The Washington times., 1906-11-19
YALE'S SYSTEM
OUTDID TIGERS
Eli Coaches Ability to Mold
Plays to Meet Emergen-
cieS the Answer.
EASTERN GAME SUPERIOR
Study of Victories Of Penn and the In
dians Proves This-Michigan's Weak
Line Killed Chances.

There's was more stufting in the I'll
sleeve than In the Tigers, and that's
tie story of the 1906 Hale-PTinceton
scorelsss football battle.
There was a lot Of talk before the
game OF what was ''up Princeton 5
sleeve" but when the time came to
shake e. out nothing popped forth on
the other hand. whsn the Yale coaches
-witched. the blue garment out Topped
the zig zsg." a play specially designed
for this game. and also the most spec
: tacular forward pass Of the season. Both
OF these had been craftily hidden
against This very occasion, and had the
: last dee plaid scheme Of Camp, Hinkey
E & Co.-the putting IN of ROome at the
last moment-gOne into effect a little
sooner Male might have won the game.
Penalties Were Fatal
The players themselves committed the
other erior-namely. robbing themselves
OF opportunities 10 score by holding at
critical stages.
Yale had made a study of Princeton,
whereas the Tigers had gone ahead with
"A plan OF campaign designed TO meet
p the needs OF any contest. And herein
the Yale system" triumphed II is
This very elasticity of the Yale "sys-
tem,' its ability TO specialize and TO
turn out players who can seize the Yale
scheme OF things at short notice. that
has made EMS football history a tale
OF almost const successes
yale had discovered the theoretical
weakness or BrtncetOn's s secondary de-
Tense. Had the Tigers backs closed in
behind the line they might have STONED
The Yale backs for about three-yard adj
NanceS. which would not ,haVef been
enough 70 earn first down. but,aS In
vas Princeton had placed too great
Ialth IN her line. and when the forwards
TAILED 10 stop the Blue attack there was
no other resource. ana Yale's gains were
large and steady.
Tiger Defense Weak.
Yale handled the outside kick better
than Princeton, and Yale's forward pass
was more daring, If more dangerous IL
was stronger bid for victory.
Princeton had fine team this year
team Of which Nassau may we'll be
proud, but il was lucky 20 escape de
feat hy the Blue, all Princeton to the
contrary, Notwithstanding. The Prince
ton trainer brought mis- charges To top
condition week or two 100 soon. and
the effort to keep them there was a
failure. but this alone was not enough 10
account for the failure to win. Yale
lasted better but IL was, above all The
triumph for the Blue.
Statistics of Game.
To note the advantage held by Yale.
especially in the second half, il is only
necessary to glance at the statistics
kept Of the game;
Ground gained by rushing First
half: Princeton, So; Yale 81. Second
half; Princeton, A.; Yale, i5l. Total
Princeton. 10. Yale. 21S
Plmts-First half; Princeton. q;
Yale, 10. Second half; Princeton, s;
Average length Of punts in Yards
Princeton, Al; Yale 46.
Number OF penalties-Princeton, s.;
Yale. 8.
tes-Princeton, 90; Yale, %.
Firs. downs made from scrimmage-
Princeton, !, Yale. 3.
East's Supremacy Established.
No matter how the question is looked
at, or what liberal allowances are made
for the misfortunes that have attended
Coach Yost this year. the East comes
out of the intersectionaI contests OF
Saturday with an advantage so marked
that its supremacy is established.
There were two games IN which the
American Orient ana Occident were
pitted against each other-Penn-Mich
gan and Carlisle Minnesota
CurOusly enough both ended with a
score OF II 20 o. As they were played
on the l7th day of the month believers
in the occult might strain out some sort
Of mystic influence operating against
The West.
Excuses Are Offered.
Excuses can be made for Yo=t's
eleven; the fairness they ought to be-
He started the season shorn Of four
of his IN" men by faculty rulings
The same power limited his schedule
70
ing table. that invaluable device for
getting the men welded together in a
perfect football machine
Then atop OF all came the injury TO
Curtis. ConCede all this. the explana-
Jions might have answered had Penn
barely pulled ont a victor, but the mar
gin was so great. the Penn superiolftv
so manifest, that tits hard to escape
1he conviction that the Michigan eleven
has made its reputation at the cost OF
inferior e!evens that the big Eastern
soundly, n not worse.
Weak Line Responsible.
The presence Of Curtis would have
helped the visitors, but II could not
have changed the result. No offense
can be effective il the line is so weak
that the opposing team breaks through
and stops the plays before they are
started.
This Is shown by the way Penn's ends
and bachheld smothered GarTels. The
giant captain was CO-star with Curtis.
In every game this year he had kicked
field goal and made frequent lnnR
runs. Except for his kicking. Garreis