New-York tribune., 1919-11-16

: sprig of laurel that settled around it's
mottled neck. Yale had the weight,
the power, it's own home field, the ad-
vantage in age and general football ex-
perience. In spite of this a lighter.
greener Princeton team came from be-
hind in the final quarter and literally
fought the Blue off its collective feet
knowledge of football in almost every
department of play.
Yale's giants looked slow and lum-
bering against the feeter and more
elusive delegates from Nassau, who, in
addition to their speed and alertness,
. proved to be one Of the greatest fight
Q ing aggregations that ever carried the
Orange and Black out beyond the Blue.
Princeton won because she played
modern football against the vintage of
1902. Princeton had varied attack, an
up-to-date output of plays to offer,
while Yale had nothing but sheer
physical power that was about as subtle
as sledge hammer.
Fail With Forward Pass
1t is generally recognized that the
forward pass is one of the greatest of
all ground-gaining factors in the mod
2 ern game. Yet about the only forward
pass that Yale could use to-day was
direct peg to some waiting Tiger, who
promptly nailed the ball and ran it
back. 1t is an astonishing thing to
know that in the course of sixty min
utes of play the Yale eleven was not
able to complete a single pass. The
bulk of them were crudely executed,
crudely thrown and crudely handled.
No modern football team with this
q limited and badly spotted collection of
forward passes deserves to beat any
sort of opposing team, and so there
was no turn of the battle this after
noon when Yale deserved to win.
The bulldog had the power and the
bulk to fight his way forward in more
than one crashing drive, but outside
of this he had nothing to offer. And
even these crashing drives, led by
Braden, were shattered and broken by
Princeton's fine defense when the 20
yard line was reached. Beyond the 20
yard line the Yale march came to an
abrupt halt, where on each occasion the
efficient toe of jim Braden brought
about field goal.
Big Braden, the burly line breaker,
fought his way forward on play after
play. But an eleven that places its full
dependence upon one line-smasher and
sembling a modern attack is in a very
bad way. Outside of Braden Yale had
nothing in the way of an offensive
machine.
Kempton Disappoints
Kempton was big disappointment as
a star, and neither Lay nor Neville ap-
preached the alertness of the fleet
Tiger trio. There wasn't Yale back
in Trimble's class, and outside of
Braden none that even approached
Strubing or Garrity. In front in the
by wild forward pass that Trimble
intercepted and ran back thirty yards,
leading to field goal by Murrey.
With the score and 6, Yale lost her
chance to get drawn battle by still
wilder lateral pass from Neville to
Kempton-a pass that missed the be-
wildered receiver by five feet, bounded
into the open and lay there in recep-
tive attitude for Scheerer, when some
feet and left a clear sweep for the line.
SO it seems that about all Yale knew
Eof the passing game, forward or lateral,
was a most hospitable toss to some
Princeton opponent, who accepted the
gift with extreme graciousness, but
VINO refused TO return the compliment.
This victorious Princeton eleven de-
serves all the credit you may have to
award for it's victory to-day. 1t was
uphill stuff for the Tiger all the way.
Roper had in McGraw one veteran to
match against such oldtimers as Bra
den, Gait, Callahan, Neville and Allen
Roper's green eleven had also just COM
? plcted three battering contests without
rest.
Everything Favors Yale
The slow field favored Yale's
Z weight and power. And so when Yale
came to the closing quarter in the
= lead the Bulldog also had the advan-
s tage of the score. Against all these
odds Princeton never faltered. Her
Eyounger and lighter eleven stuck
{ grimly to the job, waiting for the first
Yale mistake, and when it came there
{; was either Trimble or Scheerer or
n some one else to take advantage of the
gala occasion, while disconsolate Blue
banners dropped across the Yale
Il stands.
Yale's forwards, with all their look
of bulk and power, failed to break
8 down Princeton's defense. The two
Galatians fought it out, but only 6
soothsayer could tell who got the bet
4 ter of the man-to-man battle. The