Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-06
Carlisle Team Has Advantage in
Everything But Punting.

Virginia was up against IT. just about
sums up the situation yesterday. Car
Isle has hundred per cent better team
than it presented here last year against
George Washington. While not as heavy
Ias the average Indian aggregation. the
eleven Is composed of fairly fast and
sturdily built men. The line is made UP
OF men who are tall and rangy, and in
the back field are men who are adopts at
handling and advancing the ball. Indi-
vidually the composites of the eleven are
not fast, but collectively they show lots
Of speed. The Indians held Princeton q
to o. and played a far better game against
Pennsylvania than the score would lead
one to believe.
The teamwork of the Indians was
superb. Every play pulled OF was by the
concentrated effort of several men and
not by that Of an Individual 1t Is hard
to see how a much stronger play could
by the Redskins. With four men in
the interference. the runner generally
made q substantial gain whenever 1t was
tried. 1t was the best ground gamer
shown by the aborigines.
Under the conditions. the performance
Of the Virginia team was exceptionally
good. Outweighed from the start. and on
a field on which its light backs could not
get started. it fought stubbornly to the
win there was never let-up in its play.
1t was the typical Virginia team. gritty
and determined to do its best even under
the most adverse conditions
Newashe was the individual star for
the Indians. The chunky fullback, SUBJ
shutting for Houser. did himself proud.
He gained at least two-thirds of the
oyv,41 hN, Dunn f,v
from kick or regular formation, he was
always good for distance While Bowen
out punted him, still the punts he got
OFF were of the variety that are hard to
that made Eddie Harlan famous at
Princeton.
The forward pass failed to net the In
dams much ground yesterday; rather the
contrary, 1t proved a pretty costly style
OF play. The first one tried was inter-
cepted by Virginia man and the sec
ond cost the touchdown that was scored
against them. The third, and last one
tried, struck q Virginia man full in the
breast. but he fumbled it and Carlisle
man recovered IT. Virginias efforts with
the same play were just as futile. Both
passes tried by that team were failures
Virginia's light line stood up exception
ally we'll against the heavy onslaught OF
the Carlisle backs. 1t was generally ex-
pected that the line would prove the
weak point IN it's defense, but the for
wards did much better than was expect
ed and several times held their own with
their more experienced opponents. Wood
and Towles did some mighty good work
all through the game.
There are very few teams that can
boast of q back field as fast as the one
presented by Virginia. Although very
light, II gave evidence that it is to be
very much feared in any game in which
1t Is. competing against others OF its
class. Todd showed himself to be a good
broken-feld runner. Several times he
shook OF almost the. entire Indian team
and made distances varying from 10 to
Is yards Once loose II is almost an i'm
possibility to catch Honaker, Todd or
Driver. Honaker showed the possibility
Of speedy backs yesterday when he in
tercepted q forward pass on his own
2O-yard line and ran for a touchdown
through about half Of the Indian team.
Two of them tried to catch him, but 1t
was useless.
Arcasa used excellent judgment I'm run.
ming his team. In every instance but
one he did the right thing. Once. with
q strong mass play. as he SHOULD, he tried
a play on the weak side Of the line, and
the man with the ball was thrown for
a loss. Besides running his team in good
style he made several long gains him-
self.
In ability to handle the ball quickly
and cleanly there u probably no team