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EDITOR.
Lewis S. WELOH, ’89.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
WALTER Camp, ’80.
ASSISTANT EDITOR,
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NEWS EDITOR,
FRED. M. DAVIEs, '99.
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NEw HAVEN, CONN., Nov. 18, 1897.
YALE’S GUEST.
Princeton is our guest next Satur-
day. Yale has even more of an oppor-
tunity off the gridiron, than on it. In
points of hospitality, may she roll up
a heavy score against the visitors. A
welcome to Princeton!
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THE YALE ELEVEN.
A tie football game has an advan- -
tage. One can express his feelings
without such reservation as comes from
a generous consideration for the van-
quished, and unhampered by the quite
as binding regulations for those who
lose. So let us speak our minds about
the game; for we must talk football
in the third week of November, how-
ever we may yearn to provide such a
diet as will seem properly nourishing
to most exacting “oldsters.” :
Under ordinary conditions we should
not be too well pleased with such an
exhibition as was given by the Yale
eleven at Cambridge. Some _ things
must be written of it which do not
consist with the Yale standards of the
sport—standards of thoroughness and
finish and perfect codperation, which,
when held high, make the game an
example of successful execution, a
common and helpful illustration for
the various practicalities of life. When
Yale University plays football, it
must needs be ideal football, or some-
thing is shown to be wrong with
the institution. The game as played
by the men in blue at Cambridge lacked
here and there in points of system and
reliability, and the men of Yale failed
to do that thing which they started out
to do—to overcome all obstacles and
to make a score.
So it was not what it: should have
been. You know why. The sins of
the fathers were being visited on the
children to the second and third gen-
eration. The children did their best:
but they were handicapped. Every
advantage, every incentive, had been
given them to overcome by hard work
the disadvantages of inheritance. No
Yale athletic family ever fought for
their own salvation .arder, nor were
ever a company of them so bountifully
dosed in a few short weeks with the
essence of ancient Yale football, and
goaded and spurred on by the daily
YALH ALUMNI
realizations of their own natural de-
pravity. It was a fight against the
category of time and thé limitations of
natural law, and it was easily demon-
strable on paper and before any tribunal
of equal mind that it could result only
in dismal failure.
But as time went on, it came to be
seen that the Yale football fighters of
1897 had not only inherited weaknesses
from their more immediate ancestry—
or rather from an environment which
general Yale heedlessness had created
in recent years—but that they had
reached back, after the manner of
natural children, to other times and
had taken into their system that which
was best in the Yale constitution of
those older times. It doesn’t make any
difference what we call it—might just
as well name it conceit as self-confi-
dence. |
But. it is a glorious conceit. It is
the feeling that nothing is impossible
for a Yale team. It is the feeling that
has animated every right-minded ath-
lete who ever wore a Y. It is an
immeasurably excellent quality in all
struggles, and proves over and over
again the force that turns the balance
in crises, general or individual. It has
a natural lodgment in natural Yale;
and when it is personified in a com-
pany of young men, whatever their
work, or whether it ve work or play,
it strikes back through them into the
whole community and becomes more
and more a part of the character of
those who are of this community.
The Yale team was picked this year
with this quality as the prerequisite of
election, and therein is the greatest
credit to the Captain and to the coaches.
With this as their controlling force,
the eleven went into action on Soldiers’
Field. Because of it, they came out
of the contest better men than they
went in. Because of it, they were at
their best when the odds against them
were the heaviest. To be put in the
last ditch was to be put in the best
fighting form. They didn’t like the
position, and instead of making the
last defense there, they established a
new line of offense at a more comfort-
able point. They felt it better to throw
back than to hold back. It is better.
It is what is expected of Yale players.
It is the way to fight. Grant had some
such notion. Yale’s opponents were to
win in the second half because the wind
would help their kicks. With superla-
tive conceit, Yale offered to meet both
Harvard and. the wind and beat the
combination. It caused palpitation, but
it was the right spirit and was not done
without reason.
Football is a game of unexpected
opportunities. That is the view of
Rodgers’ crew, and the keenest seemed
their appetite—and tneir teeth—when
the nuts to crack were the hardest.
The dissection and destruction of the
Harvard trailing interference for end
plays is a case in point. These boys
were chosen for staying powers, of
physique and character. ‘When the
whistle sounded, they wanted more.
They thought they had learned a good
deal of football in those seventy min-
utes, and longed for time to apply it.
The most critical admitted that they
had steadily improved their game in
the face of Harvard’s strong attack and
defense.
And now Yale is proud of them. But
that means that Yale expects every-
thing of them—all that thev were last
Saturday, and a good deal more.
