The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-11-23
T|GERTEAM STANDS
OUT PECULIARLY
With No Especially Intricate
Plays Princeton Has
Made Good

Yale have won for themselves su-
premacy among the eastern colleges
and yet the team did not have what
myth be called a single scoring play.
An aggressive defense and an alert
to profit by the other teams mis-
takes have given the Princeton team
the position 1t holds.
In h repertoire of plays which
the Tiger team use dto win its big
games there was no forward pass. no
onside kick-in fact not a thing but
old fashioned football tactics. The
team beat Yale without even once
coming a first down. It beat Har-
ward after the Crimson had out.
rushed and outplayed 1t.
Princeton's plan of action this sea-
Q seems to have been based on the
idea that with a stubborn line of de-
tense, two fast ends and a good kick
er tho team could hold its own against
anything. And that's just what hap
pened. While Yale was working out
new forms Of attack. Princeton was
developing a defense to meet 1t. Tho
Blue had confidence in the various new
formations OF the Minnesota shift, and
when they didn't work in New Haven
Saturday the Yale team became some-
what demoralized and fumbled the ball
like a team Of schoolboys.
where Yale Fell Down
True. the field was wet and muddy
and the bail slippery: Yet Princeton
didn't tumble like Yale did. Bluethen-
thai, the Tiger center. got the ball back
to Dewitt without letting it slip, and
Dewitt caught 1t almost every time
without dropping it. Capt. Howe of
the Yale team at n stage Of the
game. made four fumbles in succe
sion.
The play which made it possible for
Princeton to win by profiting by Yale's
from Ketcham than it was a tumble
by Dunn. Dunn slipped trying to
reach the ball. but it is doubtful If he
could have captured II even on q dry
field.
Yale. in falling down on its promis-
ed attack and in fumbling at such a
critical time Of the season. showed that
Of the Blue have supposed. The tor
rifle charging Of the Princeton line
took much of the dash and fire out
of Yale's offense. Yale had the ball
often enough but failed at times when
their rushing game should have count
ed most. There has not been a game
in recent years where the ball chang.
ed hands so often. Princeton was al.
ways eager to get the ball, o to try
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to kick 1t. The constant lombard
ment Of punts by Dewitt kept the Yale
hacks worried all the time. Howe,
Camp and Spalding played back much
Of the time to get the kicks and the
Princeton team always gave the punt
er good enough protection to warrant
his always getting the ball away on
time.
Tigers Had the Brains
AS the Princeton kicking game in
creased in the last two periods. the
Yale .fumbling also increased That's
where the Tiger profted. After a
boot ~ Dewitt. Princeton more than
once recovered the ball and let De-
Witt kick Immediately again. Prince
ball out of its own territory. Prince.
ton must be given credit for having a
team of quick thinkers. Capt. Howe
of Yale varied his attack and mixed
up his combination formations as we'll
perhaps as any quarterback could, and
yet the Tigers diagnosed the plays so
rapidly that the Princeton defense
Yale onslaught.
But the quickest thinker on the two
teams was White, the Princeton end.
He IL no football accident, but a
player who is endowed with unusual
tuition in following a loose ball. In
the wild melee of a football scrtm.
mage 1t is no easy matter to keep an
that responsibility to the man who is
supposed to carry it. But White play
ed his end position and beside that
knew where the ball was every sec
ond. The Yale Interference didn't box
him of in the rushes. He was too
crafty for them. His eye was always
on the ball. He anticipated just the
chance that presented itself and 1t
stamps him as a good player that for
the second time in a season he arose
to the occasion and grasped the OPP
portuuity. White is easily the great
est player Of the present season and
ranks among the best ends the game
has produced. AS a follower of the
ball he easily %outshines any player Of
tho xoauor