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...Yale team has made the best showing of any, having had little trouble in disposing of its opponents. The Harvard team, on the contrary, has developed slowly, and until the Williams game lacked life; and Princeton, whose brilliant backfield has rolled up large scores on a dry field, narrowly escaped a defeat at the hands of Lehigh, when they played on a muddy field...
...backfield Yale has no one who can approach Pendleton and Sawyer of Princeton in open field running, or Wendell of Harvard in line plunging, but they have a wonderful quarterback in Captain Howe. When he is out of the game, the team is perceptibly slower than when he is running...
There has been one serious fault with the Yale team this fall, and it is a fault which must be remedied before the hard West Point game on Saturday. That is fumbling. Time and again in the early games the backfield has fumbled at critical points, and the team has only saved itself through the weakness of its opponents...
Unlike Yale, Princeton has a weak line. On the offensive they are unable to open holes for the backfield, or even to prevent the opposing linemen from sifting through and breaking up end plays. Unless this weakness can be done away with before the harder games, the fast open plays on which the Princeton offence depends will be unable to get started...
...Freshmen were unable to gain against the University forwards, not making first down once, while the University backfield gained consistently, chiefly by end runs. Captain fisher did not play, but watched from the side lines. He is taking no chances with his bruised knee...