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THE GAME,
Harvard’s management and Harvard
men were most hospitable and cour-
WHE KLY
teous to the Yale eleven, and to Yale
men generally, during their stay in
Boston and Cambridge. It is due to
truth to say that the treatment is
warmly appreciated here. The good
feeling between old friends has been
strengthened by the incidents of a
match which strained nerves almost to
the snapping point, in an excitement
more intense than that of almost any
University contest ever played. And
in all their fierce struggle the players
remembered they were the representa-
tives, before tens of thousands, of Har-
vard and of Yale. It was good to see
such clean and manly sport. It prob-
ably goes without saying that Yale has
the utmost respect and admiration for
Harvard football as played by Captain
Cabot’s team. |
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THE COACHES.
The faces of many of the men who
have worked with Mr. Butterworth and
Mr. Louis Hinkey on Captain Rodgers’
eleven are given in our illustration this
number. Some of those who helped
much could not be included in the
group. Mr. Armstrong is one; Mr.
Stillman is another; Mr. Cross a third.
And that does not exhaust the list.
It is not necessary to go over the
story of their service in the name of
Yale. They have given up for this
work what they would sacrifice at al-
most no other call. They stayed away
at first. It was not possible for them
to return. But it was seen that Yale
was in straits.
possible. They fell in line and worked
out the policy consistently followed
from the first. They put not only their
knowledge, but their spirit into the
men. Yale is very grateful to them
and they themselves feel well repaid.
May they feel even more repaid at sun-
set on Saturday!
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We have spoken of the relations of
Yale and the press from the standpoint
of accuracy and fair treatment. We
will have something to say in a later
issue, from the standpoint of courtesy
and frankness, and the duties of those of
Yale who stand in newspaper relations
to the public. ;
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Canon Cheyne’s Lectures.
The first three of Canon Cheyne’s
lectures on “Jewish Religious Life after
the “Exile” were given in the College
Street Hall on Thursday, Friday and
Saturday of last week.
The last three lectures are in the
evenings of the same days this week.
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WINDS and RUGS.
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THE winds at the Yale Field blow, as 2
rule, from the west.
NOY, it happens that the Stand, reserved
for Yale men and for those who have pro-
cured their seats through a Yale source, faces
this wind,
AGAIN, a New Haven wind at this
season of the year sweeps unflinchingly
across the Field with a penetration peculiar
to itself,
FINALLY, MESSRS. BROOKS AND
COMPANY recommend as a protection
against cold and exposure, the so-called
“Steamer-Rug,” which they import direct-
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Bi ea Scion.
For circulars and other information apply to
Prof. FRANCIS WAYLAND,
Dean.
United Chureh Lecture Course.
The Men’s Club of the United Church
has arranged the fololwing series of
lectures, to which all members of the
University are invited:
November 21—Professor Sneath on
“Tennyson’s Philosophy of Religion.”
December 5—Professor Francis S.
Peabody on “The Christian Doctrine
of Social Duty.” ee
December 12—Dr. VanDyke of New
York City on “Morality and Art.”
January 30—Dr. Amory Bradford on
“The Unity of the World.” |
Rev. Joseph Twichell, ’59, and Mrs.
Ballington Booth will also speak, but
the dates are as yet undecided.
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Concert by Princeton Glee
Club.
To-morrow, Friday, evening the
Princeton Glee, Banjo and Mandolin
Clubs will appear in New Haven, for
the first time since 1892. They will
give a concert at the Hyperion Theater.
Seats went on sale yesterday.
Now that all games are to be played
on college grounds, the custom for-
merly in vogue, of giving a concert the
night before the Yale-Princeton or
Yale-Harvard games, has been again
adopted. :
The Princeton Glee Club is under
the leadership of Raleigh C. Thomas,
98, and consists of twenty-four men.
Seventeen men constitute the Banjo
Club, which is led by Clinton G. Wells,
98. The Mandolin Club has twenty-
four men, and will be led by James H.
Caldwell.
The following program will be play-
ed by the three clubs:
PART 1.
“Old Nassau,” Carmina Princetonia.
Glee Club. :
“EKine Cararval”’ Rosey.
Banjo Club.
97 Medley, Arranged.
Glee Club.
Sextette from Lucia di Lammermoor,
Donizetti.
Mandolin Club.
Triangle Song, Carmina Princetonia.
Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Clubs.
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“March of the Gods,”
~ Banjo Club.
“The Orange and Black,”
Carmina Princetonia.
: Glee Club.
Pot Pourri from “The Geisha,”
Arranged.
Mandolin Club.
“Blige a Lady,”
Mr. Poe and Glee Club.
Pot Pourri, Arranged.
Banjo Club.
“Dinah Doh,” E. B. Smith.
Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Clubs.
(Dedicated to the Glee Club Organi-
Arranged.
