The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-20
HOW BIG TEAMS SHAPE So FAR |Spsculaiisn . t. lapsrIanl
 ca1nss Played. LITTLE FEAR FOR THE BLUE Yak Slowed Ssne Torn . Satm- l days Gane wih West Psat. Showing of Priaestsn ana Cornen Not zneeurssias te Either studs.ts or
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LITTLE FEAR FOR THE BLUE

that emanates every football season from New Haven did not fall to ma
 teriaiixe this year. So regular and
 stereotyped have been these rumors in the past and 70 empty of all true meaning on the days when Princeton and Harverd were encountered that
 Wo fsss sssn of dsys Misn
 and those who follow football place
 but little credence in them. The fnau- guration of Yale's current pigskin sea son was not marred by the absence of these stories. however, and so Yale graduates and the general public. who
 were not tn on the general schcme of view the 7sie- We West Point game ss of last soldiers repeat their fsats of former wears and send the Blue eleven back 70 New Haven at the short end of the
 But if ever fears were groundless. If ever there was no reason to worry
 of an eleven. these erstwhife believers in calamity howls must now me satis- fled. For Yale saw the Army. met the Army. and conquered the Army with
 douet u Not tSas ths aa Arms a dia % not se play cracking yocd football. particularly in view of the very short timesfor prac,
 siss at sss ai'posai Sf sns cadets sns ns
 candidates; It Is simply the case that development than she has been at
 Corresponding time for many seasons. And, too. Yale has q regular eleven and | a squad of substitutes of extraordi- narily high calibre. Also: and this is
 men have evidently been grounded. drilled and thoroughly hammered Into | homogeneity and team work by aE brilliant coaching as team ever got | TaQf SafnrdQV'u mtiSt have ln- pressed some things very deeply on Harvard and Princeton minds. In the
 past the elevens @ of these two ,~,n nniver; yer l season with clean scores. and lots Of confidence, only to fall victims to the bulldog in a second half that was so
 dissimilar to- the first as to make one
 believe 1t was not part of the same game.
 If Yale or the Army has anything
 up It's respective sleeve neither show. football except for quarterback runs from kick Formation. The Army. or
 the two. played a more modern game, freauentiy if unsuccessfuily tried by them. Yaie's two attempts at the for
 ward pass were both successfui m
 their ultimate object-touchdowns heave from Coy to Vaughan. was as pretty a play as has been seen for
 many day. This one fact alone to use the forward pass to the full this season. and woe to the team to meet the Blue eleven that has not pres
 pared strong sps to teis pss has no other college thus far this season. Harvard has not as yet advances her games with Wiliiams and Maine are a criterion Power and ability there certainly are in the husky wear ed to sh6w either so far. whether, by advice of coaches or because or inabh- ity it is dificult to say.
 There is something so totally wrong in Princeton. so much at variance with preconcefved ideas of what Prince ton eleven should be. capable of: that it seems certain that Aiumi of the 1uiescent on November 14, the day af- ter the Yale game. as they are now. It was all we'll enough for Princeton to plod along under q new system last ence. But when villanova and Ford ham, neither of them In even the sec ond class as compared to Princeton's
 roai-fronn- the Held victories down the Tigers throat, 1t is not by any means satisfied with her game against Will jams. For. apparently there is no pow- Orange and Black eleven of 1909.
 Were there any fraternitiss at Princeton, those o0Boaed to these se- ss sSciasss cf tssss msns at the of Princeton football weakness. Ger tainly no weaker team has ever prac- ticed in the New Jersey town Tor iour weeks with so Iamentsb1e results The backs go into the line alone, helped bv no one but themselves. nor do they take their openings with either pre- charge so slowly that often the holes are not there and. were 1t not Tor the good right toe of cunningham Princeton would not have a man or real scoring abf1ity on her team
 That is the situation as 1t ie. Prince ton has, to a very considerable extent.
 he habit Of unpleasRntly upsetinR noashe aoa nossiSly siy'e she is pIaying .nossum now. Maybe that is why the forward pass and the onside kick have no inti- macy with Osborne Field. But worst of all Is the fact that players are op- enly critfcising coaches. and coaches answering hack In helUless sort or way permitting ineubnrdipation at the eleven s, that aghts its coaches is fore doonned to defeat:
 western and ana !st Southern if fOStssl %as Iast st strnight. old5fashioned football. rough york, and big. slow men. Sewanee. rated as among the hest vest or tne snnaiaelains ;ebiea1 ss niss' IS hayImc l her hands full with teams that used to go down to defeat by q hundred points a sexv years ago. and which have now adooted at least a semhlance of onen nIay and forward passes Minnesota ana Nebrasia indulge in slureinr ,natcbes and call it fontbali. while vVtsconsin is too busy with her base sail team in Japan to do much on the
 Cartainiy the season of 1909. or as nr,1ch of if as we have seen. has nro- dnced nethInE partieularlv hrilliant s~cel,t in the way of failures. Only Vale and Harvard seem to have reach ed anything like the stages which this advanced date would seem tn demand