The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-17
STRENGTH OF YALE
BROUGHT TO LIGHT
Strong Rush Line Goes in
Game. and Effect IS
Remarkable.
HOPES HAVE CAUSE TO RISE
Result on Saturday Should Have
Grca, Influence on Battle
With Harvard.
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Boston November l6-Thc results or
Saturdays games Put crimp In the
most conservative homes or followers
both OF Harvard and Princeton. Yale
showed vastly superior team to the
Tigers in all departments. except punt
ing. ana although the score was y tic.
did not pull out a victory.
The princeton Yalc game was the
most important Of Saturdays contests,
especially since il brings tho real Eli
strength L. light Yale has been
through i rather disastrous season. and
deserves great credit for the way in
which the team pulled together against
Princeton. II was the itrst time this
year tina; the Blue coaches have been
ahla to put their strongest rush line
IN the game. ana the Eject was remark
able. Captain kctcham deserves great
credit for leading his team 10 u virtual
"iCtory. in spite OF tho great odds.
seldom has Il team gone into the
game with more NJ stake than the Vale
team did on SATURDAY Handicapped by
;hc loss = star mon through injuries.
;nc team went through disastrous
season, and faced Princeton with the
odds : 20 | against them Yale hopes
surely havn great cause 10 rise for the
final game OF the season.
Eu; never he misleG by netting odds
OF football game. They are usually
determined Ivy professional gamblers.
who know nothing about the game cM-
sept by comparing scores. one might
as we'll say because the Iiichlanders
licked tho Athletics on a certain Tues
day. that they We're much the better
team. and were IN line for the cham
Ytouship Modern football IS almost rs
uncertain rs baseball, and comparative
scores arr no basis Tor argument.
one thing IS sure about football,
howcver-that IS, IL is a mighty tough
proposition to score by rushing inside
;Ne teu-yayd line; hence tho value OF
a drCu kicker OOH Yale and Prince
Ton showed impregrable dcfenses, and
rcsorted 10 the Kicking game, through
which Law was able Ia keep Princeton
safe for tile greatest part Of tho game.
Ills sterling work WAS la" redccmins
feature Of lvncetons play. and de-
sCtNcS To rank as ono OF the pluckicst
;erioi n;,uocs ot the year. especially
since he is hardly more than boy,
being little over eighteen years old.
The Yale rush line surprised the
critics for il has been giving the
coaches at New Iiayeu trouble Ill fall
ana was shown 10 be weak against
Colgate. saturday, however. il SHOW
cd itself better than any Yale. rush
l!re since 1909 and no doubt viii cause
Harvard lot or trouble neat Satur-
day. Even II! the fuuGan entails great
Improvement was made. the charging
=
This was especially true ia down the
field work.
fIobcv Baker was covered beautifully
and only once was lie able TO get start
ed This Is worthy OF note in that 10
star open-tlc!d runner has ever done
anything remarkable IN champion
ship game for the past few seasons.
This is due 10 the fact that opponents
are on the lookout and cover the dan
gerous man, taking = chance on the
mediocre men Baker. pcndleton.
Flynn. Spracklirs and a host Of others
have not startled the crowd in cham
pionShip game, because they have boon
marked men ana nave had every move
watched
Yale made what turned out 20 he
mistakes in judgment when IN Prince
TONS territory. but ir Carter had
caught the forward pass, all the world
would join III praise OF Wilson's gem
eralship Nothing succeeds like sue
cess Guernsey was not sure in his
drop Kicking and Wilson had tried
cvcrything else, 80 III" forward pa $
was the PLAY. although :: risky onc.
Pump.ly should have been sent in the
game at this point ana Knowles could
have been substituted for him imrnc-
diately without any injury 70 the team.
+ Pumpclly Is sure drop kicker and
even though disabled, might have been
able 70 score
+ The game Saturday should have a
great cncct on both The Harvard and
I Yale teams FOR next week.
/ The cver-o optimistic Harvard rooter
nud tho over pcssimistic Yale rootcr
will have a much better chance to get
together and talk matters over with
T ont much Of q divergence Of opinion.
Harvard had al casr tiin- with Brown
and VIII 10 IN fine fcttle ~ Saturday.