Evening journal., 1910-11-10
1910 FOOTBALL
IS REVIEWED
Harvard and Penn Show Up
as Strongest Of Eastern
Teams

class of the East in football oR>what
has been done so far this season. Un-
fortunately they don't meet, and thus,
what would probably be the best game
of the year won't be played. Some
body may come along and spill one
of those two, the somebody in Har-
wards case being Dartmouth, and In
Pennsylvania, Michigan; but it
doesn't look so, and still less does il
look as If the remaining opponents,
Yale for Harvard and Cornell for
Pennsylvania, were going to make
much trouble. Princeton cannot be
overlooked as a team with claims to
top place in the ranking. but P.ince-
ton has not done as well as Pennsyl-
vania against common opponents, and
that's all there is to go by just now.
Had Yale played a tie with Brown
or been beaten by a couple Of field
goals her outlook for next Saturday
would not have been so bad, for
Princeton's seventeen points against
Holy Cross. as compared to Yale's
twelve a month earlier. are not bit
alarming. But Yale, weak and shalSy
I'm most Of her games. gave no indi-
cation against Brown of a change for
the better.
Only Fighting Chance.
The structural weakness seems too
lasting for the Blue to have more
than slim chance with Princeton,
whereas II would be nothing short Of
an upheaval If she can give Harvard
battle. incidentally neither Prince
ton nor Harvard takes much pleasure
out of this situation. They'd much
rather beat a Yale team OF the Yale
standard Everybody has Eli down IS
lambs for the slaughter, but the game
might as well be played.
A word about Brown and her ability
TO give such thrashing to Yale. Not
withstanding a drubbing by Pennsyl-
yania and tie game with Colgate,
this Brown eleven, when all the con-
ditions are right, as they were last
Saturday, is a powerful eleven, strong
e. than the general run of football
followers give il credit for being.
There was some bad handling of the
ball against Pennsylvania, and a lew
such miscues. when taken advantdee
OF by an alert opponent, can bring
about big score and counteract in
herent strength on the part Of the de-
feated but which inherent strength
is not yet solidifed.
Brown Showed Glass.
Last Saturday B~own was I'm better
shape TO make fun use of It's natural
ability than in any preceding game.
and turned IL on i'm full against the
groggy Blue. The Brown line, from
tackle to tackle. is as good as any
line I'm the East, and in Smith and
Bruins have a tackle who Is just
about all-American material The
ends are not as good as Harvard's, as
a pair, but good enough to make the
limo "A strong one all the way along
The Harvard-Brown game might just
as we'll have been tie, so closely
fought was IL, and no team has pushed
Harvard as Brown has done.
Brown, be it remembered, drove
through Harvard for over half the
length of tho field. upsetting the lat
ter with forward passes, just as she
did Yale. and, truth 90 behold having
a shade Of luck in turning the passes
to her own profit. At New Haven the
psychological moment part of IL was
much more In Browns favor than at
Cambridge. But as between Harvard 3
and Yale's defense for that play there
is no comparison. Although Brown
had the breaks of fortune against Yale
that We're lost at Harvard, the 1atter's
back field play and play generally de-
Tending against the forward pass was
characterized by infinitely more foot
ball sense and adjustment of the play
ers than characterized Yale's. The
statement that Harvard is a team of
rare football intuition will bear repe-
tition.
One critic says that Brown didn't
gain as much through the Yale line rs
through the Harvard line. Yale's line
from tackle to tackle last Saturday
wasn't so bad as might be imagined,
mechanically, at least. The ends aud
backs failed lamentably on forward
pass defence, the Yale team did not use
its wits as Brown did. and much crit
icismf is heard of the coaching that
had the back field drawn in so close
The belief is prevalent that there is
no harmony in the Yale coaching
ranks. One can only draw his own
conclusions as 10 that Certainly IL is
hard to believe that Yale can muster
the strongest array of coaching talent
in the land, and yet cannot do better
with the material. good, ordinary, OF
poor. as the case may be, than has
been done this fall unless there Is
friction among the coaches, and that
the plans this season are not ap-
proved by men who have had a bic
share In shaping so many champion
ship Yale games.