Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-31
HARVARDLOOMS
AS CHANT ION Of
1878 GR|D|R0N
Princeton Put Out Of Running by
Dartmouth, While Yale
Eleven Appears Weak.
By w. J. McConaughy.


N 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
naval maneuvers more than football
games, 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
| The 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 lot Of the bounce out of Har
ward. dear Old Nassau will be elimi-
mated from the championship piano.
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
loom 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 a 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
II. 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
lication, and doing 1t very badly. Then
It leaked out last week that the Tiger
coaches had punter under cover who
would show us something in due sea-
son. y..4 -. ~SP -.
Well. they uncovered him Saturday.
He proved to beS,a .chapgnamed Gle,
which is good name fcrA man under
cover The consensus OF the dope IL
that the cover should nev er have been
taken off, as the Dartmouth ball-boot-
ers had no trouble in putting 1t all
over him in the exchange Of punts
Tigers "Pulied Bone"
Princeton also ran to the form Of
previous games, in that their defen-
sive work is not up to big league
standard. They seem to have pulled
one or two bad Merkles at critical
times. notably when the little Dart
mouth quarterback was permitted to
circle the end for a touchdown unob-
structed with the ball inside Prince
toms 1O-yard line. The play was
pulled off following a bluff to break
through the center of Princeton's bat
tie 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
ton hold that If the game had been
played on a dry field the running OF
Baker would more than have offset
the superior puntipg of the Hanover
men. But this does not alibi the fact
that Dartmouth rushed the ball for 80
.
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-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. 1t Is much
as II one man was doing all of the
successful leading and forcing in a
boxing 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
was as sloppy as at Princeton and
there was just as much fumbling In
She pinches Yale had the ball across
the minor leaguers' goal line once and
W. and ]. returned the compliment,
but both scores were thrown out by
the officials. Both were f1ukes. 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
m 4 safety which gave them an In
glorious victory over Tufts. At the
same time the Navy was rolling a
score of 10 points against TIA Mary
land Agricultural College.
The Maryland farmers are not
paladins on the football field, but the
size of the scciu is disquieting, no
matter who was on the other end Of
it. and the possible pitiful weakness
Of the Aggies will not spread much