Evening journal., 1922-12-07
By HENRY l.. FARRELL
united Press Sports Edltop.

Omitted Press Sports Editog)
NEW YORK. Dec. UNITED
Prsss) -Gloom that settled over
many a big campus when the final
curtain dropped on the 1922 football
season is being tempered with that
old never 10 die hope-''WeIl do
/ better next year"
/ Many fine prospects. sown like
seeds this time last fall blossomed
a year later, only TO wither and die
in disappointment. Yale Is the best
| example OF that established legend
Of football-"You never can tell"
Material left at Yale after the
close OF the 1921 season looked Ike
the makings OF one Of the greatest
teams ever turned out at New Haven
and a prospective champion OF the
east.
Instead OF living up to promise
the Yale eleven OF 1922 turned out
to be one Of the most disappointing
representatives Eli has ever sent on
the grtdiron.
Perhaps there was too much good
material. II that Is the case. Yale
must take heed lest the same thing
happens next year.
only three regulars OF the 1922
varsity squad will be lost by gradu-
atom ordan, Cross and Cruik-
shank.
Figuring on the basis that one real
star Is enough for any backfeld
Yale has enough star backs avail
able for about nine teams.
Neidlinger. OHearn. Mallory,
Beckett. Bench, Neale. Kelly. Wight
and Scott will all be eligible for the
next team.
The gods could ask for nothing
more.
Harvard retains fourteen varsity
lily by the graduation of Charley
Buell. and George Owens.
Under a system which places the
utmost importance upon the quar-
terback. the Harvard coaches will
have a Job TO find a general for the |
team to measure up to the great
Buell.. Lee and Spaulding are the
two candidates and they both had |
some experience the past season.
Backs Of the ability OF George |
owen spring up in cycles OF about |
FIVE years. DR.. Billy Bull. one of
the Yale coaches are scouts, ranked |
owen as one OF the greatest backs
of all times. He said no player he
had ever seen could do everything
as we'll as owen.
Fits. Chaplin. Clark, Kuhnhardt,
Hubbard and Coburn will also be
lost for next year. so the Crimson
prospects for 1928 are not over
bright.
Harvard may be comforted, how
ever, by many examples to prove
that gloomy prospects are more TO
be desired that conditions which
make IL possible for players and
students to feel that they can't be
beaten next year"
Princeton is a good Illustration
OF the undesirability of over-confid-
ence. At the close OF the 1920 sea-
son. Princeton had left a combina-
lion of stars that promised to de-
velop into a wonder team in 1921.
but it was a big disappointment.
Last fall Princeton prospects for
A winning team this year were so
slim that all the friends Of the
Tigers were wearing mourning for
them.
Princeton fooled everyone-and
possibly themselves-by coming
through with the champion team Of
he east.
The Tigers still have a young team
and IL Bill Roper is able to keep ! I
hem from becoming too optimistic '
he Tigers of 1928 ought to be an {
,ther great team, perhaps a greater.
With a back field consisting of 9
3archet, Norris, Mckee and Cullen
AVAILABLE for next year. the Navy {
llso is sure Of another strong team. {
Barchet Is one OF the best backs
n the east. but he is only a little
,etter than the slim Norris young ]
lter. who in three years ought to
develop into a wonder. Ia