The New York herald., 1921-10-22

YALE-ARMY.
From What we saw at Yale last week
and from reports of the condition Of the
Army team we gain the impression that
the Ellis viii win by q couple Of touch
downs. 1t Is bound to be hot scrap.
and 1t Is hlghjy probable that the Cadets
will score. Neither eleven has met a
foe which could force it to show its best
wares and its top speed. 1t is true that
the Army's record shows a defeat by
New Hampshire, 10 to z, but that was
suffered by a team Of substitutes in a
double header.
The game has considerable historic
and dramatic interest. 1t will be the
twenty-first meeting OF the old rivals
their first since 1912, when the Ellis won
ON flooded field at the; Point by to O..
Yale has beaten the Army thirteen times.
the Army has won thrice, and four
games developed ties. So the Army. over
q stretch Of years beginning with 1898.
has not been oversuccessful against the
Ellis.
Between 1912 and 1921 Yale suffered
many football vicissitudes-but this az
ternoon 1t is the intention Of Tad Jones's
men to give notice to the world that
Old Eli is back with bells on.
Yale's Great Threat.
Practically nothing has come down
from West Point about French, but it
n safe to say that the former Rutgers
flash Will be among those present to-
day. French embod!ss the big threat of
the Cadets. He Is their star runner and
their star kicker. He can throw the
ball far and accurately, too. However,
Yale will dazzle the Army with an
array OF backs such as the Blue has
not had In many years.
The most striking feature of the work
OF the Yale backs is their great versa
tility. The triple threat is brought to
high state OF development and the
running attack strengthened beyond the
form which the Ellis showed last season
or the year before. Aldrich who was
great last season. is greater still. He
has SETS more mature in every
way. He Is a more expert runner thar
was Kempton. who was brilliant bu,
had his faults. Aldrich Is a thrower
punter and drop kiclzer-we think ar
even more useful back than was Harry
Legore. who suffered no little from over
exploitation in the public prints.
O'Iearn. the quarterback. makes a
remarkable companion carrier for AID
rich. OHearn can do about everything
that Aldrich can do. and do Il brilliantly.
He is wonder through broken field,
fast. and remarkable for his ability to
keep his footing. He also is kicker of
no mean versatility.
Stellar Backaeld Array.
Mallory. Speiden. Wight and Neidlin-
ger are the other backs Tad Jones
finds himself endowed o'ith so much
class In the backfield that he is stumped
as to who is a regular and who is a
substitute. Beckett has been doing very
well at quarterback and it may he that
O'Hearn will be used as halfback. but
the chances are against such change
Last Saturday wn wA,~ greatly i'm
pressed with the work OF Wight. who
knows a thing or two about lodging
tacklers and staying or his feet Neid-
lnger and Speiden too showed a lot OF
class. Mallory was away scouting so
we were deprived os view of something
new in the way Of defensive tactics at
New Haven.
Mallory has played in a couple Of
games. but he has yet to carry ball.
His work Is entirely defensive and with
such great carriers in the other posi-
tions behind the line Jones can more
than afford to assign one Of the backs
to an altogether defensive role.
PRINCEToN-CHICAGo.
For the fifteenth time Chicago to-day
meets an eleven from the East, but
never before has 1t faced Princeton.
Penn. Cornell. Brown. the Army and the
Carlisle Indians faced the Maroon in
other years-and taken all in all the
East shows pretty good slate against
the pupils OF Alonzo Stagg. Yale 1888.
Only four times has Chicago beaten an
Eastsrn team, and thrice that team was
Cornell. -
Chicago comes to Nassau at a most
opportune time--for Chicago. The Tigers
had only a few days to rally from the
stunning defeat at Annapolis. The fact
stands out that Princeton already has
been beaten--and Chicago figures that
what one team has done Is within the
pale OF the possible. in 80 far as It is
concerned.
Chicago played fne football when Il
swamped Northwestern. Al TO 0, but II
slumped badly In the game with Purdue.
which held the Maroon TO 9 to 0. Pur-
due is not regarded as even the second
cousin OF a contender in the middle West.
The chances are that Princeton will win
by something like ~ to Z.
Stagg has enjoyed marked success as
n coach at Chicago--that without build
ing up anything which could be called
the Chicago system. The old ELI Is what
ihtsHt pe otyleu coaching Opportunist--
a man who builds his attack TO suit his
material.
This year they say that StaEg has the
finest material which has come to him
since 1892. when he became coach at the
newly opened University of Chicago.
Stage himsef--never very optimistic
says that his material Is pretty fair. and
that Princeton will know that IT has
been In fight
Likes the Open Game.
Stage is a great believer In open foot
baU--partcularly in the forward pass,
which has been brought to a finer stage
Of development in the Conference than
Il has In the East. However, bis rock