Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-03
Universities Looking Over
Available Foot Ball Material.
HAVE GOOD PROSPECTS
All the Schools Have Veteran Ma.
terial to Work With, Ex-
cept Pennsylvania.
By Edward R. Bushnell.

Aoot
the big eastern universities only to be
followed by seasons in which veteran tai
ent goes to waste. The lean years and
the fat years they might be called. For
at least two big teams the coming sea-
son promises to be of the fat variety.
They are Yale and Princeton.
These two institutions have good reason
to welcome the change In their gridiron
fortunes. for their 1910 season was far
from satisfactory. For Yale the greater
part of the season was one of disasters,
only partially retrieved by the famous 90
game with Harvard at the end. Were
it not for the fact that Princeton men
are won't TO measure the success or fall
ure Of their season by the result OF the
annual game with Yale, 1910 might be
considered a prosperous year. But the
fact remains that the performance against
Yale usually marks the team for all time
Consequently for Princeton to be beaten
by the already badly Inundated Yale
team was bitter disappointment TO
Princeton men. much more so than II
should have been, for Princeton had
strong eleven, which failed to do itself
full justice against Yale. while the Els
almost played better than they knew
how.
There is a certain amount of contagious
confidence among Princeton men this fall
when they discuss their foot ball pros
poets. And they have good reason for IT.
too, because w. w. Roper. at the end of
his first year as director Of athletics. has
SO systematized things that Princeton
possesses new spirit. Within the last
decade there We're so many changes In the
coaching staff and coaching policy that
it furnished a ready excuse for those
most perennial losses. For this year
Roper will have for his guidance an ad-
visory committee of famous Tiger foot
bah men of the past, representing the
best brains Princeton can muster.
These men are Walter Foulke, Langdon
Lea, Hector Cowan and Knox Taylor,
Roper being the fifth member. All OF
these men were stars in their day VINO
have kept in sympathetic touch with the
developments Of the modern game. How
ever, they are not to assume the active
coaching. This will be done largely by
group of more recent graduates who
have played the new game Roper him
self will. in all probability. do much of
the active work. as he did last year, put
the duties of the graduate committee will
be of an advisory nature They will map
out the Princeton policy and see to 1t that
it Is pursued consistently.
There are other reasons for Princeton's
optimism One is that the Tigers have
the best schedule they have had in years,
at least the best in its capacity to
arouse the team and attract the foot ball
public. This Is due to the scheduling OF
games with Harvard Dartmouth and
Yale on successive Saturdays. The ar
rangement of the Harvard game was
ten strike for the new management. 1t
will be the first time since 1896 that
these two old rivals have met on the
gridiron. Not only does the arrangement
of this game help the prestige of Prince
ton in foot ball. but 1t will SO greatly
increase the Tigers receipts as to re-
lieve them from financial worries There
Is a fear In the minds OF some persons
that Princeton and Harvard cannot live
tercollegiate fight with which they broke
off relations fifteen years ago was the
bitterest thing known to college sports.
1t is certain that Harvard cannot assume
the role of dictator to Princeton. which
was given as one of the reasons for the
discontinuance of their athletic relations
before, and which was likewise the cause
for the break between Pennsylvania and
Harvard
In way this game will be a greater
drain on Princeton than upon Harvard.
1t will be played November 4 at Prince
ton. two weeks before the close of the
Princeton season and three weeks before
the Yale-Haryard battle. There is every
in quite as good shape for the Harvard
game as for Yale Following this con-
test will come games with Dartmouth
and Yale. Therefore. it is easy to see
IHaC the Tigers VIII nave TO De pretty
strong and carefully handled to carry
them safely through these three final
games of the season.
Princeton Has Good Material.
Princeton is unusually well equipped
with veteran material for this fall. OF
the team which lined up against Yale
last year only three members will be
missing when the candidates report
They are McGregor and Sparks. who
have graduated. and Ballou, who has
left the university. McGregor was a
tackle, Sparks a halfback and Ballou the
quarterback. Fortunately there are good
men for all these positions. either from
the scrub or freshman teams
This leaves as nucleus from last
years eleven Capt. Hart at fullback.
Pendleton at one halfback, White and
Dunlap on the ends. Brown at one
and Bluenthal at center. Naturally 1t is
too early to discuss the avaiIa bility of
the new candidates at this time, but
there is one man who deserves some at
tention. This is Baker, who played quar-
terback on his freshman team. He was
to last years freshman team what Pen
dleton was to the one before. Therefore.
If Baker, who is clever and unusually
fast, makes good in the manner that
PendIeton did, there will be no bemoan-
ing the loss of Ballou.
The wonderful Pendleton. If properly
protected. is worth any two of Prince
tons other backs. 1t is true that in the
Yale game he was usually smothered
before he could get under way, but it
took two and sometimes three Yale men
to get him. Therefore, if Princeton has
another man who can relieve him of
some of the burden of advancing the
ball the Tiger backfield will be one to
be feared.
Yale Well Cared For.
While Yale technically loses more men
than Princeton. the Ellis are making no
complaints on the score of lost veterans
has removed from the Yale
ranks Capt. Daily at haltback, Fitzpatrick
at one end, Morris at center and Field
at fullback. This is one more than
Princeton misses and they are prob
ably more experienced players. But
Yale had an unusually good freshman
of men from that team who are expected
20 create lots of trouble for the veterans.
OF last years team the following are
once more eligible: Scully and Paul.
McDevitt and Fuller, guards
Brooks, at one. end: Capt. Howe at
quarterback and Kistler at fullback
1t is virtually certain that Yale will not
repeat her sad mistakes Of year ago. |
Coach Coy assumed most of the blame |
'or the coaching policy, which was large |
y at fault. 1t was unfortunate for Coy |
hat his brilliant career on the gridiron |
should have been eclipsed by his failure |
Is a coach. His persistence in clinging |
10 old-fashioned foot ball when the needs |
IF the new game apparently demanded |
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