Evening star., 1914-11-22

| like bows that nave Deen long seretcHeo'
without spring.
HARD LUCK:
I'm down with a '.busted'' ankle,
And the big match on today;
Stretched out with scrubs on the side line
And never chance to play!
Tom Brown is giving my signals,
| Aud he'll do the JOB out there,
While kick and rage on tine SIDE line
| And choke at my luck unfair.
Down with the crippled squad. boys,
Cut from the team and the fun;
Stuck on the side, crippled and tieo
This my last year, and m zone
| There was fairy tale starteo NOR
| than a year ago to the effect tnat the
| foot ball rule makers must give
team some extra downs inside the 20
yard line or scoreless games would too
frequently result.
Those who circulated this contended
that no attack was known that could
get over the goal line when the bali
was within a teams 25-yard zone ana
with the defensive backs in position.
Those who so strongly maintained
this stand would do well to pohoer
played by prominent teams last Satur-
day; for in those ten games tive losers
made no less than seventy points,
while the winners amassed total OF
3o4 The average scoring In these
games was something more than
thirty-nine points to the game. Early
in the season 1 predicted that far
| from any legislation to make scoring
easier it would not be long before
| we might be wishing to move the
other way.
But here enters that remarkable
compensating law in foot ball that is
| always forcing the attack to renewed
efforts of ingenuity, and that Is the
steady Improvement of defense that
| increases space partly through kno"i-
| edge and partly through intention in
attempts to match up the attack: This
| was well exemplified, indeed. in the
Yale Princeton game. No team mas
developed the lateral passing game to
such an extent as has Yale. Yet the
Princeton defense. studied and planned
| to meet this kind OF play, was very
nearly effective. So much so, in Iact'
| that the actual gains from 1t alone
would not have won had not 1ale
| taken advantage in her turn OF the
| fact that Princeton was spreaoins ouI
keeping the threat, turned her second
man into the break left in princeton s
line. Finally, Yale added a whipping
| forward pass, well masked by this
| threat, of still longer lateral throwing
that put a finishing touch to the at,
| tack. AS events proved Yale needed
II all. for Princeton. dazed and con-
| fused by the complications Of the at
tack of the New Haven men through
three periods, suddenly found an at
tack of their own, which depended
more than anything else upon sheer
! individual brilliance and indomltaoie
| spirit, and with true Tiger pluck came
back for two earned touchdowns ana
the satisfaction of having scared the
Yale stands INTO aiHloee asoiiiAeo
panic.
| But there were other remarkable
games played Saturday, the 14th. that
| Showed that we now have foot ball
game that has we'll nigh reached the
highest point in furnishing two hours
Of the most intense excitement that
| the sport has ever produced
| rake the Cornell Michigan game. for
example. In the old days a lead of
13 to 0 would have been regarded as
| probably meaning victory, or at least
a lead that might only be barely over,
come. For instance. two games stand
out In past history-one Yale-Prince-
ton game, where the former just won
out after being led by two scores, and
the other a Penn-Cornell contest OF
like result in favor of Penn, but the
final victory was only a point margin.
| Now. in the Cornell-Michigan game.
in spite Of Michigan's lead of thirteen
points, the Ithacans in the end fairly
| routed the westerners no less than
Down at Annapolis Colby had the
NIidshipmen apparently defeated at the
end of the first half. with the score
lstanding q to 10. Yet the Navy came
back and finally won ;nad 1y n 81 tho to Modern M
-
game? Nobody knows. But In three
separate games Saturday 1t was proved
that two touchdowns are surely not
| enough. .
| no possible way of playing the game
| safe so as to hold a moderate lead
| once obtained against team that has
courage and pluck and any sort of an
attack.
| Now as to the shift in prospects
caused by another weeks develop
ments. They are very marked and
exceedingly important. me me army n1ay mas mas
Navy mainly through its sturdier de-
fense, but also by the brilliant work
of Oliphant and McEwan in Saturdays
contest. while the Navy was as,ha nnd'hs
| Penn's changes against Cornell have
been brought down to the very lowest
point by her own poor work against
Dartmouth. and CorneiIs remark ,1' PIE
The Harvard / ale outlook took on an
added shade of mystery. for at the end
Of the third quarter Te1e.s OF stock tne aiez Mas
ascending rapidly. while Harvard's in
ability to master Brown was helping
along. But that last quarter against
princeton once more @ threw INTO
line e-plunging attack. The fact that
Harvard had practically no regulars
in against the Providence players made
that test of no value.
Carlisle and Brown at Providence
will have an especial interest IN that
both teams started the season poorly.
land received in the middle OF 1t some
livery crushing defeats, but OF late nave
Ibeen showing much Improvement 1t IS
doubtful If the Carlisle team 1914 will
ever get up to the standard OF play
THAT has characterized the Indians in
has done we'll under Coach Robinson.
land there is every reason to suppose
That the came will be q close and