The Washington times., 1921-10-18


plays inside and outside of the Pl
five plays all afternoon went to the
This wearing down process had itn
effect and In the fourth quarter. with
a good deal OF consistency, the Navy
backs with massed Interference, were
thrown on the right side OF Prince
tons line. II would have taken an
almost superman to have checked the
Navy plunges.
The Princeton right end and right
guard failed to recognize the full mean
ing and effect of the Navy's play.
They should have known the right side
of the Princeton was being put under
tremenuSus pressure and supported 1t
with ,tittIs regard for anything else.
Captafp KeckswasNall over the field
and ndSrepeaeediy made tackles on the
other side of the line. The Princeton
secondary defense, consisting Of Witt
mer and Gilroy, put up a great game,
and had the Princeton right end
smashed in on every play. It might
have been possible to have cut off
some Of the Navy interference.
! Lauds Navy Backs.
I have never seen backs run harder
than the Navy backs did, nor have
ever seen. better interference. There
was only one, way their plays could
have been stopped. To have done ef-
-fective work. the entire Princeton line
must have met this Interference and
broken IL up before 1t got started
Princeton was superior TO the Navy
In only 6ne department Of the game,
and that was in painting. Van Gerbig,
Tor a new man.. did fairly well, but the
effectiveness Of HIS kicking was
lessened toss large extent by his slow
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his failure to kick them high enough.
The Down field work of the Prince
ton teSD was not what / thought 1t
would be, The ends were seldom down
sat the proper time and the line gave
them little or no support. If the Navy
has any weakness, 1t was In kicking.
They used the kicker only as a very
last resort. The Princeton backs, es-
pecially, the quarter back, played en-
tirely too far back from the line of
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Several Of the Navy punts hit the
ground and bounced around the field
OF play before they were recovered,
and I think both MacPhee and Van
Gerbig made a mistake in trying to
fair catch the Navy kicks. The Navy
fullback was getting his punts off
slowly and the Navy line didn't show
any too much speed In covering them.
Golden opportunities were lost in fair
several punts with a five yard
start on the Navy ends.
, Break Comes Early.
The game had hardly been going a
few minutes when the break came
that practically eliminated Princeton's
chance Of q score in the first half.
with Princeton holding the ball on
about their 20-yard line. with second
down, a run from kick formation re-
suited in tumble which was recovered
by the Navy and while they didn't put
the ball over, they took 1t up so close
that Van Gerbig had to kick behind
the Princeton goal line.
The left side Of the Navy line was
through like a shot and the kick was
blocked. Hindsight Is always better
than foresight. 1t might have been
possible to avoid this score had
Princeton Kicked Immediately instead
Of trying to rush the ball in the shadow
Of their own goal.
The only chance Princeton had to
stave off defeat was to have con.
sistently kicked on first or second
down in the hope that the Navy would
wear themselves out. After Newby
went out of the game, Princeton
backa made absolutely no impression
on the Navy line.
Larsen, the Navy center, who back
ed up the right side Of the line and
the Navy right half back, showed an
almost uncanny ability to break up
forward passes. 1 don't think Prince
ton compile I'd more than one forward
pass in any number Of tries. 1 had
anticipated a weakness in the Navy's
forward pass defense II anywheres,
but have never seen better covering
of defensive territory than shown by
the Nays secondary defense.
In the fourth quarter, there is some
ground for saying the Princeton quar-
teroack possibly should not have
started to have thrown passes on his
own 20-yard line. II there was a mis-
take in judgment here, / am to blame
and not the quarterback. When
Euwer went into the game at the end
of the third period, he did so with in
structions to take chances.
Has No Injuries,
The Princeton team came through
the game in fine shape without an
injury and must put in a lot of hard
work to get In shape for the final
Rames. l should think the problem
of the Navy coaches would be to keep
the team on edge for the rest Of the
season as 1 doubt II the Navy will
play much better ball even against
the Army.
Swarthmore and Penn broke even.
The redeeming feature in the play OF
the Penn team was their comeback