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Show BIG TEAMS READY FOR DAY'S FIGHT New Haven, Conn., Nov 4 White it is still a certainty that there will be ?ome Immediate changes In the Yale eleven the shifts were deferred till today The. delav was caused by the deci'on of the coaches not to order many of the regulars into prac- tice In fact, none of the varsity first or second string players scrimmaged. scrim-maged. A few who played Saturday were in a signal lineup, which occupied occu-pied half an hour of the coaches' time. Captain Ketcham did not don a uniform, hut remained In his room He played himself to a standstill Saturday Sat-urday and was given a day off The only scrimmage of the afternoon was between scrub elevens Hal Pumpel-ly Pumpel-ly was In uniform yesterday and practiced goal kicking, but limped and is clearly out of the competition as fullback regular. Crimson Practice, Cambridge Man. Nov 4. Only the lightest kind of work was Indulged In-dulged in by the Harvard squad yesterday, yes-terday, as Coach Donovan wanted . them rested up after Saturday's game i j with Cornell. The second team used Princeton plays entirely in the dum my scrimmage and the varsity was j taught how to meet them successfully. success-fully. O Brlen and Hitchcock returned to the game but Mahan is still in the infirmary and Trumbull, who was hurt In Saturday's game. is also In the Infirmary It is doubtful whether wheth-er either of these men will be able to play on Saturday. The success Of the Harvard team in the Princeton Prince-ton game will depend a whole lot on rvhether o-- not these two men can play Both ar in-Tportam in thuir respective places. Two-hour Drill. Princeton, N. J., Nov. 3. A two-hour two-hour signal drill with no scrimmage was the Tiger menu yesterday afternoon after-noon Most of the attention of the coaches was given to the punting. Law, Borden and Baker were sent through a long practice in this line. Borden began kicking only a few days ago and is alreadv showing im -I provemeni W hen allowed to take bifi Unie hp averaged forty-eight yards. DeWltl is teaching his famous fa-mous snap kick that played havoc Mth opposing back; in 1012. Law. kicked well avenging fifty vards Hp and Borden alternated at right half in the signal drill. Merritt. the big Tiger back, ha been obliged to leave college on ac-COUnl ac-COUnl of Illness in his family and will not be ba-k in time for the Harvard game. |