The Washington times., 1909-11-08
Comparison of Recent Work,
Especially Against Brown,
the Reason.
PRINCETON SADLY
LACKING IN FORM
Team Must Improve Wonderfully
To Make Good Showing
Next Saturday.

NEW YORK, Nov S.-The only thing
the Eastern football wiseacres are fig
uring on today is the outcome OF the
Ysle-Harvard game at Cambridge on
November %. The chances seem to be
about 80 in 100 that this game viii settle
the championship.
The Yale-Princeton game next Satur-
day, while as big a card as ever from
a sentimental standpoint, is being
classed this year as merely a practice
game for Yale. Princeton is figured to
have but little more than a dead mans
chance TO win. and this very fact has
keyed the Princeton players and
coaches to the desperate emergency Of
arising from the sloth that has char
acterized the camp all season and vim
dicating the universities accredited po-
sition in the front rank
Princeton teams have come fast in the
past, none more noticeably so than last
years eleven, but this years bunch
viii have TO show zoo per cent improve
ment if it is even to hold Yale 70 a
reasonable score.
Brown Games Compared.
The Brown-Yale game of last Sat
uTday furnished the only satisfactory
basis Of the season for a comparison OF
the strength Of Yale and Harvard. and
the comparison is altogether in Yale's
favor, as she more than doubled Har-
wards score against Brown and never
let the Providence men come close TO
her goal, while Harvard on three oc-
casions had to defend her goal in the
last ditch.
Yale played such q finished game
against Brown as compared with Har-
wards ragged work against Cornell that
the "dOpesters'' are practically conCed-
ing the championship to the Blue. AS
the big game is still two weeks on, the
elimination Of Harvard seems altOgeth-
er premature. Yale's apparent super
tority is no more marked this year than
Il was last year, when Harvard tri-
umphed TO 0. It IS believed that Har-
ward has not yet shown her real
strength.
Is Harvard Holding Out?
Those who saw Harvard's work
against Cornell are wondering whether
O'Flaherty's misjudging Of punts. the
poor kicking shown throughout. the fall
ure of her forward passes and loose in
reference are TO play part in the
contemplated surprise.
Word from New Haven today says
that Logan, the end who was hurt Sat
urday viii be in shape for the Harvard
contest. The most satisfactory note
that comes from Cambridge is that such
good players as Mckay. West. GIL
browne, and Corbett have probably been
permanently supplanted BY the subs
who filed their places when they were
injured. If this is the case, IL indicates
that Harvard has finer material than
that Of last years championship eleven.
II Princeton could play two full halves
in the form she displayed at five-minute
stretches against Dartmouth, Yale
might well feel apprehenstVe. But
Princeton has shown all season that II
IS impossible for her to maintain either
her attack or defense.
Relying on Cunningham.
. Cunningham. the graduate Of the Cen
fral High School. Of washington, .. C,
is the most valuable asset Of the team.
as he is by far the best field goal pro-
ducer of the season. Unless Yale can
keep Princeton outside of the 35-yard
line, bunch Of ''3's" is likely 70 ac-
erue 20 the Tiger score. In Mccormick
Princeton has a kicker the equal OF
Coy, as far as distance. but "Mac" is
painfully slow, and simply hates to be
molested when he is preparing for a
punt Yale has wonderful set Of
uoIesters.
Lafayette's tie with Pennsylvania and
Eotre Danes defeat OF Michigan have
robbed the International game between
these two on next Saturday at Phila-
delphia Of much OF its interest. Penn
sylvania is not meeting the hopes OF
half, and with tie games with both
Pennsylvania State and Lafayette
against her, the Red and Blue viii
hardly be able TO claim the State cham
pionships 20 say nothing Of the Eastern
honor.