New-York tribune., 1911-09-17
A GLIMPSE AT FOOTBALL
PLENTY of Good Material at Yale
and Princeton.
CHANCES FOR STRONG TEAMS
Many Veterans Lost to Pennsyl-
vania, but Outlook Is
Not So Dark.

rverv few years and az almost regular
intervals there seems to be dedrtf Oh n'S'
class football material at most of the DIE
Eastern universities, only to De followed oS
seasons in which veteran talent goes "
waste. The lean years and the fat years
they might lie called For at least two Dig
teams the coming season promises to be or
the fat variety. They are Yale and Prince
ton.
These two institutions have good reason
% veIcome the change In their gridiron
fortunes. for their 1910 season was TAR lro''
satisfactory. For Yale the greater part vi
tho season vas ore If disasters. partly
retrieved, however, by the defeat OF Prince
ton and by the famous 0 TO game WIN
Harvard at the end. Were Il not for the
fact that Princeton men are wont 10 meas
ure the success or failure of their season
hy the result OF the annual game WIN la'e'
1910 might lie considered a prosperous year
But the fact remains that the performance
against Yale usually marks the team Tor
all time. consequently for the Tigers to be
beaten by Yale WAS n bitter DISAPPOINTMENT
tn Princeton men.
There is a certain amount of contagious
confidence among Princeton men this fali
when they discuss their football prospects.
Within the last decade there were 80 many
changes in the coaching staff and coaching
policy that IL furnished "A ready excuse tor
those who sought a reason for Princeton $
almost perennial losses For this year
Roper will have for his guidance an ad-
,isory committee OF famous Tiger football
mon of the past. representing the pest
brains Princeton can muster.
These men are Walter Foulke. Langdoh
Lea. Hector Cowan and Knox Taylor,
Roper being the 6fth member. All Of these
mon were stars I'm their day. who have kept
in sympathetic touch with the develop
ments Of the modern game However. they
are not 10 assume the active coaching ms
will be done largely hy a group OF more
recent graduates, who have played the ne"
game. Roper himself will In all probability
do some of the active work, as he did last
year. but tho duties Of the graduate COM
mitte- will be Of an advisory nature. They
will map out the Princeton policy and see
10 II that IL Is pursued consistently.
There are other reasons for Princeton $
optimism. one IL that the Tigers have the
best schedule they have had I'm years-at
least the best In its capacity to arouse the
team and attract the football public. This
is due 20 the scheduling Of games with
Harvard Dartmouth and Yale on success
siye Saturdays The arrangement OF the
n .k
management n will be the first time since
lse6 that these two old rivals have met on
the gridiron. Not only does the arrange
mrnt Of this game help the prestige OF
Princeton in football. but Il will so greatly
increase the Tigers receipts as 10 relieve
them from financial worries. There is a
fear I'm the minds of some persons that
Princeton and Harvard cannot live peac-
ably on the football map. The intercolle-
giate night with which they broke of rela-
tions fifteen years ago was the bittercs'
known To college sports.
In a wav this game will ne a greater
drain on Princeton than upon Harvard. II
will be played on November AZ Princeton
two weeks before the close Of the Princeton
season and three weeks before the Yale
Harvard hattl.
Princeton rs unusually we'll equipped with
veteran material for this fall. or the
team which lined III against Yale last
year only three members will he missing
when the candidates report They are Nc
Gregor and Sparks. who were graduated
and Ballou. Who has left the university.
McGresor was tackle. Sparks a half
back and Ballou the quarterback Fort
unately there are good men for all these
positions, either from the scrub or fresh
man teams
This leaves az nucleus from last years
eleven Captain Hart at fullback. Pendlcton
at one halfback. White and Dunlap in the
ends, Brown at one tackle. Wilson and Nc
Cormick at guard and Bluenthal at centre.
Naturally II Is too early 10 discuss the
availability OF the new candidates at this
time but there Is one man who deserves
some attention This Is Baker, who played
quarterback on his freshman team. He
was TO last years freshmen team what
Pendleton was 10 the one before. There
fore, IL Baker, who is clever and unusually
fast. makes good" in the manner that
Pendleton did there will be no bemoan-
ing the loss OF Ballou.
The wonderful Pendleton. II properly
protected Is worth any two OF Princeton's 5
other backs IL IL true that In the Yale
game he was usually smothered before he
could get under way, but II took two and
sometimes three Yale men to get him.
Therefore, II Princeton has another man
who can relieve him OF some OF the burden
OF advancing the ball the Tiger back field
will be one to be feared.
While Yale technically loses more men
than Princeton. no complaints are heard on
the score Of lost veterans. Graduation has
removed from the Yale ranks Captain DAILY
at halfback, Fitzpatrick at one end. Morris
at centre and Field at fullback. This is
one more than Princeton misses and they
are probably more experienced players.
But Yale had an unusually good freshman
eleven last fall and there are a number of
men from that team who are expected 10
create lots OF trouble for the veterans.
or last years team the following are
once more eligible: Scully and PAUL.,
tackles: McDevitt and Fuller, guards:
Brooks at one end. Captain Howe at
quarterback and Kistler at fulback.
In the number OF veterans lost Pennsyl-
vania suffers far worse than either Prince
ton or Yale or the 1910 team the Quakers
have lost Cozens. their all-Amerlcan
centre; Marks at one end, Wolferth and
Kramer, guards; Scott. quarterback. and
Ramsdell and Sommer. halfbacks. This
leaves only four veterans OF the team
which started against Michigan and Cor
nell. They are Captain Mercer at fulback.
Jourdet at one end and Morris and
Rodgers, tackles.
In some WAYS the Red and Blue is more
fortunate than appears from the foregoing.
This is due to the fact that there is some
unusually good material from the 1910