New-York tribune., 1905-10-23
ON THE GRIDIR0N.
Saturdays Victories Reflect Little
Credit on HnUdrd and Yale.

a Saturdays games-Quite the most perilous
matches they have played thus far this season
They sn emerged with victories. 1t is true pu'
three OF them covered themselves with mighty
little glory, end two OF them had close calls
from being tied or beaten. Princeton's victory
over the strenuous team from Lafayette fur-
nished the only really creditabe showing by any
member OK the quartet Harvards sohtaTv
touchdown against West Point the result
Of a auke- Pennsvlvania would have been tied
by Brown but for a lucky safety that chanGe
forced upon the plucky Brunonians. While 1ale
was most Of the time actualIy ro' oF two
Pennsylvania State, despite the margin OF TWO
touchdowns. There are, however certain con-
ditions. at least in the case Of Harvard that APP
pear 70 mitigate what might at nrst De u soNe,e
suds1nsnt ypon the showing made by the big COL
leges IN the Saturday matches.
After West Points ignominious defeat the pre-
redfng week at the hands Of the comparatively
,reak eleven from the Virginia Polytechnic IN
.f,t,te It was reasonable to expect that the
s-rinson experts would roll up a fairly comforta-
,,e total against the soldiers. But the result OF
the match shows, among other things. that the
West Pointers did not show true form against
she Virginians. It appears also that on the
basis Of Saturdays play there is little difference
1t this period OF development between Harvard
and West Point. Neither team could gain
zxsiust the other with anything approaching
in short, they practically played each other to
standstiIl. When the match is analyZed q little
znore closely, however, there appears something
SO say in Harvard's extenuation. In the first
place the Crimson team was without the SER
vices OF several Of its best men. Captain Hur-
sey's presence alone viii be worth at least 70
iper cent Of playing ability to his men. No cap
tain has greater ability 10 put sand ana ginger
snd conference into his men than the hdrEaru
Seader, not to mention his own Individual play
ing which makes him one OF the best backs who
wears a uniform this year. The team dlso
missed the services of Montgomery, who was re-
tired by injuries early IN the first hall All the
same, it cannot be said that the Cambridge
eleven is as yet anything like a real team. BIZ
Reid the coach, is doubtless not worried by this
fact for Harvard is always the last of the big
college elevens to be whipped into conference.
But there is danger that Harvard may have to
be really whipped before It viii cohere west
Point is evidently rounding into shape. II Iost
come valuable men from last years team, but IT
has come new ones that promise we'll. In Beav-
ierS the halfback, West Point evidently has q
player who has future that ought 10 be second
20 none He is crude yet, but his play on Sat
:urday shows that he has the making OF a back
of ths first quality West Points lighting abil-
lsty seems all that could be asked. even of SOL
sdiers for it takes power TO hold a team ike
Harvard on the 5-yard line.
YaIe's match with Pennsylvania State was the
hardest test the Blue has yet met It showed
more plainly than any game Yale has yet played
how difficult st is going to be to replace players
OF the strength and experience Of Kinney, and
Bloomer. and Hogan and Rockwell; for the
one great lack in the Blues players, exhibited
in this match, is deficiency in experience It is
far easier for clever coaches, such as Yale has
in great abundance to instruct green players
.n the art of offensive play than to educate them
thoroughly in defensive tactics It is easier TO
devise and execute an attack on ones opponent
than to stop on the spur of the moment care
9uliv calculated and accurately executed at
tack which he hurls upon your line around
your ends. And the ability to 90 this-to tell
almost instinctively what play is coming next
TO divine its character at the moment II is
put into motion-is something that with the
average player, only with experience
This defect was seen to better advantage because
Pennsylvania State was strong enough to make
repeated gains through Yale's line and to keep
the Blue on the defensive for the greater part of
she time. Fumbling and poor atternpt af a feld
goal were the only things that kept Yale from
feelng scored on in the first half. Lack of con-
EDITION in the Pennsyivanians was in evidence in
Ethe second half or Yale might have emerged from
sthre game with nothing better than a tie Cong
ssaen ana Gates who are the principal candidates
as running mates for Shevlin on the left wing
szlc not appear TO good advantage while the
Efele captain himself was not in god form and
repeatedly missed his man. The quarterback
s.tuauon seems 20 be cleared up bit as a re-
tSult OF this match. for the Yale team plaved a
~ per cent better game after Jones replaced
that TO Jones will go the honor of running of
i1ne plays IN the big matches
The walls that have been coming ont from
t~r1nceton about the scarcity of good material
and the almost frantic appeals Of the worried
coaches, urging undergraduates who have foot
nan conformation and ability to come ont and
TRY for the team. do not appear to have haep
s1ounded on real necessity for although ~,
Fsaturday the Tigers played in the second half
"a team that included many substitutes thew
trolled up good score on Lafayette Though
tne losers scored, II was only by means of
fshuster's goal from the field and Princeton's
sgoal line was never in any great danger as the
visitors never got within the 25-yard line That
ffhe Princetonians would have made even a
Trigger total had not the cripples been forced
70 leave the field in the second half admits Of
little doubt If the coaches can get the hest
men into nrst class shape between and the
Yale game there is bound to be played a match
that VIII be worth going far to see
Though the University of PENNSYLVANIA was
saved from tie in the game with Brown on
saturday only by tho narrow naRrgin O; q
safety. the score does not really indIca$s the
superiority OF the PhiIadelphians, as only FINN
bling and bad luck prevented them from toe king
three touchdowns, instead Of one while Rrovyn's
sole tally was the result Of a bad pass and =
lucky combination Of circumstances which en-
ebled q Brown back to run the entire lenotb
of the nele for a touchdown ON the IyboIa
bearing In mind that the crudities displayed NAV
east be corrected between now and the Far-
ward match. Pennsylvania has every reason for
xouirg confidently to turn out an eleven tbat
will make a credtable showing
Columbia fl luck Saturday After be-
ing outplayed by Amherst throughout the en-