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Although it is practically assured that yesterday's team A backfield of Lee, Hammond, Check, and Coburn will start on Saturday, McGlone and Jenkins will see service at some time during the game. Both men started against Princeton two weeks ago, and both were carried from the field with injuries during the game. In the past week however, the two backs have been recovering rapidy. Both men were at practice yesterday, in street clothes, but both will discard their canes and report for hard work again this afternoon...
Yale is generally conceded to have the stronger backfield, but with Zarakov and Miller in condition to play this morning they will be a serious threat to the Yale goal line...
...recent encounters with Yale and Dartmouth. Moreover the loss of Sheldon at end and Reynolds at tackle from injuries received during the past fortnight will materially weaken the team. With these heavy players out of the line and Swaney, Dixon, and Sweet bringing the average weight of the backfield down to 150 pounds, it will be hard for the Brown attack to get under way as effectively as it did against Dartmouth last Saturday...
...Freshman forward line of Gherardi, Gans, Crooks, Tevvett, and Pruyn will start intact, but two changes have been made by Coach Wale in the backfield. MacKinnon, a forward, wil probably start at fullback beside Morey, and Goodhue, who has also been seen in the forward line, will be at right half. Burnett and Hale will fill the other halfback positions and Woodard will again guard...
Above all, Yale's advantage lies in her backfield. If, as has been rumored, Milstead, Yale's Herculean tackle, is kept out of today's line-up by injuries the Yale forward line will be little stronger than that of Princeton. But in the backfield, Princeton has no players who can equal Mallory, Richeson, Neidlinger, Stevens, Pond and Neale...