Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-16

dams want to trim Brown in order TO re-
gain some vanished prestige. That is one
motive in common which the rivals Will
have when they bump into each other at
the Polo Grounds next Saturday.
The Daily Princetonian SAYS that IL a
man was superstitious he might look with
gloom on the way the figure 13 mixed it
self up with the Tiger team this year.
Capt. Siegling was born on the 18th of
the month. the squad reported on Septem-
Der IL. and the season ended November
IL. Moreover the team was beaten Oc-
tober % by Lafayette.
Capt. Reed of the Vermont team con-
graduated Capt. Regnier OF Brown last
Saturday. and told the latter that Brown
was the best team the Vermonters had
should make food for reflection for Dart
mouth folks. Vermont played Dartmouth
early i'm the season. holding the Hanover
ianS to a to score. but of course Capt.
Reed might have had reason to revise his
opinion had his team met Dartmouth
late in the year.
There was all sorts of discussion at
New Haven as TO whether a touchback or
a safety had been made following the
first blocked kick. yet there couldn't have
been a play in which il would have been
easier to tell which was which. There
wasn't any doubt whatever which side the
impetus came from. and there would have
been about as much sense in arguing that
a touchback had been made as in calling
ii a goal from the field. Nine out of ten
safeties result from blocked kicks under
precisely the same circumstances as
Princeton made this safety.
Either foot ball men are better students
or faculties are growing more lenient, be-
cause there has not been anything like
the usual crop of men ineligible on ac-
count of deficiencies in college work this
year. This is a source of worry that has
been growing less each year since the
freshmen rule was passed. anyhow. and
that measure probably accounts for it. A
man has time to get into the swing of his
studies now before he can play varsity
foot ball, and when once he has started
right he is less likely to drop behind.
II. l.. Dowd. 90. a pretty good end al
Princeton when he was playing. and coach
of the freshman team that beat Harvard
and tied Yale this year. is talked abOu: as
a possible successor to Jim Mccormick as
head coach at Princeton. II is not at all
certain that Mccormick will not be in
charge again, but II he isn't, seems
possible. Dowd is likely to be the choice
His freshman team has been an excellent
one. but II is strange that ii should have
been able TO get no more than tie with
the Yale youngsters after beating Har-
ward, for the Crimson cubs heat the first
year men from New Haven handily.
Accounts of the Cornell-ChicagO game
told of one play which had readers guess
ing. 1t was the play in which Cornell was
said TO have lost the ball on downs be-
cause there wasn't sufficient part of the
pigskin over the Chicago goal line. As
there Is a rule which says that "a touch
down is made when the ball lawfully in
possession OF a player is declared dead by
the referee, any part of it being on, above
or behind the opponents goal line" IL
was evident that either the referee or the
historians were wrong. Here is wha,
really happened. as narrated by walter
Eckersall:
Referee Hackett. realizing the impor-
lance of the play. ferreted into the tan
gled bunch and got his hands on the bal
as Simson was trying to shove it over the
goal line. As the players untangled the
crowd awaited the verdict with breath
less expectancy. The players rose from
the heap one by one. and when the last
one got up the ball rested within six
inches of the goal line and the day was
saved for Chicago"