Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-08
OUTPOLNTS CRIMSON
BY PLAYING BETTER CAME EVEN
S% THOUGH SCORE RESUL TED IN TIE
by ROBERT W. MAXWELL
Sports Editor Evening Public Ledger
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Princeton football team lived up TO the brilliant
49, record made this year in the earlier games and out
NE pointed Harvard In the big gridiron struggle in Cambridge
n saturday. The final score was a 14-to-14 deadlock, but
n The Tigers seem to have played the better game.
M Handicapped at the start by two 10 yard penalties,
N which were due to overanxiousness and not dirty play on
N The part of Ropers men, Princeton came back strong,
ned wonderful football and, had the players on tho
ysecndary defense kept their eyes open in the last period,
might have been a different story.
8T <x,Thsre Is no intention on my part to detract from the
sensational finish put on by Harvard in the waning mo-
II nnents of the final period, when. with the score IA to 7
II asainst them. an aerial attack was launched and four
forward passes were completed in succession. This was
\ great football, but very unusual. 1t is seldom, indeed,
"a that a team can get away with four passes in a row.
&1nCS they are used In a last desperate attempt to stave
~ NJ Seat.
starvard had to do something in the fourth period.
/ Princeton was leading by one touchdown. Don Lourie was
using excellent Judgment in running the team and the
f36Ssod was drawing to a close. Up to this time the
XIx2lmscn depended on straight football, evidently holding
back the open attack for the Yale game. But straight
football wasn't enough. Not a first down had been made
lin the second half by rushing the ball.
~ @sCoach Fisher sent in Fits, a star halfback VINO hd
been kept under cover all year, to replace Churchill.
Then Sedgwick took Hubbardis place at left tackle and
Buell. supplanted Fitzgerald at quarterback. Buell. APP
parently had been told to open up the game. for on the
h Arst play he called for a forward pass which netted ~
Ey9gds and started Harvard on its march for the tying
{ttcochdown.
.Crouchins behind the center. Buell. took the ball, faxed
ks a to a halfback on a line olunge, and then, running back
3 yards, hurled the ball at Fits, who was standing out
there all alone. That was the start. Two line bucks
failed and another pass netted a few yards. The thTd
~ 8C8yG WIS uCNeSSlul IL uEoubuI tV poi
1lker goal line. :,
Then came the finale. Buell. again ran back and
}t Csoker, after crossing the goal line, leaped IN the arr
caught the ball and touched it down.
~ Ii of these passes ,cere thropn to the left side
Il II of the Harvard line, tohich IS the right side OF
II %Princetor's defense. CIere, toho had taken Muir
rsv's place, probably ,oas fooled bv the open play.
Nothing could be done against the Tigers left side.
Roper Proves Worth as Coach
n DILL ROPER proved beyond question that he is a grea:
- football coach Saturday. His team played a much
. more varied, sensible attack and a sound defense. The
}[AGth -vaunted Harvard line did not wade through the
a Ffiuceton forwards as was expected, and the Crimson
II made but five first downs at rushing the ball. All Of
u these were made In the first half.
VI In, the backfeld, Clarity and Iourie were the best on
III Che field, Lourie excelling in field generalship and all
around play and Clarity as a line plunger and skirtins
Ii che end.
II To my mind, Princeton lost a grand opportunity in
~ Tire first half. After Harvard had scored in the first six
81 MINUTES Of play there was q general let-u in the play
N of the Crimson. That one score seemed to be enough,
II and it looked as II Harvard was playing to win by Z to o.
81 Princeton naturally was upset by the penalties and the
tl touchdown and could not get going. Poor passes BY
M Callahan ruined end runs, forward passes and punts.
NJ There was fumbling in the %backfeld. and on several occa-
XII mons the man with the ball failed to gain because he ran
~ into his own men. Four different times In the first half
81 Princeton interferers were standing up instead Of leaving
their feet and clogsed up the hole through which the
III runner was to 60.
IA Had Princeton played the same kind of a game in the
NJ Arst half as she did in the second, Harvard would have
III had quite a little trouble. Before the first period ended
III the Tigers had the ball on Harvard's 10 yard line fol-
M lowing a penalty for piing up, but couldn't get the bali
over. In the second period a forward pass was knocked
~ down by Captain Horween behind the goal line and an
h ether chance was lost.
I'll TIE plav on both sides pds duH, drub ard Nv
es~--l intervening in the first haF, but IL "a' different
IN tAe second.