New-York tribune., 1922-10-11

Dobie can "put on" this stuff as we'll
as any coach living, and strong, sweep
ing interference, part of it coming
from in the line and the maneuver hav-
ing the necessary precision to make it
effective, was shown by Cornell against
rem last year even on muddy field.
1t is, therefore, no surprise to hear
that the Navy was "fast and powerful"
against Western Reserve, though fast
and powerful" at this time of the year
is largely relative. A weak team may
make it appear stronger than it really
is. The Army the yame day engaged
foe of an entirely different caliber
when the K. Z. eleven came long way
to battle with the soldiers at West
Point.
Accounts of the Army's playing,
though the score was only Is to 0 as
compared TO the Navy's II to 0, also
are glowing Honorable mention is
made of the way both the Army and
the Navy manipulated the forward
pass. The Navy never has been con-
spicuous as a skilled user of the for
ward pass, but there was a time when
the Pritchard Merrillat year-the
Army had combination not surpassed
by any Eastern team before or since.
Smythe and Wood, the present for
ward pass team at West Point, have a
real target to shoot at to equal that
pair Meanwhile Notre Dame will hap
pen along on November IL to- give the
Army another object lesson in aero
nautics.
Things are going swimmingly at
Penn, compared with recent years at
any rate, but there is some d1sap-
pointment that no field goal kicking
has been tried In any of the games
thus far. The squad has one good drop
kicker, Ready, but in other respects
he doesn't seem varsity timber. Hamer
has done SO well at placement kicking
from touchdowns that followers of the
team are yearning to see how he can
do at the more difficult trick of kick
ing placements from scrimmage, with
it's varied distances
From "The Syracuse Post Standard"
-"Colgate, unless it takes decided
brace in the few days left, is in for a
drubbing at Princeton Saturday in the
first Of it's real tests this season.
AHat ING opinion Oh CyfacuSanS VINO
saw the Maroon forced to it's limit by
little Allegheny"
First real tests are coming early and
often this year. Cornell is due for one
Saturday week, when Colgate wanders
along, Yale one next Saturday and
Harvard one on the 21st, as presented
by the Kentucky Colonels.
One man, Horr, the Syracuse scout,
declares that Lafayette beat Fit on a
BREAK" Captain Holleran's injury and
departure from the game at critical
time. Another says the break" was
a tumble, which allowed Prendergast,
of Lafayette, to min the ball and .. run
to touchdown. Yet, considering that
Lafayette "was the aggressor from the
start, outrushed Pitt almost two to one
from scrimmage and had all the better
of the going except in the final quar-
ter" there may have been other factors
than breaks" to bring success to the
Eastonian eleven.
Having passed Pitt safely, Lafayette
has Muhlenberg, Bucknell, Boston Col
lege, w. and j., Rutgers and Lehlgh
coming in that order. w. and J.. is
tough, but Lafayette has better
chance than anybody else of going
through without defeat.
Cleo O'Donnell, developer of Charles
Brickly as schoolboy, and Holy
Cross coach, ventures to state that
Harvard Is further advanced than he
ever before saw her at this stage of the
pigskin season and that Harvard has
its best football muster since 1916. All
right, all right, but. in 1916 Harvard
was beaten by Yale and, therefore,
Harvard 'l6 may not be Harvard's idea
Of a wonderful array.