The Washington times., 1922-11-20
TIGERS RECORD
; LOOKS GOOD
F. FOR TITLE
Other Teams May Equal but
Not Surpass Princeton's
Great Showing.
BY DAVIS ]. WALSH.

By DAVIS j. WALSH.
NEW YORK, Nov. 20. -Michi-
ran, Iowa or Chicago may estab-
tish undisputed right and title to
the big ten football champion.
ship. California, no doubt, will
coast into another title on the
Pacific slope. Cornell, West Vir-
ginia and the Army may remain
undefeated in the East, but no
team Is going to outclaim Prince
ton when it comes to the final
showdown. The Tigers record is
rs good as any and better than
most.
If Chicago gains the decision over
Wisconsin and finishes it's conference
campaign without a defeat, the Big
Ten situation will lose caste because
OF Princeton's intersectional victory
over the Stagg entry. II Cornell
beats Pennsylvania ii will merely es-
tablish the Ithacans as fine team,
but will not prove them great one:
Any team can win with handpicked
schedule.
Again. If the army beats the navy,
It will have a fair enough claim to
the Eastern title. but not an alto
gether sound one, because Princeton
has just finished with the business
of knocking over Yale, while the
army considered itself fortunate In
pulling out a tie with the Bull Dog.
CALIFORNIA; record suffers in pro
portion to the weakness Of its Op-
position. SO does that OF West tr-
ginia, although the latter gained
considerable prestige by beating
Pittsburgh.
Notre Dame will be in position
to dispute Princeton's championship
pretensions If 1t disposes of Nebraska.
The Hoosier's record is a clean one,
but they could get nothing better
than a scoreless tie with the army,
the only real opponent they faced,
with the possible exception OF Geor'
gia Tech.
All in all Princeton is sitting very
handsomely with victories over Har'
ward, Yale and Chicago and season
of victories behind it. The Tigers,
on paper, were not the best team in
the East, but paper strength is often
q gay deceiver.
1t did not, for example, make the
Cincinnati Reds lose the National
League pennant in 1919 nor make
the Yankees win the recent world
series.
Princeton cared not at all wha,
the dope said. 1t was team Of
two-fisted young men who went out
to die with their cleats on and were
quite surprised to learn that they
still lived on.
They had the fight Of their
Jungle names and developed to
remarkable degree, but their real
strength lay in the depth OF their
intelligence. Football men are
pretty well agreed that no team
ever calculated its moves with the
craft and precision that Princeton
did.
An example was the performance
~ Of Thompson in running with the
ball instead of punting on the fourth
down deep in his own territory.
Yale tacklers broke through and
downed him almost on the goal line,
hut SO accurately were the remain
ing seconds timed that the game was
over before Yale could line up to
rush the ball.
That was playing the thing very
safe. indeed. A punt, for instance,
might have been run back across
the goal line, for the whistle cannot
end the game while a play was in
motion.
In countless other ways the i'm
promptu goal line pass against Chi
cago and the triple pass of the 1ar'
ward game, for example, the Tigers
showed a depth of subtility and de-
ception for which its opponents had
no adequate reply.