Yale will play the second game of its schedule this afternoon, meeting Holy Cross at New Haven. Although the Holy Cross team will be somewhat weakened by the temporary loss of O'Brien in the line, it is nevertheless expected to give Yale a hard struggle. Head Coach Field has given only light work to the Yale players since the Wesleyan game on Wednesday, and yesterday's practice was confined to getting the team working more as a unit. As the University team meets Holy Cross next Saturday, today's game at New Haven will afford means of comparing the relative strength of the Harvard and Yale elevens.

Present Prospects at Yale

The coaches have something of a task in developing two ends and a set of halfbacks. The freshman team last fall was unusually strong and the material seems abundant. Gatkins, Foss, McClintock, Wheeler and Sheldon, the 1914 contributions, nearly fill the demand for new backs. Baker, Reilly, Merritt, Philbin, Freeman and Spalding are last year's players who are left in college. Captain Foss is likely to prove Howe's understudy at quarterback, although Strout of the regulars last fall will make another try for the place. Bomeisler, Walter Camp, Jr., Coates and Blakeslee of the substitute list last year, and Harbison and Gallauer, the freshman ends, may not make the places of Kilpatrick and Brooks good, but they are all ends of promise.

Warren, the big freshman guard of last season, was tried at end in the spring practice. He weighs 185 pounds, but is very fast and much is expected of him in the role of heavyweight handler of forward passes, filled for three seasons by Kilpatrick. Scully and Paul, the veteran tackles, will have Wolfe and Carpenter of the freshman team last year as formidable substitutes. Francis will be used at either tackle or guard. McDevitt and Childs, guards, will return, and Cooney of the freshmen will be another valuable member of the squad. He is brother of Caroll Cooney, the former Yale centre.

Ketcham, the freshman snap-back of last fall, and Read, the University substitute, are candidates for the position vacated by Morris. Cooney may be tried in the vacancy.