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Show H BIG CHAMP GAME H AROUSES FANS H! (Bv H Nv York, Xo 1G Here they Hl omo, rounding the final turn, gal- H loping down Into tho homestretch H under full headway the big teams of Hj the country. The best, most iniport- Hl ant day of the football year has ar- H riyed, 'and each of the six leading H machines of the e.ist copes witli a H focman worthy of its steel The H change of the Yale bmildog into the H j Princeton's Tiger's lair heads the hill. J Hj Harvard defends its Cambridge goal H .".gainst the Dartmouth onslaught at H Cambridge. Those blood-curdling i H Carlisle Indians swoop down upon I H old Father Pcnn's stalwarts in the H cltv of brotherly love. H Three-Star Offering. H Would that a man could be at H three places at once, to glue his 1 avaricious orbs upon the entire threc- star offering of King FootbslI this day and date. Since that cannot be J done, most of us hearties will have to be content with sitting In on" stand and listening to the loid, dis- cordant sounds that issuo from two other press stands hy way of the H telegraph wire The paramount question of ''which game?" is a hard H one to answer from the standpoint of H "foolish one, number eight million I BJ and three" As with one voice, comes! Hl the unanimous reply "Yale-Prince-' H Strength of Yale Team. H The big question up for decision in H the little New Jersey town this af- Hl ternoon is tho strength of the Yale H team. The virtues and faults of the H Tigers are known. What they can H and cannot do when pitted against H opposition of their own class has j been shown by their defeat at the I hands of Harvard two weoks ago. I Some of the failings will bo remedied and the team generalh can be expected ex-pected to prove a more compact, a more dependable thing because of ! i two weeks more of polishing. But I In a general way it will be about the j i same time, both in strength and cakness, that fell before Harvard, f Yale Untested. Yale is practically untested. Last! ' week's performance against Drown, a J I victorv by only 10 to 0, showed the1 'coaches the very things about their) charges that they would havo known I a week earlier had the Colgate fray' not been colled off because of the! death of York Ya'e's really Iips lost I i whole week by the wiping of ttmt date off the schedule, and as a re- Jlllf Mlic TVinl.- thn mnntnro lio. found a task of Jamming ten days' work into five Upon what they have accomplished since last Saturday depends de-pends Yale's chances to beat the Tigers ' Great Collection of Players. The Yale team, in a summary glance, can bo classed as probablv 'the greatest collection of football j players among the big three. Yale ' as a team is a different proposition. I Last Saturday it war. not a team that 1 beat Brown It was merely a bunch of Individual stars with hardly anv1 co-operation or uniform method. This, it seems to us, is due almost J entirely to a superfluity of coaches,, the men becoming confused by the conflict of ideas jammed Into their headB A poor grade of coaching, well drummed into a team. Is better in our opinion than twentv different styles of best-grade coaching, confused con-fused and untaught to tho men. If Yale has become adjusted Into a team with teamwork, It looks from here as if the Tigers are due for l their doom. If Yale has not pio-' grossed In tho Inst few days past the Individual stage, it is goodbye j Elis and possibly a neat little total j run up by the Orange and Black, i Yale teams have accomplished the almost superhuman in single weeks of' past years, notably Daly's team of I two vears ago. ' ' El!s In for Spankiny. j Have they repeated this year? We ' doubt It- In othor words we think Yale is In for a spanking Harvard has quite a bit more than a sinecure on Is hands n tho person of the' Dartmouth eleven The fJreen team,! when it lost to Princoton, looked much I like the Yale outfit a great arraj of! I materia without polish. The over- j j whelming of Amherst and Cornell j since then would indicate that the Hanoverians mav have Improved, but) it is almost loom uch to expect thorn to beat the Crimson, which has de-! feated their only conquerors. This J game holds unusual appeal because I ! of the reappearance of the great goal-' kicking Charloy Brickley on the bat-J I Ho field. I Indians Play Spectacular Game. I mose vvno which me unrusie Indians In-dians attack the Pcnn in Quakertown stand a good chance of witnessing (he most spectacular game of tho day, the most picturesque. The remarkable re-markable brace of the Pennsjlvanians In the Michigan game, slashing to victorv after being 31 points to the bad, has brought them back in our midst with glee and gusto Penn, always al-ways noted for genuins gnmeness, seems this year to be one of the i grittiest teams over sent forth by tho I Institution. Thev probably will find the red men too stitf opposition to( overcome, but they can be relied upon i to fight back with all tho strength ; that Is in them and lo dispute the braves' claim to every inch of ground. Carlis'e Should Play Star Teams. Penn is onposlng a team that in jinany wajs appears the strongost in I the countr It is too bad that the Indians do not meet Yale. Harvard or Princeton Without such a game to play, they cannot by any means be rated the champions of the country, coun-try, no matter how badly they may efface all other aggregations, "in our humble mind, Carlisle is a touchdown better than any of the big three, Harvard not excepted. However there is no way to prove or disnrnvo! i that. I Tills .vear, as In other years of the I recent past, the football season Is j concluding with a succession of three games of forefront rank on adjacent Sal uvlnys. The Princeton -Yale game today is the first, then next Saturday the Yale-Harvard game at Xew Haven and u week later the so-called so-called post-season tilt of the Army and Xavy. Not forgetting of course Penn and Cornell on Thanksgiving day. a game which, while not of title importance, always has proved a brilliant spectacle |