Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-18
HOW THE BIG TEAMS
SHAPE UP So FAR
Speculation on the important
Foot Ball Games That Have
Been Played.

The usual food of hard luck stories
that emanates every foot ball season from
New Haven did not fail to materiallze
this year. So regular and stereotyped
have been these rumors in the past and
So empty of all true meaning on the days
when Princeton and Harvard were en-
countered that they have long since been
classed with the "Wolf, wolf" fable OF
nursery days and those who follow foot
ball place but little credence in them.
The Inauguration of Yale's current pig
skin season was not marred by the alb
sence of these stories, however, and so
Yale graduates and the general public.
who were not in on the general scheme
of things Yalensian, were inclined to view
the Yale West Point game Of last Satur-
day with some alarm, lest the soldiers
repeat their feats Of former years and
send the Blue eleven back to New Haven
at the short end of the score.
But if ever fears were groundless, II
ever there was no reason to worry early
in the season about the future of an
eleven these erstwhile believers In ca
lamity bowls must now be satisfied. For
Yale saw the Army. met the Army and
conquered the Army with such ridiculous
ease as to still all doubt. Not that the
Army did not play cracking good 1901
ball, particularly in view OF the very
the cadets and the numerical insufhciency
of the corps to supply a goodly number
of candidates. 1t is simply the case that
this year Yale is farther along In her
development than she has been at a cor
responding time for many seasons. And,
too. Yale has a regular eleven and a
squad of substitutes of extraordinarily
high. caliber. Also. and this is almost
the most important Of all, these men have
evidently been grounded, drilled ana thof-
team work by as brilliant coaching as
team ever got.
Not the Same This Year.
LAST Saturdays game must have I'M
pressed some things very deeply on Har-
ward and Princeton minds. In the past
the elevens of these two universities have
come through a fairly hard season with
clean scores. and lots Of confidence. only
to fall victims to the bulldog in second
half that was so dissimilar to the first as
to make one believe II was not part VI
the same game.
If vale or the Army has anything up
its respective sleeve neither showed 1t,
Both chung tenaciously to oid root Dali
except for quarterback runs from KICK
formation. The Army, of the two, play
ed a more modern game, In that the Tor
ward pass was more frequently II unsuc-
cessfully tried by II. ale TWO at
;empts at the forward pass were both
successful in their ultimate object-touch-
downs And the former of these, 40
ward hesye from Coy TO Vaughan, was
as pretty a play as has been seen Tor
many a day This one fact alone would
indicate that Yale is prepared TO use the
forward pass to the full this season. and
woe to the team to meet the Blue eleven
that has not prepared a strong defense TO
this powerful play. Taken by and large
Yale has undoubtedly struck gait equal
ed by no other college thus far this sea-
son.
Harvard has not as yet advanced mucn
beyond preparatory stages, if her games
with Williams and Maine are a CRITERION
Power and bility there certainly are IN the
husky Wearers OF the Crimson, but they
have failed 10 show either so far. whether
by advice of coaches or because OF IN
ability it is difficult to say.
There is something so totally wrong IN
Princeton, so much at variance with pre-
conceived Ideas of what Princeton elev-
en- should be capable of. that it seems
certain that alumni of the Orange and
Black will not be as auiescent November
IA, the day after the Yale game, as they
are now 1t was all well enough for
Princeton to plod along under new sys-
tenn last year and give up a defeat for
experience. But when NillanoVa ana