The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-25
FOOTBALL
Especial from United Press)

Z NGW sf Ork, OCC.t 25.-ln two OI IHe "Rfg Four football camps this week strenuous programs have been laid out that are intended either to make or break two of the varsity teams. The camps are Princeton and Pennsyl- vania- Princeton's defeat by Lafayette Saturday and Pennsylvania's tie game with Pennsylvania State to 3. have convinced the coacherS that these teams must be driven as never before for the remaining half of the season.
 Strange as it may seem. to-day's re- ports from Princeton are that the coachers are fairly we'll satisfied with every feature of Saturdays game ex- cept the score.
 The Tiger team showed a vast i'm provement in this game and only lost through an unfortunate play in the last minute of play. The great need of Princeton. it was clearly shown. is more ginger and stamina All the big gains made by Princeton were nullifed by the simple fact that when the team reached the crucial point in every march it made for Lafayette's goal, 1t weakened. This was due both to lack of speed and stamina.
 In the matter of anew footbaH' Princeton demonstrated that she has so far failed to pay much attention to it. The least bit of versatility should have won for the Tigers for Lafayette was hopeless against Princeton's strong defense ,s1
 Pennsylvania found the state team
 
 an off day. she is actually congratu- lating herself that the game resulted in a tie rather than a. defeat.
 Yale and Harvard again proved that they are far in advance of all other teams that is so marked that it seems unlikely that any of the other teams will be able to catch up. Yale is de- veloping the speediest and most varied offense ever seen at New Haven while the line is meeting every requirement. on the defense. By holding Brown three times when a score seemed inn minent Harvard saved the day
 however that it will never do to let Yale come as near the Harvard goal as Brown did as Coy will surely turn such an advantage into touchdown. ! with the possible exception of West, will be back this week and the work of putting on the finishing touches will be undertaken.
 None of the big teams has a hard game this week although, the army may be expected to give Harvard a good fight. This should give the coaches chance to stick<to whatever theories they may be working on with out the chance of reverse.
 : The continued poor showing of the navy team is resulting in less manifest interest in its game withethe army.
 There are not g. few football enthu- fsiasts who will be inclined to view the tYale-Colgate and the Princeton-Lafay- cite Cor, as it must now be written, most important, impressive, and spec tacular of last Saturdays events. If they do this, they will be making slight mistake Yale's showing against the Hamilton eleven was truly re markable in many ways; the result of the game at Princeton was not all together unexpected, albeit it was thought that if Lafayette turned the trick for which she had been waiting these many seasons 1t would be diff ferently accomplished. but that liar ward, even with the doleful walls that 1 have emanated from the stadium many times discounted, should have scored two touchdowns against the very strong Brown team and prevented that same organization from scoring, augurs we'll for a truly Titanic struggle l on the same field, on Nov. 20, when ] Crimson and Blue meet in the really | great game of the year. l. Pennsylvania, is this year no weak ling. She is playing g. fast steady, and ! open game, replete with brilliancy and strength. Yet she could not score with either straight, old-fashioned football or the so-called new game up- on Brown until two of the Providence teams kicks were blocked in the shadow of it's own goal-line. Comes Harvard and, in the first true test of her 'varsity's strength this season de- feats Brown by a, score. that could have been made larger probably. Any team that, mostly on straight foot bah, can score eleven points against this years Brown eleven, deserves watching. NE
 Nor was Harvard's defense suffering from the collapse with which it, has been credited so far As Harvard lined up against Brown so very near ly will she line up against Yale. To stop Brown three times within the ten-yard line. where the ball was put in play on first down means defense l of the highest order. Yale's attack 1 will of course be more varied, savage, and determined than was BrownsS at this point-but so will the Harvard de- fense. Jss~ 3sa.e
 The Yale oftense got going in great shape in the Colgate game Gov showed up in a new capacity and one wonders of what more this versatile youth is capable. He dropped goals from the field from the forty-twa and the thfrty-yard lines, which should l have made Harvard men present s4tl up and take notice. Not since BuAss time, excepting Sharpe, has ale-shad really frst-class drop kicker. Grant ed the fact that the Yale attack is aa- l ways all 1t should be in ingenuitN strength, and trickery at the time \ when this strength must be displayed to the full, Ghat is, against Princeton and Harvard0 it seems almost cEpel for Yale now to embark in new and hitherto untrodden fields the more to ] harass her football foes. .-s.rse
 Just let the average football game attendant ponder the shrewd Yale of l fense.. and then let him consider what the full import is of having added to it a really reliable field goal maker. f.4
 Princeton's team this year has,, by ], coaches and public alike, frequently been called versatile If the Orange and Black showing of last Saturday demonstrated any of this quality it is Of the kind in which Yale is going. to- delight and revel. aats
 But Princeton's apparently stern and zealous adherence to the sameg old methods that >haye cost her many an otherwise we'll earned game-the start ing of the scoring attack too far down