Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-12
YALE MAY HAVE
HARD STRUGGLE
PRINCETON AND HARVARD YET
TO BE CONQUERED
Tigers Have Formidable Appearance,
While Harvard May Spring Sur
prise Should Every Regular
Be in Position

With the Princeton game
week off and the Harvard Yale game
following the next week the eastern
football season may be said to have
reached it's final stage. The form that
is shown now may be taken as an
accurate criterion of what may be done
in the crucial contests. for there is
scarcely time enough left for a great
Improvement.
The results of each game are there
fore most carefully scrutinized by
coaches and players, not for the scores
that are made, but for the underlying
indications of strength and weaknesses
brought to light. In this respect the
games of Saturday last and the pre-
ceding Saturday were of the utmost
Importance.
The Yale West Point game in this
regard is the most prolific, though
significance is attached also to the
showing of Princeton and Harvard in
the games they played. On the strength
of this the temptation is very strong
to declare that Princeton is markedly
in the lead of the big elevens, with
Harvard slightly in advance of Yale.
Such a conclusion, however, is not
entirely justified. Princeton was fac
ing a greatly overrated team. The
Tigers played a good game, but the
disparity between the two elevens eX-
aggerated it's excellence. Princeton
has a first class team, but it is not
world-beater. 1t lacks offensive
ability of sufficient certainty and
power to be this. and it is by no means
perfect in kicking. In all other re-
spects it seems to be first class.
Harvard played a substitute team
against Brown. There were so many
absentees as to make the game worth
less as any criterion of the Crimson s
strength. Until her cripples get back
into the game there will be no chance
for Harvard to show her real strength.
Harvard has the best attack of the
three big teams.
Defensively she ought to be pretty
nearly as strong, and in kicking she
has somewhat better possibilities than
Princeton Harvard potentially is un-
doubtedly the strongest team in the
field, though she may not realize her
full possibilities because of the acci-
dents she has met with.
There has been disposition to credit
Yale with very powerful and varied
attack. 1t was believed that she would
show wonders in the open game
Yale's strength, however, has always
been line opening, the direct antith-
esis. And she is not different this
year. She has line-breaking power
but at West Point she could not show
it, for the best half of her strength
Roome, was missing.
Morse was out of position and Veedel
useless in this style of play. She was
helpless in quick shifting plays be.
cause of unsteadiness produced by Tao
Jones' unaccountable failure. Jones is
sure catcher, and why he should
have gone TO pieces no one can explain
The effect was to render him incapablt
of the fast snappiness in handling the
ball that has been another marked
qualification.
In defense Yale's weakness was nm.
expected, in spite Of the fact that sh,
has had trouble with her line all year
There is no cohesion in the forwards
Unless she acquires this She will b,
surely beaten I'm both big games I,
come. Giving attention to this, sh,
cannot brace up the rest OF her play
as she should. The chances are, there
fore, that she will go in against Prince
ton at least with her teams possibil
tiles not fully developed.
With the emphasis that this year
rules puts on luck plays there is ;
chance OF her pulling out as she di,
at West Point, but Princeton and Har
ward now look likely to beat her.
There is much Of interest In the anal
ysis OF the game at West Point Yale
kicking saved the day. She kicke,
off twice for eighty-five yards, kicke,
out once for forty yards, and punte
twelve times for 493 yards, a total o
6l8 yards and an average of forty-on
yards. West Point kicked off thre
times for las yards. kicked out twic
for sixty yards. and punted fifteel
times for Az yards, total of CAT yard
and an average OF thirty-twO yards
Yale used two drop kicks and plac