The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-11-07
By EDWARD r.. BUSHNELL.


The gridironj Is now cleared for the
Princeton-Yale game next Saturday But
what a change in conditions! Prior to
November 1 Yale had been beaten three
times. and in each instance by a minor
college. Two years ago the Ellis were
thought TO have struck bottom when
they were beaten early In November by
Colgate and Brown. But never before
has Yale proven so easy as her team
looks to be this fall Right now Prince
ton an overwhelming favorite to win
All Yale has left is her fighting pres
tige. but even that has been unable to
make the team a winner this fall. It
used to be that Yale could slump badly
before the Princeton game and then call
up memories of past great fights which
would transform the team almost over
night. That has been tried regularly
this fall, but nothing happens and every
body has lost confidence. There seems
| to be a decentralization as hard to throw
of as was the depression into which
Yale rowing had fallen before Guy
Nickalls lifted the Ellis out Of it.
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Yale has brought back a lot of old
players to try to put the team on a
winning basis, but there is little they
can do. Yale burned her bridges be-
hind her when she engaged Hinkey to
construct winning team by the aid
of the lateraI-forward pass. Instead
of doing this, Hinkey has seen Yale
grow weaker each week. There are
only two more games to play. Prince
ton this Saturday and Harvard a week
later.
II Yale loses both games, there will
be a post-mortem examination at New
Haven. conducted with a relentless
ness that will make some OF the Con-
gressional Investigations seem tame.
Yale men are not accustomed to be-
ing battered about by the minor col
Ieges Of the country. and they intend
to go to the root of the difficulty.
On their performances to date there
is absolutely no comparison between
the two teams. Yale has no one who
can punt with briggs. of Princeton.
nor any one who can drop-kick like
Tibbott. The other members of the
back field cannot be compared either.
Click as a quarter back is superior
to Wilson. the Yale leader, both as
player and a field general Tiboott
and Shea. the Tiger half backs. are
likewise more valuable than any pair
Yale has yet experimental with.
no guD9rlOrltH
continued. 1t is not that the Princeton
forwards outweigh the Yale line, for
they probably will not. But the Prince
ton line has been taught to follow the
ball and they pursue It retentlessly. on
the ends Princeton has the best pair In
the East, unless the two Cornell wing
men are their superiors.
Princetons greatest danger is not su-
perior playing by Yale. but the Yale
spirit and what may be the Yale de-
Tense. There have been times within
the last few years when Princeton was
acknowledged to have the better team,
but Yale came through and won on pure
nerve and a good defense. The Ellis will
fight as never before when they meet the |
Tigers. Should Princeton enter the game |
oyerconfdent and Yale display unlocked |
for strength on the defense. it would be !
an easy matter for decentralization to set |
in and possibly return Yale the victor.
Michigan VS.. Penn.
Michigans football team ends its 1915 !
season next Saturday. with its annual |
$1,000 ,roias. panpsrryapIa ~ philodal !
phia. 1t will be the third intersectional |
game the Wolverines have played this
year. This game has always been a |
dangerous one for the prophets. and this |
fall is more uncertain than ever. Both i
teams have been playing an in and out |
game.
Mlchigan's defeat last week by SYRIA
cuse was not a surprise to Eastern men
who knew that Syracuse was exception /
ally strong. The New Yorsers held
Princeton to a goal from field and gave /
that eleven n bad fright. Michigan
misses Hughitt, her 1914 quarter back. \
badly. The loss of so many veterans
from last year has greatly retarded the
development of Yosts men, but they
OuBHI 70 Dt III 10 pay InelT
best game when they meet the Quakers.
In some respects Pennsylvania team
this year has fallen far below expecta-
tions. At times 1t has shown remarkable
strength, only to lapse into mediocre play
the next week. Against Pittsburgh Penn
sylvania surprised her followers by her
excellent game. But just when the team
looked to have found its stride it slumped
off into a 10 defeat at the hands of La-i
fayette, whose eleven two weeks earlier
had been beaten by Princeton, 40-3 Yet
the Quakers were beaten in this game
largely because they fumbled atrociously
and used no headwork at all. That game
was chiefly. notable for the stellar work
of two backs, Ross and williams. They
carried the ball in sustained fashion and
in a manner that suggested the days Of
the guards and tackles back. But their
good work only went for naught because
the moment the ball was gotten within
striking distance a tumble or the wrong
play lost 1t. The Quakers' greatest weak
ness has been at quarter back. Berry,
the man who started out with such bril-
liant prospects, has shown no ability as
a field general and will probably be dis
placed by Bell. II Pennsylvania can sat
solve the quarter back prob