Evening star., 1921-11-07

Princeton lacked Harvard's YER
satility in running plays. but she
had enough Of an attack to pave the
scoring stinger attached. A fair
analogy would be to say that Harvard
suggested the skilled boxer with a
variety Of blows. and Princeton the
tighter, assortment of punches COM
paratively limited. but a knockout
wal1op in either hand.
Tigers Gain Via Air Route.
Only a collision with a goal post
served to prevent Princeton from
making touchdown as result Of a
skillfully conceived and finely sx-
ecuted forward pass in the opening
stages of the game; another forward
pass narrowly escaped resulting in
a touchdown and put Princeton on
Harvard's 5-yard line. while q third
brought the long-awaited score. Still
another .goodly gain was foiled by
the catcher dropping the ball. The
Ngers thus, should receive credit for
their mastery Of a form Of attack
which. starting from simple and in
genuous formation, speedily developed
elusiveness. Usually no attempt was
made to conceal the forward pass
motive.
AS for Princeton's running plays
from kick formation. Nassau should
realize-as Harvard has-that modern
defense is placing the effectiveness of
this form Of advance on the shelf.
The defense no longer waits to see
kick, throw or run. The writer had
thought that Princeton had taken a
leaf from Chicago's book in the mat
ter OF line attack. II so, she didn't
show 1t Saturday. Delayed plays
and shifting back-fleld formations. the
line cooperating. would have given
such fine back as cleaves many op-
portunities. AS it was. Lourie and
Garritoy had the ability to gain. even
though they carried the ball, without
the aid Of other than that attempt
at deception with which Harvard
was most familiar. having defended
against it for two years. Prnceton's
generalship was open to question.
once when she tried a field goal on an
early down instead OF a forward pass
and when she packed four plays into
the center the time she had first
down on Harvard's 5-yard line. This
last was suicidal.
Princeton Defense II Good.
On defense Princeton yielded but
once in such a manner as to enable
Harvard's fine line attack to cake
the Crimson into dangerous territory.
Her skill in diagnosing Harvard's
wide forward passes in the second
half. sending he backs out, while the
middle ground was well guarded. was
Of high order.
In the line Princeton's center was
pretty nearly impregnable. Wilmer,
on defense. was superb. Keck was
great on defense and on attack as
an interferer. Princeton's ends were
up to snuff and Snively performed
splendidly the duty Of throwing
forward passes. Baker did more gem
eral tackling than he has received
credit for doing. Gilroy was great
on the secondary.
The beauty of Harvard's attack was
its range: its one drawback was thc
lack of scoring punch. The occa-
sion upon which it took the Crimson
to Princeton's 5-yard line. a misera-
BILE pass, ended the crisis. Harvard's
passing and fumbling, which, by the
way. have characterized the teams
play all season. did a lot to militats
against the Crimson's scheme of at
tack. No machine accomplishes much
when a part breaks at a crucial mo-
ment.
Buell. Harvard's MainsprinE.
AS for the scheme of offense, Ha~-
ward offered a lot of worthwhile
material. Buell.. at quarter. was the
handspring of the drives and did his
thimble-rigging very well indeed. He
worked from various formations be-
hind a shifting line. There was the
time-honored Harvard square. tho
kick formation, as we'll as backfield
assignments new to Harvard. The
forward passes were thrown from at
least three different formations. tho
one going wide proving quite ef-
fective until 1t was diagnosed. All in
all, Harvard brought to the game an
attack much more varied and inter-
esting than Princeton's, but not SO
productive.
On defense Harvard's ends were
less efficient than Princeton's. but
Harvard's ends were held back, the
tackles crashing in. whereas Prince
ton sent her ends and tackles in and
got better results Harvard's tack
ling too often was head high. All
in all, the team suggested an engine
which has yet to be trued in all it's
interlocking details. It will be a bet
ter team against Yale. So will
Princeton.
Copyright, 1eH.)