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About Yale Alumni Magazine | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1897)
PRELIMINARY CATALOGUE Total Registration of Both Depart- ments Shows an Increase. The preliminary list of the Academi- cal and Scientific Departments of the University has made its appearance and it is now possible to give final figures of registration in these departments. The list shows the total number of men in the Academic Department to be 1,242 against 1,252 last year. The Freshman Academic Class numbers 296 against 357 last year. The Sopho- more Class shows a slight decrease from last year as does also the Junior Class, but the Senior Class gains some- what in numbers. The Graduate Department has 56 -men, a.gain of but one. In the Scientific Department the total enrollment is 542 in comparison with 551 last year. This includes 12 special students and 55 graduate students. The Freshman Class shows a good increase, numbering 186 against 170 last year; the Senior and Junior Classes slight decreases. The difference in size be- tween the large Senior Class of last year and the small one of this explains the slight decrease in the numbers of the Department. The size of the Freshman Scientific Class shows a steady growth of the Department not- withstanding the increased standard of admission. For certain reasons a comparison of the numbers drawn from some Western States, with those of last year, is in- teresting. Colorado enters the same number of. men this year as last. Mis- souri has a total of 54 men in the Uni- versity this year against 45 last year, and Indiana sends two more men. The average of gain throughout is slightly above the figures of 1806. In view of Yale’s athletic reverses last year it was predicted by some that the Eastern States as the athletic cen- ter would be marked by a decrease of attendance at Yale. The figures, however, show little or no_ change. The largest decrease in the incoming class is 27 from Massachusetts. This decrease could not well be attributed to either the Bryan incident or Yale’s defeats on land and water. | Below is given the representation by States of the different Classes in the Academical Department and the Shef- field Scientific School: oe STATE. het Vi BS a aahis ade New - Yorkie 5 oct 80 92 84 79 29 32 41 437 Connecticut ....--.- 66 59 994°. 75 45°. 59°57. 432 Pennsylvania.......18 20 22 19 6 15 20 120 llinois s23 waeseees oe t¢7-93 (40°. 88. Geode. £2 07 Obie sree aves Be oRn cay ty SS O96 Massachusetts -..--- 56° t4:099* 10-39 “Sg 86 New Jersey..------ 1449 (46 4§ 30. 5. 230°: 84 MissouT .< ..ck cess ee oy eee Cee Bs ee ee eee GolorTnUG 5s see, gc ere 8 Oe S28 Michivad 25.2952 fe oe Pe eae? Mae Gees Baker Grae |) Vernmontiiassccwseot ee 9 RE eo SRO THONG es chee os ie Reed 1 On eae 28 Minnesota ......---. ge PO Ree ae ter ae New Hampshire....4 2 3 9° © © ff 10 BOs ering: yi... 0 40> 99° 93°30. 14:18" 84 197 WOE oo gaks Ltn 301 302 343 296 122 166 186 1716 —————_>o—_— New Haven University Exten- sion Center. The first course of the New Haven University Extension Centre lectures will be given by, Prof. Wm. Lyon Phelps of the University. His subject is, Modern Novelists; 1, Tolstoi; 2, Bjornson; 3, Sudermann; 4, Kipling; 5, Stevenson; 6, Hall Caine. The lectures will begin on Wednesday evening, Oct. 27, at the United Church Chapel and will follow successive Wednesday evenings, omitting Thanks- giving week. A course of four musical lectures by Henry E. Krehbiel, the well known . musical critic and author, whose lec- tures have been eminently successful in other cities, will follow in December and January. Prof. Krehbiel’s lectures will be illustrated by voice and piano, making them entertainments as well as lectures. 3 Prof. C. T. Winchester will give six lectures on Shakespeare, during Jan- uary and February. Prof. E. B. Rosa of Wesleyan Uni- versity, whose lectures on Electricity were so well received several years-ago, will give a course in December, fully illustrated by experiments. Prof. Wm. H. Goodyear, the well known writer on art, and Dr. Richard Burton, so well known here, will also give courses as well as others, if the support will permit. YALE ALUMNI Princeton Football News. [Correspondence of YALE ALUMNI WEEELY.] Princeton, Oct. 18.