The Yale-Stevens match at foot-ball on the St. George's grounds at Hoboken yesterday afternoon afforded a good opportunity for study of the Yale team of this season. It may be fancied a trifle lighter than usual, but not much; the rush-line was heavy enough to carry Stevens before it with every effort. The team play is superb, the blocking and passing excellent, though the catching strangely uncertain; the running is fair; the tackling is too high and consequently appears weak. On the whole Yale will have to do better than yesterday to beat Princeton, but no doubt will improve vastly with the coming month's play.
Stevens played a very courageous game (with four substitutes against the Yale 'Varsity eleven complete save one), but without judgment or discipline; the quarter-back was very heedless - at least once he was not looking when the ball was snapped back to him; the most brilliant individual plays therefore, availed nothing for Stevens. The score was 54 to 0. The game was watched with keen interest by several intending adversaries of Yale. - N. Y. Evening Post.
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