New Britain herald., 1921-11-07
INDIVIDUAL MEN
 WON FOR TIGERS
Princeton Brilliancy Offsets
 Haryard'S Scientific System

New York, Nov. 7.-There were
 many things behind the fine victory
 which Princeton scored over liar
 ward on Saturday, but no fact stands
 out more than this-it was the trl-
 umph of individual briliancy over an
 exact football system. It Is nothing
 new for Harvard to play scientific
 football. The Crimson has been do-
 ing this thing since Percy lIaughton
 first led the Cambridge eleven out of the gridiron wilderness, Bnt for the
 first time since 1911 the Crimson dis covered that even q perfect system cannot always avail against supcrmen such as Coach Bill Roper mad at his command this year.
 For two successive years up to last Saturday Harvard had tied the Tigers after trailing until well into the final period. In 1919, with Princeton in the van and the minutes flying fast, Eddie Casey caught a forward pass and slipped across the goal line with the tying touchdown. Again last sea- son the Tigers were leading, Ii to [, with only a few minutes to play, but 1t Is now an old story how Coach Fisher sent Buell. and Maconber into the fray, turned on a forward pass game that hitherto had been kept un- der cover, and used the scientific Har- yard system as the lever with which to overturn the Tigers hopes of vic- tory.
 It is now two years since Eddie Casey departed from the Cam bridge campus. He was then the latest in brilliant string of Harvard stars dating far back in the years and coming down to the days of Brickley and Mahan, who had been the in- mediate predecessors of the nimble Casey. But since 1919 no figure has stepped forward to carry on the bur den of leadership and, with the pos sihle exception of the youthful Gehrke, there is no Casey or Mahan on the Crimson squad today.
 Individual Stars Decided It.
 On Saturday, then, they had no Lourie or Keck or Clarity around whom to build an attack. But, al though Princeton eXcelled in individ- ual setars, Harvard was the superior in the exact science of it's football. It's attack was thing of beauty in it's deception, variety and the care fully thought-out principles that lay beneath it all. The Crimson forward pass, is the best in the east, if such sweeping statement may be allowed, and it was not only excellent in man. ual execution but, even more rare, had been made an integral part of offensive campaign. Be- hind the kind of football that Har- yard played there were many hours and days and weeks of painstaking thought and preparation. It failed because there was no Mahan or Casey to supply the vital punch and because the right side of the line was weaker than the system.
 To praise Harvard, of course, is to aud Princeton even more, for the Tigers won the game, which is really he important thing. And they were the better team-stronger in man power and individual talent, directed by a smarter field general, quicker and more alert, faster afoot, less slug gish when the big moments came, better opportunists. This describes Princeton as it was on Saturday. True the Tiger is not so sood this year as last, but he is still strong enough to beat Harvard, system or no system.
 After all, it is men that make 'ootball teem-the Louries, the iecks, the Wittmers and, Harvard will add, the Gilroys, who see their and come through with he vital punch, doing greater things han any coach ever taught them. In one flash of Tiger alertness and speed all the dul, drab, precise perfection of the Harvard system had been null flied.