Norwich bulletin., 1913-11-06
WILL YALE COME BACK?
Bob Fisher Hopes to See Blue Eleven
 Strike Its Stride.


 Bob Fisher. the former Harvard guard and captain, writes an interest ing story regarding Yale's chances against Harvard He lays great stress on the bulldogs showing against Har- ward three years ago after being pull verized under a 21 to count by Brown. He says in part:
 "As in the football season of 1910 Yale has again gone down to a sting ing defeat at the hands of one of the minor colleges. in fact, 8 college the undergraduate body of which num- bers only about 500 men. As usual, when the tables are so decisively turned, the football world immediate 1y agrees that something is radically wrong with the coaching of the n1a- terial of the defeated team. This Col gate score came as a marked surprise to all, for the Yale team of 1913 was out to regain it's lost prestige; the season thus far had stamped the Eli eleven as a powerful aggregation, and no team had been able to puncture Yales apparently fmpregnable de- fense. But now, with its biggest game less than three weeks away, Ya1es team stands as the only one of the big colleges that has met defeat from a smaller organization. To be sure. Princeton was downed by Dart mouth, but Dartmouth can no longer be considered as distinctly out of the class of the big colleges. The effect of Princeton's setback was plainly seen on Saturday, when that team de- feated Holy Cross by a score of 54 to o.
 Should Help Vale.
 ''The defeat by Colgate should have 8 similar effect on the Eli team. and by next Saturday Yale should show that she has Drof1ted by her game of last week. It will be remembered that in 1910 Brown defeated Yale 21 to 0, and apparently outclassed Yale in every department of the game. But a careful analysis showed that Yale in that game was playing her sec ondary defense much to close to the rush line As a result Brown con- tinlIalIv threw forward passes that the Yale backfeld was unable to in tercept. That was the keynote or Browns victory The following week Yale played Princeton. The lesson had been well learned, and the Yale backfeld in that game was found playing where it should. In a position tO intercept forward passes. The sting of defeat had p7oidad the play CTS in fighting machine and the result was q Yale victory by 9 score of 10 3. That same year Yale held the much heraIded Harvard team to a. scoreless tie. Likewise, we find Vale this year, and with good cause, the under dog. Princeton has un- doI7btedlv found herself; Harvard is marching through the season with string of victories by oyerwhelming
 Whats the Matter?
 '.The natural question comes as a result srWhat is the matter with that in Colgate Yale met probably the strongest small college team that has ever been produced. Colgate was well coached by Bankhart, the old Dartmouth football star; the individ- uaIs were excellent players and the team work was exceptionally good Vale was not expecting any such bat f1e as the Colgate team gave and was not prepared for it. As l mentioned before. Yale has been working doubly hard to regain what she has lost, namely, her football prestige.
 A Vital Weakness.
 There was a vital weakness in the line. and this weakness was due, Il believe, to one great fault, namely, the play of She Yale guards, who played very wide, leaving tremendous gaps between guards and center, ana when the center was out of the line the opening was distinctly increased. The idea of the guards playing oppo- site oDDOsine; tackles with the center out of the line is, of course, absurd. But that is just what Yale did. so there is little wonder that Hunting ton chose the Yale center as his ob- iectjve. Colgate scored one of the touchdowns on drive directly, be- tween Cooney and Captain Ketcham. Tt was an utter inpossibility to cover the ground which the Yale guards at tempted to cover against line plunging tactics.
 50 once again we find Yale team facing the proposition Can we come back? Yale has done it before and there is no reason why it can't do it again. The material is undoubtedly there. the coaching staff is efficient, inc big games are farther away than us11aI. so the team has plenty of time In which to gather itself together, as did Princeton this last week, and to effect the remedies which are so very apparent to a close observer of the game"