Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-14
STANDING OF BIG
ELEvENS CHANGED
SINCE LAST WEEK
Results of Contests Held Last
Saturday Have Put a Differ
ent Complexion on the Foot
Ball Situation.
YALE'S VICTORY CAUSES
BLUES STOCK TO SOAR
Ellis Remarkable Improvement
Encourages Followers.
Harvard Confident.

Forty-eight hours have wrought a big
change In the foot ball situation. Satur-
day morning. and In fact vp, until their
eames many followers OF foot ball ex-
pected to see Princeton defeat Yale But
the Ellis. a rejuvenated team since the
overwhelming defeat by Brown. put up
such . fight and won such clever VIC
tory over the Tigers that the Blue, now is
considered more evenly matched with
Harvard for the game next Saturday.
But at the same time .Harvard's VIC
tory over Dartmouth and the latent pow
er shown by the speedy Crimson eleven
have boosted Harvard stock in certain
quarters. 1t il true that Harvard scored
II lucky points against Dartmouth
and secured only 8 by straightaway tao
tics. That one touchdown, however, for
which Harvard carried the ball 80 yards
down the field by straight line plunges,
10 enough to show the power of the Grim
son at oid-fashioned foot ball.
One Of the peculiar features Of the
city Of the new style of play. All told
only four forward passes and onside
kicks were tried by the two teams OF
these only one was successful, and even
that failed to net Harvard much Of a
gain. Line plunging and end running
Yale-Princeton Game Different.
1t was a different story at the Yale
Princeton game. In that contest the
lone Ell touchdown was made on a for
ward pass. Even then the game at
Princeton was by no means brilliantly
studded with new plays. Yale, however.
seems to have mastered the old game
and at the same time to have been well
taught at the new game. The combina-
ton ultimately resulted in the downfall
of the Tigers.
kicking played an important part in
both the Yale-Princeton and Harvard
Dartmouth games. Pendleton made
Princeton's three points on n goal from
field. while Lewis and Wigglesworth each
made a field goal for Harvard. So it
looks as II kicking might play its part in
the coming battle at New Haven.
When all is said and done and the
foot ball history of 1910 is written down
unusual consideration must be given Yale.
The thrashing Brown administered to the
Blue the week before the Princeton game
seemed to indicate that the Bulldog was
not up to his usual standard. Then it was
that Yale pluck and that Intangible
''never-say Idle" spirit asserted itself.
Ellis ''Buckle Down."
With the gloom of an overwhelming
defeat by a small college hanging over
them, and the adverse criticism of foot
ball followers. the Yale players buckled
down to wor.. for the Princeton game.
Extra coaches answered the call to help
whip the Blue eleven in shape. and before
leaving for Princeton rumors were afioat
that Yale had improved to such an eX-
tent as to prove dangerous rival to the
Orange and Black.
And so 1t turned out. Pitted against
Princeton. an ancient rival Yale played
a different game from that with Brown
spirit. a dash and snap that was able
| to sweep the Tigers of their feet. On
ofFense and defense Yale had improved
so that those who saw the team play
Brown the week before hardly recognized
the eleven matched against Princeton
Saturday.
Harvard made a much better showing
against Dartmouth than Princeton
| Aside from the larger score the Crimson
| outplayed the Green throughout the last
half of the game, and 1t was only the
Dartmouth stand in the last ditch thai
| twice prevented further scoring by Har'
| ward.
Pennsylvania received it's first setback
| Of the year since the defeat by Crsinus
| when the University Of Michigan held thu
| Quakers to a nO-score tie. This, along
| with the wonderful brace shown by Yal
| and Harvard's continued success. ha
! added considerable zest to the final stages
/ Of the foot bali season.
| The following table shows what the
| teams have done up 20 date:
| -Games-- Points