The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-12
OF
COLLEGE
ELEYENS
Yale and Dartmouth Only
indicated Teams in
the East.

The final rating of the football teams OF
1907 is at hand. In less than three weeks
the campaign will be a matter of his
tory. AT present writing Yale leads in
the East by a slight margin. the Blue
not having suffered a defeat this year.
Dartmouth also has a clean record. In
fact the Hanover slate Is cleaner than the
New Haven escutcheon, as the Blue vlrtu-
ally sustained q defeat at West Point,
while the Green has won all its contests.
But Dartmouth does not play the big
games the Ellis do.
In the West neither Michigan nor Chi
cago has been beaten. The Wolverines are
TO meet Pennsylvania on Saturday, while
Stages proteges will line up against Car
Isle on. November %. While Yale Is un-
doubtedly somewhat In advance Of other
eastern elevens, she is far from fiawless.
but as the big Five compare today, the
Blue appears superior to Princeton, Har-
ward, Pennsylvania and Cornell.
But in giving Yale precedence over other
eastern elevens, 1t must be conceded that
the New Haven team has failed to show
the advanced football that Princeton did
In winning from the Indians. Selecting
Harvard as a comparison, the Indians
hive a stronger line, a better backheld
and play the modern game with a more
varied attack than Brown. There was
some fumbling of the ball against Brown,
which would prove fatal against Prince
ton. and the Brown backs tore big holes
in the line at times and got around the
ends. There was lacking, too. in the Yale
attack any steady or irresistible progress
The disposition to lay great stress on the
inability of either team to gain consists
emily and to point 1t outa a sign of weak
ness must not be accepted too seriously.
Yale showed none of the tricks Prince
ton scouts were looking for in Saturdays
unexpectedly easy game with Brown. but
she did show a powerful, If somewhat
monotonous, attack at times, and an inter-
ference that is probably harder to break
up than that developed up to the present
by any of the leading teams. The Blue
relied upon cross bucks and end runs to
make ground when it was a question OF
rushing the ball, varying these forma-
lions with a shift and a double pass
which fooled the visitors several times.
Toward the end of the game, however,.
this double pass was sadly spoiled by tho
Brown team, which broke 1t up three
times. Yale made no attempt to gain any
considerable distance by rushing the ball.
The policy was to kick on the first down
if the ball was in Yale territory or IN
mIdfeld, and rushing tactics were not re-
sorted to until the ball was within thirty
or forty yards of the Brown goal. Then
| there was a certain unevenness In the
Blues attack. and once in the first hair
Brown was strong enough to lead Yale 20
attempt a goal from the field Coy out
punted Dennie without difficulty, put no
also outkicked his ends. Bride and Bige-
low were down the field as often as the
Yale ends to make the tackle.
On the defensive the Yale ends were
boxed time and again. and the Brown
bncks, had they started more quickly,
would have gained more ground. Yale
made use of n tandem formation that re-
sembled to n great extent the battering
ram of the old rough days before the con-
ference of 1905. The same formation drove
Harvard down the field last year, and 1t
proved hard for the lighter Brown men,
worn out by the hard task their schedule
| imposed on them, to stop the play when
1t was aimed at the tackles. But at no
time did Yale tear the Brown team 70
| pieces for big gains. Once In a while there
was a gain OF ten or fifteen yards, but
as a rule Yale had to bore In two or three
times for her distance Wnen the Dali was
being rushed.
stubborn as was West Points defense
against Cornell. it was not stout enough to
keen Cornell from scoring, something no
previous team at West Point had been able
to do. II is the belief of a good many ex-
perts that the Cornell eleven would be bet
Ter did It have a quarterback who put more
n and speed in his work. There y
power in the Cornell eleven, and were 1t
ouickened more, the men driven more
snirltedly. more would be realized from
their natural ability. By way OF variety
the Ithacans on Saturday made use not
only of their short forward pass-in winch
a run by the catcher is counted on 70
make distance-but a long pass as well.
Walder was too slow for safety in getting
off his kicks. McCallie's playing against
the Army was a feature. He goes fast ana
with a long stride, Is at the top OF MS
sneed in no time and takes the shortest
cut to his destination.
AS a team the Ithacans are not as
| speedy, and speed by the other side VIII
bother them a whole lot in the opinion OF
some critics. In sustained effort, however,
| they have done better than any team that
has faced them. West Points offense
apainst Cornell was productive OF more
points than against Yale, but 1t was rar
from being up to concert pitch. injuries 10
strong players nave crippled West Point
| and interfered with the development Oh the
offense. There are three weeks In Wnleh
to key up that department-plenty OF time.
The West Pointers have not as mueh
reason TO feel downcast over defeat as their
friends of the Navy, who we're beaten
souudly by Swarthmore. Still those IL
points are not as bad as they look at first
glance. Twelve Of them were from neia
goals-oniy six from rushing. Swarthrore
is composed Of big, strong men who are
likely to batter their way Tor d touch-
down against any team.
In commenting upon the Harvard-Car-
Isle game the Boston Herald says sarcas-
ticalIy among other things he following
THE OF football which are sup
posedly learned in prep school, tackling.
blocking off. following the ball. all these
we're absent from Haryard's playing. Only
one man. Grant, the light centre rush,
played the game he should, and Grant even
in the midst of bright stars would have
been brilliant. Aside from rudiments. the
Harvard attack found the team so poorly
equipped with plays against a strong oe-
Tense the team was at a loss TO even at
tempt a versatility Of play. Her defense
was poor in every quarter, and against the
forward pass OF the Indians, a play which
has been heralded from the housetops for
her benefit. she had absolutely no means
of protecting herself. The contention that
Harvard did not show her hand In her
attack may be a good one, but II it is bet
ter to use up mon in a futile attempt TO
win a game by halfway methods than IL
is to save them by giving them the righs
to use necessary football, 1t is anew way
OF looking at the situation. It is more
than probable that Harvard showed all she