The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-17
In THE FOOTBALL WORLD.
A SHORT SEASON AND WORK HAS
TO DE HURRIED.
Points About the IIaryard.West Point
Game-Crlmson's Tandem stopped by
the Soldiers-NauseOu but wholesome
Doses for the Ellis and the Tigers.


The shortness of the season Is looked upon
as ono reason why II Is necessary to push
matters in football development. this yenr.
Thanksgiving Day comes on Nov. "a Next
year IL will recedc u week. falling on the
3oth. and this will mean that the Yale-Prnce-
ton, Harvard-Yale and Army-Navy games
VIII all be n week later, and the season be
longer generally. This IL one Of the short
seasons. and the work has to be crowded
more. which IL being assigned as n reason
why team work development has to take
UP In time that otherwise could be well de-
voted to the imparting Of individual football
knowledge. Also TO this state OF AFFAIRS
of the calendar Is attributed some of the
conditions being manifested on the football
field.
Amt 1t funny what difference just few
days makc?"
1t seems far fetched to hold a short period
Of six days in period Of eight weeks re-
sponsible for any backwardness In develop
ment. but Il week near the close Of the season
means a great deal In putting on the finish
ing touches Of team of latent power. stu.
what's sauoc for the goose IL sauce for the
gander. and one week more or less will not
make the big games any the less Homerlc
struggles.
The big teams must have wished they had
been a month older in experience and ability
last Saturday. though that month would have
been as helpful 10 the lesser lights as to the
stars Of the first magnitude. judging by the
way the former have progressed In football
Football knowledge Is spreading. Smaller
institutions have learned things The big
II and the big and the big p overawe them
no longer. They are getting self-reiiant
and learned. This is a good thing for the
game. and only makes football the more
interesting The game is better of as
few big colleges cease to have mortgage
on knowledge OF it,
Harvard made the best showing hereabouts
last Saturday and showed the most encourage
ing play This does not mean great deal
in itself but is true merely by comparison.
Harvard was held level In all departments
by West Point and excelled the cadets no
more than the latter e2celled her: but she
beat West Point and that is the main thing.
West Point has come to be such power
in football that victory over her Is all that
can be asked. just as when Ell and Tiger
meet a victory IL glory enough no matter
how close the score
But the form displayed by a visiting team
to expect in the g games to come is different
matter. Sufficient to the day Is victory.
but it is the games to follow that are to be
plishments the Harvard game last saturday
was not a beacon, of hope. The Crimson vas
in 90 the the roSs to be-
Yet that Intangible but none the, less impor.
fs aTda e wsS See1
showed the existence OF earnestness and viii.
lngness to learn. The Harvard team of 1901
the Army. but it wound up a world, heater.
game. more vigor and fight, than, Harvard
displayed last Saturday, and. so far as we
know at present. more individual ability.
There was not the power, the drive. in
Harvard's tandem assault last Saturday that
Al pht hnN
the West Point defence The soldiers charged
breaking through and tackling they eT-
hibited that proficiency which always is
Characteristic OF Vest Point teams and which
attack. The backs struggled on for every
Inch G fSa pG2sSa GS back w4H d EEK s
at Quarter bask' iRe Harvard quarter backs
at Yale, Princeton and Columbia. and not
so steady. As for her ends. Harvard last
Saturday was better of than any of her
rivals. barring perhaps Pennsylvania Her
punting game was mediocre. her tackles IN
need OF defensive Improvement, while her
Sehsge bTourbt out the Question Can
they be made aggressive and hard enough?
They are not OF the lean and hungry type
Yale and Princeton underwent an expert
ence last saturday that should serve to stir
them up more than anythinF that fs,,a has gone
confidence Princeton encountered actual
defeat. and that inspires misgivings as to the
s Of tha he ber s to a1
one defeat to convince that the Tiger team
has not in it the making Of an extremely
her strongest team against Annapolis and
could not afford to risk substitutes, so evil
IDENTIFY things have taken turn for the better
fence has suffered at the expense of the Of
fence. Anyway. there Is month in which to
make correction: and to give more concerted
action to the defence. more evenness to this
The lesson learned at Yale is to not count on
NTH the sub titutes went in: but substitutes
are supposed to be seasoned and capable
nSsh n8 to dS Reu f "s the subs
tntes do in 6, big game? There were suSeti-
ttutes II the first hoif. and they they seem to have
been all % ns to haze aSe
second hair. and when the Syracusans got the
Yale men on the run they we're unable to rally.
present "sus va. and Yale had no Intention Of Show
ing her hang any intention OF showing
such bad hand in the second period. The
Ellis are still running of their plays more
rapidly than their rivals and Saturdays dose,
though nauseous, viii be wholesome. The
Blye has two sma ISM GOO 1agHies, essen
who has all the earmarks Of star. The Yale
team of 'o7 met with all sorts OF rude ex,,
wound up finished product. Constant and
thorough coaching made Rodgerss team.
which was too busy avoiding defeat for any
ideas of eventual superiority to find lodg-
ment within them. In week or SO the coach
ing staff at New Haven will be augmented
by the past masters who come on yearly to
tone up the eleven for the climax.
Total scores to date
Harvard, 70: opponents, 1--WE games. Yale,
1874: opponents, (siN games. Princeton, OF; op-
poncnts. 10 tSiV games. Columbia. los opponents.
IL tScvcn games PENNSYLVANIA. III: opponents
Z seven gnmes. Amherst ln0. opponents. -four
gamcSl. Dartmouth, % opponents. q uour games.
West Point. 30 opponents. q uhrcc games, An
nhpols, 90: opponents three games. Cornell
1928. opponents. ~ (lve games Lafayette. 1885,
opponents. S CSX gamcSl. Indians, c92 opponents
(lvc games. Lchlgh, 81 opponents, so -four
games. Williams. q: opponents. - thve gamcSl
Swarthmore. 81: onponcnts, Is -four games.
Brown. 80: opnonents u -four gamcs,. Maine. so
opponents ~ (four games, Fordham. 81 oppo-
ncniS, Uhrcc games. Dickinson. lcS: opponents.
10 flve gnmcSN. Syracuse, IO2. opponents ~
Cfour games. Ructncli. ca: opponents. "a -four
gamcsl. Pennsylvania State M; opponents. 80
flour gamcsl tnion II; opponents, n -four
gamcSl. Wesleyan. n: opponents, ll3 Iflve games.
Colgate II: opponents, IL Ghrcc cameo. Holy
Cross. 81; opponents, ~ -four games. y, Y. T..
&: ornaments 20 uhrcc games. Rochester, 81:
opnoncnts ~ uour gamcS,. Exeter. 81: oppo.
nrnts q Oour- gsrNeS) AndoNer 20: opponents. q
uhr-e gamcSl. Minnesota, 132: opponents. three
carlcsi. Chicago 1874 onpn"erts. q -four games.
Wisconsin, l3G, opponents uhrcc games,