The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-24
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FORCORNELL

From the discussion in both of the col
leges it seems likely that there will be a
decided change in the football schedules
Of PrincetonN and Cornell next season,
Tue athletic authorities at Ithaca and
Princeton feel that the game between the
two colleges comes too early in the sea-
son, and that instead OF helping either of
them it practically assures both of them
Of being out Of condition when their other
important games take place. Yale, with
the best football system in the country,
plays its two big games within a week of
each other, and when she has had the
whole season to get in shape for the
Princeton game 1t Is easy for the coaches
to keep the men in condition for the Har-
ward game a week later.
While they are not pleading an excuse
for the Yale game, the Princeton support
ers feel that the team was in its best con-
dition before the Yale game, and after
that time went downhill until at the time
they met the Ellis they were far from their
best form. The fact that Princeton out
played Yale in the first half of their game
this season was due, the Princeton men
believe, more to the surprise that their
tactics gave the Yale men than because
of any physical superiority. In the sec
ond half, when there was a chance for the
real physical condition of the two teams
to show, there was not the slightest doubt
as TO which was the superior. After al
most every play in the second period there
were Princeton men on the ground, and
despite Yale's plucky brace 1t is seldom
that a team can beat a Princeton eleven
that leads in the first half unless there is
something wrong with the physical con
dition of the Princeton men.
The best game that Princeton played
throughout the past season was against
the Indians. 1t was then that they were
apparently at the top of their form. II
they had not reached this when they met
Cornell, they were at least within a week
of it, and the time that succeeded the
Indian game before the Tigers met Yale
did so much to benefit the Princeton az
%gregation. Judging from the number of
times time was taken out in the two
games, Princeton was in poorer physical
condition against Yale than she was
against the aborigines.
What is true of Princeton and Yale is
equally true of Cornell and Pennsylvania.
Year after year Cornell has shown up
better In the early season than the
Quakers. only to go down to Franklin
Field to be badly beaten. The primary
object of the Cornell coaches all last sea-
son was TO beat Pennsylvania. In spite
of this fact, the IthacanF undoubtedly
reached their top form ten days before
they met the Quakers, when they played
the Army at West Point. The difference
between the Cornell teams that Played at
West Point and Philadelphia was remark
able. 1t did not seem possible that the
aggressive eleven which played against
West Point could be the same as the list
less eleven men who met the Quakers and
were laid out after almost every play.
Both colleges have for a long time been
searching for an answer for the fact that
almost every year they have been beaten
at the end OF the season by a team which
on the early season showing has not
seemed superior. At the time when Prince
ton got her fair share of games from
Yale. Cornell had not yet come to the
point where she was a football enemy to
be feared. Since Cornell reached the point
where she has been more than a practise
game for the Tigers, Princeton has been
a pretty consistent loser to the Ellis. Now,
both colleges believe that they have found
a solution TO the facts that have been
puzzling them, and the mex years sched-
ule will probably show whether or not the
solution Is a true one.