Evening star., 1912-11-10
GREATEST INTEREST
Being Taken in Yale-PrinCeton
Game in Years.
RESULT MEANS MUCH
Dark Blue Fears Brickley's Kicking
in Harvard Contest More Than
Anything Else.
BY EDWARD r. BUSHNELL.


terest is being taken in the annual game
| to be played between Princeton and Yale
at Princeton next Saturday afternoon
than this game has been able to attract
in many years. The game will have a
very important bearing upon the award
ing of the intercollegiate championship
for 1912. Princeton has hardly any chance
for serious consideration after the 16 to T.
defeat by Harvard last week. The only
sort Of mathematics by which Princeton
score decisive victory over the Ellis,
who in turn would have to beat Harvard.
the conquerors of the Tigers. Then if by
some chance Dartmouth could beat Har-
ward, the Dartmouth men already hay
ing been beaten by Princeton, the Tigers
would have pretty good case before an
Intercollegiate jury.
However, few persons expect a result
of this kind. What interests them most is
the strength to be shown by the Yale
team. Yale is confronted with the big
geSt task any Yale team eleven has been
asked to shoulder in many seasons. Yale
will meet the Princeton team fighting in
the last ditch and the Ellis will have to
be decidedly superior to the Tigers to
win in this game and then to enter their
match with Harvard week later on even
terms.
| This years Yale team is mystery. No
one, not even the Yale coaches themselves,
seems to know just how strong the Ellis
are. Prior, at least, to the Brown game
| of yesterday Yale mad made the most
consistent showing of any team in the
country. n wise coaching policy enabled
Yale to bring her team along by very
gradual stages, with just enough improve
ment not to permit the men to become
stale and yet preserving that fine bal
ance between the offense and defense
which prevented all other teams from
scoring by the touchdown route and yet
enabled Yale to score when scores were
needed. The Yale eleven has no stars
like Brickley and Wendell of Harvard.
or like Pendleton and one or two others
on the Princeton eleven And now Yale
has apparently lost Walter Camp, jr.,
from whom SO much was expected Camp
has not been playing Very much with the
team this fall, but in spite of it Yale has
shown great strength.
Yale Will certainly fight just as hard as
Princeton in this game. AS a matter of
fact, the Ellis are looking for harder
battle from Harvard than from Prince
ton, but they wish to beat the Tigers de-
cisively in order to get the proper conf
dence for the game with Harvard.
On paper both Princeton and Harvard
are probably reckoned as stronger than
Yale, but the history of intercollegiate
foot bah is 50 full of games in which the
Ellis have triUmphed over Princeton and
Harvard elevens. physically their supe-
fiorS, that the general foot ball public
mas gotten the idea that any team which
beats the Yale team must be about -
per cent stronger. There is plenty of rea-
son for this, too. because there are very
few universities which have developed the
fighting spirit to such an extent as Yale.
No matter how poor their teams may
have been, nor how many defeats they
have suffered during the season, Yale can
always come back for Princeton and
Harvard in amazing fashion.