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Kempton, the Yale quarterback, who has fizzled in so many critical games has at last found his position. At halfback, in Saturday's game, he starred and is now rated as on a par with Aldrich, who is generally considered Yale's best back...
...last year until injured, bruised both his arm and leg Saturday, it is now expected that he will be lost to the team for the second consecutive season. At present the hospital list totals 10, including Dickens and Lay; Peterson, halfback; Thorne Murphy, quarterback; Captain Callahan, center; Acosta, guard; Aldrich, halfback; French, halfback; Sauerback, end; and Quaile, guard. Of this set, Quaile is the only player who seems at all likely to get into the Colgate game...
...regulars were playing, the first team scored twice, in each case the touchdown coming directly as the result of a clever run by Kempton. One of his dashes netted him 30 yards and a touchdown; the other was followed in a couple of plays by a second touchdown by Aldrich in a smash off tackle. Thorne Murphy, second-one-string quarterback, generalled the combination team, which was at no point strong enough to give him a chance to lift his customary goal from the field...
...moving Kempton to halfback in order to work Murphy into the backfield; but Jones would scarcely care to put his only two capable quarterbacks in play at the same time, especially since Murphy is rather frail. Moreover "it would mean putting both his drop-kickers in at once, Aldrich being the other reliance in this line. In spite, then, of his excellent exhibition of running, forward passing and drop-kicking in the Carnegie game, Murphy will remain the foremost threat on the Yale sidelines, ready to go into the game at any time the Blue attack is held up with...
...speedy men, Cutler and Dilworth, now have the call over the heavier transfers from tackle and the backfield. Cruikshank; is substituting for the injured Acosta. The line-up of the regular teams: Ends, Cutler and Dilworth; tackles, Dickens and Into; guards, Herr and Cruikshank; center, Callahan; quarterback, Kempton; halfbacks, Aldrich and French; fullback, Webb. The substitutes: Ends, Calhoun and Munger; tackles, Moore and O'Brien; guards, Bean and Trippe; center, Galvin; quarterback, Murphy; halfbacks, Kelly and Peterson; fullback, Kennan...