New-York tribune., 1922-10-31

II any doubt the truth Of this state.
! ment let him compare the teams of
iowa and Yale OF of Chicago and
Princeton If he has seen these teams.
The Fasteners are mere schoolboys
compared with the men of the Middle
West. Why, that Princeton crowd
would remind one Of bigh-school
team, so young do they look. The
/ Nassau students are well built. but
not heavy.
That is the first big difference we
noted between the East and the West.
The second difference is in the enthu-
siasm In the West so extremely pop
ular has. the game become that whole
communities are affected. You know
how Cincinnati, st. Louis or any of
those cities is affected by the thought
Of holding worlds series in baseball,
1t is much the same in football.
Westerners More Enthusiastic
Inc entire week before the Chicago
Princeton gane we heard nothing but
discussion of the struggle. It was
much the same throughout the Com
ference. Thoy like their football here
IN the East cut they don't take it near
~ so seriously. We understand the
various towns and cities give them
selves ever To the game during the
Conference season.
Another difference is in the number
OF students. Here in the East we f1g-
ure Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Cornell,
Pennsylvania and some of the others
are large institutions having an ex-
ceptionaily large number of students
from which to select their teams.
The Big Three aren't in it in num-
bers with the Conference universities
Each Of those institutions has 5000
or more men from which to pick it's
squad, including those students in the
schools Of engineering, law and other
branches.
Al now as to that open game. The
belief is general that the West has a
monopoly on this STUFF. Nothing ike
1T. In fact, most of the teams in tho
vest make little use OF the open game
Notre Dame, Western university. is
the greatest exponent of the opca
game, which means, generally, the for
ward pass and relative plays. Rather
knute Rockne is the exponent
illinois makes frequent and good
use Of the pass and SO does Ohio
State and Wisconsin But Michipan
Minnesota, Chicago, Iowa and others
don't resort to the pass unless forced
to it. Much like most Of the teams in
the East in that respect.
Pass Costly to Ohio State
In the Ohio State-Michigan game
Michigan tried only two passes. both
OF which were failures. Ohio State
using rather simple pass made it go
several times, but also suffered the
loss OF a. touchdown and g goal from
field by interception of the pass.
In the Chicago Princeton game the
Tigers did all of the open stuff. They
put on the onside kick, the lateral
pass and several nifty, long, forward
tosses for the edifcation Of the Chi
cagoans. The Maroon confined itself
IN desperation it began tossing passes
all over the lot.
In short, those teams in the West.
such as Notre Dame and Illinois, who
do not make use Of the pass do so
adriot1y and with unusual clevernese.
These teams excel any in the East in
this respect, but their expertness In
this end of the game Is individual
rather than representatives Of the sec-
tion. Harvard, Princeton, Lafayetts
and the others here in the East can use
the pass as well as Chicago, and most
OF the other Western elevens.
Somebody told us you sse more good
football in the West than you do in
the East Until few years ago that
probably was true, because most Of
the conference teams are we'll matched
and mosa OF them play one another.
however, IN the East there are sew
eral exceptionally close and we'll