The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-10-22
HARVARD WILL MEET PRINCETON SOON Great Game Will Be Battle
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By WALTER MARCHAND

New York, October 2l.-(Special)-O more week of tryouts for the Big Nour snd then the decks will be cleared for the first of the great football classics. Tar ward will meet Princeton for the first time in many years and it will be a battle royal. Judging by the preliminary play kn far Princeton has a more than even chance to beat the men from Cambridge It has been shown, however, that pre- liminary games are not a sure index Of how games between first class teams will turn out and then Harvard has a trick of making a poor showing against weaR clubs and then coming out and playing a practically unbeatable game with her old rival Yale So it will not do for the Tigers Cubs to be too sure of taking the measure of John Harvard's sons.
 Princeton has a remarkably fast team this year and the new rules favor fast, ac- curate play. With the teams she has played with so far she has been able to score practically at will. Not counting todays game Princeton has made 105 points against 69 by Yale and 23 by Iar- yard. 2 by Pennsylvania, 75 by Dartm outh and 56 by Cornell.
 The first three have so far kept their goal line from being crossed by foreign,
 
 have each three points against them from field goals.
 The big scores that Princeton have run up have been made against teams that are rated somewhat weaker than hose that have faced Yale, while Harvard has played only two games to three for her rivals.
 While these figures are interesting they prove little. No one will seriously con- tend that the last three teams are in the same class as the first three, though they all have made more points than Harvard, while Dartmouth has beaten Yale's score and Cornell nearly eaualled it.
 Capt. Eddie Hart, probably more than any other player, is the Tigers hope for salvation this season. There is q raft of really great back1eld material down in the jungle, handicapped now by lack Of protection from the men who should open holes for them and interfere for them.
 Until Hart can get regularly into the game this condition will not be bettarel But when he is physically fit to stand the wear and tear of hard scrimmaging the coaches will be in a position to make shifts and rearrangements at present cut Of the question. Until such time as Hart is available the Tiger is in constant dan ger of having something slipped over on
 
 be remedied.
 While Princeton is waiting for ier chance to show her real power, Harvard and Yale are pursuing the even tenor of their ways, not creating a sensation but achieving results. Neither figures to have better team, physically or mental- ly, than the elevens which fought it ou1 to a scoreless tie the last year, but Yale with her coaching staff working in har- mony and along intelligent lines again, has combination which is already better fitted for a hard fought campaign than that which met so many rocky stretches in 1910.
 Just now Yale has a tendency to waste her energy to gum up plays by mechaa- ical faults. The backs have not yet learned to keep to their interference. and many yards have been lost that might otherwise have been gained by just this fault
 There is no such speed in that back field however, but this is not Il fault that neec cause supporters of the Ellis to lose great deal of sleep. With such coaching as Yale is getting this year there is every reason to believe that before very rnuci longer the team will get working together in such style that no effort will be wasted Yale's only fear just now is that there may be a slowing up and Q weakening as well, if anything should happen tha would remove any Of the regular back. from the game. The second string mat rial does not look overly good
 Harvard has not yet reached as high stage of team work as at this time a yea ago, but allowances must be made fo the newness of some of the payeri Houghton is now working on. The ios of such men as Mckay and Wilmington would be enough to handicap any team no matter how superior the fresh talen might be.
 That Harvard-Holy Cross game was re sponsble. incidentally for the first serod injury of the year Quarterback Wlegles worth was carried off the field with fractured ankle and tho probabilities ar, that he will not play again.
 The loss of Wigglesworth may pro~e hard blow to Haryard's hopes. for ther'