Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-13
WITH BIG E!EVENS
Many Things Happened in Sat-
urday's Games.
EAST CONQUERED WEST
Yale Shows Much Ability to Gain
Against Brown by Use
of Shift.

1 6scHtIui H0ppeullIS anu lITlIlS are Pill
ing up as the foot ball season draws to
its close Already November has brought
out more stir and hustle than all the rest
| of the season put together There has
been a lively quickenns of the pace in
an erratc way all alons the line with
the near approach of the final games.
! Last Saturdays paying was the most
, eventful of ALL for which there were sew
eral contributory causes. One was the
symptoms shown at Yale of an attack
which unless the symptoms are not TO be
depended on. will come nearer to solving
the problem of anything approaching
| consistent Gaining than any attack of
the last two seasons. Another was tho
freak play al Princeton which enabled
the Tigers to win from Dartmouth; an
other was the whirling, scurrying and
feverish game between the Indians and
Harvard and the defeat of the Crimson:
another was the promised and effective
brace by pennsylvania by which Laf-
ayette was s.nally outplayed, ana stun
anot her was the conquest of the west by
the east as embodied in CornelIs victory
over Michigan.
There were other games which removed
the day TAR from the realm of du.iness,
and not the least of these was the deci-
sive victory scored by Andover over Exc
ter. In spite of an almost revolutionary
system of foot ball development at And
regime up there, Andover cut loose and
overwhelmed Exeter with its conventional,
orthodox system 1t Will be noticea,
though, that in the ultimate personnel OF
the AndOver eleven were SUCH prep schOoi
players of known ability as Van Brocklin
ard Nahan.
Princetons victory over Dartmouth was
due to the veriest fiuke, a genuine nuke,
| and there are not many such in foot ball.
| So-called fiukes, as rule, generally are
| the result of one mans mspiay ana an
| opponents vigilance, and are not nukes
a. d nat l.. case the ponir " - {
purely the result of whim of the mani,
mate leather and could not be guaroeu
| against IN any manner whatsoever.
| Such probability, or improDaoilitv' as
drop kick striking the ground ana
! bounding over the crossbar had peen dis
cussed in the Interpretation conferences.
/ and it had been agreed that SUCH pays
! should count as field goals Opin-ons 10
! that effect last Saturday night were not
| snap judgment, as IL dealing with a new
/ point, but were backed up by the oIncia'
/ verdict of an understanding ISacIeu a.
/ the Interpretation meetings. Inat does
/ not mean that sad Interpretation VIII
| generally be regarded as equitable.
Tigers Not Improved.
Princeton's game was not attended by
any noticeable improvement over the worh
shown in the Harvard lame, but the lac
| that Prince4ons two best guards ala ho'
play no doubt made some difference. AS
| it was, no indication of coming aiohs
| fast since the Harvard game was In evil
dence but to get by the Dartmouth game
| with a victory is all Princeton cares ioI
| If the finishing touches and real drive ana
| strength hoped for are acquired this week
n ,ala.,u IoE ne "a al
question is how far can the Ilgers come
| this week. tho
| shirt of the team after two defeats IN
succession Harvard a few years aso
was beaten by the Indians by a SEQ,
similar to Saturdays. with lots OF SOL do,,sy
| by each side, and braced tremendously
! for the Yale game, but still iosins
/ brace. Hostile coaches Will not TAM
much store in Harvard weakness JUS
| from the fact that the Indians outplaye Gu
| the Crimson, especially since for ereal-
| ar mart of the game substitutes COM
| posed the Crimson team. .,.
True. the Indians continued TO outpiay
Harvard after fresh first-stiing men went
| in. but by that time the Indians had been
scoring freely, were feeling cir oats.
! were carried along by the moral impetus
| the developments Of the game had gwen
! them What would have taken piace
/ had the regular Harvard team peen ~
Il
ol estion, even though a team Wnlca caa
make placement kicks from anywhere
inside the 55-yard line is likely TO m axe
some FONTS under any circumstances; a
| team w ich can make fifteen points
against the Indians and in a losing bat
! lie has some gifts Of is own.
| The mental and physical game played
| by Yale against Brown was a vast I'M
nroyement over the embryonic form
| shown at West POINT. Yale played
cropping game at West Point. perhaps in
| tensified by the slush and slime, but
against Brown displayed aler ness. IN
dividuaI progress and T OF bail smart
ness. Brown however, seemed to be list
! less and lacked the dash and visor OF
/ yale and maybe the contrast helped to
make Yale lock good. Either the Brown
team is niue below Harvard. Yale and
Princeton in int !nsc strength, or he
| Ellis are a team in the tran ton per od
| from promise to a combination of con-
| siderable proficiency. In putt ng away
| brown roor handling Ct punts was he
| ONLY defensive weakness shown, which Is
| at any time likely to result disastrously
| So far as rushing strength can be t
| tanned with consistency. Yale II owe
| more of 1t last Saturday tran "a Vt
| been shown by any team in a gam of
| consequence unless by Harvard a st
| Brown and by the Indians at different
times TIE rame at New Hal e vas
featured by the shift ard this rmat on
| looked more IKE real denendable play
! than last wear Its posi- ilit'es werf nor
emphasized than they have been hereto