New-York tribune., 1902-10-27
ON THE GRIDIRON.
THE SUDDEN FOOTBALL REVIVAL AT
PRINCETON.
TIGERS SHOW BY COLUMBIAS DEFEAT
THAT THEY WILL HAVE A STRONG
TEAM-oUGHT TO BEAT CORNELL
ON sATURDAY-YALE AND HAIR
WARD BOTH IMPROVING

As the final and supreme struggles Of the season
approach all the eevens of the larger universities
ind that one game a week is all that they can
digest, and 1t IS probably a fact that one hard
game a week, at this stage of a teams develop
ment, with steady coaching and play against the
scrub during the rest of the week. is better work
for development than two games a week At any
rate. neither Cornell. Princeton, Yale nor Harvard
meets any collegiate opponents before next Satur-
day. For Cornell it is the supreme week OF the
season, for on Saturday she Princeton on the
grounds of the New-Jersey players. Cornell plays
Penn later. TO be sure. but she counts
easy victory in that game. that Saturday is
really the climax of the football season for the
lthacans. Yale meets the soldiers at West Point
on Saturday, and Harvard has the Indians to con-
tend with.
The surprise Of last Saturday was the over
whelming defeat inflicted upon Columbia by the
Tigers. II is an open secret that the New-Yorkers
went 20 New-Jersey Saturday morning with the
idea that they had good chance to return bearing
palms OF victory They confident Of scoring.
and they expected, If defeated force the Tigers
TO a desperate game in order to win. They re-
turned TO New-York that same night much sadder
and much wiser men. II must be admitted that the
hope of victory which they cherished was not an
altogether unreasonable one. The team seemed to
know as much football as in any previous year OF
its history. while its individuals fully up the
average. on the other hand. Princetons work had
been 50 ragged as to give her supporters much un-
easiness about the future and about the Columbia
game in particular The result showed that the
Princeton team had been underrated-much under
rated, in fact. When it came to meeting team OF
somewhere near its own class. the hard and con-
sCientious work that has been done by coaches and
players alike told most emphatically. Columbia was
simply outcassed. There is in analyZing the
play OF the two teams. Columbia was inferior in
every particular Weekes was the only Columbian
who compared favorably with the best of the
Princetonans This player has not his superior as
a halfback the football field. His attack is
superbly spirited and In the defence his tackng is
low. sure. hard and perfectly timed. Columbia
would have been defeated much worse but for him.
Smith. the contrary. did not do we'll had
been expected. De Witt for example. outpunted
him every time from twenty TO thirty yards. and In
runnng with the ball he Weekes's inferior by
far.
Princeton's victory was an expensive one. for
It the eleven the services of Burke and Kafer
for the rest of the season Neither of these play
ers is positively Indispensable but both were ex-
tremeiy HseIG1 ah9 2 I0r IT" Hys a ea1 me
game showed, however. that the Tigers are rich
depended upon to MI the empty places satisfacto
1t seems hard to see how Cornell can possibly
defeat Princeton on saturday It seemed difficult
70 70 see oII fona rm 1r 'S bur in ms b
OF that contest victory seems certain TO perch
mnious defeat at the hands of the Carlisle Indians
was every reason TO expect that the seasoned ma
terial I'm college would make an exceptionally
5og s true %eakne nd though the iGaeans TeVey gave
Oberlin sound thTashing, rolling up the largest
made by any OF the big teams against any
of their opponents this year, 1t really indicates
no Improvement i'm the teams ability. Doubtless
Captain Warner and the coaches at Ithaca will
send TO Princeton good deal better eleven than
that which met defeat at the lands of the Indians
but it will have TO be hundred per cent better
Harvard's game with Brown was the most en-
cOuTaging contest the Crimson has payed vet
Brown has this year of the strongest leans in
her history, and though Harvard bur once
she outplayed the Brunonians more than the
score shows The Providence Colegians were never
nearer Harvard'S goal than forty Yards and in
the second half play was almost entirely in Browns
territory That Harvard did not score more often
due TO bad fumbllng, which has for wears been
the besetting sin of football al Cambridge II this
fault corrected there is reason to believe
that Yale will not have thing as she has
reckOned on when she comes 10 meet her hereditary
foe from Cambridge.
There is question, however. that Yale is going
TO have one of the strongest teams in her history
The eleVenS work on Saturday against Syracuse
was clean, sharp and powerful. The coaches are
slowly but surely developing a reliable backfeld
Ward in particular is showing form that bids fair
end seems o be of the weak spots on the team
Williams, too. is scarcely showing varsity form
If these two do not improve Davis and Henry will
box them up tight that they will not be able to
get out until the game is
IL looks as if the soldiers would have an easy
time in defeating the sailors this wear II looked
came To playing il took West Points last ounce of
strength and a DAILY. too. 10 beat the Annapolis
aggregation.
The total scores of the teams do not shed a great
deal of light their relative strength The truth
of this statement appears in the fact that Cornell
heads the total score with 235 points to her op-
Yale once. Columbia once. Cornell twice Prince
ton once and Harvard three times 0''
The records Of the teams 10 date are as follows:
YALE OPPONENTS