The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-04
CONFIDENCE IS
RESTORED AT
PRINCETON
Tigers Showed They Can
Play Football in Game
With Indians.

While the football as played on Satur-
day was far from satisfying from the
spectators viewpoint, it served to prove
beyond a doubt that previous form counts
for little, and that the final contests of the
year are beyond conjecture. Princeton and
Pennsylvania, aroused by their defeats OF a
previous week, showed their true mettle by
winning from worthy opponents. Harvard
barely won from Brown, the margin of the
crimson's victory being a single point ac-
cruing from a part of the game that Of
fers absolutely nc indication of the COM
parative strength of any two elevens. Ya'e
experienced not a little difficulty in defeat
ing a team that Princeton had over
whelmed, while Cornell received a scare
only second to her defeat by Penn State
by falling to score in the first half with
Western University of Pennsylvania. Both
the Navy and Army were held to single
t~ouchdowns by teams considered much in
ferior in general strength. Swarthmore re-
ceived an unexpected shock by Villanova
twice scoring against her, and Lehigh went
own to an inglorious defeat before brave
little Haverford.
The contest of the day in popular esti-
nation was that between Princeton and
Carlisle. The result places the Tigers
right up among the front rank of cham
pionship aspirants, despite their defeat by
Cornell. 1t was not SO much the defeat
of the Indians as the manner by which
it was accomplished that enhances. the
reputation of Princeton. 1t proved the
Tigers a game, heady, resoureeful, fast
combination, fully competent to play foot
ball as the atmospheric conditions de-
mand. and not a team coached along mar
row lines that permit of no diversified
For a full week Old Nassau had been
drilled In all the technique of the game
that. results from forward passes, delayed
passes, on-side kicks, expecting to match
the Indians at their own style of play.
But the execrable conditions of sky and
field made it impossible for the Tigers to
put into execution the finer points of the
game, in which they had been especially
coached for this particular contest, and
they Immediately demonstrated their YER
by playing a combination of old
and new style game that completely out
classed their supposedly stronger oppo-
nents. Conversely, the game showed the
singleness of the Indians development
and their utter inability to adapt their
play to weather conditions. On a dry field
would have played a spectacular
and given Princeton O much harder
than the score indicates.
Carlisle went to New York to humble
Princeton, but left the metropolis humili-
ated. Whirlwind speed and cunning de-
vices were rendered impotent when the
rain fell and the winds blew. The long
passes, the crafty onside kicks
and high swirling punts that had heralded
from far and near failed with its
pools of water and yielding spots of mud.
used every possible play that the
ingenious brain of Glenn Warner had de-
vised for the discomfting defeat of Prince
ton. but employed them yainly except Tor
inconseouent advances that were never
consistent and never dangerously menaced
the Orange and Black goal. But, r
their nature. the Indians played reso-
lutely and defantly to the end, many of
them distinguishing themselves by bril-
liant work that bore no fruit. No bril-
liant dash by the crafty Indian but was
overmatched by some whirling, lodging
run by the Tiger ground gamers. No
savage tackle by a redskin but a mo-
ment later 1t was eclipsed by the brilliant
dive of one OF Princeton's ubiquitous
tacklers.
The Tigers were here, there and every
where. blocking. tackling and interfering
better tha any and all the Indians on
field. But of all the Tiger team two
men, Dillon at quarter, and Tibbot, at
half. stood out like %watchfires, illuminat-
ing the game far above any of their fell
lows. Twice Dillon displayed judgment as
rare as any seen on a gridiron in recent
years. Once he allowed a kick to go over
the line for a touchdown with the whole
Indian eleven laundering down upon him.
Again he made a move evolved by light
ming thinking, only to be deprived of the
credit of 1t by a new rule. Fumbling one
of Hauser's long punts he recovered it
back Of his own goal line, and, shaking
off four Indian tacklers. ran 1t out into
the field Of play. Tfbbot, until Saturday
q substitute. was the best back on either
team. Brilliant dashes around the tackles
and ends, laundering drives into the line,
smashing defensive p~laying-all these com
bined to make his a name indeed at Old
Nassau. Gaping his days work by a
magnificent 55-yard run for a touchdown,
In which he turned the entire Indian
eleven, scarcely touched by a redskin
tackler. the Princeton coaches deemed that
he had done his share for Princeton and
dragged him from the game, saving him
for the Yale battle.