The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-16
IN THE FOOTBALL WORLD.
INCREASED .IHPORT iNCE or
FIELD GOALS TINS YEAR.
Have Been Direct source u Victory In
Many Games -Opimions ON ~Isle-Prince-
ton te0m battles Betw cen Them
IN the Past-PractIce OF College Teams.

SHOWN by the many games Wulcn netu gohS
have been the direct means OF winning. The
new rules meant mere kicking. among other
open tactics, and not only ability to boot the
ball over the bar from placement or by a
drop kick but skilful punting has played q
more prominent part In deciding the issue
under rules which keep the play away from
! close proximity TO the goal lines more than
formerly. The onslde kick has created a call
for more accuracy In placing the ball. and
when a long punt IL in order the punt be-
comes more effective II Il can be driven past
the opposing backs on the bound. Again.
gaining ground on exchanges Of punts be-
comes more important In n game In which 10 Is
harder TO gain by rushing. Field goals. how
ever. are immediate producers OF points,
while punts arc not. and rs the demand for
them Increased this year 80 did the supply.
In at least twenty games this season the
field goal has either brought victory or en-
abled the weaker team to score on its oppo-
nent. Early In the season Svarthmore won
two games by field goals. One was from
villanovs and the other from Pennsylvania.
A sin gle field goal made the only points forth
coming in each Of these contests. Pennsyl-
vania State beat the Indians by a field goal.
and Ds rtmouth defeated Maine the same way.
The score was = TO o In each instance. Other
to o games games In which the only scoring
was due TO a goal from the field-were Exc
ter's defeat Of the Harvard second eleven and
Dartmouth's defeat Of Amherst. Dartmouth
and Svarthmore. It will be seen. have done
particularly well In snstching games out OF the
IRE by field goals.
A goal from the fe Id gave to Minnesota
not only all the points made by the Gophers
against Chicago. but also victory. Prince
toms eight points against West Point were
all due TO field goals, one from placement,
the other a drop kick. A place kick supplied
Yale with four points in the West Point con-
test. broke the tie and enabled va lie to win
Haryard's margin OF victory over Brown
was the four points due to a goal from the
field. In the Indian Syracuse game each
side made a field goal. the Indians winning
by the margin OF q field goal. Bucknell
scored on Princeton by a field goal, AZ did
n orwich on Brown, Gettysburg on Swarth-
more, Ames on Minnesota, Vanderbilt on
Michigan. Iowa on Wisconsin. Swarthmore
on Annapolis and Delaware on Fordham
The Delsware-Rutger encounter was unique
in that II was a tie in which each side made
a goal from the field and did no other scor-
ing. In the eleven games Of Lac. saturday
eight field goals were kicked.
Negative evidence Of the value OF icing
able to lift the ball bet ween the pests from
the field is found in the numerous o to- games.
There have been twent y -four o Z these games
among big and little colleges. twenty-four
games which. even though rushing strength
was lacking. q sim pie twist Of toe might
have won for one side or the other. Even
the one point that comes from a goal from
a touchdown is not to be desp Used. nor prsc-
Using in acquiring proficiency at il ne elected.
A dozen or more tussles in the East may he
counted. the scores Of which were 5 20 o.
The side making the touchdown failed to
kick the goal, and In all such games a touch
down by the other side meant n sure tie
and a probable victory for the latter. Thus
for want Of converting a touchdown into
a goal a chance touchdown by the opposing
team might easily have brought defeat to
the team which had played the better game.
Pre- dictions regarding the outcome of to-
m orrow's game at Princeton are as divided
az are thefeelings OF { he franks as TO whether
to take in the Yale-Princeton or the Penn
nyaEs ctfc aM'SS ~ . voI 9aStiS, dns WsIor'sy on OF
go so far 8s to say Princeton will win by about
- to 6, that the situation is similar TO that Of
the Ellis. On the other hs nd, those who think
Vale has q chance do not venture TO assert
One viewpoint is that, though Yale may have
struck winning form, in practice the last few
days. Princeton has been showing such form
a greater part Of the season and haG shown
bstter public form than Yale. Strength that
comes az the eleventh hour il not, in the minds
been longer lived. 80 far as Yale is con
CeTned. these folks want TO he shown. They
say that what has been done in actu ia contests
is what counts most, and II must he admitted
that the childish spells OF play shoSn in games
by Yale more than once have not attended
Ono frincetonian who is close to the team
put IL this way, TO an acdualntance. " am
betting eW : I p,~ni y, on PrppGetSn, but 30 Not
able TO win from Yale, she on Rht TO be- able To
do 80 this year" Head Coach Roper Of Prince
would make the best head coach Princeton
ever had, Is quoted as saying Tint a o 70 o
score Tomorrow would not surprise him.
" n0pFafaOH mo " he continued Il am homo
full Of winning and am satisfied with the gem
eral development u the team. hut 70 gain
be very. difficult. and | have not seen evi-
dence of such ground gaining ability in any
lieye can penetrate our defence in the con
dition II will he" This hcinG tho ase. fun
bies, blocked kicks, forward passes and the
Walter Camp said tho other day that he was
not, shedding any tears over the Princeton
Ralph BlooneT. who was not only a crack
player but a competent coach. ~ Us Princeton
has nothing on Yale, except, possibly in ma nd
ling Of punts. aud that, II lule can take care
too. would not be surprised at a 0 to score:
Conservative on the outlook by
the Yale Alumni Wee"iv are as follows:
Who Will vim" Is the daily question among the
at the outset that the chances seem to favor Prince
ton;
ton In the early part Of tie season Yale neglected.
the. old game Of football 10 try. odt the new rules
anu spent so Uurn UHc on Trying new plays mat
she found herself approaching the end Of the season
with no play under the new RULES that could be
counted upon for scoring and without sufficient
experience In the line smashing game TO make
that kind OF football effective.
Princeton is the ~favorle among the experts In
football but II Is quite within the possibilities that
the experts may be mistaken. II has happened
before that they were.
In recent years there have been Harvard
Yale s~coreless games. but none between Yale
and Princeton. The latteT's battles have been
characterized by plentiful scoring. In the
laset seven games between them one side or
the other scored at least twice. There has
been only one scoreless conflict between the
Blue and the Orange and Black IN the last
thirty years. and that was away back IN 1851.
II Is ton years since Princeton was able 10
score on ale by steady rushing. The Tigers
expended 80 much energy In that line in 1925
that they have not got II back since. BY now
they have had plenty OF time TO recuperate.
When Princeton won III 1893 II was because
OF Poe's long run. The Princeton victory OF
1900 was due 10 AN end run by Reiter which
carried the ball 70 within Iale's s yard line
at one fell swoop, and Poe's drop kick. The
1909 Princeton victory was dne 10 peWitt's
long run on a blocked kick and the same
players goal from placement. In 1897 the
two colleges gave mp New York and took TO
playing on their own fields. Princeton won IN
1905 on Brokaw Field. The next game at
Princeton was on the present Held. and not
since New York wRs forsaken have the Tigers
defeated Yale on the field they are now using,
ITHACA, Nov. IS. The Cornell varsity held