Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-06
LACK Of TEAM
PLAY LIKELY To
BEAT HARVARD
big Bill" Edwards Says Crimson
Squad Must Bolster UP in
Several Departments.
BY W. H. ("Big Bill')
Edwards,
Now York City Street Cleaning Com
missioner and One of Princeton's
Most Famous Gridiron Heroes.


NEW YORK. Nov 6,-This is the
" time of the year in the football
world when team play is the
main essential factor in winning
games. The hard preliminary days of
Individual coaching, falling on tho
ball, learning to tackle, etc, are over,
and every team which Is to be sue
cessful has mastered these points.
Coaches everywhere are now whip
ping their teams into machinelike
form.
Eleven men in every play-that is
the slogan-end If that proves true, a
good quarterback can drive a team on
TO success
! would rather have eleven good
hard-f fighting, spirited players Of fair
ability than to be surrounded by star
players Teamwork fails when 100
many individual stars are together.
Haughton has ahead of him a task
10 perfect team play. had expected
Harvard to be more on the top Of tile
wave than she proved to be against
Cornell Perhaps the absence of Ma
han, O'Brien and Hitchcock accounted
for a lack Of finished play.
Harvard's playing Saturday did not
Crimson team is the best Of the year.
Much has to be done during the com
ing week to perfect her offense. or. at
least. get ready for Princeton.
Two Days Serimmage.
Harvard has but two days for
scrimmage left-Wednesday and
Thursday--before Saturdays game.
Whether or not the three men,
O'Brlen Mahan and Hitchcock, enter
Saturdays game, Harvard has fine
material on which to depend.
Should these three men enter the
Princeton game they win at least
need Some scrimmage work this week.
Those who have played football know
too well how much 1t handicaps
team to lose even for n short time
only some of it's best men The alb
Asentees find themselves out of prac-
tice lind their playing and signal WORK
Is not, up to the standard.
just what effect the presence of
these men viii have on the Harvard
team l do not know, but II they are
not in good physical shape and have
not engaged in some practice shis
week their presence Will not be Of
much help,
| expect Princeton to be in better
physical shape and to have better
teamwork than Harvard on saturday.
Briekley Only Kicker.
Harvard's kicking department, out
side Of Briekley, seemed weak. But
Haughton no doubt has HIS eyes on an
available kicker Surely no team
could have better coach than
Haughton. so I expect to see better
kicking on Saturday.
am pretty certain some OF Har-
wards kicks Will be blocked by Prince
ton unless Harvard's line holds bet
ter than Il did last Saturday
! understand Harvard viii devote
much time in perfecting the forward
pass this week Very little of this
play was shown Saturday and with
the numerous Princeton and Yale
coaches about doubtless Haughton
took no chances OF uncovering his
real forward passes.
Harvard will have to improve in tho
handling of punts, for Princeton will
surely do good deal of punting. Had
Cornell been alert in the first quarter
and kicked often when a strong wind
was with her and the sun in Har-
wards eyes. catching punts would
have been most difficult
Harvard Grasps Chance.
When Harvard got the wind she
took advantage of the opportunity
the start, consequently she lost the
bail in Harvard's territory, and soon
Brickley, the ever sure, with the
strong wind against him kicked a
me goal,