Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-30
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|. 1878 GR|D|RON
Princeton Put Out of Running by
Dartmouth, While Yale
Eleven Appears Weak,
Bv w. j. McConaughy.

EN HOLk, OCt. oU.-NONe OF the
profound experts of our great
fall mess indicate that they
are especially surprised or chagrined
over the results of Saturdays riots
on the various battle grounds. Be-
cause of the moist arrangements of
the scenery these struggles resembled
bnaval maneuvers more than football
Aganes. but that doesn't change the
scores.
The most important outbreak from
the college standpoint was that at
Princeton, where the Dartmouth gang
from Hanover trampled the Tigers
| into the mud with much sang-froid
and elan, as we say at Dartmouth.
Tie official returns were 6 to 0, with
Princeton on this end of the score.
This means that unless Princeton
can hammer the knob off Yale and
take a lot of the bounce out of Har-
ward. dear Old Nassau Will be elimi-
mated from the championship pano-
rama of 1918. The first elimination is
not beyond the dreams of football. but
the second is something else again.
The going is not especially soft
around Harvard stadium this fall. II
any bounce is to be taken out of Har-
ward this year of grace it will require
more expert eXtractors than any that
1, loom up at this writing. Yale's most
Noteworthy performance, Saturday
| Twas 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
bounding that hapless outfit from
Penn State into muddy pulp.
The experts hereabouts were look
Ing forward to the Dartmouth game to
get a 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 n decent kicker. "Hobey" Ba-
ker was doing all the kicking for pub
hcation and doing it very badly. Then
!, leaked out last week that the Tiger
coaches had punter under cover who
would show us something in due sea-
son
Wen, they uncovered him Saturday.
lie proved to be a chap named Gile,
which is a good name for man under
cover The consensus OF the dope IS
that the cover should never have been
taken off. as the Dartmouth ball-boot
ers had no trouble in putting It al!
over him in the exchange of punts.
TIGERS "Pulied Bone"
Princeton also ran to the form of
previous games, in that their defen-
sye work is not up to big league
Standard. They seem to have pulled
one or two bad Merl<les at critical
Tines. notably when the little Dart
mouth quarterback was permitted to
circle the end for a touchdown unob-
Structed with the ball inside Prince
toms 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 well 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 If the game had been
played on a dry field the running OF
Baker would more than have offset
Inc superior punting OF the Hanover
men. But this does not alibi the fact
mat 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 II
the field had been dry Princeton
would have been beaten by a larger
score.
Dartmouth Better on Attack.
The tip-off is that in every form OF
attack Dartmouth eXcelled by a 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. 1t Is much
as if one man was doing all of the
successful leading and forcing in
boxing match and the other man try
ing an occasional desperate swing and
1olding in the clinches.
Yale had a tough time with Wash
ngton and Jefferson. The field there
vas as sloppy az at Princeton and
mere was just as much fumbling in
the pinches. Yale had the ball across
ne minor leaguers' goal line once and
W. and J. returned the compliment,
but both scores were thrown out by
the officials Both were hukes. The
only significance attached to the game
Is that Yale could not make headWay
2sainst the smaller schools defense
inside the 40-yard line.
The Army team managed TO squeeze
in safety which gave them an in
glorious victory over Tufts. At the
same time the Navy was rolling a
score of 70 points against the Mary
and Agricultural College.
The Maryland farmers are not
paladins on the football field. but the
SIZE of the sccTu is disquieting, no
matter who was on the other end OF
j, and the possible pitiful weakness
of the A ooiaa VIVA NOT enread much