Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-12-10
YALE JUST BETTER
THAN WEAK ELEVENS
Harvard and Princeton Under
Average This Year and Bull
dog Takes Advantage.
SUCCESS FOR TAD JONES
BY JACK VEIOCK.

full foot ball eleven is not being COM
pared with the great elevens OF the
past by critics, nor even by the en-
thusiastic supporters OF the Bulldogs.
Yale had good eleven, composed Of
players with the fighting spirit that
wins foot ball games. Yale's team
may be classed as good team in an
off year in the east, for Harvard and
Princeton were below their usual
standards, while some OF the smaller
colleges, which are not classed with
the Big Three" looked better than
ordinary in comparison.
The secret OF Yalc's victory over
Harvard and its win over Prince
ton lay in the fact that Tad Jones
had a line on the style OF foot ball
played by both OF these schools, Jones
knew from personal experiences as
member of Yale teams just how
to size up the Tigers and the
Johns" from Cambridge.
No doubt Jones felt that his team
was as good or better than Prince
tons, At any rate he instillcd this
belief into his men when they played
the Tigers, and they came away with
flying colors.
AT Harvard the situation was a
bit different. Harvard's team would
have looked as much as so per cent
better had Percy Haughton been for
tunate enough to have a Mahan or a
Brickley il the lineup. Harvard's
offensive in years when such stars
played under the Crimson banner was
built around them. Harvard's sys-
tenn was to draw its opponents en-
tire defense off its feet the instant
the ball was snapped, and by an in
tricatc formation succeed in elud-
ing the first and in many cases the
secondary line Of defense before the
opposition could get its bearings.
But this year Harvard had no Ma
han. It had no Brickley. As a
consequence its offense lacked the
punch necessary to carry it through.
Tad Jones knew that Harvard lacked
the scintillating stars Of the past, and
he coached his players against being
drawn into traps by trick formations.
The Yale FIRST line of defense natu-
rally charged with the ball, but its
secondary line was coached to watch
the ball, determine where the play
was coming and then crash into Il.
Because Yale knew How to meet
this, il came out OF the Harvard game
with flying colors, and its success is
a monument to Jones' method Of
coaching.
Idle Chatter.
Talk OF third major league, which
sprung up in the west following the
regent meeting Of the National Asso-
Giation OF Professional Base Ball
$lubs at New Orleans, can be taken
With grain OF salt.
In the first place, big minor league
towns, such as Minneapolis, St. Paul
Kansas City, Baltimore. Newark
Montreal and one or two others thai
might be left begging if the scheme.
advanced so far can be credited
would raise such a howl that the pow,
ers that be in base ball would have
to sit up and take notice.
II is not an easy thing to rcdistrici
league without the majority vote il
the matter, and II the American asso.
citation and the international league
were broken upsto make room for a
third major there would be at least
four towns in each league left out o.
the reckoning. Thus would come a
deadlock within each league and the
birthstone would start flying.
Another quarter from which much
yelping would come is the far away
Pacific Coast league, which has long
been casting loving eye upon major
leaghe rating.
From where we sit, Steve, il looks
like an impossibility.
Shocker Leads Loop.
Recent pitching averages, of theJln,
ternational league show that Urban
,Shockcr, one Of wild Bill" Dono,
vans proteges, led his league in pass,
ing up slants to the battcrs last
season.
Shocker was somewhat OF bear
in his line, for as member OF the
Toronto club he not only proved the
most effective pitcher, but won more
games than any other wiggler in tn,
circuit. Shocker won fifteen battle.
and lost but three, while he is cred
tied with holding opposing clubs tc
l.3l runs per game Of nine innings.
In the same league the veteran
Fred Tcnncy, with Newark, led tn,
first sackers in fielding.