Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-11
CRIMS0N'S AWFUL BEATING is
ELPS INDIAN SIGN
CARLISLE SCORE OF % TO is
COOKS CAMBRIDGE GOOSE
Bulldog and Tiger to Meet Next SAT-
urday at New Haven In Great
est Game Of the
Season

cisive month. not only In big contests
but in relation to the future of the game
itself.
Up to date, new football, as 1t has been
played in the early games of the season,
has not found marked favor with the
rank and file of the football men OF the
community. A tendency to loose playing,
fumbling and lack of continuity OF at
tack has been blamed on the new play
Ing rules. The game, according to many,
has lost opportunities for fine strategy
and in some respects, in its changed ma
ture, has begun to require less of the
attributes which made 1t pre-eminent as
a college sport, namely, the fine COM
bination of brain and Drawn.
The season has, however proved even
more experimental than last year. The
new game, no longer tried merely as
minor adjunct to the old football, has
run rampant all over the country The
forward pass, which has apparently
eclipsed all other changes in the rule
book, has been worked so hard that many
football physicians would have no scru-
pies in condemning it to an early death.
In a great many instances the neglect
of the first principles of the so-called
old game has been as striking feature
of the season as was the refusal OF GER
tain teams last year to see anything
good in the revised rules.
That the game has gained in popular
ity is certain, but whether or not this
may be attributed to new football or
to other causes does not yet appear. 1t
is safe to say, however, that there is
less enjoyment watching the new game
poorly played than there was in viewing
The old game when it had been perfected.
IN only few isolated cases has new
football been played well, hence the
crowds have not been impressed with the
innovations.
Changing Style of Play
That there will be a marked change in
the character of the football in the big
games seems certain. Already Yale and
Harvard have begun to perfect an old
fashioned attack, around which the new
football is to be used merely as a means
of gaining ground when necessity makes
it's use imperative, or when the defense
has been made again so compact that
the new game is likely to prove sue
cessful. In former years, football has
been judged by the greater contests OF
the season and this year there is no rea-
son to jump at conclusions which,
however strong they may seem. are not
based on a whole seasons progress.
Bulldog and Tiger
OF the big teams which are to meet
EOOU.
10 a final test of strength, meeting Sat-
urday at New Haven. Princeton, al
though defeated by Cornell, has shown
fine speed and there is little doubt that
her team is great in many ways yale
has also given great promise. The
changes which have marked the last
week in the lineup of her team have been
made with an eye to the development
of speed in her back fed and cores
ponding speed in the line.
With a very consistent improvement
snd changes mad apparently for the
best possible good of the eleven, Yale is
the most formidable team on the grid
iron today. Her to scores with West
Point even, should be taken as sign
of strength, rather than OF weakness
and an Indication of early season de-
yelopment that was not forced but which
was in a stage of process, rather than
at the height of it's power. Had Yale
run up a great score. it might have been
highly gratifying to some who looked
no further than the army game, but as
it was those who saw Princeton and
Harvard ahead, saw material which was
capable of much better football and
which had not been driven to death.
Crimson Gone to Pieces
Harvard, in the navy game, played the
best football that she has shown this
year. Since that game, whether by in
tention of the coaches or through the
listlessness of the men themselves, the
team has shown but very infrequent
flashes of anything like football prowess.
Some of the practice scrimmages on
soldiers field last week were entirely
devoid of anything that promised well for
I4arvards prospects against Yale. Fum-
bling and careless following OF the pail
two faults on which many game mas
-, sv,lt ttytd dYro1 Tn1o ~
ers have been SO prevalent that even
stanch Harvard men have shaken their
heads and wondered what the end of the
season would bring forth.
The slump which came after the navy
game was a real one. There could be no
doubt of that Its only hopeful feature
was that it had come in time to allow a
return to form before the game with
Yale.
Harvard's Defeat Certain
Harvards awful thrashing at the
hands of Carlisle is taken as forewarn-
ing of the terrible beating which Ell is
almost certain to administer. The mod
ern game of football has caused some
great surprises in the Big Five. From
present indications the end of the season
viii show the first to be last and the
last to be first with vengeance. Cor
nell has beaten Princeton to and the
Ithicans have opened the optics of many
old wise ones by battering the Army
IA to 10.
Princeton turned around and tore Car
isle to pieces and then the redskins dis
graced the Crimson by % to 10.
It looks as though Dartmouth, hav-
ing maued Holy Cross by 81 to 0, will
also beat Harvard.
Never in the history of Cambridge has
her proud eleven suffered such ignominy
on the gridiron as it has sustained and
is likely to further sustain this season.
one thing is certain, nothing short of
a miracle of miracles can make Harvard
hold Yale down to an anywhere decent
score.
Penn Improving
Early developments. starting with hard
practice too soon in the season, did for
PENNSYLVANIA just what 1t would do to
almost any team however strong its
nersonnel The men, driven beyond their
strength and playing against the orders
of the trainer, suffered not only a mus
cular and physical slump. but mental
change, which made it easy for Car
lisle to sweep them off their feet. The
men had apparently fought back so hard
in the drive of the practice scrimmage
4l,o+ tbav had lost all their fight for the