The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-25
DEFEAT WOULD Be
BENEFIT TO TIGERS
So Says "Big Bill" Edwards in
Discussing Colgate Game
Ranks Harvard Best.

!. - " iillh1li II. EuWarurs DIS ohis - -
! Is familiarity known in the football world,
Is. OF the opinion that Harvard's foot
ball team Is the best developed OF all the
big eievens in the East and that Prince
ton has q weak team. which. unless q
big brace is taken. will be beaten by
Colgate in their tussie Mt Princeton
to-day. big BILL" who Is Collector OF
| Internal Revenue for the second Dis
| trict, IL all net up over the football
situation. Sitting at his desk yesterday
he sized up the merits Of the leading
teams In the East as follows:
BY sBIG BILL" EDWARDS.
Captain Of Princeton's team, Of 1890
Judging from what saw at Princeton
laet Saturday during the Rochester
game 1t Is my opinion that Princeton VIII
have had to have done q lot OF work
this week to be able to cope success
fully with the Colgate team to-day.
| During the third and fourth periods
Of the Princeton Rochester game Prince
ton showed UP In most miserable form.
True indeed was II that many
Substitutes played. but there was very
little evidence of any team work or OF
much knowledge of the rudlinents of the
game.
! was very much discouraged when ]
left Princeton last Saturday night. 1t
was really Rochester victory In tho
third and fourth periods.
/ Princeton football enthusiasts arc
eager to see II Princeton has improved
during the past week. ] think the ma
terial is good. but unless Princeton
shows o superior article of football
against Colgate TO that which she offered
against Rochester nothing but defeat can
be her portion.
| After its victory over Cornell last
Saturday Colgate Is aroused to great
possibilities of beating Princeton. This
Princeton realizes, and every Princeton
1 player must be on edge to deliver the
best there is In him toward victory.
| Personally think that Colgate can
not beat Princeton. 1 may be prejudiced,
but believe the potential power In the
Princeton team, II awakened, will hold
the Colgate team, but Princeton must
be aroused.
F, FIRST five minutes Last Saturday the
Dartmouth team at Hanover was swept
completely of its feet by the rennsyi-
vania State College team when the
Penpsylvanians scored immediately by
| running the ball back from the kickoff.
Perhaps. from a psychological stand
point. It would be a good thing II Prince
ton we're defeated to-day, because 1 be-
Iieve the best thing that has come to
Yale no matter how sad II is. is the
defeat which the Boston College team
administered the Blue In New Haven
last Saturday.
Harvard Excels.
Harvard. in my estimation. is the best
team on the field to-day. and the game
which the Crimson played against
Brown last Saturday, although II won
by only a small score. proved to be an
excellent opportunity to work out early
season plays and to perfect interference
| formations
Successful football does not depend
on winning by large scores. ALI tn
preliminary games are arranged for Just
one purpose-that is Of perfectlng
players.
There Is much In football which proves
the old saying OF Mike Murphy: III you
won't be beat. you can't be beat" and
believe II there ever was a tina in
the winning OF a single game meant
much to the success Of the team 1t ia
the winning Of the game against Col
gate in Princeton to-day.
True indeed is It that Larry Bankar,
Is an able coach. His record at Dart
mouth warrants the above statement,
and he has wonderful list of men to
work with. but whether II was Colgate
strength or Cornell weakness that en-.
abled Colgate TO roll up such generous
score mt Ithaca last Saturday is prob
lena teal.
think that to-day's game will be a
crucial test Of Princeton's strength and
that.it affords an opportunity OF judg.
ing OF her probable chances OF winning
against Harvard and Yale.