The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-19
IN THE FOOTBALL WORLD.
YALE PLAYERS 60 UP THE HUD-
son FOR A REST.
Saturdays Game and some OF Its Features
Ellis wish Halves Had Not Been
shortened by Committee Michigan
Teams Battle with tho PennsyIVanlans

On Tuesday the team will set about TO make
more effective the powerful attack 1t disclosed
on several occasions In the Princeton game.
IL is quite probable that Harvard will show
a stronger offence next Saturday than Prince
ton had last Saturday. Yale expects that to
be the case and looks for another hard game.
But ! don't see how Harvard can beat u.s..
said Trainer Johnny Mack yesterday.
No expressions OF regret we're heard from
Yale men at not getting past Princeton with
better than q tie, but one OF the coaches did
deplore the action OF the rules committee in
shortening the halves to thirty minutes.
ITS all poppycock to think that two teams
cannot 60 through thirty five minute halves
In good shape" he said. We certainly were
9 to o better than Princeton. and I think it's
too bad that on account Of the reduced halves
We failed to get over the goal line" Regard
ing longer halves. IL may DO said that they
could be played better this year than last.
because the game is not as exhausting on the
PLAYERS under the new rules.
Did you disclose any secrets OF plays to be
used against HaPvardp- Coach Rockwell was
asked. Il hope not. " was the reply. The Yale
attack against Princeton. with Forbes in the
formation, bore resemblance to the tackles
back formation in which Bloomer used to raise
havoc with the opposition. 1t shot first one
way, then the other, and the surprising part
Of the strength Of attack shown by the Ellis
was that practice could bring out to such .
degree what was missing In actual contests.
Nobody doubted that the coaches realized
the value OF getting together on the attack
to rush the ball. but apparently the team
could not acquire the knaek.
Probably q good many OF us were misled
by the whirlwind game played by Princeton
against Dartmouth. 1t Is easy to look back
now and tell ourselves that the work In the
Cornell game was good in spots, but not
CONVINCING; that the Nays goal line was
As1aaa1 Anlu onna md Nha AFOnNfG nOf nj all
Hindsight IL a great thing. One thing is
sure, the Yale defence nulliied the power
and precision Of the Princeton attack. Nor
must the fact be overlooked that the Prince
ton defence kept Yale from scoring. Not
since 1899 has Yale been shut out in a foot
ball game. However. Yale did make some
great progress In devolping her offence at a
late hour and has more time 10 polish IL up
for Harvard.
The impression prevails that RoOme will
be In the backfeld against Harvard to
strengthen the attack. That is all right II
he can attend TO the kicking as well as
veeder. Roome is a good punter and Onside
kicker, but owing to his injury is out Of prac-
tice. Naturally Yale plans, as between the
two men. are not being foretold. The Ellis
not only showed Improvement in attack.
but braced in open field defence and in eK-
ecuting and diagnosing forward passes. In
fact the long forward pass worked a couple
OF times against the Tigers was the most
conspicuous variation OF that play seen this
season.
The Yale plan Of having a tackle down
the field TO take the forward pass. which
created some discussion between players
and officials as 10 its legality. was a point In
the rules which only Yale seems to have seen
and acted on. II was a straight pass forward.
being accounted for by Veeder's running out
that distance before passing. The tackle had
a right to receive the pass. because at the
on the end Of the line. The regular end had
dropped back, making the tackle an end for
the time being. The rule says:
The pass may not he touched by a player who
was on the line Of scIimmags when the bal was
on the ends of the line.
Praise for the Yale centre has been given
sparin gly this season, but IL was on deck with
in other hard games. 4 man who did as
much az anybody else 20 stop Princetons
play was Brides a. LEFT guard Brides and
was on the defence. Brides going TO centre
and Hockenberger to guard. The shift Is g
Princeton's book, unless she vas doing IL all
along on the quiet: IL was a feature Of the line
also shifted so as to bring Biglow and Hocken-
berger opposite Cooney and Stanard. Prince
tons shift already had been seen in games,
defence and Herring going to ceutre from
tackle.
Al "A HD0TIY COnithl ~ kdilt a n "a
more interesting anair than anything that
took place under the old rules. The lack of
finish that the teams Showed as compared 70
as the new game has been played longer ana
coaches and players learn more about II a
few old players may decry the new game and
refer to il as basketball, but it is not now
pushball. Saturdays game was, another
tribute to the improvement which the re-
vised code has wrought. though there was no
scoring, OF course, there IL old football in
the present game-ths TulemakerS d6d not
nav football. Those who take the broad
view we're pleased with the game itself last
was too much sameness to the old football.
and the absence OF It Is one reason. am9pg
Tigers were more than matched at the more
open style Of football possible and pecsSsary
under the new rules. writes NJ n; Menni
when the game was played back on the same
Football men yesterday we're discussing
what they termed a lack Of Judgment on
Princeton's part IN not trying Tor a neid goai
in the first half; TINS Tas when end Harlan fan
ward pass was tried instead Of a drop kick.
Harlan had been doing such consistent
this seemed fike a good chance thrown away.
Figures have il that Yale rushed the ball
p% SnIs ,a t pTIsset foT se ye e yarns IN yards ard hr in
twenty PUSHES. In the second half Yale
rushed Il yards in thirty,-two times and
tempts. The totals are 2lI yards for Yale
and III for Princeton.
Western football prowess suffered a severe
Jar on Saturday when Pennsylvania de
feated Michigan ~ to 0, and the Carlisle
Indians, not ranked as the best team in the
East, defeated Minnesota, one OF the top
notchers OF the West. by the same score. So
far as scores tell anything. the Indians are a
better team than Michigan or Chicago, Chi
a z was beaten by Minnesota and Chicago
heat Illinois. 65 to y. whereas Michigan beat
Illinois, rs to o.
football by the Pennsylvanians but also in
this years developments. Michigan had
next to nothing in the open plays brought
about by the new rules. She tried one for
ward pass, which was abortive, and not a sin gle
Onside kick. Pennsylvania did not use the
Onside kick. Nor did she use the forward
pass often, but used IL well when she did
try II. The Quakers also employed a pretty
backward pass once. The man with the ball
passed to a man behind him. with both on
the run. The Quakers made telling use OF
the fake kick, and Michigan was all at sea
IN sizing up the play.
There are times In football when n team
must work out It's own salvation in graphing
with situations as they arise. and the .Wolyer-
ines apparently were u nable to do this. They
impressed rs a tenn which was pla wing along
cut and dried lines, that had no initiative
and no resources once the plans laid out for
them failed Ia work. The general imDrPSaiOn