The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-11-11
PRINCETON TEAM
FINISHES TRAINING
Tigers Are Resting on Eve
of Yale Battle.
ELS ARE WORKING OVERTIME
New Haven CoIIeginns, with Walter
Camp mt Helm, Trying Desperately
10 Round Team Into shape for AM
nuaI Contest i'm Lair of Tigers.
Princeton Not Worrying.

Yale and Princeton have practically
wound up their work of preparation for
Saturdays game. The Tigers do no more
work until they line up on the field TO
put the cap on their seasons labors.
Yale, not so ht physically and knowing
less football, had a scrimmage yesterday,
and a hard signal practice is booked for
this afternoon.
II does not seem possible that even
Walter Camp can have worked such an
Improvement in Yale that the Ellis can
beat the better coached Tigers. Against
Brown Yales only new venture into new
fields was a forward pass that could not
begin 10 compare for effectiveness with
the forward pass worked repeatedly by
Brown.
Aside from that, Yale had absolutely
nothing but straight line plunges and skin
tackle plays. 1t was awfully old stun;
style OF football that Walter Camp
would not tolerate for a minute II he
were running things TO suit himself.
Camp Working Hard.
This week Camp has had complete
charge OF the coaching II has all been
secret. but New Haven correspondents
claim 10 know that Camp has been trying
TO drill a little modern football into the
team.
Given two or three weeks Camp might
be able 70 do something with the squad,
but few, outside OF the professional OPP
timists. can be made TO believe that be
has been able 10 remake the worst wreck
OF a football team that Yale has put in
the field in twenty five years into win
ming combination.
In these days OF speed and auickwit-
tedness IL takes more than day or two
TO drill an eleven thoroughly in one play.
Unless the New Haven coaches are play
ing the saddest Joke of the century, the
Ellis need an entirely new repertoire for
the Princeton conflict.
The plays they used against Brown
and against all other elevens never would
make an impression on the team Prince
ton has this fall The Tiger outfit may
not be a wonderful combination. COM
pared with some that Yale has put on the
field. but II is wide awake. quick to dag
nose an opponents attack, and equally
quick 10 take advantage OF rivals mis-
takes.
Princeton is too we'll protected behind
the line to fear the brand of football
Yale showed against Brown. The Yale
backs are uncommonly light men for the
New Haven institution. Howe. the best
man behind the Tine. weighs only $50 -
quarter back he probably will not carry
the ball as often as he did last week.
when he played full Howe Is needed at
quarter. but his being sent 10 that POSI-
ton viii weaken his team at full back.
Howe is not a wOrld-beating full back
but on form he is the best Yale has
Baker, who VIII probably take his place
there Saturday is a light. fast man. who
plays a good game while he lasts But
he is not as sturdy as he might be and
is easily put out OF business. Reilly is
another candidate who is physically
stronger than Baker, but who. it is
thought. does not possess the football
sense requisite under the new rules
| None of these men strike one as being
capable OF making II more than mildly in
teresting for the Princeton backs II they
persist in clinging TO the old style that
has marked all their games to date.
/ In Pendleton. Ballou, and Hart Prince
ton has three of the strongest defensive
| backs In the country. The new rules
I
/ handicap Hart in carrying the bail, but
| they do not affect his value to the sec
ondary defense. lie is still A regular
curly wolf at that particular branch Of
the sport.
Goal Line Kept Clean,
Princeton. as one OF the very few
teams that has kept its goal line un-
| smirched, has a wonderfully developed
/ defense. Any team that can withstand
the assaults of such teams as Lafayette
and Dartmouth and Escape unsecured on
must be powerful. The Tigers have been
| hard put 20 il, but that old cipher has
| held It's place at the bottom of the oppo-
nents' scores column.
Yale just naturally must show some
thing-brand new 10 score. The fact that
Yale always has been able to come
| through in the last week with a sensa-
| tional rally does not prove anything.
In other years they had the sort of ma
! terial that could absorb the instructions
| of the coaches and put them into practice
| in very short time. This fall Yale has
an eleven that has been working all fall
without being able TO learn even the
| proper defense against the new game.
| And defense has always been the first
consideration at Yale
Princeton has another little advantage
over Yale this year that may or may not
| help the Tigers. They are as certain as
any team ever can be that they can beat
Yale Saturday and beat her soundly.
Yale, on the other hand. is feeling al
mighty blue over the outlook.
Yale teams always have been fighters.
They'll stick while there is anything TO
! fH of
days they'll have an awful lot of time TO
| think of that q to drubbing admins
| tered by Brown. and it is not likely
| they'll go on the field with the cocksure
spirit that has won so many games for
| the Hl,1a