Votume VI. No. 8.
FOR THE NEW YORK GAME,
Final Preparations Made by Yale
and Princeton.
As the Weekly goes to its readers
there remain. only forty-eight hours
before a large portion of Yale and
Princeton Universities will begin to
pour into Manhattan Field to wit-
ness the annual football struggle be-
tween Yale and Princeton. The final
arrangements have been made in New
York, by the Graduate Committee in
charge, for disposing of the specta-
tors and at each University the ef-
forts of the players and coaches are
strained to the utmost to add the
finishing touches to the eleven men
which are to meet their old foes on
the gridiron.
As nearly as can be told at present
the two teams will face each other
as follows:—
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THE YALE TEAM,
During the past week considerable
change has been made in the make-
up of the Yale eleven back of the
line, caused by the absence of Hinkey,
who has been ill with tonsilitis since
Monday of last week, and the develop-
ment of a new man at half-back. The
latter is Hine, 98 M. S., who had
been playing full-back on the College
side and captained the Freshman
team last year. When Hinkey was
forced to retire, Fincke was moved
from quarter to full-back, Hine was
played at left half-back and Ely at
quarter-back, while the position of
right half was contested for evenly by
Millis and Benjamin.
This formation played very success-
fully together, Fincke proving him-
self a very strong runner and a hard
man to stop. Hine also seems to have
developed more speed and determina-
tion to play hard than he has shown
before and is now almost the only
man behind the line who is success-
ful in end runs. He has, also, a very
good knack for drop kicking goals
from the field and in practice games
has been very successful in this line.
On Thursday of last week the team
played a very hard game indeed and
the coaches and entire audience gain-
ed much encouragement. On Friday
and Saturday, however the work was
not as good. Fincke and Hine both
proved uncertain in punting and the
ends allowed the kicks to be return-
ed on one or two occasions. Hinkey
began to attend recitations last Mon-
day and played his first regular prac-
tice on Tuesday. He seems to have
recovered entirely and his presence at
full-back will be very welcome on ac-
count of his abilities at punting and
line oreaking. It is probable that he
will start in the game at this position,
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NEW HAVEN, CONN., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1896.
PROMENADE ARRANGEMENTS, —
Juniors Obtain the Armory—Method
of Alloting Boxes.
Through the kindness of Lieutenant-
Colonel Callahan, who has used his
influence with the State authorities,
the Junior Promenade Committee has
been enabled to obtain the use of the
Second Regiment Armory on Meadow
Street for their Promenade Concert,
to be held on Tuesday evening, Jan-
uary 19. Last year it was stated that
the State would very likely prohibit
the use of this Armory for any but
military purposes, so that the above
announcement will set many minds
at ease on the matter. ;
In order to save Juniors as much
as possible the necessity of paying ex-
orbitant prices for choices of the
Promenade boxes, as has’ been the
custom in previous years, the Com-
mittee has adopted a new system of
allotment. Members of the Academic
and Scientific Junior classes can ap-
ply for choices, which will be award-
ed to a limited extent by lot, and the
applicants can then take whatever
box is most:desirable, a set price be-
ing paid for each according to their
relative advantages from location, etc.
The prices set upon the boxes will be
determined according to how freely
the Juniors subscribe through buying
tickets. It is considered that each
man should buy three tickets in or-
der that the box prices may be se
moderately “low.
After the Juniors have been sup-
plied in this manner the remaining
boxes will be auctioned off in the
usual way to the Seniors and Soph
omores.
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Phi Beta Kappa Stand Raised.
The Phi Beta Kappa society held a
meeting in Phelps hall, on Monday
evening. The various amendments re-
lative to the change in the require-
ments for membership were brought
up for settlement.
Article 2, section 1, of the constitu-
tion was amended in such a way that
hereafter, beginning with the class of
1900, the stand requisite for member-
ship in the society will be 3:30 instead
of 3:15 as formerly. :
This will tend to reduce the mem-
bership in the society and many men,
who would have become members in
former classes will not be elected. But it
is believed that the honor attached to
membership will be much increased
and the general stand of the classes
raised.
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Corporation Meeting Post-
poned.
For the first time in many years
the annual Fall meeting of the Yale
Corporation was omitted this year
owing to the absence of President
Dwight, who is still in Europe. The
regular date for the meeting was
Wednesday, November 11, but as the
business to be transacted was simply
of routine matters it was considered
best to postpone the meeting until the
return of the President. The letter of
Chairman Alexander Troup of the
Connecticut Democratic State Central
Committee to the Yale governing
body relative to the Bryan incident
on the Green, which was printed in
the last issue of the Weekly, will also
lie upon the table with the other rou-
tine business until the next meeting
is called in January or February.
The University Treasurer’s report
will not appear until after the meet=
ing of the Corporation sometime next
term.
~ Price Ten Cents.
YALE’S FOOTBALL CAPTAIN.
Fred Towsley Murphy, ’97.
[From a photograph by Pach.]
E Pe ata “Eh BRESLO TR Ma
ceed ‘ eS
LEADER OF THE ELEVEN.
His Athletic Career and Work as a
Captain.
The captain, who will lead the Yale
team on Manhattan Field, day after
tomorrow afternoon, is Mr. Fred
Towsley Murphy, of Junction City,
Kansas. Mr. Murphy began his ath-
letic career. at Andover, where he
played. on the baseball team for three
years, being its captain the last two
seasons. He played on the football
eleven only one year, then appearing
for practice only two weeks before the
close of the season. He played the
position of tackle, and in his Fresh-
man year at college made the Uni-
versity team at the same _ position,
which he has played ever since. He
also played on the University base-
ball nine in his Freshman year at
second base, and last year was fre-
quested again to put on his baseball
clothes by. Captain Quinby, when
towards the end of the season, he
seemed the only man capable of fill-
ing the position behind the bat. Last
Fall, after the close of the football
season Mr. Murphy was unanimously
elected captain for the present season.
As a captain Mr. Murphy has en-
tirely won the confidence and respect
of his team and the coachers, and the
admiration of the undergraduate body
for his generalship of the team in
games, the strong control which he
has over his men, and his power to
encourage and drive them on to hard
work at critical points. Of his superb
individual playing no _ football man
need be reminded. He plays largely
on his nerve and especially at criti-
cal moments is most effective in
breaking up opposing plays, often
bringing down both the interference
and the runner at one fierce lunge. It
is to be doubted if a tackle superior
to Murphy holds a place on the foot-
ball field this season.
As &@ man, Mr. Murphy holds a
high position in his class socially and
has demonstrated his ability in other
than athletic lines by his election as
Business Manager of the Yale News.
He was also a member of his Junior
Promenade Committee.
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Elections to Corbey Court.
The following ten men from the Ju-
nior class were elected last week into
the Corbey Court Society of the Law
School; W. A. Arnold, E. W. Beattie,
Jr.; W. B. Boardman, C. D. Boss, W.
H. Clark, C. T. Clemons, W. N. Drown,
G. W. Duncklee, W. B. Ford and T.
H. Russell.
