Evening star., 1905-10-23
Princeton Did Best Work OF
Big Four Saturday.
HARVARD'S WEAK PLAY
LOCAL TEAMS PRACTICING HARD
FOR COMING CONTESTS.
National League Batting Averages
Picked Golfers in Team Match
Records Go at Jamaica.

Real foot ball was developed in last
weeks work. plus the customary number
OF surprises. Chief among these upsets in
form were Harvards unexpected weak
ness. the vulnerability of Yale's rangy lire
OF forwards. Princeton's speed and versa
tility and Columbia's rallying power. Penn
sylvania's mediocre play against Browns
strong team was anticipated and blinds
no one to the fact that the Quakers are
still strong and dangerous aggregation
pennsylvania met very strong team, but
outplayed 1t in most respects decisvely.
Fumblins was the chief fault of the red
ana blue. The other departments of the
game classed very well. and the attack
was especially strong Fumbling. of course
Is serious and sometimes fatal fault.
bur 1t is not by any means incurable The
Quakers VIII bear a lot of watching for
me line Is very strong and the backs are
iast. There Is no reason why, after the
Brown Jarring, the Red and Blue should
not Improve rapidly.
Up Goes Tiger Stock.
Right here a good word for the Tigers.
racing very strong eleven Princeton
Paayed smashing good foot ball last Satur-
day' The attack was versatile which II
had not been hitherto, and had more of tho
Ola princeton rake and sweep than In any
or the early games. The coaches viii do
wen 10 continue spreading out certain of
tae plays. The team seems to have learned
now to think on its feet to better nurnosa
ana the attack is at times as furious as anv
c"ach could expect The line does not look
iemarkaDly hne. save on the ends
ana the Princeton ends are rapidly nearing
the very high Princeton standard win
me exception of Cooney the forwards from,
tos oaokle TO tackle. have shown so far only
aeeLase work. They need a deal of the
hardest sort of coaching but are fairly de
pemdable now and have certainly made
Sonu progress. Princeton's entire work of
SATURDAY was encouraging so encouraging
a5 10 pe something of a surprise TO those
"1,o hau not seen the Tigers recently
trouble for Yale had been predictad T,ha
t tea,h was going too fast not to have a SET
PACK. The best thing about it was thai II
fappehsu fara,e1 when IL did. No one could have
Ioretoid that Pennsylvania State COLLAGE
would prove the Tartar but il seemed IN
eNuapie that some time or another tho
hale hne would be driven to a displav of
snfri, "esknesses ga .l the speed and aggressive
"p'it OF the men had concealed even Yror,
the coaches. The inevitable bapnsnad ST.
urday. happened sat
Yale Forwards Learn Sometime
State College cut loose a wbir,I,a z.:..
ing attack that tangled IN tbe Vi g.
wards and for a time carriad ,ba., 20
.Iel! ieet 1t was combina ton of princn
ton ana Pennsylvania foot ball nIayad b
Suons team. and It was a brand
rev style of play to the Blue line
iaIes forwards learned more foot hall
iass is SATURDAY. than the big staff of coaches
ndu Desn able to pound into them. but
Ifey did learn. and In such a manner that
sae+ Nno~iedse now ought TO stick. Despite the
tdct that the Blue was played off its feet
Ior the most part and that the victory
was In many respects a lucky one YaJa
showed showed gllmpses of real power. The sec
Inaary I defense was especially fine as it
has need to be this year So, as far as
'he backs are concerned. the Yale coaches
nave little cause for worry T Jones at
quarter, again proved the right man In the
right place, and his presence in the game
meant much In the attack
As rule Yale strikes slumn on tho
day or the West Point game. Whether the
State College affair was a substitute for
Inls remains to be seen. 1t must be re-
membered. however. that what Yale did
not know rather than what Yale had for
gotten was at the bottom OF last SAtur-
days showing. 1t Is safe to predict that
however. West Point had been under
rated because of the defeat by Virginia
Poly But littIe was known of the south
erners who. as it turned out, displayed a
really high-class team.
Before passing on from the Blue II is
well TO tuck away in the memory the state
ment of the best rush line coach in the
country. who has pronounced Yale's tac-
MES ds nhe PAIR as any eleven could
want
Harvard's Misera ble Showing.
Harvard's showing against West Point
was downright miserable The Crimson
showed only one good quality-ability to
cover the ball on fumbles In this respect
Harvard was far superior to the soldiers
But the Crimson was very slow played
fatally high both in the line and back field
and such strength as the eleven showed
was OF the crude type. The team work
was very ragged. Time and again. on
drives into the tackles. Parker and oc-
casionaily Brill were found standing out
side the scr1mmage helpless, and appa rent
ly al loss what To do. The Harvard tan
dem. with Brill leading. was seldom good
for more than Brilfs own length The in
reference on end runs was shaky and
shiftleSs- Indeed. there was not even a
glimpse OF Noyemher foot ball in Harvard $
work
The defense was utterly without brains.
OBrieu and Brill on the left wing were
simply smOthered by the cadet interference
There is too much badly distributed
weight I'm the Harvard team at present
and too little brains Men of the build of
Parker and Bril-! are not ideal foot ball
types. Their defense consists of falling
down for the most part. There were times
Saturday when the cadets would not even
let them do that. The Harvard line was
torn apart again and again. and at other
times lifted. Yale lifted 1t last year.
Harvard's kicking was fair, but the pass
ing for kicks was eNecrdbIe. If w. T.
Reid can win the big games with such II
line as the Crimsons te w.l be doing
wonders.
George Washington Looking Up.
Coach Parnard and Capt. stecnerson CT
the George Washington University team ac-