Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-30
HARVARD LOOMS
A5CHAMP ION Of
1878 CR|D|RON
Princeton Put Out of Running by
Dartmouth, While Yale
Eleven Appears Weak.
By W. J. McConaughy.

~ profound experts of our great
fall mess indicate that they
are especially surprised or chagrined
over the results of Saturdays riots
mn The various battle grounds. Be-
suse of the moist arrangements Of
The scenery these struggles resembled
naval maneuvers more than football
oares, bat that doesn't change the
q ores.
The most important outbreak from
The college standpoint was that al
Princeton. whese the Dartmouth gang
rom Hanover trampled the Tigers
MO the mud with much sang froid
and elan. as we say at Dartmouth.
The official returns were 8 to 0, with
princeton on this end of the score.
This means that unless Princeton
an hammer the knob off Yale and
AXE a lot of the bounce out of Har-
ard dear Old Nassau will be elimi-
hated from the championship pano-
rama of 1918. The first elimination is
nat beyond the dreams Of football, but
he second is something else again.
The going is not especially soft
round Harvard stadium this fall. If
any bounce is to be taken out of Har-
ard this wear of grace it will require
more expert extractors than any that
DOM up at this writing. Yale's most
noteworthy performance Saturday
was holding Washington and Jeffer-
son to a scoreless tie, which IS no
great feat of arms or feet.
Crimson Pounded Penn State.
The Harvard gang had a pleasant
afternoon of mild diversion while
pounding that hapless OUTFIT from
Penn State into muddy pulp.
The experts hereabouts were look
ing forward to the Dartmouth game to
get real line on Princeton's strength,
and they seem to think that they have
it,: The verdict is that Princeton's
strength is mainly~in the Mrs. Harris
club
All along the principal weakness at
Princeton has been declared to be the
lack of decent kicker. "Hobey" Ba-
ker was doing all the kicking for pub
cation. and doing it very badly. Then
It leaked out last week that the Tiger
coaches had a punter under cover who
would show US something in due sea-
son.
Well, they uncovered him Saturday
He proved to be a chap named Gle,
which is good nsmexfor man under
cover The consehsus or the dope Is
that the cover should never have. been
taken off, as the Dartmouth ball boot
ers had no trouble in putting it all
over him in the exchange of punts.
Tigers "PuIted Bone"
Princeton also ran to the form of
PREVIOUS games, in that their defen-
sive work is not up to big league
s'andard.e They seem to have pulled
ones or two bad, Merkles at critical
times. notably when the little Dart
mouth Quarterback was perpitted to
circle the end for a touchdown unob-
structed with the ball inside Prince
TONS 10-yard line. The play was
pulled off following a bluff to break
through the center of Princeton's bat
lie line, one of the few places where
Dartmouth could not make gains. In
spite of this we'll established fact, the
Tiger defense fell for the fake and
Llewellyn got away with the single
score of the game
Some OF the apologists for Prince
ION hold that IL the game had been
played on dry field the running OF
Baker would more than have offset
the superior punting of the Hanover
men. But this does not alibi the fact
that Dartmouth rushed the ball for 30
Yards through Princeton's defense In
one fell series of rushes, while Prince
TON rushed the ball twelve whole
Yards in the entire game. Probably If
The field had been dry Princeton
would have been beaten by a larger
score.
Dartmouth Better on Attack.
The tip-o is that in every form of
attack Dartmouth excelled by con-
Siderable margin. They made four
first downs by rushing, and Princeton
failed to perform this achievement
once. This Is beastly technical. but
IT'S hard to get away from. II Is much
as II one man was doing all Of the
successful leading and forcing in
ooxing match and the other man try.
ing an occasional desperate swing and
holding In the clinches.
Yale had a tough time with Wash
lngton and Jefferson. The field there
vas as sloppy as at Princeton and
mere was just as much fumbling In
The pinches. Yale had the ball across
Inc minor leaguers' goal line once and
W. and J. returned the compliment,
out both scores were thrown out by
me officials. Both were hukes. The
only significance attached to the game
IS that Yale could not make Roadway
against the. smaller schools defense
inside the 40-yard line.
The Army team managed to squeeze
N safety which gave them an in
glorious victory over Tufts. At the
same time the Navy was rolling a
sore Of 20 points against the Mary
and Agricultural College.
The Maryland farmers are not
paladins on the football field, but the
si2e Of the score Is disquieting, no
natter who was on the other end OF
~ and the possible pitiful weakness
ot the AggieS will not spread much