The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-11
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Work AgaiBSt Brown Shows
Yale at Her Best liar
yard Weak.

Saturdays games added more turns and
twists to the football labyrinth. writes
Foster Rockwell. the former Yale quar-
Ing the relative power and ability of the
various college elevens was never more
pronounced.
The variable showings. the on and off
days, traeeable to the wider use of new
football has plunged all logical calculations
or results deeper into uncertainty. The
football world is becoming accustomed to
upheavals and complete reversals of form.
The Indians rout OF Harvard is accepted
not as a shocking surprise, but more as a
probability that hovers and will hover over
all big college teams as long as these
rules exist.
1t was declared that Harvard's chances
over the Indians depended on the Grim
sons ability to spoil the redskins long
forward passes. The Harvard representa-
lives on the Polo Grounds saw the effectual
way that the Tigers checkmated these
pass plays. There they also saw the In
dian formations and must have noticed
the preliminary movements Of the Indians,
which introduced each forward pass. The
Tiger backs and ends diagnosed these
plays, but the Harvard backs were hope
less. They not only were completely taken
by surprise, but they seldom tried TO
block the encouraging Indians, and, with
one exception, permitted their swarthy
opponents to help themselves to all these
passes.
Is the Harvard coaching system at fault
for not providing a suitable defense for
the plays they knew were the Indians
long suit, or were the Harvard backs dun
founded by the boldness and daring of
Mount Peasants tactics? Aside from this
pitiful lack of football brains. Harvard
played just as good a game as Princeton
did. The score gives evidence of an Of
Tense equal to that If the Tigers. and II
1t Is true that the wet field at the Pole
Grounds initiated against the Indians de-
Tense. as it undoubtedly did against their
attack, then the Harvard showing Of Il
points is better than Princeton's 16.
Without d~etractlnR q bit from the peer
less playing of the valiant band of red
skins, I'M all justice to Harvard 1t Is trui
the Indians were materially helped in
few cases where uck figured more thar
ability. And, too, Harvard at times
showed signs of a sweeping offense thai
tore through the Indian line in a way
that presages trouble for future opponents,
Harvard now has learned the lesson that
Princeton had eloquently forced upon
them at ithaca.
There Ia time in the remaining two
weeks for Harvard to pad up her weak
spots Just as Princeton did. Yale should
learn from observation and not lay herself
liable TO weaknesses of this nature.
The Yale offense against Brown shows
the Ell team has power and drive in her
attack that suggests no contentment for
either Princeton or Harvard. How much
new football the Yale team knows will be
seen next Saturday. The Blue last Satur-
day merely showed old-fashioned tactics.
The Prineeton-Yale game should be the
big game of the year.
Yale is beginning to strike her gait and
Princeton evidently has arrived. The game
should be won by superior generalship.
Cornell by her defeat of West Point
demonstrated one again the football
strength of the upstate collegians.
Should Cornell defeat Pennsylvania, the
Ithaeans will have a good claim for the
seasons laurels.
The Navy met a Waterloo in Swarth-
more, which completely upset the forward
march of the Sailor lads.
Pennsylvania, because of her overwhelm-
ing triumph over Pennsylvania State,
promises TO go 70 Ann Arbor next Satur-
day and uphold the hon of Eastern foot
ball, when the Red and Blue Quaker team
lines up against Yost's Michigan charges.