—Thirty-five min- ‘tutes of the hardest playing ever seen on the Princeton gridiron, during which the Orange and Black made four touch- downs and one goal, epitomizes the game which Princeton played against the Carlisle Indians last Saturday. ‘The Indians had expected to score, and there. were many Princetonians who thought these expectations would be realized. But while the Indians put up a game first-class in every particular, Princeton repulsed their desperate on- slaughts. The Indians played a steadier game than they did last year, and evinced a much better knowledge of football. Sometimes they mistook very hard play- ing on Princeton’s part for slugging, and as a consequence several slight bits of unpleasantness were observed. Fum- bling was the order of the day, and on several occasions Princeton’s goal was put in serious jeopardy on account of this fault. It looked several times as if the Indians might score, as they did last year, on a “fluke.” The game was slow and tedious, owing to the exces- sively hot weather and the continued injuries to players. Rushing tactics were much used by both elevens, and the Indians seemed better able to stand the work than did the Princtonians. Princeton showed up in the game much better than at any time previ- ously this year. Booth’s work at cen- ter was a marked improvement, while Armstrong’s game at right-guard show- ed that he was rapidly rounding into his old form. Baird put up a fine game at quarter, and after Captain Cochran’s retirement captained the team with un- usual ability. The score ought to have been 24—0, instead of 18—o as it was, for Baird failed to kick two, and Holt one, very easy goal. Princeton’s scoring was ac- companied by several spectacular scenes which drove the crowd wild. Bannard made a forty-yard run just before the first touchdown was scored, and Reiter ran seventy yards for a touchdown on another occasion by. picking up a ball which Metoxen had attemted to punt, but which had been blocked by Holt. The old-fashioned double pass invaria- bly puzzled the Indians and gains were made by it time and time again. Princeton’s game increased in steadi- ness and precision as the contest con- tinued, and towards the last Baird was rushing his men like a whirlwind for another touchdown, but time was called with the ball ten yards away from the Indians’ goal line. PRINCETON, 34; .STATE COLLEGE, 0. Nothing else that has happened this season has had so salutary an effect upon the Princeton eleven as has the game played against the State College of Pennsylvania last Wednesday. State came perilously near scoring in the first half while Princeton was playing very sleepily. The game brought the fact very near to home that Princeton has got to play football and good foot- ball in every game she enters. The game did a great deal to wake the team up, and relieve it of some of its over- confidence. The week’s practice has brought about considerable improve- ment iti the team’s work, especially in team play, on the perfection of which all energies are now being put. Jane- way, George, and Irvine, of the Class of Eighty-Eight, have been on the ground coaching the eleven during the last ten days, and Church of the ’96 team comes this week to give the men some lessons in the art of tackling. ——_—__++#—__—_——_- Saturday’s Football Games, At Boston—Newtowne, 8; B. A. A., O. At Easton, Pa.—Lafayette, 4; Cor- . nell, 4. At New Haven—Yale Freshmen, 12; Worcester High School, o. 4 At West Point—Harvard, 10; Ca- eis, 4. At Philadelphia—U. of P., 34; Dart- mouth, o. At Providence—Brown, 24; Wesley- an, 12; : At Amherst—Ambherst, 6; Mass. In- stitute of Technology, 6. _At Albany, N. Y.—Lehigh, 5; Wil- liams, 0. At Princeton—Princeton, 18; Car- lisle Indians, o. Wm y FOOTBALL TRAINING. The Development of Team Play to Begin at Once. The past week has seen a marked change in the policy of those who have in charge the development of Yale’s football team for 1897. ‘This change, however, is not unexpected, but a sim- ple outgrowth of the plan of work de- cided upon at the beginning of the sea- son. Owing to the small amount of old football material in College this Fall and the large number of promis- ing new men, it has been necessary to extend later into the season than in former years, the promiscuous trial of candidates whose ability was unknown, and this trial of new material has been pursued with greater care this Fall than at any other time in Yale’s recent foot- ball history. All the early stages in the © team’s development