Coach Boston Sends Yardlings into Final Battle Today Against Favored Bulldogs

Purely on the usually unreliable medium of comparative scores, the Eli Freshmen are favored to beat the Crimson Freshmen when the two forces meet in the final game of the year for both teams at 2 o'clock today on Soldiers Field.

Coach Reggie Root's boys of Blue look slightly stronger on paper, but due to the mutual weakness in pass defense of both teams, it looks like anybody's ball game.

Yale lost to Andover by two points, 9 to 7, and trounced the Red and Gray of Exeter 20 to 0 in early season frays, while the Yardlings trailed both Andover and Exeter wide margins 19 to 6 and 20 to 0.

The visitors have a record of four losses against one victory, which came over the hitherto unbeaten Worcester Academy team 7 to 0.

But, leaving out comparative scores and seasonal records, which mean practically nothing in a Harvard-Yale contest, both teams will line up with practically the same good and bad points.

Tigers Pass to 20 to 6 Win

All during the season, both teams have been bothered mostly by poor defense against passes. It has been through the air lanes that almost all of the opposing teams' scores have come. In every game this season except the Brown fray, the Yardlings have stopped running plays well enough to make each game appear close.

But as soon as the opposing teams began to toss aerial bombs, they practically cinched the game right then and there. This identical situation occurred last week with Yale as they stopped Princeton on the ground but lost a 20 to 6 count when passes accounted for all touchdowns.