Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-04
PRINCETON'S
FOOTBALL
HOPES HIGH
This Years Victories Are
Looked Upon as Start
of New Era.

PRINCETON, Dec. with the first
football championship in eight years
behind them the undergraduates OF
Princeton are now turning their at
tention to the future and looking over
the prospects for next years team.
The success of Captain Harris eleven
and the wealth of material that Will
be available next fall have given rise
to the belief here that the victories ovsr~
Yale and Harvard have marked h be-
ginning of q new era in Princeton foot
ball. The loss of Hart, White, Dun,
Mccormick and Wilson viii, of course,
be keenIy felt, II in the opinion OF
the undergraduates it will be a n
time before another football hers
arises to displace White from the ped
estal on which he has been placed.
The first four of these men are men,
bers of the class of 1912 and will there
fore be graduated in June, while VII
son, though a member of the present
junior class, played one season OF
football at Lafayette before he en-
tered Princeton, so that his football
DAYS are over. In addition to these
first string men, Farr, HI would un-
doubtedly have played quarterback in
both the Yale and Harvard games had
he not broken his ankle; Mclean, a
strong substitute lineman, and Saw
yer. a brilliant half, win also be grad
uated this spring.
OF the men who played in the Yale
and Harvard games, n who will be
eligible next year, Pendleton and De
Witt are the w who stand out the
most prominently, and the former has
been elected captain of the 1912 eleven
Fendleton. by his all-around brilliancy,
both during the present season and in
1910, undoubtedly is the man for the
position.
Vaughn, the big fullback, had trouble
with his studies this fall, and al
though every effort will be made to
keep him up in his work for the next
ten months, he may not be able to
represent the range and black again
in 1912. If he is in good standing, how
ever, this years back field will be left
intact, with him at full, De Witt and
Baker as the halves and Pendleton as
quarter. If a better field general can
be developed Pendleton may go back
t. his true position at left half, IN
which case a place will have to be
found for Baker, for he is too valuable
a man to nave on the side lines. There
are also a number of promising backs
in the present freshman class, among
whom Street has given the most con-
vincing evidence of being of varsity.
caliber, and Waller, captain of The
1914 freshman eleve and just the
type of a line plunging back that
Princeton wants, should also be eligi-
BILE next fall.
1t is the line which viii suffer the
heaviest losses, for the Tigers will
have a hard time developing men Of
the oaliber of Hart, Duff and White.
BIu%ethenthal, however. the best centre
that Princeton has had in many a day;
Phillips. right tackle; Dunlap and
Hammond. ends, and Brown, substi-
tute guard, viii form a strong nucleus
about which to build a strong set of
forwards.
But Princeton's biggest asset for 1912
lies not in The wealth of material that
will be on hand, but in Keene Fitzpat-
rick, the trainer of the eleven, to whom
the undergraduates are giving far
more credit for the success of the
last season than they are to the
coaches. II has been said here t1al
the game November 25 was between
the Princeton players and the Yale
! coaches and it was Keene Fit5pat-
rick who kept the Princeton players
IL such superb condition that they
were able TO Outright a team that
knew more real football.
In spite of the fact that the 1911
season has been one of the hardest
hat a Princeton eleven has ever gone
through, only two men were kept out
of the big games by injuries, and the
rest of the first string men were in
| such good shape that in both contests.
against Harvard and Yale, but fifteen
players were used altogether. Against
Harvard three substitutes were sent
in. and against Yale only two of these
three got in the game. The fifteenth
man was Chrystie, who played quarter
against Harvard. but was displaced by
pondletou in the two remaining games