The New York herald., 1922-10-13
Meeting Between Eli and Iowa
Eleyens Is Regarded as
Rare Treat.
HOWARD JONES FAVORED
Westerncrs Picked to Lead
Bulldog in Charge of
Tad Jones.
by w. o. ar'GEEHAN.

that the football season is well under
way. The coaches are beginning to
chatter lugubriously and the reports
from the various hospital wards con-
nected with the various colleges are to
the effect that about the best men on
all the teams are crippled and quite
likely to be out for the rest of the sea-
son. This is certain indication that
most of the coaches are quite sure that
their teams will win.
Yale reports the largest list of
cripples with the Iowa game due to-
morrow. This is regarded as more
than mere preliminary game. it is
even more than an 'intersectional con-
test" IT is the battle of the Jones
Brothers. football coaches and good
ones. Brother Tad is the director of
Yale strategy and the molder of the
Yale team. Brother Howard is per-
Z forming similar office for the Iowa
eleven.
On the basis of past ante-bellum state
ments 1t must be inferred that the Yale
people regard this as a highly important
game. in fact next in Importance to the
two with Princeton and Harvard--for
nothing could be moro important than
these two games.
Match Long I'm Making.
The negotiations for the Yale-Iowa
game have extended over a considerable
period. Brother Tad and Brother How
ard have been sparring adrotly over
permitting the thing to be arranged.
Each came to the conclusion this year
that he had the better team, consequently
the "battle of the brothers" was placed
on the schedule. W..
Purely on the basis Of the injuries an
nounced one feels inclined to predict Yale
TO win The Yale hospital list seems to
be about the biggest announced to date.
but the list of injured from Iowa has not
yet been revealed It may be that the
1owans can show a bigger list and con-
sequently by the inverse football reason
indicate greater strength and better
chances of winnn".
The odds, according to those who are
familiar with this more or less incon-
sequential phase of the football game,
have switched In favor of the 1owans.
There is very little general betting on
football games, and the matter of odds
indicates very little. In the intercol-
legiatc game more than in any other
the odds frequently are crossed.
Experience should teach one to beware
of football team which. on the eve of
battle. reports that the team is crippled
by injuries and hints that the chances
are not good. 1t means that this eleven
? IS about to put up quite battle, espe-
cially n Yale eleven.
Gobs of Gloom at Princeton.
From Nassau's halls come the report
that the Prncetonians are prepared
for the worst" when they meet Colgate
tomorrow at Palmer Stadium. The
Tiger eleven started the season with
poorer material than they have had at
Princeton for many years, and their
showing against Virginia last Saturday
was far from impressive.
With Gilroy placed on the ineligible
list Coach William Roper found him
self without any particular holdover
star and in the position where he had
TO develop not one but a number OF
Them. Consequently the game with Col
gate, which used to be merely a pre-
liminary game. may be the one to indi-
cate Just how far Roper has advanced
in this work. This break in the con-
tinuity OF football system makes real
work for a coach, and sometimes almost
impossible work at that
Whatever the result of the Princeton
Colgate game may be l. for one. believe
that by the time Princeton fs ready TO
face Yale and Harvard the Tigers will
not make quite thespuny showing that
Some expect them to make. Roper has
shown that he IL a great builder of
football teams. He may also demon
strate that he Is one of the most rapid
OF the team makers.
AS for to-morrows game better way
10 look upon Il from the Princeton
standpoint would be to recognize the
fact that Harlow's Colgate team of this
year is one of the most formidable that
this college has put out. All OF these
preliminary games" teams have grad
uaily become stronger. What used TO
he early season walkovers have come
TO be real battles for Yale, Princeton
and Harvard.
Where 1t used to be that these three
had the intercollegiate football field
mcnopoized as to interest and the OBJ
tanning of material the interest has be-
come more general. Good material Is
being found i'm the smaller colleges
All which is a good thing for the
game.
Columbia Forging Ahead.
Since the elrecstablisiiment OF football
Mt Columbia the Blue and White has
gradually revived the interest in It's
eleven-lnterest in football requires no
preat effort at revival Also the
Columbia teams of the second period In
Columbias football history gradually
have become stronger and the Columbia
football schedule has been stiffened.
Gradually the Columbians are working
toward the prestige that was Columbia's
before football was prohibited.
Columbia this week meets one OF it's
strongest opponents in Wesleyan at the
1foig' Is. This should be quite as inter-
esting game as there Is on schedule
Tomorrow Buck" O'Neill IN tl<-
main, has had 10 work with raw mate
orial from the start Promising prep
school youngsters with football poten-
tialites pick colleges with unbroken
football prestige. Under these condi-
tions a football system" Is not easy
10 build nor IL the necessary material
easy to acquire. But with the re-
establishment of interest things will
change at Columbia. IT will take somo
time but. not a great deal.
On tho whole the arrangement OF the
schedule for this year makes such an
early date In the football season as
October II livelier football date than
early October has known for many
year.