New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-11
TIGER "HITTERS"
NEEDED TO BEAT
CRIMSON TEAM
Rush Said to Have Many
New Plays to Offset
Harvard
BY w. o. MCCLELLAN


crn football season Is scheduled lot
Soldiers Field to-day, where the
Princeton eleven, trained by John
uorlap Rush. meets the Harvard
eleven. coached and otherwise perfect
"A under the direction Of Percy D.
Haughton.
Last year about this time haugh,
ton team journeyed to Princeton anu
defeated a Tiger aggregation that
seemed full Of promise on the cary
season showing. The same Haush'0n
lied team later in the year massacreu
aud disintegrated the Yale eleven ~
Soldiers Field.
Tho Princeton forces this year have
really a weaker team to contend VII"
., naper. but the Haughton system
during the Cornell game showed
synntoms Of considerable strength. IL
ia not the material Of Harvard tha'
bs. disconnected Princeton hackers 50
that they feel that their team shouiu
- .hort-.nders. but the intangible
Haughton system
Princeton has established . fairy
consistent. record for the preliminary
,,'nrL tbis season. On the defensive
H. Rlack and Orange line seems 70 De
nsde M OF solid concrete, sano pass
and some barbed wire entang enien 70
Dopesters point out the fact tnst tnS
Princetonians have not been scoIeu
against this season.
Lack Driving Power
II is the driving power that seems
60 10 lacking in the Princeton ma
cb;ne The line seems capable VI
bolding against any sort OF an attach'
hut no purely defensive team can WIN
foo+bal games any more than per
foct fielding baseball team can win
baseball games without the aid Oh
There is no doubt that the Princeton
lna should be able to bore plenty OF
boles in the red jerseyed phalanx:
Cornell did il, and the centre trio OF
Princeton this year looks more power
ful than the centre trio that OorheII
sent i'm against Harvard. But those
Who saw the Cornell-Harvard game
no.iced that. while the Harvard hrst
line defence was generally weak. tne
second line defence checked nearly
every rush Of Cornell. u
1t is whispered that John Harlah
Rush has q whole box OF new ulchS
10 uncover to-day. lie prooaoiy wiz
need them, and they will have 10 De
particularly subtitle pieces OF strategy
TO catch that Harvard second line de-
fence off guard.
Casey and Horween
II is probable that the task OF ad-
vsncinr the ball will devolve chieny
unon Casey and Horween, as was the
scheme in the game with Cornell nor
ween is remarkably effective me
munger. He has tricky manner Oh
diving over players, just keeping WIN
in the law as far as illegal hurdllng -
concerned. Ill
for the greater part of the successiul
drive against Cornell, is one OF Vhe
richest backs that ever lodged through
a broken field, not excepting his prede.
cessors. Mahan and Brickley. Part OF
Casev's effectiveness Is due TO the TACT
that he is left-handed, and ms moves
are hard TO anticipate.
When Casey is starting FORWARD
PASS the fact that he Is a southPs"
works considerably IN MS laNVi'. n0
tackler. seeing him with the ball IN ms
left hand, lodges about, preparing 1or
him 10 shift NJ. H.
In the meantime Casey shoots the
hall TO the mark with his left hand
In baseball Casey is left-handed
tbrower and a remarkably accurate one
Also he uses the starboard arm to "a,
minister the straight arm. Lett-handed
football players are rare birds ana IN
the new football they are battling per-
sons.
Tibbott May Not Start
II seems now that Dave Tibbott, the
greatest of the drop kickers, may not
start in the Princeton lineup. But II
the game should become close and the
Orange and Black should man9uvre
into position for a field goal there Will
he a hurry call for Tibbott. DAVID can
shoot them from an angle right be-
tween the goal posts from such trihing
distances as the 47-yard line. II the
irresistible Haughtonized attack should
meet the immovable stonewall line OF
Princeton for draw it may be that
the drop kicking Of Tibbott VIII WIN
the game for Princeton.
But the indications are that the our-
den OF the afternoons song VIII De
tho same as that of the Harvard-Cor-
nell game, "And Casey carries the