The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-10-24
Mahrt May Not Start in Rutgers Game

ginia at Princeton with little hope
Smack.score West Virginia %.
Princeton 0. viii theto be a
smash up at Cambridge Saturday
How the deuce does anybody
know? The real safe time to pick
a winner In football Is after the
final whistle. But even so. We are
yet on our little band wagon car.
.rying the banner. "Noboay can
whip West Virginia this year "
Sing Sing Shift
Daniel. one OF the keenest foot.
ball critics In the East, writing n
review OF the Harvard. Centre
game In the New York Herald says
Of the peculiar lock.step shift OF
the Praying Colonels":
Wherever football men gather
ed here Sunday the big .opic OF
discussion was the Sing Sing"
shift, sprung by Centre aga INST
Harvard. Charley Moran. thu Cen.
tire coach. said after the game that
he had used the lockstep shift
back in 1908 In the South. We
never have seen anything Just like
that walking shift. but We snw
something along the same lines
used by the Carlisle Indians fif-
teen years ago and later by villaa-
ova, under the coaching OF Fred
Crolins.
"As the Indians used that sh II.
which left the end or the center
Isolated at an extremity OF the
line TO pass the Dall 1t was doaa
with some snap But Centre never
aroused itself beyond slow, lois.
urely. tantalizng walk, which
wasted lot OF tine. Eleven OF
those locksteps In succession earn
ed forty seven yards for the Col
onels. but when the big punch was
demanded the shift could not pro.
duce II. Centre had to resort to Il
drop k ok to get something for It's
hard cared yards.
AS We saw the play it was a
foolish maneuver OF only small
merit. It's yalue was entirely psy.
Geological and in Centres case
took up a lot of time ana effort
VIII ch might have produced better
results had the Colonies used the
straight inside drive which won
them their touchdown right after
the start Of the fourth period
Play Not Generally ApproVcu.
Most of the football critics on
the scene d'sapproYcd Of the shift.
Stan Keali who was scoutia: fnr
Princeton, held that the play had
some value in SC much as it kept
Harvard guessing and IN state
OF anpreh, nsion Red Roberts
declared that the 'ull value OF tho
shift had mot been realized bn-
cause 1t had beea developed ch cf
Ii a. = generating move for TO.
ward ?ass aud the Passer WIN
had bcaa working with the shift
was no, in the game Bartlett, the
veteran back Of the Kentucky
eleven who Is said to be :he basl
thTOwcr Of a football In the South
was taken 10 boston hnSn tai oil
SATURDAY morning threatened with
pneumonia.
Harvard showed no more than
It had to in order TO win. Centre
showed everything 1t had It was
as tnUgh q football scrap ~ we
have seen n many day and the
Harvard Players. in spite Of tive
runaiauJ sub,GMtion showed the
effect at tine pace more than Md
the Ccntrn mon. The Biuc Ginas
outfit used only fourteen players
N al.
Tho Crimson backfield. part GU
larly Owen and ,;herkc. operated
with elan aud d"ttnU,s Buell. was
til" same handy young man he was
last season. Haryard'S line was
not quite as well balanced as Il
could have been. The left side vas
the weaker Eastman played y
hard game hut he was fooled ton
easily. The Harvard ends will
. have TO peek up too. However. tnG
team Is com nE along"