New Britain herald., 1916-10-23

uay, put the opposition was LOO WeaS to take advantage of it. There is @ tendency toward long passes from either the quarterback or the center in the present system of play, and this fact has made fumbling a more com mon practice. Last season Quarter back Watson of the Harvard eleven relied mostly on short passes and with his backs punched closely, there was little fumbling of any consequence. On the other hand, the champion Cornell team of last season relied mostly on long passes directly from the center while Captain Barrett, al- though in the quarterback position, was virtually extra halfback. The Comedians, however, were carefully drilled in handling long passes, which proves that an eleven can be taught to bring fum bling down to a min- imum.
 If anything, the Princeton team is further along in development than Yale. This is painly Princeton's op- pOrtune year. Coach Rush has a team of seasoned veterans, and if ho doesn't land them on top this year, it will be two Or three years before he can develop a bunch of players who will have the experience of the present troupe of Tigers. Princeton right now is made up just about as they will be for their important contest. The final choice will no doubt be: Highly and Wilson, ends; Mclean and Lathrobe. tackles; Nourse and Hogg, guards; Gennert, center; Eddy, quarterback; Brown ! and Moore, or Eberstadt, halfbacks, l and Dave Driggs, fullback
 Seasoned Men at Princeton. 1 The majority of these players have 1 had two or three seasons of gridiron ! experience at Princeton, and most of i them will graduate next June. Rush has reason for confidence in his eleven 1 for in experience alone they have the edge on Yale and Harvard Prince- 1 tons defensive game seems to be just about where it. should be at this stage Of the season, and the thing which the 1 coaches will aim for more than any, thing else from now on will be a more ggressiveattack. Yale has shown much aggressiveness in offensive n1av for so early in the season, while m Ost of the Tigers attention has been paid l to defensive play.
 Although Harvard ran up a big l count of A7 to 0 on the Massa chu- 1 setts Aggies, the game put up bv the Crimson against fairly weak opponents showed that the development Of the l Harvard eleven is slower than in 1 former years. Harvard's defense had no trouble in holding back the Bay State farmers, but in offensive tactics the Crimson relied Tol Y on the in- dividual efforts of Eddie Casey
 Casey bids fair to become a star of the Mahan type before the season Is over. He has a world of speed, and did some running in a broken field or Saturday that was unusually spectacu- lar. Casey uses the straight arm just as effectively as the old-time stars tc
 bowl over opponents. Horween al fullback also did much fine individua
 work, but there is still lacking in Har- wards play that unity and team work which have made Crimson teams o1
 the past so effective.
 That Harvard is far behind botI
 Yale and Princeton is shown by the !, fact that the eventual makeup of the
 eleven is still undecided, and as
 Haughton only joined the coachine squad recently he seems to be stil
 in the dark about the final choice o1
 candidates for more than one position
 Murray's quarterback play Saturda,
 was encouraging, and the Crimson ha:
 no need to worry about this position
 with two good men like Murray anf Robinson. With the Cornell game br- week away, Harvard is in a yer,
 cha otic condition, and if the Cornel team is as far developed as 1t was las season, the Crimson has trouble
 some afternoon ahead at the Stadiur,
 on Saturday.
 Setback for Green Tean,
 The Dartmouth players got a rude
 shock when they were downcd by
 Georgetown. The Hanoverians' bis
 early season scores were the result ot
 playing very weak teams rather thar strength on Dartmouth's part. O.