have now been passed through. With the knowledge of the material which the coaches have acquired and the mutual understanding prevailing between them and the candi- dates, a thoroughly sound foundation has been laid for the more exacting work of the later season. From this time on those in charge will be able to devote their exclusive attention to moulding with particular purpose the material which has shown up well in the work of the preceding weeks. The season has brought out an abundance of good material for some positions, while ior others there has been a corre- sponding scarcity. Heretofore nothing but simple plays and straight football have been attempted. Beginning with the practice of this week particular em- phasis will be put on concerted action in team-play and on the details and technic of the game. Two hard games this week will pre- vent any marked advance toward the development of the system of attack and defense to be employed in the big matches. There will be, however, some intimation of the style of play, but the progress will depend almost entirely on the appearance of coaches. Among those expected are: W. C. Rhodes, ’o1; Ray Tompkins, “84; P:- T..-Stiliman, os So re Te Maurpuy,. o77 4: Te ise: 93 S., and W. W. Heffelfinger, ’o1 S. IN GENERAL. In general, at present writing the defensive work is less strong than the . weak offensive play of the eleven. The interference remains crude and com- paratively ineffective. The kicking is not good and no ability in that line has been discovered except in the case of: McBride. Particular stress will be laid on this point, however, in the develop- ment and selection of the new back material. So far there has been a notable absence of one essential feature of successful football,—hard, de- cisive tackling,—tackling of such force as to drive the runner toward his own goal and leave him summarily downed. AT CENTER. The center men, taken together, have failed to show the aggressive play which is looked for at this time. While no big gains are made through them, they show a decided weakness in break- ing through and let the opposing backs get under headway, protected by well formed interference. Brown has shown himself the liveliest candidate for guard position. Cadwalader, who is still re- tained at guard, and Marshall, who has been looking after center during Cut- ten’s convalescence, fail to get down sufficiently low and display a tendency to play with the opposing men. Cut- ten rejoined the squad on Monday after a two weeks’ absence, necessitated by his injured knee. It has been difficult to estimate his play owing to the short time he has been on the field, but it is expected that he will show up well and that his re-appearance will strengthen the center. The attention which he has given to the game under trying circumstances and the regard he has shown for the confidence placed in him have been most praiseworthy. Marshall will still be used, though his recent work at center has not been sufficiently strong to guarantee a_per- manent hold on that position. Chad- wick’s irregular play does not beget the confidence of the coaches and other GETTING COOLER now, and you are thinking of your Fall and Win- ter Underwear. We have always been rather particular about Our stock in this line. THIS FALL, we can, in addition to our other lines, give you all kinds of garments of the JAROS man- ufacture. If you don’t know about these goods, it will do you no harm to glance at some facts about them, which we can give you at the store or send to any part of the country. YOUR MEASURE can be easily taken. The instructions are simple. The fit of the garment is beautiful. CHASE é& CO., NEW HAVEN HOUSE BLOCK. FROM MR. CORBIN. 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Allen, Post, Hale and McGee have been tried at tackle in addition to Cap- tain Rodgers, Allen probably being the strongest of the new men. The candi- dates for this position show a great lack of familiarity with the details of tackle- playing and do not display the vigor and intentness which are considered the primal qualities of every line man. AT THE ENDS. With one man from last year’s eleven and several old candidates out it was expected satisfactory play at ends would be quickly developed. The re- sult has been rather disappointing, how- ever, as the work at that position is [Continued on 5th page.] Full-grown Men — LIKE — THE SUN.
