The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-17
PRINCETON MUST FACE FORMIDABLE FOE IN CHICAGO
Coach Stagg'S MaroonS Are Considered Underdogs, But
 They Have a Chance
Ky WALTER CAN'T Special Correspondent of The Age-
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Herald.
 (Copyrisht, 1921, by The Age-HerRlda
 New York, october Universal interest is being manifested in the outcome of the approaching intersec-
 tional contest at Princeton, when Coach stagg of Chicago will bring
 his Maroon football warriors to Jer- sey to show what the middle west can do against first-class team of the east Bill Roper's men will be put to the test on October 22
 A month ago, few of the critics
 gave Chicago more than the longest kind of chance against Princeton,
 some estimating that chance at about 1 to {. Two weeks ago the odds on Princeton showed a considerable @ drop on account of the. showing
 Stagg's men made against Northwest ern
 Since then many out in Chicago be- gan to rate the westerners on an equality with Princeton.
 Tigers Are Favorites Having had a chance to study the Stagg team, the writer is inclined to
 think that those who believe they have an even chance to win are looking through too rosy spectacles. The odds, the writer believes, are not at all heavy in Princeton's favor, but if one checks up the why's and
 wherefores. he must come to the con- 1 clusion that the Tigers have a shade the better of it.
 | Princeton has had far more oppo- sition in her games this season than Chicago has had from her prelimi- nary contests. Princeton was forced
 to use all they had at times, but it has been a trait of the Tigers to re- spond well to early season contingen- 1, cies Chicago would have scored
 more against Northwestern If the lat ter had not stalled a good bit in the third period. In fact, there has been
 mighty little to test Chicago's de- fense against running plays and the forward passing used against them,
 which has been we'll conceived, has
 been poorly executed.
 keck Is Best
 Comparing the players of the two teams. Keck of Princeton is by all odds the best man in either line, and Lourie at quarter is star as well as a veteran of experience. It is in no way belittling Cole and Romney of Chicago to place Lourie above them. And let it be reiterated that Romeny of Chicago, is good-mi ghty good With great possibilities.
 | He is more sturdily built than Lourie and, so far as the writer could
 see, had no weakness in handling the ball, running, kicking or catching. And he gets his man when tackles. He does not collar" him and let the runner squirm around. He puts his {, shoulder into his ilunges, clips his I arms hard and snaps the runner
 down in good style.
 King should Hold own
 King should hold his own for Chi- cago at center. He is 220 pounds of
 good player. Redmond who was in- jured last year, will flank him well. 1 Outside of these men, Stagg has not enough beef to filI up gaps in the line. He has two good ends in Crisler and Strehmeir but they were l brittle at times last year. Chicago { has a fast back field beside Cole and ! Romney. Pyott, once of the Dart l mouth Freshmen eleven and who is
 an Oakpark boy. has a good burst of speed and is d clever follower of in- terference. Hurlbut is more power ! ful than Pyott and is good on de- fense. Zorn. who is good passer, i Hennes and Thomas also might be used.
 l Princeton has a back field which
 should fully equal this aggregation. ] If Lourie and Charity are in fit con dition, Roper's backs are q shade bet i ter than Staggs Stagg is g pre- cision and depends on careful drill to obtain results. Sometimes his plays are q shade too intricate and require so much precision in execution as to 1 be risky. Princeton will charge so much faster than teams Chicago has
 met this year thatsit will hurry some 1 of his plays.
 { If both teams turn out their full strength 1t should make an interest ling match, @but the writer looks to 1 see Princeton returned the winner.