The Washington times., 1921-11-04


The fact that Roper's lads ran
rough shod over Rice Warren's Uni
vsrsity OF Virginia squad last Saturday
proves nothing beyond the fact that
the Charlottesville collegians are Tar
from real gridiron outnt. II was
no great display of strength that won
for Princeton, The Virginia players
suffered stage fright and then gave =
sad exhibition OF tackling after they
got their sea legs.
IL those In charge of affairs in Tiger
town allow themselves to be carried
away with the showing that Captain
Stan Keck and his Orange and Black
mates made against the weak Virginia
outfit they are going to do the Nassau
college 4 great injustice Princeton
will have to show Ii big improvement
over that game to bring about the
downfall Of their Crimson rivals.
Too Much OvercOnfldehoe.
Oyerconfidence has robbed them
this season of their real strength.
The Navy and Chicago would have
great difficulty In beating the fight
ing team that showed under Ell Yale
last season by a tally Of s0to-0.
What Bob Folwell's and Alonzo A.
Staxg's outfits beat was an overcon-
fident band Of veterans.
Few football critics believe that
Roper will prove equal to shaking or
the overconfidence that every one at
Tigertown appears to be saturated
with. The defeats sustained at the
hands OF Annapolis and Chicago have
not accomplished this. This can be
cleaned from the fact that all OF the
press stories coming out OF Nassau
are filled to the brim with the spirit
Of overconfindence.
Every one connected with toot'
ball team knows that the spirit OF the
student body il reflected in It's foot.
ball representatives. III the stuoent
feels overconfidnt the team 81 sure
10 suffer from the same affliction.
This is Princeton's trouble from the
very start Of the season.
Has Had to Fight.
Harvard on the other hand has aad
to fight it's way through many haid
games this fall. Holy Cross. Georgia
and Penn State all gave the Crimson
warriors food for deep thought. These
games were the sort that are aoso-
lutely necessary to the development
of a hard. rugged team.
The fact that Bob Fishers lads grew
better with each battle is going tc
help them more than the ordinary
layman imagines when they take the
field in Palmer Stadium. Any outfit
that can play Penn State tie game
Is worthy OF full consideration from
any rival. This Harvard did In mcst
businesslike manner.
IL is well and good for Princeton
ians to say that their football repre-
sentatives have recovered their morfie
by beating Virginia and that Harvards
representatives are now in the gloom
of despair after being given an uncx-
pected setback at the hands or center
College.
AS one versed in the gridiron game
we would say that such is not loglcAl
reasoning. The fact that Princeton
made but two first downs In Its two
largest games to date. while Harvard
tailed as much as three touchdowns
against a team equally as strong AS
either of the two that held the Tigers
to a sum total of two first downs is
food for reflection.
On case hardened dope the Tigers
sro going 20 find themselves in a faI'
different position than most Jungle
town followers would have the public
imagine to be the case at the present
writing.
Nothing but sentiment can make the
Tigers the slightest favorites over
their Harvard rivals. Quite the con-
trary should be the case. Harvard
has every reason to figure as having
an edge on its New Jersey rival.
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