Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-20
DOWNFALL OF PRINCETON
Complications Arise on Eastern Grid. iron-Yale Played Hard Game.

Complications Arise on Eastern Grid
 i iron-YaIe Played Hard Game.
 New York, Nov. 19.-Eastern football teams cast form to the winds in sev- eral games Saturday with the result that the closing days of the season found the gridiron situation badly complicated. Princeton, with the best eleven that has represented the Orange and Black in several years fell a comparatively easy victim to Yale, partly because of her own errors of omission and commission. Harvard, with a second string combination op- posing Browns Gridiron machine, was overwhelmed by the Providence play CTS. Dartmouth was held to a tie by West Virginia and the Army had difh- culty in defeating Springfield. The fact that other teams won deciisvely does not remove the puzzling features of the weekend play.
 The outcome of the Yale Princeton game was typical of the uncertainties of football The Tigers. with a veteran team and a coaching system advanced into it's second year were routed oy an eleven that has played erratically all season and is just mastering the fun damentaIs of Tad Jones' coaching methods. Without detracting from the efforts of the Blue it can be said that Princeton was as much responsible for it's own defeat as wa sits successful rival.
 Yale played hard but ragged foot ball, and the one outstanding feature of the Ellis game was the alertness of the New Haven players and their ability to take advantage of any open ing. The failure of Princeton to cover the kickoff at the opening of the second half gave the Blue a chance to regain the ball and score field goal which, as it developed, would have been suf- ficient to win. The Tigers made sure their defeat, however, by later fumbI- ing the ball while it wash in their possession on the 20-yard line and Captain Black made possible touch down by falling upon the rolling spheroid.
 Given the bail by their opponents twice on the twenty yard line Yale quickly converted the errors into scores, but at no other time could it seriously threaten the Princeton goal line. As. has been the case all sea- son, the Tigers showed an excellent defense but were woefully weak in of fenSive play.
 Aside from a brilliant series of suc- cessful passes uncovered far too late in the game, the Nassau players had nothing new or effective with which to attack the Yale line.
 With the material available, the poor Judgment displayed both in the of fense and in the selection of the plays was surprising. Princeton gained more than one hundred yards in the manipulation of the forward pass after Yale had scored her ten points and only a miracle could have turned defeat itno victory for the Tigers. With ordinary gridiron generalship the home eleven might have gone into the lead early in the game, had proper plays been used preparatory to calling on Tibbott for an attempted field goal
 While the Princeton story of the game was one of wasted opportunities the reverse was true of Yale's play. Led by substitute quarterback who ' was. flung into the contest at the elev- enth hour, the Blue played desperately and showed that 1t had the ability to turn it's oponents' error to advantage and power to score when within strik- ing distance of the goal line. The cleverness with which the substitute quarterback La Roche switched from one line of attack to another at crit ical moments was a big factor in the final result.
 Yale's plays, however, proved that much remains to be accomplished in the coming week if it is to repeat with victory over Harvard Princeton did not play nearly so successfully or con- fdently against the Ellis as it did against the Crimson a week ago. and unless the Blue can develop a better
 
 attack, Harvard. on the form display ed against the Tigers will be a logical favorite when the teams meet in the Yale Bowl next Saturday.
 So far as 1t has any hearing on the coming contest with Yale, the defeat of Harvard by Brown must be cast aside, since only two of the players who faced Princeton opposed the con- test against the Providence eleven. That the Crimson's varsity might have been defeated by the splendid Brown machine is possible. but certainly the score would have been far less one sided Brown defeated Yale 21 to and Harvard's substitute team 21 to O, which certain Crimson enthusiasts contend appears oprove that Yale is no stronger than the Cambridge sec- ond string combination, but next Sat- urdav's contest will undoubtedly up- set his theory.
 1iitsbureh found a worthy foe in Carnegie Tech and although victori- ous rcc.:=sd that 1t had faced an op- ponent Of more than ordinary ability. Will" ms did the same with Amherst. Wesleyan ran away from Columbia and s1n other respects the days play was without special feature.
 Dartmouth struck an unexpected sna@ in West Virginia, the southerners holding the Hanover eleven to a tie score.