The Washington herald., 1907-10-14
MakeSG GOOd Showing in Early
Football Games.
REVIEW OF THE BIG COLLEGES
Yale Gets Busy for Hard Season
on the GridirOn Championship
Pathway Not Strewn with Roses.
Harvard Displays n BoIder Policy.
Tigers Are Hard at work.

Altogether l52 tallies have been made by
the Tigers against Stephens, Wesleyan,
and Bucknell record that is almost uDr
precedented in the annals of Orange and
Black football lore. While II might seem
TO be most encouraging 10 Prine4ton's
supporters, the case is just the reverse
here. Princetonians long ago recognized
the meaning of the law entitled The fall
lacy Of comparative scores.
Football talk Of the hottest brand has
been going the rounds of the campus
since yesterdays game. OF course Yales
suffocauon of Holy Cross changed a few
ideas, and, 10 tell the truth, the perform
ance Of the Yale team vas surprise
over such an eleven as Holy Cross is sup
posed 10 have. = bunch of Old Princeton
stars saw the Bucknell game. and they
were on the fence as 10 the Tigers relia-
bHity.
The general impression to-day is that
the orange and Black is getting on too
rapidly for so early in the season, though
the most faith is put in Head Coach
Roper and his assistants.
Ii is pretty generally conceded. too,
that several of the Varsity are not in
the pink Of condition. because they are
worked sparingly in practice and yanked
out of the game as soon as Princeton
gets the. jump Ed Dillon is being
watched especially. While he has shown
wonderful bursts Of speed. he has not
been tested for any length OF time. and
il is rumored he is not In good form
physically Read and Tibbett also are
not used during long intervals.
Strength of Line Unknown.
II is in the line that the unknown ele-
ment Of the team lies. McFadden. Sieg-
ling. Buckingham. and Waller haven't
been tried thoroughly yet by any means.
Yesterday in one place Princeton had to
plug and plug to get a man through
BucknelTs weak front or over the goal
line. siegling has revealed a fair amount
OF speed, but against Bucknell he over
ran frequently. missing the tackle. Phil
lips is playing a corking good game
There is some talk Of Phillips being
shifted from center 10 one Of the tackles.
but it is unofficial gossip. This big fel-
in the wings, and there is some sense to
the idea. but then. the question arises,
Who can I'll his place at center?"
Developments during the week may
throw some light on this. a nunoer of
new coaches are expected there soon, 10
assist the present staff in their iabors
Several substitutes are being carefully
scTutinized. and a few surprises viii be
sprung before many days. Booth is max
ing strong bid for the tackle Job Pos
sibly not until the Cornell game al Itha-
ca, october 26. can the strength OF tho
Tigers be known for a certainty. Villa
nova and Washington and Jefferson are
on this weeks bill Of fare
Yale Hard at Work.
New York. oct. 13.-Yale is getting va
riety in opponents. After being held to
low scores by a couple of teams she runs
against a snap and revels in touchdowns
Forty points in one half is the busiest
scoring period any of the leading teams
have had this season.
In all Of her games but one Yale has
done much more scoring in the first half
than in the second. The reason there
for is not easy to hit upon. 1t is not
likely that the substitutes were so much
weaker than the regulars that they could
not keep up the pace The change may
have been due to experimenting Just
plain easing up is not healthy habit to
be allowed to develop, and doubtless
there is a reason for the subsistence of
onense in the second half beyond mere
weakness. It is not reasonable to think
that the substitutes in the Holy Cross
game were so woefully weak as com
pared to the regulars as to make only
twelve points to the latter's forty.
However. nobody realizes better than
the Yale folks that the pathway to the
championship Will not be the rose-stTewn
one that September reports indicated
There is greenness to be overcome, this
being more true Of the backs than OF the
line The backfeld play has been cratic
Nor would Yale object to finding heavy
fast end of the Forbes and Shevlin type
If she could, one who could stand up to
heavy interference and scatter 1t.
on occasions at Yale this year there
has been perfunctoriness in the play and
on other occasions there have been flashes
of great form At no college have such
I
and the early season promised does not
send them up to the seventh heaven of
/ expectation.
BOIder Policy at Harvard.
There is at Harvard a new disposition
to let 'er go, to be aggressive. and take
chances, a bolder, freer policy than there
/ has been in the past. and one that isn't
causing future opponents any feeling of
security.
It means that opponents will not be
able to bank so much on what Harvard
/ is going to do. Parker is making good
CAPTAIN for the Crimson, and his men are
adapting themselves readily TO Coach
/ Cranes ideas The idea is to develop in
dividual resource and initiative. Nothing
/ like as many old players have been on
hand 20 teach fundamentals as at New
Haven. which football center is one place
/ at which the saying that too many cooks
/ spoil the broth is completely refuted
/ Some credit must be given TO Princeton
/ for sustained strength in attack. WheT
/ the Tigers doubled Yale's score against
/ Wesleyan and three days later doubled
/ Pennsylvania s score against Bucknell il
is evident that they are hitting up a fast
+ pace. There is no way of knowing that
I they wouldn't be able TO do the same
thing in a proportionate degree against
/ teams better able to tell how much was
| Tiger strength and how much opposing
weakness. and by the same token there i.
no way of telling thas they would
PennsyIvaBia Is Strong.