The Washington herald., 1921-10-24
YALE CONTINUES
FINE WORK WHILE
OLD RIVALS SLUMP
Princeton's Failure Pun
zles Coaches; Harvard
r Defense Is Weak.
nv SIDNEY b. wuppLE.


NEW YORK. Oct .s.-oyer In
Princeton. the critter that used to
be a tiger has become a tame house,
pussy. battered and bruised and try
ing to extract ray Of warmth from
the kitchen stove. Chicago did that
Up in Cambridge the Crimson glow
of pride has given way to the car
mine blush OF shame. Penn State
aid that.
Out In Syracuse the Qrange has
become considerable lemon. and an
ALFRED sour cItron. at that. Pitts
burgh did this.
At New Haven the student popu-
lace is breathing freely for the first
time since 2:so o'clock Saturday aft
ernoon, after the worst scare OF the
football season. The Army did this
Out OF the so-caIIed Big Three.
Yale Is the only outfit that can glance
back at Saturdays record with any
degree Of satisfaction. Princeton, a
group of individual stars suffering
from something that certain coaches
would give their right arms to dis
| cover. were outplayed and outgamed
and outfought from start to finish.
by a team from Chicago that made
them look like a prep school eleven.
Something is radically wrong at
Princeton. and that. paradoxicslIy, is
the one thing that leads to the be-
lief that Princeton will retrieve in
part the disasters of its early sea-
son. Princeton has always fought
hardest when things looked blacklist
Harvard Work RAGGED.
Harvard crawIed through the
game to a tie with Penn State.
after displaying a ragged defense
and a doddering offense that
shocked the professional observers
who watched the affair. Allowing
that Penn State has a remarkable
aggregation of real football artists,
who have been taught good foot
Dall and who know how to apply
the teaching, there was no excuse
Tor the CrimsoHs showing.
Up in New Haven Saturday il was
quite a different story. The Yale
team is rounding into shape. 1t is
not perfect 1t has no defense
against the forward pass, and when
French, the valiant Army back.
came into the game at the eleventh
hour and began heaving the ball,
the attack he launched against Ell
opened up q new train of thought
The one thing Yale needs is that
defense. She has time to perfect
1t. You can't teach youngsters the
whole book in four weeks, but
Yale has assimilated nine-tenths Of
the lesson and should have the
other tenth learned before she
needs it One thing is certain. In
| Capc' Aldrich, Yale has one Of the
most consistent backs in the game
! today, and he will bear watching
against Princeton or Harvard.
What Happened to Syracuse,
1t is difficult to say just what
happened to Syracuse. The Orange
has always been an up-and-down
team, in glory one day and in the
ash can the next 1t may be that
Chick Meehan, who is a coach Of no
mean ability, has not yet become
disciplinarian. 1t may be that
Syracuse is cursed with her inevi-
table falling - over-confidence- = a
falling which has cost her more
than one victory over her natural
rival, Colgate. But in this case IL
is more than likely that the Pam
theirs have been consistently under
rated thi syear. while Syracuse was
gaining a false reputation The
Panthers on Saturday, at any rate,
opened up with everything they had
and proved they had a lot
The greatest fault of the Young
sters whom you are trying to teach
football" said a professor of psy-
chology who is something Of a foot
ball fan to a certain coach after one
of Saturdays games. "is that they
have become egocentric, not to say
unacceptable"
'Swel-headed." said the coach.
You said a mouthful," said the
professor.