Vou. TX} Na NEW HAVEN, CONN., WEDNESDAY, NOV. 15, 1899. Copyright, 1899, by Yale Alumni Weekly. Price. 10 Cents, THE HARVARD GAME. Both Elevens are Ready—The Confis dence at New Maven and Rea- sons For It—Train Service. The annual football game between Yale and Harvard will be played on Sol- dier’s Field, Cambridge, Saturday after- noon, Nov. 18. The game will begin at 2 o'clock. As the WEEKLY goes to press both elevens have about completed their preparations for the struggle, and only the lightest work and signal practice will be taken from now on. Both teams, according to their trainers, are in per- fect physical condition, and ready to play the fastest and hardest sort of a game from start to finish. What score that finish will see is, of course, out of the bounds of human prediction, but Yale men, generally, feel sure that last year’s record can not by any possibility be repeated. All recognize the faults that yet remain in this green team, but all recognize, as well, the significance of the steady progress of the last two weeks, and the possibilities of an eleven of such splendid personnel, in both phy- sical and moral qualities. The eleven is going in to win and the University confides that they will carry out their purpose. A criticism of the work of the Har- vard eleven during the season is printed in another column. Yale’s last practice game of the sea- son with the Pennsylvania State team on Saturday, though a long step in im- provement over the West Point game a week before, still showed weaknesses which ought not to be there at so late a day. In a word, Yale’s trouble is in her team work this year. The men have not been able, though coached long and vigorously, to get anything like the unity of action that it was hoped they would, and this failing has cost them dearly. In the West Point game the first evidences of team work of the right sort began to appear, and during the week following a great deal was done to make the plays more of a unit. There yet remains the tendency to brilliant individual work by line men and backs alike, which is liable to be disastrous against so perfect a machine as Har- vard would appear to have. A HARD SEASON, The season has been a _ particularly hard one on the players because of the long continued hot weather, but outside of a very unusual series of injuries to end candidates, which put two of the most likely men out of the race and necessitated the development of others, there have been few serious injuries. The return of Hubbell to left end, and his splendid playing so far, materially relieves the situation there. Winter, Gould and Snitzer are also playing a fairly good end game. The objection to the last three men is their lack of weight, a serious one when it comes to stopping heavy backs like Harvard’s. Schweppe, who played a good right end till his shoulder was injured, may not be in shape for Saturday’s game. A comparison of the men in the line seems like a useless task. as their weak- ness or strength will be shown by the amount of team work they can do. Out- side of the ends and man for man, there is less difference than is generally sup- Campbell and posed. Harvard’s ends, YATE UNIVERSITY FOOTBALLER souaD: Gile. Blagden. Allen. Mitchell. Keane. Cunha. Clark. Hale. Sharpe. Fincke. ‘**Pop”’ Smith. Tomlinson. Gould. Stillman. Francis. Hoppin. McBride (Capt.) Winter. Richards. dams. Hixon. Olcott. Chadwick. Snitzer. Photo by Pach Wear. Dupee. DeSaulles. NotTe.—Other candidates, Brown, Schweppe and Cook, not in picture. Hallowell, however, in all around work easily overtop Yale’s. Behind the line Yale has McBride, Du- pee, Sharpe, Chadwick, Keane, Adams, Richards and Cook. Cook has satisfied the Faculty in his studies and entered the lists on Monday. All these men are good ground-gainers by various styles of nlay, and when it comes to punting, Yale, between McBride and Dupee, should more than hold her own. The line-up against Harvard will probably be: Ends—Hubbell and Snit- zer or Schweppe; Tackles—Stillman and Hale; Guards—Brown and Olcott; Cen- ter-—-Cunha; Quarterback—-Fincke ; Half- backs—Richards and Dupee; Fullback— McBride. YALE STATISTICS. The statistics of the Yale team and substitutes are given below: Age. Wt. Ht. M. L. McBride (Capt.), 1900, f. b.. 21 190 6 2 Howard Richards, 1900 s.,r. hh. b.. 22 165 511 Gaasi0nes, or. t fh. bs 2 se St