Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-10-24
TURNING POINT
IS REACHED IN
GRID CONTESTS
Monday All Teams in the
Larger Sections Will Be-
gin to Direct Attention to
Crucial Clashes.
BY WALTER CAMP.
Especial Dispatch TO Morning JournaD
DOWNRIGHT 1871 by Alhuaueruue JOurnalD |

copyright lO"l by Albuquerque J0urnai)
New York. Oct. 23.---The turning
point of the 1921 football season
was reached today and Monday all
the teams in the larger sections
will begin to direct their attention
TO the great contests In which their
seasons eliminate. This is the
time, therefore, to balance up
the carly season ledger and
determine what the chances of the
various teams are and what means
must be adopted by the leaders to
pull out victorie5 in the contests
nearest their hearts.
Princeton Is Weak.
Take first Princeton. Harvard
and Yale. Two weeks ago Prince
ton was a marked favorite but the
injured list has mounted at the Jer-
sey institution and unexpected
weaknesses have been disclosed.
The most appalling of these TO Mas
sau Dartisans was the lack of
power on attack without Charity
and Lourie. This brought up
ghosts of past years when the
Tigers had staked too much on in
dividual brilliancy and had paid
too little attention to a powerful,
concerted team attack. Moreover,
attempts to drive the Tigers harder
since the defeat by the Navy has
resulted in more injuries and
Princeton can i'll afford to lose
more men.
Harvard has Internationally
been travelling along a similar road
but the results have not been so
serious as Harvard has greater
wealth Of high class material. The
"punch" and the steady crashing
drive of the Crimson rush line
which has been a great factor in
Harvards success for the last two
Wears, seems wanting. This is the
hand writing on the wall that Is
troubling Coach Fisher and his as
sistants and presents a problem
they are desperately trying to solve.
Yale Not Up to Standard.
Yale, depending less on the drive
of her forward line. nevertheless
has shown that the forwards are
not the real screen they should be
for her brilliant backs. However,
Tad Jones has been working hard
on that line and has not allowed
the style of play to degenerate into
a total reliance on such men as
Aldrich. O'Hearn and a half dozen
other clever and shifty backs. But
the team still is not up to standard
and is not getting there any 100
rapidly. The wing defense is bet
ter than that of last season but
Jones misses Callahan enormously.
In the kicking department the
teams are not far apart. Harvard
has a shade the better in punting
with Felts and owen and in drop
kicking she has two dependable
and accurate kickers in Pfaffman
and Buell..
In the middle west each aggre-
CATION is now bent on a whirlwind
finish. Iowa has done nobly and
has shown a response to the hard
work Of Howard Jones. who has
developed material for many sea-
sons.
Yost Is Determined.
Yost is determined to stage a
real comeback in the last weeks of
this season with his Michigan team
and Williams at Wisconsin is re-
doubling his efforts for strong
finish. Northwestern is hopelessly
out of 1t and so is Minnesota, al
though the latter may yet play
good football. The Illinois defeat
by Iowa has started Zuppke into a
pretty thorough overhaullng of his
men. Chicago has better material
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to develop a more powerful rugged
front line to protect her backs and
leave them fresh for offensive.
Something has been radically
wrong with the Pittsburgh defense
and Warner has not .et solved the
problem. Here Is a team with as
good a bunch Of backfield men as
any In the country and the team
can score, but so, unfortunately,
can their opponents.
Syracuse. always powerful. has
real rugged line and has star IN
Gulick. The team Is getting to-
gether and Meehan has done well
in adopting his plays. Lafayette,
under Jack Sutherland. is ad-
vancing steadily and is one of the
dangerous teams in the state. Penn
sylvania has so smashed up her
ends that the wings are vulnerable.
The rest of the line Is improving
but Is not yet up to standard. Mil
Ter IL dependable in the back field
and Whitehill brilliant.
On the Pacific Coast.
Out on the Pacific coast the Uni
versity of California, while still far
in the lead. has gone through try
| ing losses, the greatest of which
was the injury to Brick Muller. For
the first time Andy Smith sees the
pallid face of hard luck" over his
shoulder. Meanwhile Stanford is