New-York tribune., 1911-11-05
Crimson, in Effort to Score,
Offers Chances Which
Princeton GraSpS.
PLAY NOT OF A HIGH 0RDEH
Sol Metzger, in Analysis OF Flay'
Finds Little to Worry Yale
in Looking Forward to
Her Two Big Games.
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Former Captain md Head Coach of the ''""
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by Telegraph to Tho Troune.l
Princeton. n. j., Nov. 4.-Prince'on
football team. In defeating Harvard e'9'
tere this afternoon by the score OF W
rave no cause for alarm TO 'nc
coacbes who we're down In force 10 "a,'"
tho game. as the Tigers won by 'an''s
advantage of two mistakes mace by hai
Yard opportunitics that are unlikely "
fall 10 their lot when playing ia'' ~
Haven on November Is ,,.
+, was n strange. weird footDdl' s""
IN follow. strange I'm that Harvard '"'
Ave opportunities to put tho Iiger' o"'
of business. but by lack OF geherai'''P
failed utterly to choose an OBVIOUS $50.
inc nJav when within the Tls.r 20
,ard line until four Of these opportunities
had fed: then a forward pasS-the pass
that was so apparently sure TO resuiI )"
score-was used and Smith, The Cri"-
son eft end, receiving 1t. Scrambled "
the princeton 2-yard line. from WHERE
Wendell who was ever ready to responu'
made Harvard's only Touchdown for
a brief period following, the Crimson TOOK
heart. and with a rush began an attack
against the Tigers that possessed great
strength: but IL was spasmodic and as the
game approached it's close Harvard flung
eeneralship to the winds in attempts to
get away for long runs on forward passes
when under the shadow Of their own goal
line.
blocked drop kick and the rather ques-
tionahe Judgment OF Gardner In taking
bounding punt on his own goal line when
Hart threw him for safety tell the tale
Of Princeton's two scores. The former was
as pretty and clever a piece of premed-
itated strategy as one sees on tootpall
field. Roper and his assistants had been
taught to fear Milholland and the other
Harvard drop kiclters, so they had built
up a defence TO block this kick, which gave
Harvard all the opportunity any team could
ask to break up the opposition with for
ward pass. Roper, nevertheless, took the
chance and massed ten men on the sorim-
mage line to block the drop kick. leaving
but one in the back field, with the result
that when Hollister stepped back on Har-
wards second attempt 10 score in this man
ner, the entire Princeton line fell upon
him. Hart and Duff knocking the ball out
OF his hands before he could drop It;
wherein on White. Princeton's star end, re-
covering It on the first rebound was off
for the S0-yard run and touchdown that
put the game on ice. 90 to speak, for the
Tigers
Try the Same Defence.
By peculiar coincidence Haughton used
practically the same defence when Chrystie
tried a drop kick for Princeton but a few
minutes before from IIarvard's 25-yard line.
though here Huntington. who recovered II
for Harvard. was not sufficiently feet Of
foot to get away for the necessary score.
Harvard. however gave more attention TO
a defence for possible forward pass than
did Princeton
Harvard built strong hopes on her run
ming attack. but it did not prove as strong
as against Brown for two reasons The
first was that the Harvard backs did not
have the "blng" to their interference that
bowls over an opposing tackler so that
Prlncetons ends and tackles had nothing
more difficult 10 do than to step over the
Harvard interferers, VINO fell o. their feet.
was that the Tigers sprung a novel de-
fence In their line play. and a most effec-
tive one. When outside their 2J-yard line
the Princeton linemen played high. charg
ing with the straight arm and attempting
most successfully to prevent Wendell from
getting loose for long runs This was at
the cost of the Crimson backs getting
through them for short gains, but when the
Harvard team advanced the ball to within
Princeton's 25-yard line the Tiger forwards
got down low and charged in so fiercely
that Harvard was unable TO gain at ALL
Harvard suffered a great loss when Pot
ter went out of the game early in the first
half. as his successors, Gardner and Freed
10y. were most erratic in their selection OF
plays. Sometimes they called for brill
liant attack under conditions which con-
fronted them. but as a rule Princeton's
forwards knew what was coming before
Storer passed the ball.
Toward the end of the game Freedley
selected a forward pass when Harvard had
the ball OH second down, without gam
well I'm Princeton's territory upon the ex-
treme left side OF the field. Princeton ex-
pected Harvard TO rush the ball toward the
centre OF the field as had consistently been
done under these conditions, so the Tiger
defence massed 70 meet just such an at
tack sure enough. the play came out that
vav when suddenly a neat forward pass
was shot back 10 the side line to the ever
nresent Smith who got down 10 Prince
tons l5-yard line as result The forward
mass. which followed somewhat later, fell
into the hands of Bluethenthal, the Orange
ard BLACK centre rush, who evidently dag
nosed the play before It started, as he
s,euoed back from the line at the snap OF
Tho han and took 1t on the fiy. Thus did
another Harvard hope die.
eardner's Loss Unfortunate.
,rhn loss OF Gardner. Harvard'- best line
man who faced Captain Hart OF princeton
,or q short time. was a most unfortunate
,,.cs ~ ~ luck for Harvard, though the
presence OF that aggressive tackle could IN
no wise have affected the magnificent play
Of the Tiger leader Hart was captain
in every sense Of the word In to-day's game.
ss he led his team in defence and In going
down the field on punts. il vas his savage
tackle OF Gardner. when the latter elected
"a take bounding ball on his goal line
that gave Prnceton's eleven two points,
and Il was Hart who helped block Hollis
,er's drop kick that resulted In whites
long run for a touchdown. Frequently Hart
could be found under Harvard's attack at
the centre Of his line as the one Tiger for
ward who had thrown the runner. Nor did
the attack upon his side Of the line weaken
because Of his presence in almost every
other place. Few gains we're made through
Hart and no one deserves greater credit
for Princetons Joyful victory than the
splendid leader of the orange and Black
eleven.