Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-25
DARTMOUTH MAY
SPRING SURPRISE
ON THE QUAKERS
Princeton's Easy Victory No
Index TO Mems Real
Strength
TIGERS oFFENsE WEAK
Ru EDWARD R. BUSHNELL.

The announcement was received with
/. vociforous applause, although not as evil
dence Of any discourtesy toward Harvard.
. rrincetonians were simply happy to
realize that Harvard was human ana vui
nerable after all, What Cornell could do
1 Princeton can also do, thought the Tiger
( undergraduates. And IL there is any team
In the country that Princeton yearns TO
defeat It is Harvard. As for Yale, Prince
! ton men are sure that they have more
; than an even chance to triumph over the
Els twice-defeated and badly wrecked
3 machine.
Princeton undoubtedly will improve
within the next two weeks, when Harvard
!. iF met. SO will Harvard. Indeed, the
! Crimson Is quite certain to come faster
than the Orange and Black. 1t is no
belittlement of Princetons victory to say
that Harvard is not likely to make the
mistakes that Dartmouth did. Much Of
Y Princetons superiority over Dartmouth
3 was due to Drlggs' splendid kicking
. coupled with Dartmouths wretched judg-
4 ment and handling of kicks in the back
field.
Too much praise cannot be given to
briggs for his kiclSns. Not only did he
!. get wonderful distance, but he was good
whether he kicked with or against the
{ wind. Better than the distance he gained
was his splendid judgment in placing
kicks Time after time he kicked to one
side or the other of the field, so that the
ball either rolled for long distances or
went out of bounds making it impossi-
bic for Dartmouth backs to return the
kicks Some of his effectiveness was
doubtless due to the poor manner in
which Dartmouth covered his kicks, but
briggs is right now one Of the best in
the business. Without question Prince
ton gave a marvellous exhibition of the
( worth Of the kicking game as a means
of attack.
TIBBOTT'S GREAT WORK.
another element in Princeton's strength
q was Tibbott, a contribution from Ger
Z, mantown Academy Tibbott tried three
= drop-kicks, two of which succeeded from
} the A and 45 yard lines. The third was
failure, made against the wind and
from the 40-yard mark. But Tibbctt dem
g onstrated, as he has done all season, that
he is dangerous anywhere within the As
yard mark In addition to Tibbott,
Princeton has Law substitute fullback,
who is sure with kicks at any point be-
yond midfield
Princeton is prepared to play the kicking
game in all its variations. A word more
about Tibbott He is about the best open
+ field runner in the East, whether in return
( kicks or on end runs. When he made his
N-yard run for a touchdown in the third
period he lodged and sdestepped so
eleverly that although Dartmouth men
were all around him not one could lay
hands on him.
In Highley and Brown Princeton has
two splendid ends. They handle forward
passes well, they are fast under kicks,
they are not easily fooled and their
taekling is well-nigh perfect That Is
q all acIr ~ fr
4 Of ends.
But Princeton has weaknesses which
& even Dartmouth disclosed, and unless they
Z are corrected they may be fatal In the
q Harvard game. The Tigers have not de-
4. pendable rushing attack. The only sus-
tanned rushing during the game was done
by Dartmouth. Princetons usual method
Of advancing the ball on line play was
for Quarterback Click to whirl through
centre from his position, There can be no
momentum to such a play as this and it
rarely gained more than two or three
Yards. briggs and Shea were frequently
shot OFF tackle; but in spite of Dart
mouths poor end play they could not
gain consistently.
OFFENSE LACKED PUNCH.
The strength of Princeton's attack was
the big gains on exchanges of kicks, FREE
q quently from 10 to 20 yards; their clever
( forward passing and Tibbott's ability to
e nrop-kick The attack always was versa
Z llle and cleveriy concealed, but doubt IL
I. u Will gain like this against a team as
b carefully coached as Harvard viii be.
Against a team with good kicker. and
men who can handle kicks well, Prince
Ion VIII need an offense with a punch
3 70 II. Probably Coach Rush realizes
Z tnls better than any one else. And 1t
B must be said that any man who can ac-
complish the miracle that this man has
already worked can be depended upon 10
Z aeVelop line plunger II the squad con-
tains a man capable of 1t.
& Pennsylvania. whose team meets Dart
3 mouth at Boston on November 6, will do
wei not to underestimate the possibilities
or the Green. In spite of Princeton's
& overwhelming victory Dartmouth has
tnree better backs i'm Gerrish, Duhammel
and Theilscher than the Quakers possess.
e N the last period those three men were
s responsible for three splendid marches
nown the field, the only sustained rushing
tne game saw. They gave flashes of their
power at other times. but poor quarter
pack play and inferior ends made II all
90 for naught. Had Dartmouth pos
sessed quarterback like Ghee OF last
years team II would have made tre-
mendous difference,
WoRTHINGTON LOOKED BEST.
Dartmouth tried three quarters. Me-
Donough, Holbrook and Worthington
hobrook did perhaps the best work OF
me three, but Worthlngton gave the
greatest promise II was while Worth
mgton was at the helm that Dartmouth
made her only touchdown. This 10
s Horthington's first attempt at college
iootball and he came out for the team
4 less than three weeks ago. He is an all
.fonnd track athlete. being the intercol-
iesiate broad Jump champion, and was
second 70 Howard Berry IN the penta-
thon contest at Pennsylvania Relay
carnival last spring.
.Northngton gets under way like
nash when he takes the ban and he is
marc man 10 bring down. He was a bit
uncertain In handling the punts OF briggs
and Law, but he viii overcome that ana
q Y bic coach keeps him at quarterback
ne ought TO be a star before the season
enos' Then, n he can play HIS part as
ven as the other three Dartmouth backs
played theirs. the Green's quartette viii
improve wonderfully.
70 one who has seen Dartmouth op-
IRte the forward pass under Lewellyn.
'.hee and Whitney ANA with a good pair
ot ends, the exhibition against Princeton
VAS sickening. There was no science IN
any OF the passes Only once was
pass caught fairly All the others were
\ tossed indiscriminetely down the field,