Evening star., 1912-11-03
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There was naturally some lack OF lead
ersh.p which permitted the Dartmouth
team to go to pieces In the second half,
| though the way the Tigers kept lighting
may have had something to do with this.
Princeton, however, Is not a team that
Is easily ratified. and the Tigers always
play their hardest no matter what the
situation is. The Dartmouth game
proved the truth of what the writer sug-
gested some time ago In these columns
concerning the Tiger line. Princeton has
the making Of a good line, but 1t did
not have enough hard work in the pre-
. lmfnary games to be In proper condition
Tor so hard match as that with Dart
mouth. This. Of course. was not entirely
the fault OF the Princeton management,
for 1t had expected more opposition from
the teams scheduled than they could
give. Nevertheless the fact remains that
the line had not had enough hard work to
enable 1t to present the sort of a defense
that was needed for the attack of Dart
mouth.
The game between Princeton and Yale
on November IL will test two radically
different methods of development. From
the beginning of the season the Tigers
have concentrated all their efforts on
their attack. They have built up the
running game to its highest point of eff
cheney, and while the defense may have
suffered the plan of the Tigers was to
! have both it and the offense at their best
when the Ellis were met.
Yale, on the other hand began early
to work on the defense. and the Ellis
/ la bored SO long over the construction of
a powerful line that the offense actually
! suffered and seemed to be poWerless in
some of the early games. But now Yale
is beginning to see the advantages of con-
centra ting first on the defense and then
lding up the attack. This system has
given Yale a very even development and
in some respects the Ellis made the best
record to date. Not only have they not
lost a game this year, but no team has
yet been able to cross their goal line
The only scores that have been made
against them were two field goals. kicked
by Wesleyan and Washington and Jeffer-
son.
Yale coaches have proved very astute In
sizing up the tendency of the game un-
der the new rules. Last year the advan-
this that caused SO many 90 games
Early in the winter the Yale coaches
came 10 the conclusion that the new
game would very greatly favor the Of
Tense, and that any team that prevented
an evenly matched opponent from SC ,ring
must have a powerful and well kni. de-
fense. That is what the Yale men have
been developing all year. and it begins to
look as though this defense, VIII have as
great a bearing upon the championship
matches with Princeton and Harvard
as the attack itself.
Those persons who imagine that Yale
mas Deen neSIectlng her attack are likelv
to be surprised when the championship
game comes around. The writer has pref
ty definite information that tn. Yale
coaches intend to stake everything upon
a series of new plays which will MT be
made known until the Princeton game.
1t was for this purpose that Yale held SO
many conferences among old gradua tes
and men who have been closely following
the trend of the new game during the
summer months 1t was announced only
a few months ago that Charles Cnevlin,
who brought the tackle shift" from Min
nesota to Yale, had worked out some
other effective combinations for the Of
Tense which will not be shown until the
Ellis meet the Tigers. In view of the fact
that Yale has made more of the possibil-
ties of the new rules than any other
team in the east. with the possible ex-
cepton of the Carlisle Indians there is
good reason to fear their inventiveness
on this occasion.
International Foot Ball.
That International foot ball match be-
tween the Carlisle Indians and team
of Canadians was not the success pre-
d.cted for 1t. The manner in which the
Indians overwhelmed the Canadians in
the first half, during which the game was
played according to American rules rob-
bed the contest of all it's interest. And
when, during the second ha-f. the Ameri-
cans MIA ved the Canadian ruleS and still