Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-20
BY II. c. BYRD.

Central should win the high school
foot ball championship tomorrow. OF
course, it may not. as most anything is
possible in one of the contests between
local scholastic elevens, but every
comparison of the previous part of the
season points to an almost certain VIC
tory for the Blue and White. Eastern
record is not near as good as that OF
Central, and it has not shown, since It's
game with Tech, as good individual or
team play.
Western defeat ted Eastern by to u
and Central won from Western by ~
to 0. Tech and Business also nave
claimed victories over the Capitol Hill
eleven, while both those clubs nave iost
TO Central. So far Central has produc-
ed by far the best and most conslsteht
team play, and that is what reaiis
counts in the long run. Easterh f 10 . .
not shown sufficient foot ball to defeat
Central, and unless the latter allows
overconfidence. the bane of toot pan
teams in the position now held pS Zen
trail to interfere. it ought to emerge
from the fray with the long end OF the
score-and the championship-tuck
away for safe keeping for the coming
year.
The game will be played at American
League Park. starting at 3:lo o ciock.
The high school series VIII De ei.o a.,I
this week After the Central Eastern
game only one contest will remain, ano
Business and Western meet in that FIJI
day.
Tradition, prestige, confidence OF
whatever one may call that almost IN
definable something which makes one
team feel that it can win from another
no matter what the circumstances ana
causes constant apprehension on the
part of that opposing eleven, without
respect for the comparative strength
of the two, seems to have been the
greatest factor in the victory OF Yale
and the defeat of Princeton Yale play
ers thought in this wise: This Is
Princeton. and Princeton must be beat
en-. We have been beating Princeton
and we can do it today. That was
Yale prestige.
The constant .undercurrent in the
minds of Princeton men went: I'VE re
against Yale. and Yale has been our
jinx.' We are apprehensive lest the
link again come to the fore today. NO
matter how well we have done before.
we must watch out for this Yale team.
1t appears to be this difference in attl-
tude which accounts for the Dark Blue
victory 1t has been conceded by every
expert who saw the Princeton and Yale
teams of this year and last that Prince
ton could play better foot ball. And
even after the game Saturday the i'm
preston was left. despite the Yale vic
tory, that Princeton had the better ag-
gregation of players and the better
team. However. Princeton failed to
take advantage of it's opportunities
and it made grievous mistakes which
gave Yale chances that We're made good
Foot ball is game in which the psy-
element is more predominant
than in any other, and in no one game
is its presence better eXemplified than
in the struggle between Yale and
Princeton.
Some day a coach will go to Prince
ton and carry his team through it's
season without particular reference to
Yale. He will cause every conjecture
relative to the possible chance of win
ming from Yale to be hushed up at the
He viii send his team into
every contest or its merits and the
week before the Yale game viii be the
same the week before any other game
He will stop the influx of a lot Of
graduate coaches and goodintentioned
helpers and carry his team quietly
through it's week of preparation fer
the Dark Blue. preventing everything
that savors Of predictions or specula-
tons as to the outcome, forcing his
men to go into the game and play the
best foot ball of which they are capa-
BILE and without a thought to the
probable result-then Princeton will
win.
Browns defeat of Harvard will not
lessen the chances of the Crimson
against the Dark Blue. According to
experts who watched the contest be-
tween Yale and Princeton. the former
played ragged foot ball and did not
give much evidence of teamwork and
consistent play as an eleven. If this
be true, and the fault is not corrected
before the game with Harvard. Haugh
tons machine, with its precise move
nents, viii rip Yales defense. The
no particular apprehension in regard
TO the appearance on the field of the
big blue shirts. Fight and grit gave
Yale victory over a better princeton
team last year, yet the fight and grit
were helpless against the tactics Of
The pIa yers Haughton sent on the fed.
Yale this year may disrupt Haughton's
machine. may make the fighting in
stincts which have always belonged to
Yale teams play bigger part than
ever before, but unless il plays better
foot ball than ii is reported to have
shown last week against the Tigers
t does not appear that the prospects
FOR defeating Harvard are particularly
bright.
Brown triumphed over a substitute
team at Harvard. but that does not
lessen in the least the effectiveness of
he victory. and its Importance, from
4 BROW StdHupclnl- mary III tdIuol-
and will not try to offer as an excuse
for it's defeat the fact that it played its
Every college places its
team on the field for its game and no
matter what men it PLAYS the team is
It's representative. If that team is de-
'eated TO the winner should go a just
measure of credit, and particularly is
his true when il is known that the
victor had just short while before
won from another big eleven. Compe-
tent critics who watched the contest at
Cam bridge express the belief that
Brown would have won from the best
eleven that Harvard could have placed
on the field. That seems to be reason
tbIe. too. when it is considered that the
PLAYED rings around the
aggregation that did wear the Crimson,
and that there is very little difference