The New York herald., 1921-10-17

No Great Upset mt Annapolis.
Princeton's bitter pill at Annapolis
was not unexpected. The Midshipmen
were not bit backward about admit
ting that they had been preparing for
the Tigers for a long time--that they
intended to wipe out that IA to de-
feat which Old Nassau handed them at
Princeton last October. On that occa-
sion Princeton was too far advanced for
the Navy, which had been handicapped
by the late arrival of some OF the stars
who had been to Belgium with the
champion crew. On that occasion the
Navy knew that II was hopeless to make
any great special effort to win that
game. But it made up for that this
year.
On Saturday the Tigers faced a team
which was terrific in it's sheer strength
both on attack and defence. which was
alert, highly versatile and adept in the
uses OF the forward pass. Princeton
took far worse beating than the score
of 13 to would indicate. Only the
splendid fighting spirit of Stan Keck
and his men held the Midshipmen to a
single touchdown.
Next Saturday Princeton will meet
Chicago-and 1t is highly fortunate for
the Tigers that the Maroon is not up to
the old Chicago standard. According to
information which has reached us from
Chicago Alonzo Stagg and Fred Walker
Rave only ordinary material. They have
been putting in some hard licks for the
game. and are sure to spring variety
OF forward passes.
VIII Fling That Bali.
The Tigers will have to put in a hard
week familiarizing themselves with the
varied appearances of a highly diversi
fled aerial attack. Chicago is not likely
to make trouble through the line. and it
is not likely to make great gains around
the fianks. but ii Is sure to fling that
ball and fling It far and often.
Harvard lacks the strength which 1t
had along the line last season, and it is
worried. We note that Georgia held the
Crimson on downs on the one yard
line--an indication that Tubby Wood. for
one. was sadly missed We also note
that Bob Fisher is trying to solve part
OF the end problem by converting Fits.
fast back. into wingman. Tad
Jones is trying a companion experiment
at Yale. with Sturm as the object OF his
hopes.
The Crimson has made up for its lack
of power with it's great alertness and
thus far has reminded followers of the
game of the Princeton teams of other
days, which made the most of enemy
breaks. The breaks saved the Crimson
against Holy Cross, they saved it against
Georgia and they helped a great deaf
against Indiana. which might have won
If it had bad Harvard's kickers. These
kickers. by the way. have done remark
able work for the Cambridge outfit.
Buell's drop kick saved the game with
IAl pfa fvy1, M q
saved it against Georgia
Saturday VIII Tell.
Harvard's condition Is conjectural.
We up this way have no real line on
Georgia. The Southern eleven may be
among the best in the country. But
next Saturday we will learn just what's
what up at Cambridge. Penn State
will come TO the Stadium--and that
means that Harvard will face one OF the
best in the East. Penn States fine
work against Lehigh stamped Hugo
Bezdex's team as being almost on par
with his great 1920 eleven.
In the game with Williams Yale did
not have TO beat a great team. But
Yale did not want TO face great team
that afternoon. and that was sensible
move We saw that contest, and let us
say that Williams was a lot stronger
than Yale thought 1t was-or anybody
else south of Williamstown thought 1t
was. The Purple had q scrappy bunch
and a lot OF real team work. This more
than made up for the absence of Benny
Boynton. Fargo could have been used
by Yale and Richmond was a corking
good back.
Yale just romped through the game. /
shaving no more than II wanted TO
sh W., squirting to terrific speed at one
time, dropping to a walk at another. The
Ellis used only n very few plays-the
eff tackle smash. the old wallop at cen
tire. particularly on the right side not
too many end runs. an occasional for
ward pass--and plenty OF kicking.
We saw Yale play Boston College at
corresponding stage last season. and
the memories OF that game and the i'm
pressions developed by the Williams af-
fair made interesting comparisons. We
would say that the ELI eleven of Satur-
day was more alert. more subtle. far
more deceptive and certainly more ef-
fective with the forward pass. The
Yale tsckling and interference were
stronger, too.
Last year against Boston Yale foun-
dercd about. showing a lot OF fight and
plenty Of brute force. but not enough
weapons with which to fight so we'll adj
vanced a foe at that time.