend.
II. Tennyson’s descriptions of nat-
ural scenerv.
Iit. The verse.
IV. The English character of the
poem.
Any one of these topics or sub-topics
may be made the subject of the en-
tire essay.
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Art School Exhibition.
Arrangements are being made by
the Art School for a forthcoming ex-
hibition of illustrative art from the
Century and Scribner’s magazines,
and from the work of the leading il-
lustrators of the day. Also it is hoped
that there will be a considerable ex-
hibit of the work of C. D. Gibson and
of J. W. Whistler. The exhibition
will be probably opened within a few
weeks. A similar exhibition was held
in the Art School a few years since
which was very popular among the
undergraduates.
Cochran (Capt.) Poe.
Wheeler. Baird.
Holt. Crowdis.
McMasters.
Brokaw. Smith.
A. Poe. Rosengarten.
TEAM.
— MR. COOK WITH THE CREV,
English Principles Being Tried—Re-
turn to Older Tactics,
The University crew candidates are
enjoying the unusual privilege of Fall
coaching by Mr. Robert J. Cook. Mr.
Cook is devoting a week or more of
his time at present to testing different
changes in: the rigging and the oars
which were suggested by the experi-
ence at Henley. The barge is now
rigged with the seats on two different
lines, starboard oars on the port. side
and vice versa. Besides the greater
length of oar inboard and a longer
reach, the blade is narrower. So far
the changes seem to work well and
Mr. Cook appears confident that the
men are already beginning to reap the
results of the Henley trip, which will
be of immense advantage to them
Whether they row in England or
America. Mr. Cook has just made
public the following statement,
through the Yale News:
“We are only attempting to get
back again to the Yale stroke of
years ago. We have been getting
away from this gradually with little
innovations each year, but were able
to win in spite of these changes, det-
rimental to good rowing and rigging.
As long as we could continue to be
successful, a doubt was created as
to which was the better system to
pursue. I have for two or three years
felt uncertain as to the wisdom of
these changes, and it was one of the
purposes of having the crew go to
Henley to make a test and to have
the younger men learn for themselves
the advantages in the longer swing of
the body and many other little points
of detail that go to make a winning
crew.
“It will be seen then that there is
no radical change contemplated in
our rcwing policy, nor is the stroke
being revolutionized. We are simply,
as I have said, going back to our old
system which has been proved in the
past. The rigging of the boat the
crew is now using in practice is noth-
ing new at New Haven, but is the
Same as that used by Yale twenty
years ago.
“I make this statement to the News
to correct reports circulated by the
public press as interviews on the sub-
jects when none have been given out.
In fact, no expression of opinion of
any kind on the matter has been
meade.”
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Yale wins in Intercollegiate
Golf,
Yale and Columbia were the only
universities represented at the golf
tournament on Saturday at Tarrytown
for the Ardsley Casino Cup. Prince-
ton, Harvard and the University of
Pennsylvania did not send teams be-
cause they had not time to select rep-
resentative ones. Yale won the match
Scoring 385 holes to their opponents’
none. C. C. Pier and L. Tapin played
the best games for Columbia, and R.
Terry, Jr., W. R. Betts and J. Reid,
Jr., for Yale. In addition to the
trophy,a magnificent silver loving-cup,
each of the Yale team was presented
with a silver medal.
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The question of raising the standard
of eligibility to the Phi Beta Kappa
Society from an average 3.15 to 3.30
has been recently agitated, but no de-
cisiol: will be reached until after a
meeting to be held on Nov. 16,