The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-22
RIVALS EXCELLED
BLUE IN TEAM PLAY
No TOuchdOwns for Yale
Elevens in Last Two Years
in Big Games.
CRIMSON BELOW FORM
Made No Progress After the
Princeton Game-GOssip
of the GridirOn.
CRIMSON BELOW FORM
by WILLIAM Ii. HANNA.


Yale football authorities. the offence
failed TO produce a single point this
year In the Blues two big games the
two games which we're all in all TO Yale
Moreover not for the last two years has
Yale made touchdown against Prince
ton or Harvard Furthermore, the Of
fence was not as strong in either of
those games this year as last.
Harvard's and Princeton's attacks this
year eclipsed Yales in team play. In a
measure, the Yale coaching staff could
not help that They couldn't control cir
cumstances which initiated against
team development at New Haven and
which did not do so at Cambridge ana
Princeton.
Injuries so numerous as TO make the
assembling of the same men for any
length of time a rarity prevented the
development of the necessary concerted
action. and that was one reason Yale
offence always was behind her rivals
It may be that this was the chief rea-
son why Yale's offence wasn't up to the
Harvard and Princeton standard, but II
also struck in forcibly on many ooser-
want spectators as they viewed the Blue
and the other two's formations and
schemes of attack that Ell also was be-
hind them basically as to formations
best adapted to the present game and in
conception and application Of the most
effective ways of conducting an offence
IN football as now played.
It did not seem to me-without at
tempting to consider the question with
any intricacy or profundity. which
there isn't as much of in football as
YOU might be led to believe-that the
Yale backs were properly distributed or
placed (properly arranged with refer
ence to one another or their forwards)
10 swing ana shoot plays, to draw OPP
pGrents out of position, to detour and TO
deceive With as good results and with
the scN tific use of skill to which the
most az RANGED teams have attained.
Yale's plays, i'm brief. were not diff
cult for the other side to grasp they
hadn't enough OF deception ii wasn't
hard to guess what Yale was going TO
do. That straight jab from close to the
line, for eXample-the one used repeat
edly against Harvard and Princeton and
With so slight proft-was primerlike in
it's simplicity and one instance of an Of
fence devoid Of q p effective central point,
OF fulcrum. from which 70 start the ma
chinery and modernize offence as Yale's
rivals have modernZed it.
IF these things are true, then, Yale's
ailments this season went deeper than
passing ills in the form of good timber,
unavailable for some reason or other.
II would appear that what Yale needs
is more study of-with view to using
progressive and freer tactics Of a sort
allowing more room for their operation.
That little close knit area for the backs
50 often used-and with it's lack of
radial scope-how futile 1t was If
these things are needed. then Tad Jones
also needs assistants to go about getting
them with enthusiasm and not in an
antagonistic spirit.
AIt is gossiped about that the Yale
players were worked too hard this fall
not In the sense of putting In too many
hours, but in having too much actual
scrimmaging They ought to know at
New Haven whether or not that is so.
Certainly they've been at il long enough
10 know whether harm resulted from
overriding the advice of the trainer. II
such fault existed at New Haven and
is recognized II is one easy TO remedy.
And whether It did or not a good many
thousand persons noticed this on Satur-
day.
That the Ellis. after week OF little
or no scrimmag ing played with more
vigor, more zest for the game and with
much nimbler cerebration than the week
before. They were on their toes after
a week Of comparative ease.
The Yale back field was not the
equal Of Harvards or Princetons po-
tentially or otherwise; the line was
every bit as good as either one. There
wasn't the coordination at Yale of the
two other places. The coaches couldn't
help the former condition; they could
have done better with the latter condi-
lion. provided. as noted frequent abb
sences Of regulars did not prevent and
even then there could have been bet
ter offensive equipment. Yale played
with great spirit and credit Saturday,
but possibly conditions not associated
with desperate eleventh hour rallies,
with small hope OF winning would be
more satisfactory to a majority Of Yale
men.
Tad Jones Is intelligent and open
minded and the sort TO make good use
OF his lessons. The material he found
when he arrived last September was
not as plastic as he had hoped for The
hack field material was not as good as
last years. Aldrich was the only high
grade man in II. though Sturm was a
good man brought forward too late. In
addition. it is only fair to Kempton to
say that he played better in his last
game than in any other and struck
streaks Of brilllancy in keeping with
the reputation he had before entering
college.
Jones's ideas. as applied to the fresh
man team through Chester La Roche,
worked we'll indeed Defects in Yale's
football took root long before Jones re-
turned to coach, and only a miracle
surgeon could have cut them out in a
single season.
Where was that mysterious STUFF IIar-
ward has been able to keen a mystery
through not numbering? Why didn't
Harvard use II for a touchdown from,
fale's 5-yard line?
The officials for the Army-Navv game
az the Polo Grounds next Saturday will
be: Referee Or. Al Sharpe, Yale: UNI
oire, J. S. Evans Williams field fudge
Fred Murphy. Brown linesman. Carl
Marshall, Harvard
Field goals played the deuce with
Yale this year. Six were made by op-
ponents IN the last three games-one by
Armstrong OF Brown, one each by MUIR
rey and Lourie Of Princeton. one bv Tror-
ween and two by Buell. Of Harvard Irar-
ward, with Brlckley, Casey and "a few
others, has put over many n point on the
Bulldog that way.
The announcing in the Bowl Saturday
vas the best Of amy OF the three big
games, and the dissemination Of reliable
Information the promptest and clearest.