The Washington herald., 1907-11-11
Blue Eleven Has Endurance,
According to Camp.
CRUCIAL PERIOD At HAND
some Highly Interesting InnOVu-
lions Can BE Expected when the
big Teams Clash, According TO
Leading Football ExPeFts-HnrVard
and Yale tn Do Much work.
BY WALTER CAMP.


New Haven, Conn, Nov. lO-It was
Simply a question OF greater power in
the attack that enabled Yale 10 win so
dccisivcIy over Brown When the PrOv!-
dence men were fresh and eager, as they
We're during the first period. Yale's Of
fense was well met and 1t seemed to
lack penetrating force.
But That. as proved later, was due
more 10 Browns extreme aggressveness
on the defense and the amount Of power
that they crowded into II 70 meet the
plays. But the effort they We're con.
tnJauy making thus took far more out
OF them than the stopping OF their end
runs and sidelong lances through the
line did out Of Yale.
Gradually one felt the exhaustion of
energy and vitality that was telling its
story on Browns defense, and Il was
not long into the second half before Yale
began her traditional marches down the
field.
Al the same time those two brilliant
broken field runners. Jones and Coy. es-
peclauy the former. began 70 get under
headway and TO show their quality. II
began to prove more dangerous for Brown
20 kick than 20 surrender the ball and
between the effort of trying 10 pierce
Yale's line. respond when Yale had the
ball 10 the attack that the Blue was
hurting throug the center ana on the
wings, and then 10 have added to their
troubles the long run Of Jones. who.
hither and thither. in a zig-zag course
down the field completed the discom-
torture OF the visitors. During the first
half Brown put up an excellent game,
not only on the defense but on the at
/ tack.
Inside TaIe's End.
II was not once but several times that
their fast backs would all but circle
Yale's ends. and finding the wide sweep
at last stopped up would turn and get
from ten TO twelve yards through on
the inside
Browns interference for these end runs
WAS also excellent. The Brown quarter
never lost heart but kept his men up TO
the mark and used his plays with good
judgment His line was thoroughly TO be
relied upon during the entire first half
and until Jones brilliant dash added an.
other score and took a lot of heart out
OF them they responded every time.
More than that they made good holes
through the middle whea he signaled for
center plays. although il took pounds Of
energy 20 put aside men like GoebeI and
Cooney as It did very often Coy's kicks
disturbed the Brown back field. and it
was not until he was sure that they had
been pretty well tired out that he gave
them any chances to run the kicks back
Instead. during the first half. he landed
I them out of bounds, relying on his line
/ to hold ground in the sCrimmage And
when Yale's attacking machine got well
limbered up the task imposed upon the
Brown line was too much for them
Murphy did some exceedingly pretty
running and Brides. considering the
length of time he has played his position
| al half, covered his Aound exceIIently.
Capt Biglow broke through well. and the
Yale ends were safe and sure on defense,
although they did not cover Berger's
kicks rs well as they did the higher ones
Of Coy
| Yale's double pass behind the line was
lamentably weak and cost them some
distance whenever IL was tried with a
pretty good chance 10 a loss of the ball.
Browns forward pass was not accurate
enough TO be effective and II is evident
that the defense 10 these passes is i'm
proving more rapidly than the execution
/ OF the passes themselves.
The question now is whether Yale will
be lulled into tranquility or will smooth
out some OF the ragged features. real
/ izing that the game next Saturday with
Princeton is an entirely different propo-
sitiOn.
Almost every team Of the lot has ex-
hibited this tendency at one time or
other during the season after having
started on the road by winning with
comparative ease a game that they had
| expected to find difficult
Important Games Coming.
The season is now entering upon its
last lap. and the polishing off of teams
for the final contests is beginning. wor-
riment begins to draw lines in the faces
of the coaches as they realize more and
more the weaknesses of their own teams
and the strength Of the opposing elevens,
for it is a well-known fact that a coach
generally knows too much about his own
team on the defense and so little about
his opponents ability to shift the attack
that he imagines the attack viii always
come at the spot Of his greatest weak
ness. II is perhaps because Of this that