The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-27
TIGERS STRONGER
THAN LAST YEAR
Pronouncement Of Rodgers of
West Virginia After Scout
ing the Jerseymen.
HARVARD-YALE OUTLOOK
Centre VS.. Georgia Tech Will
Be a Football Plum
Sport Gossip.
by WILLIAM n. HANNA.

spun NOsSiPs
by WILLIAM II. HANNA.
Coach Roper OF Princeton watched the
Tigers last Saturday and made the criti-
cism that they won by individual feats.
not by teamwork. There were all sorts
of things the matter with the striped
prowler. according to the plain spoken
Bill. Coach Rodgers of West Virginia
watched the Tigers last Saturday and re-
ported that they were far stronger than
last year, and that the Mountaineers
were likely to take trouncing next Sat
urday.
AS to this Individual effort VS.. team
work business. We all concede that
teamwork has greater physical. moral.
aesthetic and unitarian value than in
dvidual brilliance. but among us are
cynics enough to believe the enormity of
the offence of individual spotlight stuff
depends largely on what team it's done
against That is to say, these individual
achievements of Murrey, Lourie and
others which beat the Navy. had they
caused the defeat Of Harvard and Yale
would have sent the coaches into trans
ports of Joy and praise. Nobody would
be growing about any lack OF teamwork
| if the Crimson and the Blue had been
trailed in the dust.
Coach Rodgers's observation that the
Tigers are far stronger than last year Is
more significant and in all probability
Is a sound estimate of the situation.
Whether or not 1t will be considered por-
tentous by Cambridge and New Haven,
. L.. ,.1x nrn
stronger than last year, 1t is reason
able conclusion, for the loss of two such
players extraordinary as Trimble and
Strubing has been more than overcome
by the fact that the Tigers this year
know more football.
Is Harvard stronger than Yale? The
attack just at present is bit more bruis-
ing, the defence not so good, and each
has power and ferocity of attack. Their
meeting a month off, and the progress
made in that month will make all the
difference in the world TO each. Whether
one could have beaten the other twenty
points last Saturday doesn't matter in
the least. In the writer's opinion they
were about a standoff last Saturday,
whatever they'll be three weeks from
next Saturday. Centre couldn't have
beaten Yale or Princeton any more than
she beat Harvard, but would have held
them to smaller totals. The Harvard
! Yale results all depends on how much
latent ability each has apd how it Is de-
veloped in the time intervening.
Harvard will have to be stronger than
/ last year to beat Yale. and Harvard,
! like Yale. is stronger. The Eli outfit is
no stronger in potential material than
last year, out is being equipped with a
] Haft int bait I'M "
machine. Tad Jones hasn't as good ma
I terial to work with this year as in 1916,
not in the line certainly. His 1920
backs are better, much better, material
/ but in 1916 he had Comerford and
Mosely on the ends Gates and Baldridge
| at tackle. Black and Fox at guard and
/ Callahan at centre, and this years line
material isn't as good as that by %
per cent. But this years eleven Is more
vivid. more versatile and harder hit
ting crowd than that one.
Centre va. Georgia Tech at Atlanta
next Saturday; there's a plum for you.
Georgia Tech held Pittsburg to 10 to 3
score. and mist be pretty strong to do
that Centre by its little invasion of
Cambridge and it's spectacular exhibit
ton there took its place among the head
liners. It will take considerable mental
! and physical residence to spring back
into playing mood after the battering
received in the Stadium. but. notwith-
standing that batterlng the Centre cor
espcndents-these things are more the
fault of the correspondents than of the
football management itself--are not
sending out hospital bulletins and chron-
telling the list of crpples. perennial
custom at some places best described
tl.a hot tnn N W
aching"
Tufts has an end. Bart Macchia. who
ran eighty yards for a touchdown against
Norwich and week later at West Point
turned the same sensa tional trick. In
each case he did It receiving n kickoff.
Boston item has II that after the
Harvard Centre game large basketfu
Of "empties" was picked UP in the Ken
lucky section on the stand What in the
name of the Eighteenth Amendment are
! "empties'?
II there Is peace in the air and the
Johnson five. are in chastened mood, no
baseball magnates around here have had
any nkllng to that effect President
Heydler Of the National League said
yesterday he knew nothing of it. Ban
Johnson's tone however, is less belliger-
ent than a week ago. IL tAat means any
thing.
Col Z. L. Huston OF tho Yankees was
operated on Monday night for an abscess
and was doing well yesterday
The sound Of heavy firing coming from
the southwark the next two weeks viii
be the reverberations of cuatro baggers
turned loose by Infante Ruth. also
known as Babe and Bambno, on the
Cubans. The Babe entrains to-day fol-
Key West
Penn varsity Loses TO scrubs.
Special Despatch 10 THE NEW YORK IIEs,Lp
PHILADELPHIA. Pa. Oct 26-Fron
present indications, Mike Whitehlll. thu
former Rutgers star. win be in PEN.