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tack, but to fill up the holes in the line is back field material at Yale this year to sup- 

 more important, and to find reliable bucking ply three good teams and the loss of any man 

 runners of the Smith and Piekarkski type would not be felt. 



essential. Lamson can take the work of 

 Piekarkski and do it quite as well. Draper 

 and Rooke or Horr look good enough to fill 

 the vacant places in the line, and Weede at 

 end is superior to Drake, who is gone. Fol- 

 well at full-back is a bully player, though be- 

 low Smith's standard, so that with added 



The New Haven team will have a line that 

 will not be a weak one by any means. It is 

 true that she has lost not only three of the 

 best men out. of her last year's forwards, but 

 several of the best of her substitutes as well, 

 but she can to-day put in the field seven for- 

 wards every one of whom is a veteran and 



experience it looks as though Pennsylvania every one fine specimens of physical manhood. 



would solve her problems 

 very nicely. 



Now as to Princeton. It 

 has been said that the Tigers 

 are badly off because of the 

 loss of so many men of last 

 year's team. As a matter of 

 fact, with one or two excep- 

 tions, those men will never 

 be missed. She has substi ■ 

 tutes from last year for every 

 place who are almost if not 

 quite up to the standard of 

 the men who are gone. 

 Where she will feel their 

 loss, and probably seriously, 

 is in the absence of satisfac- 

 tory substitutes to replace 

 men who will have to retire 

 because of injuries or weak- 

 ness. 



To build one side of a line 

 with material at hand like 

 Rafferty, Waller, and O'Brien 

 is not difficult. To replace 

 a quarterback like Burke, 

 when Tenney is probably his 

 superior, is not a hardship, 

 and it is likely McCormick, 

 Daub and Moore will prove 

 as satisfactory a back field as 

 Princeton will need, barring 

 accidents. If the team has 

 any weakness it will proba- 

 bly prove the back field, how- 

 ever, for there are not as 

 many capable men as the 

 Tiger usually has to carry 

 the ball forward. Of course the absence of 

 men like Ritter and Stannard will be felt, but 

 there is nothing in the outlook of the team 

 to cause the loud lamentations the Nassau 

 supporters have already set up. 



At New Haven there is more real cause to 

 complain. The absence of Hogan and 

 Bloomer would cripple any team, no matter 

 how strong the substitutes. These two men 

 have carried the brunt of attack and defence 

 ever since they have been factors in Yale 

 football. The loss of Kinney is scarcely less 

 serious, and Neal at end is not easy to re- 

 place. The back field vacancies do not 



CAPT. REYNOLDS, U. OF P. 



Andrews, who was ineligi- 

 ble last year, is a first-class 

 tackle. Forbes, who played at 

 Wesley an, is a star in the 

 position, and Cates, Giles and 

 Erwin are all ends who 

 should develop into mighty 

 strong players. If necessary, 

 Shevlin could be shifted to 

 tackle and a new end placed 

 in his stead who would be 

 as strong as most teams can 

 boast. 



Yale would truly be in a 

 bad way, however, if she 

 should find it necessary to 

 replace any of these men with 

 substitutes later in the sea- 

 son, and she must lack some- 

 thing in steadiness on account 

 of that fear of injury. If all 

 of them are able to play the 

 Season through, she will make 

 a credible showing against 

 both Princeton and Harvard, 

 even though she should be 

 beaten by both. 



Really there is no team in 

 the field that is the equal of 

 Cornell in the point of ma- 

 terial. She has heavy men in 

 plenty, and they appear to be 

 the kind of heavy men who 

 combine with their weight, 

 activity and intelligence. Her 

 weakness is that these men 

 are in the main new men, 

 playing for the first time on 

 a big college team. It is doubtful if there is 

 the same spirit of helping in the Cornell 

 team that would make them valuable else- 

 where. Then, too, there is a strong nroba- 

 bility that they will either be coddled too 

 much or be overconfident, and either fault, 

 appearing more than once at Cornell, would 

 spell failure. 



Coupled with a strong, active line, Cor- 

 nell has good backfield material. Properly 

 handled, they should be welded together in a 

 team that will be mighty hard for both Penn- 

 sylvania and Princeton to beat. 

 At Columbia there is the usual boom that 



amount to a picayune. There is enough good starts every season, but from the appearance 



