New-York tribune., 1906-11-16
ON COLLEGE GR[DIRONS
PRINCETON SHOULD WIN.
So Says Captain Hill of the West
Point E[eUen.
photograph By Penfisld)

Ray c. Hill, captain and left halfback of one of
the strongest teams that West Point has put
on football field, says, in an article written espe-
cially for The Tribune, that Princeton has great
team this year. and that II Harlan and Eddie Dill
Ion play throughout the Yale game Princeton will
beat Yale tomorrow badly she beat West
Point. Cadet Hill says further that he is willing
to acknowledge that the Tigers beat the Army on
Saturday because they had better team. He re-
grets the reports that have been published Of a
severance Of athletic relations with Princeton as
there is ground for such rumors.
Hill is of the greatest backs that have ever
Army uniform Torney. of last years
team might have been stronger Extensively but
defensively the Army captain is In a class by
himself In the games with Princeton Yale and
Harvard he time and again analyzed his opponents
plays and called them his team before the
visiting centre could snap the ball. This is the
secret of the failure of the big three to work any
trick plays successfully against the sturdy cadets
In the Harvard game particularly, the Army cap
tain guessed the Crmson's plays so successfully
that Newhall deemed it advisable to change his
signals several times and abandon the first play
he had called.
In speaking of football in general and comparing
Yale and Princeton, Captain Hill says
AS to football will say that on the whole, am
we'll satisfied with what our team has done SO far
and with showing against the so-called big
appointed, not with our work against Yale and
Harvard, but with the scores in those games: mes
the teams should have been different. Yale won,
snatched the victory from us by an eighty yard
run. with two minutes left BEIGE the referees
the better team. They outplayed us II Eddie
Dillon and Harlan play throughout the Yale game
badly as we We're If not worse Yale ms may take @ q
Princeton. In my opinion. Eddie Dillon is the clever
est quarterback playing the game this year. Tad
H Harlan even s exclusive Of lis Kicking is % as good
hiC he iS iO0n vVOY1
der There is not man in the Princeton back
/ believe that the offensive play of the Tigers is
superior to that Of both Yale and Harvard, and
It seems to are ms to
that b e2ae @ aG a doe6 50 6oa e
the ends believe Wister and Hoagland will not be
ticularly good for Yale. but ] may say that
the Orange and Black ends should be fully capable
and al aran R Win be wRoG pees m e Mcd aG
Boone SHOULD @ be ABOUT equal and Ruon- Miller and
has saa some go9d E1bstqtes for beth y Ling and back
used these men effectively in the latter part Of the
| Tegretted, the reports of our severing athletic
relations with PRINCETON on the grounds Of rough
also The Rulon- Miller episode was @ merely
Nothing up to say About we care to
As TO the Ya&le-Haryard de- game. as have said
and Harvard the superior extensively. The game
Of punts. 4 little luck or an unfortunate tumble
at q critical moment may decide the game. 1t
Sh 0uld be close contest.
AS to our own team, l know Il is q strong one.
Owing to injuries and other adversities, have
been unable to get 'ogether as we'll as had hoped
to do. but everything looks fine for the Navy
better prepared to meet the Navy than be-
fore.
Graves is the best head coach we have ever had;
in fact ne is one Of the best coaches in the coun-
back. and It is not uncommon to him showing
Johnson how to make difficult pass. With such
able assistants as Casad, Rockwell and Torney,
West Point has all chat she could ask in the way
Of coaches. We have only TO meet Bucknell and
Syracuse before lining up against the Navy. BY
that time Beavers will probably be in our lineup
It will be remembered that Hn fairly earned
the distinction to captain the Army eleven by his
superb work IN the last Army-Navy game Al
though laid out time after time. the gritty Army
man stuck TO his work and most effective as
a ground gamer the famous Army ''crossbuek''
play. while the defence he smashed many a
Navy play. This is his last year Of football, and
with the game OF December another famous Army
player and captain will forever lay aside his foot
ball togs.