Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-09
EAST ANXIOUSLY
WAITING ITS
FOOTBALL

The East is at football now, and by
this time all the big colleges have
their elevens well in hand, and are
hoping for better. results under the
1912 rules than last seasons code pro-
duced. In fact, there is deal more
anxiety over the game in the East than
in the Middle West, where the 1911
season swung through without any
great form upsets or calamities.
Here in Honolulu there are gradu-
ates from nearly all the big universe
ties who pay close attention to the
football news, and who have well-form-
ed opinions as to what the Eastern
season will bring forth. After reading
over the new rules the local critics
are of the opinion that they are for
the betterment of the game, and they
are now awaiting the results OF the
first big games to see theory put to
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Eastern football in the last. two
seasons has almost dfsgusted the crit
les, so sorry have been the showings
of the big" elevens. Princeton Of
the five named has been the only team
which was at all consistent, and much
of the Tigers consistency last year
was due to the element of luck. Yale
and Harvard, after making brilliant
showings on one Saturday, would come
back the next week and play like
schoolvoys. Princeton, on the other
hand, managed to get through the
season without defeat, but the Tiger
eleven was nothing like the cham.
pions of other years.
Princeton one-Sided.
The champion eleven of 1911 was
a strange one for Eastern spectators,
for it was team coached in just one
half the game. The Tigers undoubt-
eddy were the strongest defensive
team in the United States last year,
but were woefully lacking in offensive
strength. The Tigers did not have a
play which was ground gamer, and
the victories won by the men from
Nassau over Yale, Harvard and Dart,
mouth were due to defensive strength.
Even the scores made by the Prince
ton team were defensive scores, for
recovering ball on tumble can not
be classed in any department Of the
game except defense.
Of the five schools Dartmouth was
the most versatile, but the Hanover
ians were pursued by jinx from start
to finish of the season. Dartmouth
possessed inherent strength and was
well coached. She easily proved her
self as strong as Harvard in her game
with the latter college, but lost on a
t1uke. 1t was the same in the Prince
ton contest, fuke again beating the
wearers of the green.
Princeton's great strength lies in
the formation of her back field. The
veterans here are Dunlap, who played
opposite Sam White last year, and
blocked the kick that made Whites
run possible in the Harvard game;
George Phillips, who played tackle;
Bluethenthal, who returns to the pivot
position. backed by two years expert
ence; G. Wright, a substitute end of
two years ago, who was out of the
game last year because of an injured
knee. Two shifts have been predict
ed for Princeton. Captain Pendletonl
may go from quarterback to end, and |
Dewitt from half-back to tackle For
titled with a husky squad of scrub |
players, the Tigers hope to have an |
other winning eleven.
Half hundred men turned out for |
the first call at Harvard, to the de-
light of Coach Haughton. From every |
both from the rules and |
the material at hand, indications point |
to banner season at Cambridge.
The Yale game will be played at |
New Haven, and the big games at
home will be with Dartmouth and
Princeton. Then Harvard will have
important matches with Brown and
the new team on the schedule, the
eleven. The changes in
The Harvard schedule, which has al
ready been published, show the sub
stitution of Vanderbilt for Carlisle and
Maine for Rates