Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-10-26
TIGERS co BACK
TO FUNDAMENTALS
Roper Starts All Over Again in
Pointing Princeton Toward
Harvard Game
FLYING END" DEFENDED
by JACK STRJBING
Former Princeton QgartsrbGCk

This week Princeton looks more like
the beginning of September than the
last week in October Roper. utter
. the season IS over. will be able to quail
/ fy as n first class union slave driver
! That is the key word. It's drive. drive.
drive from now until the rcd legs come
down from Harvard. However. this is
no motley horde of surly sprfs that the
councilman is forcing. 1t is a very
serious squad Of very earnest, eager
men who smile little and speak less.
They arc just plain sore.
Singing under two defeats and the
ra27ing the rocking chair critics have
given them the men are going to come
back or crawl in hole and die. When
man who fought his best against odds
in weight, speed. team work and knowl.
edge he naturally becomes n little irri-
tated at being panned because hc did
not come out on top. And this is the
case Of Tigcrtown. The Nales and the
liarvards are in for two Of the hardest
scraps the season will witness this fall
That Is what Princeton is working
for, the two big games. OF course It's
always nice to have a clean slate be.
hind YOU. but when Harvard and Yale
| nrc taken into camp nothing else mat :
| tcrs much. The captain gets tho cham
| pionShip white sweater Just the same.
And tho bonfircs arc built Just as big.
| That IS natural when colleges have been
friendly enemies for practically half a
century.
Fundam, ntalS Again
Tho two weeks remaining will Lc do .
voted TO an odd mixture of fundamentals
ana tnc points. Usually at this stRvo
! Of the season tho first Of these two hss
been successfully put aside with o,hc,
childish occupations. But the mon with
few exceptions have been proved lack .
| ing in tho proper execution of these
| fundamentals. so the coaches arc irving
TO recall that which was learned manT
moons before. Tackling, interference.
Cnarging' starting and even running are
oil Dcing reviewed. And tho knOwlcdKr
Is being soaked up as sponge soaSs
| up watc".
But by Tar the greater amount Of
| time is being spent on polishing and
oiling tho machine. Like an autonoh;Ic %
n football team must go n certain dis
lance before the stiffness is broken ond
nI IN" parts are synchronized and
working well together. So Il is with
| princeton. The parts are made of uood
Sthf, but Tor some reason OF other ther
nave NOS started to ordinate. .Jrst
| why the coaches cannot say. but they
nre doing their best to learn ana to rem .
Cdy the defect
On" critic mentioned tho fact that
! Prinrcton's "hying. end" style of NJ :
tack would not work successfully. After
! the way il went last season il seems
very unlikely that Roppr will dcv'atc
/ from this style Of attock. True. it has not
SHOWN itself to b" OF great value this
year, but it was not the fault Of tho
play. 1t IS delicate play to work and
must be timed to the fraction Of an in
Stdht. Also the end must take his man
30 far the men have seemed unable
TO have both happen together. But this
! play is valuable not only because oi
! the manner in which an end is enabled
To wipe out a tackle or end or even
secondary defense, BAT because Of it,
| threat.
Good Ends Lacking
| The defensive players know tina, q
man is out there and coming in 20
ward them. The question Is which
man will h" hit this time? II the tackle
Or cnd tries 70 watch the flying end
as | ha"" seen many Of them do. nine
times oEt Of ten he is not watching the
point a. which il happens. If he Is
looking at taH "nd the play goes off. Oh
II h" is W|Hyt!ng the ball the enc
crashes into hin from tic hind quarter
Atter "" or three rrpctitions of thi'
the, tackl" begins to get pop eyed tryins
to look Two directions at once. But il
takes good end to work the play prom
"r1y Ask the tackles ana ends who
were int'oducc,i 70 Lcgcndrc. Davis anc
. lsF prip tDy
seems sadly lacking in ends OF thcir
caIIber, although Stinson got back al.
most TO his old form in the latter par
OF Saturdays game.
On top Of the fundamentals and 'h'
poI!Sling the next to last straw Is addct
il the form Of knowledge OF tho game
especially 'hc finer points. To tht
avorag" onl"oE"r n game which Np'
pears - rude and unmnnncriT rs foot
, ball could have 10 fine points. Bu
there are all kinds Of little TRICKS. bOti
Mechanical and mental. which are thu
assets Of al good football players, anC
by far the more important arc thu
mcatnl \ sound Knowledge OF tn
game, 50 that he can OUtguess and out
think ais opponent, will enable u mai
10 play rings around stronger, bigEc
and faster man. This noldS true In an,
sport. but especially in football
Princeton has been more outgnes>r
than outgucS-ing this fall and Rope
is determined it must bn brought to a
end.
Having spent tvo lazy days AZ Pin
Valley thinking Of everything futur
md nothing past, like n golfer who ha
hst lost hole, the men are at
hammer and tongs Lourie and Gar
ri,r arr back In togs again and are fuI
Of drive and pep after their forced an
! prolonged rest. These two will go ia
toward boIstering up the morale an
attack. It's work, work, wcrk for T."
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