The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-15
NO FOOTBALL FOR
\ ELLIS FOR A DAY
Yale Players Go to Gedney
Farm for a Loaf Until A.,
Tomorrow.
FACE A F0RLORN HOPE
Member of Bic Eleven Back
From Big Baseball Victory
i'm the West.
FACE A FORLORN HOPE
BY WILLIAM b. HANNA.

The Yale varsity football squad went
20 Gedney Farm yesterday morning
They won't see a football and Will try
not to think football until tomorrow
when they will return to New Haven
John Mack the trainer. who is wonder
ing when Yale is going to get some
breaks on the gridiron, went with them.
but no coaches The coaches went to
New Haven there TO drill the second
string and cogitate over the forlorn hope
which confronts Yale for the Harvard
game
wen be a better team against Har-
ward" said DR. Bull Of the coaching
staff yesterday. The Doctor added that
the offence would have TO be better than
In the Princeton game If the Blue was
going to have any kind of chance to
beat the Cantabs. The humbling of the
Crimson after being thoroughly and ar
tistically plastered by Princeton can be
done. but 1t viii be nothing short Of an
2 upheaval II 1t Is, and nobody Is dashng
furiously forward offering to bet his
money that way.
The truth is Princeton didn't play as
strong a game against Yale as against
Harvard. II is a tough assignment to
have to meet your biggest rivals within
Week year after year as Yale and
Princeton do while Harvard has a
breathing interval: and the Tigers were
feeling the effects of the collision with
Harvard. Yet for all that Yale was dis
posed OF handily and Harvard is likely
to be better next Saturday than any
time this year.
Nice pleasant afternoon staring Yale
in the face the coming week end. In
addition, Brown was much easier for
Harvard than for Yale. Yale outplayed
Brown fair and square and fully de-
serves credit therefor. but by much
smaller margin than Harvard did. The
fact is Brown was rather weak, and the
showing Of the Ellis against the Brunon-
ians didn't augur well for a good show
Ing against first calibre teams such as
Harvard and Princeton.
Yale will do better against Harvard
than against Princeton If Yale can get
q quarterback capable Of leading the
team with a nearer approach to ac-
cepted standards of good judgment than
was shown last Saturday. Smart hand
ling and brisker and more businesslike
methods Of running off plays would inn
prove the Blue appreciably Speaking.
however. of briskness in running off
plays both teams were shy of II Satur-
day, and that sort Of thing always de-
tracts REWRITING to quarterbacks those
In charge of Eli Saturday didn't do as
we'll with the team as first class one
would have done in making use of plays
provided by the coaches.
In neither the Harvard nor the Yale
game was Princeton's forward passins
as Sticky done as last year. and Yale
had this play as effectively guarded as
II Is possible TO defend against forward
mass In that respect the Ellis were
quick wftted enough: which was about
the only way. save the admirable line
play of Into. Callahan. Cross. Acosta
and Quaile that they were. consistently
ct least.
But though Princeton was n bit be-
hind last year in deft manipulation OF
the forward pass, its football history
under the Roper regime Is one OF steady
progress In pretty much every way
Roper when at Princeton before. was
the first man IN charge in a long time to
show needful appreciation of the fact
that the Tiger must be schooled for less
of this opportunism business and more
for q real. positive productive offence
ouch as Yale. then Harvard. excelled In
Under Roper's able direction the
Tigers have advanced until nobody has
anything on them IN intelligent. vigor-
Gus, well organized attack. More has
been shown in that respect In the last
two years than in twenty preceding. The
defence has improved In proportion, too.
IL mas improved VI HleTLUtSS ana AuHhel-
mental strength. II has come to a parity
with Yale's. and that's saying something,
Tor In line OF actual and immediate line
play Yale always has been one Of the
best-except when the ends were weak
ana has not retrogra ded in that respect
while retrograding in others
Yaie's game was clean Saturday. 1t
was cleaner than Princeton's The
ID eIs.. tab L, of tot uff nr
shows IT, Not a penalty was imposed
on the Blue which Is unusual. II not
rare The New Haven men played with
good workmanship and took their lick
ing with good grace.
There was a play on the Princeton
side not 10 be classified as good sports
manship. II was the tackle out OF
bounds by Lourie of Aldrich. II was
n fragrant foul and apparently the tackle
was deliberately done II was a rough,
hard tackle. and there was no excuse
for t. The officials saw Il and inflicted
the penalty One Of his mates slapped
Lourie on the back just after the play
and that prompted the question whether
the slapping was in approval OF the
taclkle and If so, for an act forbidden
by the rules
The versatility OF football In provid-
ing ways for player 70 get hurt was
illustrated Big Keck. the peerless
tackle, ripped through 20 the Yale back
field to take out Kempton, who was play
sng back Kempton saw him out Of the
corner OF his eye. coolly sidestepped and
Keck went spra wiling. with n cramp In
his leg. He was helped to the side line
for repairs.
Princeton must be taken into consid-
~ration when selecting the team 10 rank
first. and the consideration due Harvard
ejeperds on what that eleven does next
Saturday. There Is no convincing reason
vhy Harvard and Princeton have not
fully as good a claim 10 FIRST place
ns Penn State or Pittsburg.
The big eleven. as they had come 10 be
known---the baseball. teams OF the Ma
t,onai and American leagues which de-
dared for the Lasker plsn--arf back TO
business with peace restored and with
me satisfaction OF having done a good
100 and having won a decisive emphatic
Victory over what had come 60 We known
81 the johnson loyal Eve Mayhap they
are not gioatinr or thinking % Il other
than az something for which the game Ia
better OF but we ha - heard talk about
"compromlse" and mot defeat for
johnson or q victory FOR the big eleven ."
Tnis recalls the story OF the man and