The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-29
PRINCETON TO MEET
HARVARD SATURDAY
Graduates of Both Universi-
ties Already Preparing to
Attend Great Contest.
GOOD PUNTERs NEEDED
Carlisle's Team Fastest the
Institution Has Ever Had,
With Fine Backfeld.
PUNTERS NEEDED
BY WALTER MARcHAND
ID Wire to The Tribune.

WAblG6 H.
BY Leased Wire to The Tribune.
NEW YORK. Oct, 2s.-Thc first real
championship football game for the
eastern section of the country will be
PLAYED just a week from today. when
Harvard and Princeton will meet at
Princeton Already it is certain that
big contingent Of enthusiasts viii go
over from this city to see the game
New York is full of Princeton aud Har-
ward men and every one of them who
can possibly get away will make the
trip over into Jersey next Saturday.
This is the first time these two teams
have met on the gridiron and the game
is therefore of unusual interest. 1T
also is interesting from the fact that
it will give line for the Harvard
and Yale-Princeton games later IN the
season.
1t is a pretty difficult matter to pick
winner in this game. Princeton is
apparently stronger on the oiense than
Harvard but the defense OF the Cam
bridge men is the better, The result
of the contest will hinge on the answer
10 the question as to whether the fast
Princeton men can break through the
stone wall of Harvard.
It looks to me like a good even
money proposition from the betting
l
ward start the game favorite.
Big Games Next Saturday.
Another interesting game next Satur
Michigan. We will then have an op~
portunity to get line on the relative
strength of the western clubs.
Here are the principal games sched-
uled for next Saturday:
Amherst VS. Dartmouth at Amherst.
Army vs.. Georgetown at West Point.
Bates VS.. Bowdoin at Lewiston.
Brown VS. Tufts al Providence.
Colgate vs. Wesleyan at Hamilton
Cornell VS.. Williams at ithaca. :.
Dickinson VS.. Franklin and Marshall
at Carlisle.
Harvard vs Princeton ,st Pripcetop.
Holy Cross VS.. Springfield t. 5. at
Worcester.
Y. G, A. and NJ. VS.. Navy at An
nspolis.
College.
Bruins uswick.
Pennsylyania VS.. Carlisle at PhIla-
delpbis. ~ :. ,,;dd,o
Vale VS.. New York U. at New Haven.
The absolute necessity OF having a
consistently good punter was never
more strikinglY apparent thsn Mueu, ~
outclassed bv q heavier. faster and bet
tor drilled opponent, escaped complete
annihilstion by kicking almost lmme-
diatelv whenever it was fortunate
enough 10 secure the ball.
In approximately forty minutes or
nlsv the team in question trled oniy
three times to advance the ball rush
ing. The net gain was less man yaIu;
The opposition. on the other nand foina
IL comparatively easy 10 mahe niS are ,nne
downs. On the attack 1T cut ana TORE
through the weaker teams line or
aronpd its flanks almost as readily as
! il stsved off the Others S puny attempts
at offensive play. :,
Under the old rules the score would
probably have run up into the s'Xties
or seventies. vet the game was NOT an
| uninteresting one 10 the spectators,
simpIv because there was one depart
mont in which the two contesting teams
were of almost, if not quite, equal
! strength. The losers pupts averaged
| almost as long as the winners and his
! ends, though not star PAIR by any
| manner Of means, We're yet fast enough
and knew enough ABOUT tackling to pre-
! vent long run backs
| The very rules make for such encoun-
| ters Perhaps the kicking side mas an
| advantage, but il is of a sort that is
bound TO make the play all the more
| spectacular. There may be fewer Of
| the sensational forty and fifty-yard
| runs through broken fields. but the
| change will Of itself create a faster,
| shiftier class of backs. which in turn
will necessitate an increasingly open
game
Carlisle Has Good Team.
Given two opposing lines of practi-
callv equal strength, it will be almost
! impossible to block kicks. Since the
| three inside men are now permitted to
lock legs, one set of forwards must be
| immensely superior to the other TO get
through in time to gum up kicking
play, Add two good tackles, and the
chances of interfering with punt are
! not one tenth as good as they were IN
the old dave.
Even after the ball is kicked the ad-
! vantage is with the kicker. Unless the
! Leather strikes the ground within the
! neutral zone PLAYER on the kicking
sidc MAJ not be Iegitimatelv interfered
| with until he has gone twenty wards
beyond the line of scrlmmage; rms
rule in itself makes clean handling OF
kicked balls imperative. With the loss
Of it ms the most probable alternative
a team presenting n strong front is
almost certain then to get its kicks
away in good order. The rules give
the ends clear track down the field
until they have Travelled so far that
ONLY the opposing backs stand between
them and the runner. Under such cir.
cumstances as these running back will
be n much more difficult stuut than it
has ever been before and. as natural
=. tnr RI
thrilling.
Most, in fact all. of the big eastern
elevens are equipped with kickcrs who
bcloug in the fairly good class at the