The Washington times., 1921-10-11

taken out but once or tWico uuiiHB
their feet and eager to play every mi
Two substitute ends. Gray ana
son, played good football, Tyson max
ing probably the headiest play on tne
afternoon. Colgate made q Tumble
and Tyson and a Colgate player were
about equally distanced from the baii.
Instead or going after II. Tyson TOOK
his opponent and at the same time
recovered the ball.
Show Poor Headwork.
In another case. the Princeton line.
men showed rather poor headwork.
! GRAY. the Princeton left end. blocked
Colgate kick and about three or
four Princeton linemen charged to-
ward the loose ball with only one Col
gate man in sight. This man should
have been taken out and touchdown
would have been perfectly simple.
\ Instead OF this, several Princeton
Aplayers fought for the ball and as
result the Colgate man recovered II
ifor safety. Inside football can only
be played II every man on the team
uses his head all the time. Oppor-
tunities to score In big games are not
frequent. and when they do come they
! cannot be. thrown away.
The Princeton offense lacked con-
certed drive and strength. was very
, mu.i. disappointed In seeing my team
give up possession of the ball within
ear striking distance Of Colgate's
goal line. All through the game there
was very noticeable lack OF CO.
ordination between the line and the
backs. Princeton had several oppor-
tunities to score owing to poor han
ding OF the ball by their opponents.
but the Tigers really seemed to lack
the necessary punch when required.
Princeton's down-the-Neld work un-
der kicks was good. l do not think
Colgate's backs returned the ball five
yards all afternoon. Lourie's running
back of kicks, considering the wet
field and the slippery ball, was re.
markable though he was afforded
very good protection by the Prince
ton backs who took the Colgate ends
out in good shape.
Criticises Officials.
dislike extremely to crtticise Off
cials but I feel the Princeton team Is
getting q very raw deal at the hands
OF supposedly competent officials. Inc
officials come to Princeton with the
idea that our team is going to foul and
break the rules and as a result, they
forget that twenty-five men play the
game instead of eleven. Last fall,
penalties prevented Princeton from
winning the Harvard game and so far
this year, every official seems to de-
light In penalizing my team.
The Princeton coaches are perfectly
aware that no team can be penalized
to the extent the Princeton eleven has
been and win its big games. The
players are being coached necessarily
against breaking the rules. In the
practise games, outside officials are
secured by the Princeton management
and every possible infringement OF
rules is noted, practise stopped and the
player called to count.
| l have never seen more cieanly
played game than that put up by
Princeton against Colgate and yet the
officials insisted on penalizing the
Princeton team, forty-five yards TO
Colgate's five. A Colgate man was
permitted to kick the Princeton center
rush in the back out of bounds in
clear view of the spectators. sporting
writers and at least one OF the Off
cials, who weakly commented when
his attention was called to the play
by the man that had been kicked, that
he didn't think it was Intentional.
have no hesitancy in saying that
had any Princeton player done the
same thing, he would probably have
been di1qualified from the game and
his team penalized half the distance
of the field. It is getting to be a pretty
difficult job to play the opposing team
and the officials and 1 merely sug-
gest that some Of the gentlemen who
officiate In the future recollect that
there are two teams on the field in
stead of one.
Harvard had no difficulty with In
diana. The game was really easier
than thought 1t would be. Indiana.
like 80 many other of the western
teams. plays an open forward pass
ing game with a lot of shift plays.
1t Is pretty hard to forward pass In
the rain and the shift play certainly
doesn't show up to the best advantage.
AS a result the Indiana attack Hhila