The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-09-14
WHO WILL SUCCEED
GREATSAN WHITE?
Football and Baseball Star Was
Greatest OF the
Great.
ny PHILIP nnuCr.

~ 100 VIII Dc the sam NJ mt. OF tho
1912 football season.
sanford b. White won the football
championship for Princeton last year.
and for himself he gained recognition
ns the most brilliant athlete In the
aunals ~ American collegiate sport.
His individual worA won both the Yale
ana Harvard football games OF 1911.
Many experts say that This years new
rules viii obliviatc This indlvidual
starring. that the team whose players
are OF the greatest average strength
VIII do Tie Whining.
NoT. it is only the truth that these
experts know very little about what
football is going re be like this year.
Under the new rules ways may be
discovered to revoluNonlze the sild-
iron game These experts no doubt
tnousnttuly ia doping out tne end OF
Individual prominence. but srN 1T is
the writer's humble opinion that moro
tnau one ut tuc important games OF
1912 VIII be Cincinnati Victories and
that noNt THANKSGIVING w!ll see q new
colleEluu crowned the nero vi iOOtbtll-
dom. H. was sam White last year
and Ted coy tine year before, and IL
VIII ae someone else this year. There's
ii new one every year Even when the
hero OF ono season has another year IN
tAe game. ne doesn't repeat.
The most important cnamse that viii
bv brought about by tine new rules
Us tic allowance OF four downs instead
vi ,hree in which 10 advance tho UaA
ten yards.
rnls it is widely claimed. puts d
premlum on the old-tme game-ihc
kll-tho-tack!c mass plays-glNlns -
decided advantage TO The heavy teams
that are best ~ straig ht football. This
argues that the 1912 star viii BE an
other catapUtlng yle-plunser OF tAe
Ted Cos type y little thought how
ever wlll make IL clear to the student
OF the game that tho nuskf ilIlbach is
not tue logical candidate. y cOmpArA-
tivcly Agnt man is more likely 20 oe
the owner If the face favored for dis
play ou tme November sport pages lie
viii probably be ii 1.-the. shiity Splinter,
Win great ability fi nodsins and
shaking OH tacklers. and a particular
knaDk OF catching the forward pass
and getting away with it :ast.
The reason ior this lies IN the fact
that the forward pass will reach It's
greatest development this year. This
is the play tnat is going 10 make the
nigh scores. and that is solne TO win
games. AAd it is the star performer
ia TINS PLAY who VIII DC the star OF the
1914 season. The four-down rule
coupled win the new rule which al
lows i4if dlbdchlUE sue ~ HANC ACt
ward passes OF unlimited length, even
across the soal luc. opens up un!imit-
cd possibilities tor Tie forward pass.
AS tho rule protecting the receiver OF
the forward pass Is still in force. the
offense is given vast liberty III the use
OF this play
The right Of the offcnsc TO make for
ward passes over the goal line Win
make 1t necessary for the defense to
keep IT'S second line back instead o.
missing It's whole strength on the line
in the manner that caused So many
failures TO score last year after the OF
ftnsc had carried the bail down TO the
tei-yard line.
Princeton won't have sam White this
year but She may have his successor.
Walter Camp once said, For bril-
llancy OF achievement no teams have
produced SO many stars as those OF
Princeton" Princeton had had men
ligo McMann. McNair. Momat. Lamar.
Amos King and Dewitt who alone
have won a great game. and It has had
a Poe, who alone defeated Yale two
years IN succession, but never before
Whites time has Princeton or any
other college had "A man who, by IN
dividual achievement. won two base
ball games from Yale and n football
game from both Yale and Harvrd.