The Washington herald., 1907-11-04
Tigers Deserved to Win from
Carlisle Indians.
WALTER CAMP GIVES REASONS
Famous Football Expert Says Red
Men Wasted Time and Strength
10 End RunninE-PrincetOn Gains
Consistently by Use OF short Kicks.
by WALTER CAMP.

New York, Nov. 5.-Princeton evidently
learned her lesson of the Cornell game
well, and, rs precicted, proved TOO strong
for the Indians. who. however, put up q
game fight. even though the weather con-
diti0ns proved distinctly adverse 10 their
style Of play.
Princeton went in with determination
and dash, and although outpointed in the
earlier part Of the contest. never lost
heart, but kept coming back strong and
eager
Dillon gave the Tigers much needed re-
lief during the first half before their score
by his plucky running back Of kicks,
which Went far TO neutraliZe the distance
that the Indians were gaining on inter
changes with the wind Had the first
long forward pass Of the Indians been
secured by their own man, the tale of
the game might have been different. but
the failure seemed to discourage Carlisle
from further experimentation. and 10
force them into too much Of "a line plung-
ing game.
Why they should have wasted so many
downs in hammering into the manifestly
invulnerable and impregnable middle OF
the Princeton line was mystery 10 their
friends along the side lines. Whenever
they tried 10 pierce the center of Prince
tons line they We're smothered almost
completely, and not only wasted downs
but strength as well. A different story
was told a little later when they went
out for wide end runs. for these repeated
ly made long gains around Prlnceton's $
TANKS. II was manifest that the weather
conditions quite materially affected Mount
Peasants judgment, and he was obliged
TO fan back upon too simple plays. or
upon passes which made little variety in
the play. But even then. the gains that
his brave men gave him around the op-
posing ends were encouraging.
Tigers Best Play.
Princeton first began TO break down
Carlisle.s defense with low punt brought
off by a back who was partially on the
run when he punted and who kicked a
low bail but delayed the kick slightly by
the half start for a run so that his ends
were enabled 10 get down almost with
the ball. The Indians could hardly reach
the kick on the fly and were made dis
uncuy nervous by the close proximity Of
the Princeton line men when the bau
was allowed 70 bound. one costly blunder
on kick Of this kind put Carlisle on
the defense and paved the way for the
first touchdown.
But even then the Indians braced up
when the ball approached their goal line
and succeeded in staving of the attack
and taking the ball down by inches. on
kicking out however, instead OF their
ends covering the kick, they were SO
blocked by Princeton's ends that their
enemies We're enabled 10 run the bah back
at once into advantageous position for
another attack. which this time did not
fail OF its accomplishment.
After that touchdown IL was n repeti-
ton of the same tactics-the Indians
strong on runs around the ends. Prince
ton eQualiZing this with diagonal breaks
through the line. Mccormick taking and
another back carrying the ball But
these two attacks would have been about
a standof had il not been for those low
punts which Princeton was using. and
which her ends covered so exceedingly
well. It was that and the clever block
ing by PrincetOn's end. enabling Dillon
10 run back nearly every one of the In
dian kicks that really won the game for
Princeton