The Washington herald., 1914-12-13
Waiter Camps All american Team Remarkable One;
Not d Single Yale Player Is Found on the List
Harvard Allotted Five Places
on Worlds Greatest Myth
ical Football Eleven.
1914 SEASON REVIEWED

fact, there was really more substantial
summer and early fan practice. and prac-
tice of a more organized character, than
has ever before been the custom In this
country Part Of this is TO be explained
by the fact that the scheduled contests
began very early, in several cases the
first game being played before the coll
lege proper assembled. This made some
kind Of preparation necessary IL the men
were TO avoid taking serious chances Of
physical injury. But what really stimu-
lated the preliminary groups was the
practice Of forward and lateral passing.
which, taken with the kicking and gen
eral handling OF the ball, went to make
up most Of the work done In this late
summer season.
The contests of the first week seemed
10 go consistently, Harvard beating Bates.
Yale beating Maine. Princeton beating
Rutgers, Penn beating Gettysburg, the
Army beating Stevens, the Navy defeat
ing Georgetown, Dartmouth defeating the
Massachusetts, Aggies. But then surprises
commenced to come hot and fast. Penn
vas beaten by Franklin and Marshall,
Cornell was beaten by Pittsburgh. and a
week later again by Colgate The Navy
was also beaten by Pittsburgh. For a
week or two, therefore, We were prepared
to see the unusual, which came again
when Washington and Jefferson almost
the victory from Yale. Then Penn State
held Harvard to a tie score. Meanwhile
Cornell, coming back, smote the Indians
to 0, and showed under Brown 8 TO T.
Dartmouth was defeated by Princeton
Is 10 y, but later annihilated Penn and
Syracuse Harvard had a hard time
defeating Michigan by single touch
down, but turned about and played an
almost faultless game against Princeton,
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team no less than 20 TO 0. Yale, having
run wild over Colgate - to Z, had a hard
time in beating Brown II to G. Prince
ton, the week before the Harvard game,
had been tied by williams Z to Z. Penn
had gone out to Ann Arbor for the an
nual contests with Michigan, with her
adherents quite hopeful, and had been
buried by the Yost machine 81 TO 3.
Interest in Big Games.
The so-caHed big games of late No
vember. therefore, assumed much in
terest and great Importance. Yale in
The first three-quarters OF her game
with Princeton scored with ease and
ran up IS points. Then PRINCETON came
to life and, playing by all odds the best
football OF her season, scored twice be-
fore the call of time put an end to the
game at 19 to Il. This final exhibition
OF Yale's vulnerability in her line
that she had no line defense and must
rely entirely upon her attack. Harvard
held that attack except when Yale,
after getting within a few feet of Har-
wards goal, fumbled. Harvard's attack
: was strong throughout, her interfer-
enee fine. and her handling of the ball
: welI-nigh perfect. The combination re-
shifted in a victory for the Crimson Of
sc 70 0.
The history of the seasons style OF
play is even more interesting than the
records of the teams. Many Of the or
ganiZations had professedly determin-
ed that the new or open game-the
passing Eame-was the one that should
be developed. Probably the final game
OF the season of 1913 had a great deal
to do with this, in that the Army. sup
posedly the weaker team and certainly
the team of the two which had less
Of heavy Iine-plunging possibilities and
tactics, defeated the Navy through bril-
liant forward passing. Yale, Harvard,
and Princeton all had Canadian play
ers illustrating the Rugby Iateral-pass-
ing game for them. but of these teams
Yale alone stuck faithfully to that
method OF play as worked out by Coach
Hinkey and Capt. Talbot with DR.. Bull.
Princeton retained some portion OF il,
but not very much. and Harvard re-
verted even farther than last year to
the line-plunging game. But it should
be borne in mind that il was not the
old line plunging, but rather scien-
tifc development of masked deception
with hard-hitting. interference and
cleaning up Of the secondary defense
as its basis.
A heavy, powerful, hard hitting set OF
backs made his by all odds the best
= football Judgment on the part Of the
Harvard coaching, for with two or three
places splendidly filled in the line and
this veteran back field II was wiser to
proceed on these lines than to take up
an entirely new game. Yale, with quicker
handlers of the ball and an absolutely
green line, developed along the lateral
passing game until the facility with
which her backs handled the ball was
really remarkable. Michigan had some
intricate passes but used practically
none Of them and none of the farward-
pass variety in her principal game-that
against misunderstanding Harvard's .
ine-plunging game by sending Maui
5etsch, their wonderful half back, dodg-
ing and piercing through to the point of
exhaustion, and not even making an ef-
tort, through the forward-pass game, to
tie the score in the last period.
The open attack, as was predicted very
Early in the season. proved during the
irst weeks too much for the defense,
and those teams that had developed IL
scored with comparative ease and very
little expenditure of effort. Then the de-
tense studied out its own part and grad
uaIly overlook the oiense until 1t re-
luired the greatest speed and precision
in the open and lateral passing game to
succeed in getting the ball and the man
.lear The addition of lancing-line plays
to this lateral passing followed, and put
the defense once more In some difficulty,
but not SO seriously as at first
The Ideal Team.
II we could combine the skill in line
work Of the best exponent of the close
game-namely, Harvard-vith the execu-
don Of the double and triple passing.
lateral and forward. and the speed of
those passes displayed by Yale, 1t would
take phenomenal defense to stand up
aeainst it But It took Harvard all the
season, up to the Princeton game. to per-
feet her style Of play, and it occupied
Yale all Of that same season 10 perfect
her open play Some day a combination
OF the two Is likely 10 come unless the
exponents of open play become too much
discouraged at the fact that the old style
while producing shorter gains, is more TO
be relied upon under all conditions or
weather and defense. The open game re-
uuires playing for big stakes and taking
big risks. The closed game takes far less
risk, hut the gains must be more fire.
1uently repeated, and no team has as yet
succeeded In combining both with proper
sknI.
Harvard. under Coach HauehtOn, al