The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-23

condition which might result in i'm
prSVemsnt pro men up to certain point point;
IN the November part OF the campaign.
Yale, Princeton and Pennsylvania at
this writing have further 10 so to de-
yard Yale, Princeton and Pennsylvania
know they have to improve. with the
accent on the know. and this may prove
an advantage.
They are cruder now that Harvard,
with small scores made by them due
to slow but possibly sure progress. Yale
Is engaged In feeling out deal OF
green material The Blue appears TO to
terisl than the others Also in several
OF the games mes, and In part OF al, the The
without the services OF some OF their
best men. In several OF the games Cap
tain DAILY. Fitzpatrick. Howe. Brooks;
played or haven't started the game.
Howe is the best quarterback In the
east and his absence makes some diff
ference. It wouldn't be hard r, right now sSy
the final games; Of the whole Harvard
team with the possible exception Of left
end and center, Still Harvard has some
dition to Wigglesworth. There's Gardner,
for instance. He's about as deft ma
nipulator of the forward pass as has been
seen along the Atlantic seaboard this
season.
West Point Strong.
No team made more encouraging start
than West Point In their FIRST game the
soldiers put away BY score of "a to o
a team which three days before held Yale
to II TO o..
weakness that enabled New York uni
versity to hold the Tigers TO IL points.
but New York University strength New
York University was alert and up TO date.
The New Workers arc not the football
marks they once were. They made the
most OF the possibilities afforded TO a
Princeton did not make. use OF much Of
repertoire OF plays, and Just here is an
other point In connection with the big
teams: They are showing as little as
possible Just now, while their opponents
as rule cut loose with all they Know,
PENNSYLVANIA since her poor beginning
has gone ahead with bravery character
istic of that Institution to make the most
OF the none too encouraging conditions
and has shown some Improvement In each
successive game True. West Virginia
I a. sgs sysr ard hot b mnsh Of
of this the Quakers exhibited some apti-
tude in technical details and good frame
Of mind,
come along considerably within week Is
Dartmouth. Cornell and the Navy ran
into one of those snags which generally
come 10 them all In the course of a sea-
son. They should derive much good from
the experience. even II they discovered
that they weren't as good as they thought
they were.
Such glowing accounts had been heard
of the Navy material that the teams
ia allure to score on Rutgers was the near
est thing TO an upset of the day. Chi
cago with defeat and Michigan with a
slim three points against Case are west
ern teams that emerge from battle in a
chastened frame OF mind, Brown is
travelling a pretty thorny path and is
showing little scoring ability, The play
ing Of the Brunonians has not been in
keeping. apparently. with the material,
showed lack OF knowledge Of the rules. A
williams man was the offender One of
his mates muffed a forward pass. The
first named man waited for the muffer
TO recover, when under the new rules he
had right TO fall on II himself. Last year
this wasn't the rule and the Williams man
seemed TO have last years rules In his
head.
DR. Newton. the Williams coach. says.
by the way. that lie has no quarterback.
He has a right and left halfback and
right and left fulback. Either OF the
haIfhacks may take tho hall from the
snapper back. On the offense the four
backs take a semi circular formation the
two halfbacks at the eXtremities Of the
semi circle and the two fullhacks foot
or two further back and inside the Two
haIfhacks. Only in having man to call
the signals Is there quarterback.
F. H Burr of the Harvard coaching
staff is III with typhoid fever at his
Nrne I'm Brookine. Mass. His illness may
interfere with the coaching plaps.-New
York Sun.