New-York tribune., 1905-11-20

3O-yard kicks, they sent them out Of bounds
when they should not have done So and kept
them Inside bounds when they should have sent
them out. In short they left undone the things
they ought to have done and did the things they
ought not TO have done. Not infrequenty the
ball simply popped up into the air for scant
twenty yards. No big game IN years has seen
such poor punting. Coaches never seem to par
enough attention to this part of the game X
they have a man who can punt. they THINK
heaven and use him. II they have no such
man they make a few feeble and spasmoiic
efforts to develop and school one and let 1t go
at that. They ought to move heaven and earth
for good punter. 1 do not think 1t too ex-
treme statement to say that If Princeton had
had first class kicker on Saturday she might
have won the game. Her players in the second
half were tired out What they needed was a
chance to get rest from that eternal hammer
ing. A first class punter, when Tale had none,
could have gained many valuable yards that
would have given the forwards chance to get
that priceless rest and pull themselves together
for renewed efforts. 1t is entirely within the
bounds Of possibility that top notch punter
might have turned the scale for Princeton in
that critical moment when the Tigers strength
began 10 leave him and his heart to turn 10
water.
1t looks to me though there would have 10
be some revising of the big four schedule when
the smoke of battle has cleared away this year
For three successive years Harvard has gone up
against Dartmouth and failed to beat her. and
on one of those years the Hanoverians actually
came away with a victory. 1t may be true Of
course, that Harvard does not regard Dart
mouth game as championship match, but any
team that makes so good showing for thrss
successive years. in the last of the three beat
ing Princeton and tying Harvard is entitled to
be regarded as being in the championship class
If Harvard should wallop Yale it might induce
us TO rank her above Dartmouth but unless she
does one cannot escape placing the team from
the little New Hampshire college above the men
from the Cambridge university. II appears a.
all events, that though Saturdays match a. a.
Cambridge resulted in q tie, Harvard was reeh!
outplayed Most of the fighting was IN her yer.
ritory and reports from Cambridge declare Una.
the play of Reid'5 pupils. contrary TO eNDectdLVA
and hope. showed little If any iH1pToVe9liss99A 9 81
over the game put up in the match at FhiidIe. dI
pha the week before. In the second nan a, Iiai
ward seems to have brace1 up. and neither 81 81
was able to gain consistently against the othe''
The meeting of two badly beaten teams q.
Ithaca on Saturday resulted in a weli earhs'
victory for Columbia. the New-Yorkers e2niVh
ing a degree of pluck and ability to rally anu
snatch victory from defeat that probably su.
prised their best friends, who have sofTo"SS
deeply over their season of disaster up TO me lis.
time. Going into the SeCOIlQ Kan WIN 80
6 to O against them the New-YorkeEs pun pun
themselves together in fine style ana sliRs a.
swept the Ithacans off their feet IL was ~, H.
and plucky rally and ought 10 lend an s aceb,
tional interest TO the Columpla- Z eil'''S
match in this city on next SATURDAY
Next Saturday. in football, will be the Dlss.s'
day of the year and for many teams WI see 'H'
end of the season. OF course the principal g.
tre of interest win be at Cambridge. where ls''
and Harvard are TO meet on the STADIUM
finest ont of door athletic arena in this countI3
Second only to this match will be the Coluile'1-
Pennsylvania affair in this city. at SAA'''
League Park. It looks like a sure victory iv,
Pennsylvania. but this has been sedsOi :,
surprises. and the Nsw-Yorkers in the CotHsa
match showed that they have taken new - "a
Of life which they will give up only az ytais
struggle IL will be no paper line, such a. = a
found that Penn will have TO srnash III ,sssr
win Next TO these two matches most .i'11a Tart-
will be felt in the meeting OF Brown @ dLu hsvs
mouth at Springfield Both these teams Tos.
r1ada exceptionalIy fine records this season. = I,
sfblv Dartmouth has a little the oetleI % ,,sd
this respect for she beat princeton 81. g ,sr-
Harvard but Penn won from Brown % 1tItls--ard ttls
roy,,est kind of a margin. and Yale ana ha! 'ifI
aocb Toade a very low score against her. y - -,
no a hattie royal and without Gouot W.T. 'I,Iir-.
ing far TO see. On the same daY "Ss 49,. the
nIays Syracuse at West Point. thls oeIt.SS ths
Soldiers last game before the meeting W. ".fgt
Sailors on December ,. Lafayette ana LsI4
get together at South Bethlehem. Nesieydi. a.ssts
Swarthmore at Philadelphia. Anhapoiie that
Virginia Polytechnic Institute Uhe team x-a-k
heat West Point at Annapolis. ana Nc" ser
TTDi,araitv pIavs Union in this city. a. "a
which in most cases. the canvas JACKET .asor.
folded up and packed away for anoInst II1stpTPE.