Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-10-21

AT THIS EARLY DATE PRINCETON
HAS EDGE ON OLD-TIME RIVALS.
MDERMOTT GREATEST GOLFFp
Harvard, Yale and
Tigers, However, Have
Not Been So Evenly
Matched in Years

MdUCIl6u Ill Il SdlS
rTARvARD. Yale and Princeton do not
III comprise the football output OF
America.
.-h.v sr. M, preciseiy tho whole show
irctnd,ns the peanuts, the pink lemonade
the elephants and the hard blue seats.
put granting all this Harvard, 1ale anu
t,r,pceton with 80 much tradition from the
early days and an increasing glamour 70
their meetings each fall. are NJ less' e
Interesting a trio as we have in sport hen.e
their status each fall is Of more than ori'-
ing or pallid Interest
The 1915 Tide
The battle among these three, not 50
much for n championship as for an inter-
university supremacy. should be wageo WIN
closer EFFORT this fall than at any autumn
date In thh last ive years. Five years ago
Princeton beat Harvard s-s ana tne.
downed Yale. 6-3. IL would oe naru ,I.nS eV
a margin any closer than either reia,eu
here espeoially as Yale and Harvard that
season finished precisely at 90 The three
elevens were better matched in 1911 than
they ever have been since-or ever were
before -.
For when Brlckley and Hardwick Joined
Haughton in 1919 and Mahan arrived IN
1919 Princeton and Yale remained In close
vlcinities but Harvard moved far on beyono
any rival reach--so far as her Two oio
enemies were concerned
II was not so much n question after
this as to who would win as II was mat
ter of keeping down Harvard's score
Rut now n new order has arrived, Brick
ieys. Hardwicxs, Mahans and Pennocks no
longer parade the battlefield in Crimson
harness Harvard for the time being. has
drifted back toward her two waiting rivals
not so far back as many believe she has,
but at least a distance from her old place
at the peak.
with Harvard's backward drift. Prince
ton looks TO have the best eleven since
Eddie Harts day. and Yale is pointing
upward with good start
which means that Harvard. Yale and
Princeton this fall look to be better matched
than they have been for long time,
Just at this soon date we should say that
Princeton has n slight edge over both old
time rivals. and yet not nearly as much OF
an edge as she looked to have over Yale
last fall
Picking the Winner
There will be time enough later on as
the campaign advances TO indulge In further
prophecies, but for all that an October
ruess might be in order How do they
look? Take 'em in order
HarvardP Princeton - Princeton has tn,
stronger, more experienced line and the
more experienced backheld.
Princeton looks to have better kiclSin,
| facilities at hand In briggs and Tibbott.
Harvard with Bond. Flower, Casey
Horween and Hitchcock, has potentially tn,
| strongest all-around backheld in the East
| not this season by next fall
All most OF these lack now is Big Gam,
| experience 10 hu ,,f1 "
| Vember Haughton will be able 70 bring tn,
| speed and power they have up TO a poin
| or winning power. But they are not llkeI,
70 reach anything like their best form b,
thls fall' so Princeton. with her create
experience now has just bit to spare
The Second Test
Princeton Yale-This game will danar,
lergely upon how far Speedy Rush has suc
cceded In dispensing the Nassau idea fha
Yale has the Indian sign on Princeton.
princeton VIII meet n better Yale clever
than she met last fall. when Yale won out
Princeton now looks to have n slight ad
vantage. but not a great one in any way
| For Yale, with a hard fighting line an,
| lie Gore. Bingham and Smith in the hack
field. has more than one dangerous asset.
Princeton should have a triie the bette
| OF the kicking game and this margin shoul,
be enough to win by provided Princeto,
| doesn't buckle up again.
| Princeton has more speed in her back
| field. but no one man as dangerous a
lie Gore and no one lineman as inspires
as Captain Black
This contest should be one OF the hes
| Yale-Princeton battles OF a decade ~ tn
| two elevens continue an equal developmen
| up TO the testing game.
| Yale-Harvard-For the first time sine
| 1911 Yale has at least an even chance I
| yank the Crimson banner down from IN
halyards.
In 1919. 1918. 1914 and 1915 Yale wa
| outclassed before the kickoff, and Il wa
| merely a question OF the score
Now. after a dreary sojourn in the blea
| wilderness Of woe, Yale at least can fi0ur
| upon an even chance to win.
Harvard is going to find hard work ahea
In breaking through Yale's defense. But
| Is no certainty that Yales attack will n
able to toss any wrecking damage into Har
| wards.
l. Haughton's defensive machine has smort
cred Yale's attack now for about seye
| years.
Princeton In this time has mauled on
three touchdowns against the Crimson. Will
Yale has been driven away from the lin
with considerable slaughter.
The proposition OF getting one touchdow
in this game is going to be no sponRy IA
for either eleven, where the final result
too closely allied TO toss-up to. can fo
any forecasts
by GRANTLAND RICE.
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