The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-26
By FRANCIS BAKER.

BY international News Service.
11EW YORK, Oct. 25.-What is
mi Princeton going to do on the
~ gridiron this falq Head Coach
Andrews says that the Tiger
eleven has better chance Of defeating
both Harvard and Yale than it has had
in several years. OF course, optimism
is one of the chief assets of the Tigers
They always wore an optimistic bunch
and last year their optimism carried
them through the Yale game, when
they hung up nice little victory over
the boys from New Haven.
Perhaps it ism t just to give
optimism full credit for the Princeton
victory. Bluethenthal, HHobey''
Baker and De Witt had something to
do with it, yet the critics had pre-
The same old optimism still obtains
at the New Jersey institutions. Around
the campus they talk OF beating Yale
and Harvard, and this year the critics
are willing to admit that the Tigers
have chance.
Line Better Than Ever.
At the outset of the season it was
noticed that Princeton had a line of
championship caliber, and this line i'm
proved steadily as the season wore on.
For years past the Princeton line has
been as good as any in the east. This
year the line is better than last, SO by
the. simple process OF reasoning we can
arrive at the conclusion that the
Princeton line is some line, and
that the Harvard and Yale backfelds
will have big job on their hands
when they attempt to break through.
With the line taken care of, the
coaches turned their attention to the
backfeld, and the sad news went out
from Princeton that no kicker could
be found. AS the season wore on the
uneasincss which this news precipi
tated in the Tiger camp increased al
most to CONSERVATION. HFind a man
who can boot the ball, ~ was the motto
of Princeton coaches
Hobey Baker Failed.
The great "Hobey" Baker was tried
out as punter. Now 'tHobey" has
a knack of shooting the ball neatly
over the crossing from the thirty or
thirty-hve yard line. but when il came
TO booting out Of dangerous territory,
- Hobey" couldn't send the .pigskin
for more than thirty or thirty-6ye
yards. He simply WASH t thore,
Then someone discovered a youngster
named Giles, who had an idea that he
had q toe capable of sending the
leather on q nice long journey. Giles
tried it out. In practice he made
fifty five and sixty yards with the wind
and forty-five and fifty against it.
Things began to look promising, but
the trouble was that Giles could not
lift the leather high enough to give the
ends chance to get down the field
uudar the punts, so the coaches pinned
their faith to ''Hobey" Baker again,
but In the Bucknell game Baker did
not average moro than thirty-fve yards.
Law May Prove Find.
Last week the name of "BuazO Law
burst forth on the Princeton gridirou
like a mushroom after summer shower.
The coaches said "Buzz' was the man
to punt for the Tigers when they
entered into the Harvard aud Yale
clashes They said Buzz could 90 out
ON the field and send that little old
football fifty yards or moro without
exerting. himself. At that time the
far heralded Buzz was in the hospital
with bad foot. He couldn t get into
the Syracuse game, and we have vet to
see him in action.
If Law will only live up TO his repu-
tation, which has emanated chiefly from
the coaching staff, Princeton will be
able to take care of herself In punt
ing duel,
"Hobey" Baker and "Brad', STREET
are the two twinkling lights In the
Tiger baekfeld. Last year Bakcr q