New-York tribune., 1921-11-18

FORWARD passing attack.
1t is interesting to compare the two
teams based on their respective per-
formances against Princeton. Offhand,
by such comparison Yale should be
topheavy favoritc because she beat
Princeton, while Harvard lost; but
sucn conclusion is in fact not justi-
fed. Princeton pulled its game with
Harvard out of the fire in the last
quarter. after Buell. had apparently
won the game for Harvard by his drop
kick.
Up to the time when Gilroy made his
touchdown. Harvard had had very much
the better of the argument. Her line
had clearly outplayed Princeton's on
the defense, so much so that Princeton
had had to fall back on her long and
uncertain forward passing game, in
order to put her into a position to
score. Princeton's rushing attack,
lacking power, deception and smooth
ness of execution, had been entirely
stopped.
STRONG OF Line Atrack
On the offense the Harvard line
opened big holes in Princeton's line
for Fits and Owen, Harvards two best
backs. Twice they were we'll on the
way to touchdown when bad pass
from the center put stop to their
advance. Their passing attack was
than Princeton's, because there was al
ways the threat of run, while Prince
toms pass from it's spread formation
was entirely obvious. There was no
effective running attack from this for
nation because the team was so spread
out that it became impossible to give
the runner any interference, with the
result that when it was attempted the
tackles on both Harvard and Yale
stopped it by going in very fast after
the man with the ball.
Princeton won the Harvard game by
aid of spectacular forward pass,
coupled with some beautiful interfer-
ence by Keck, but until that play Har-
ward looked like sure winner and
had clearly outplayed Princeton.
In the Yale-Princeton game Yale won
on its merits, and with a more expert.
ened team would have won by larger
score. The fact that she had eight
chances to score, compared with three
for Princeton, shows as we'll as any
thing else the comparative ability ot
the two teams. The supposedly weak
Yale line absolutely stopped the Prince
ton rushing attack. Only one first down
was made between the tackles. Two
were made around the ends, which were
fairly earned, as several times the Yale
ends were badly boxed, and long gains
were only nulliied by beautiful de.
fensive work by Mallory and Aldrich
Tigers Aided by Penalty
; On the offense the Yale line opened
great holes in the Princeton line, espe.
cially off tackle, and showed tre.
mendous drive, which gave their backs
a consequence, Princeton had to rely
again entirely on a passing attack, ir
which there was no deception and which
was good for only one continuous ad
vance, the one which resulted in thei,
touchdown.
On only one other occasion was
Princeton able to get inside of Yale's
20-yard line, and that only by virtue
of big penalty. There they lost q
chance to score by forward pass over
the goal line, which was incomplete.
Taking into account the results OF
the two games already played, / Should
SAPces AAA0 W WIi O'Sf harvard o.
about ten points. She has team which
is better grounded in the fundamentals
especially tackling, in which Harvard
showed herself to be very weak in he,
game with Princeton. Her biggest ad
vantage is in the possession of tw,
such backs as Aldrich and O'Tfearn
} who can pass, kick or run, and who are
the best exponents of the so-callet
triple threat" since the days Of Mahan
of Harvard. These two backs, with tn.
help they will receive from Mallor,