The New York herald., 1922-11-06

Lavender is making progress but IL In
for bad pasting from N. Y. u. on
Saturday. Stevens played good football
against Delaware. but bowed to SUI
perior foe, to o. The Engineers did
well enough.
Cornells position gained something
from Colgates sweeping victory over
Lehigh, So to 6. Lehigh had held
Brown to score of to 2. Colgate
itself too. The Maroon belongs among
the elite of the season, even II the
1thacans did win over it by IA to 0.
Williams and Wesleyan went up "a
peg, the Purple by beating the hitherto
undefeated Rensselaer, Poly eleven. and
the Middletown outfit by trouncing
Amherst Another hitherto undefeated
eleven fell when Dickinson succumbed
to Gettysburg. 1t was a wretched week
end for the Bezdek school, for Glenn
Killinger Is coach at Dickinson. Still
another eleven which had lodged de-
feat fell on Saturday. The Massa-
chusetts Aggies were outdone by Bates.
Maine settled the State championship
by beating Bowdoln. to 6--though tbs
beaten team has entered a protest
againt the point from touchdown al
lowed to the Maine men.
Union did mighty well to tie with
Hobart and Franklin and Marshall took
high position in the minor company
with a victory over Penn Military. AZ
to 0. Vermont's fine showing against
New Hampshire. S3 to 0. was another
source of qualification for Tom Ready.
now coaching the Burlington outfit.
Allegheny surprised Carnegie Tech by
holding the Plaid to one touchdown,
Bucknell swamped Muhlenburg and
Haverford scored a fine victory over
Guilford, from North Carolina.
In the South the high lights were
furnished by Vanderbilt's beating Ten
nessee and remaining undefeated. Au-
burns success over Georgia, Georgia
Techs rather tight game with Clemson
and Centres comparatively hard game
with Kentucky. The latter score was
81 to 3, as against 55 to of 1921.
Yale got its touchdown against the
Army through a forward pass, which
put the ball inside the Cadets yard
line. Yale got two touchdowns against
Brown with the help of forward passes
from Wight to Neidlinger, both OF
them. "F1ash" running forty and sixty
yards for the scores 1t must be ap-
parent to those Yale alumni who have
been criticizing Tad Jones that he has
developed something In the way of an
open attack.
Judging from what we saw in the
Bowl on Saturday we would say that
most Of last week was spent by the Ellis
in developing their aerial attack. It
was easy to see why so fine runner as
Neale had been denoted In favor OF
Wight. 1t was not on account OF
Wight's being the better kicker or be
cause Neale was fumbling too much. 1t
was because Jones needed the fine, ac
curate throwing which Wight's pres
ence gave to the Ellis. Wight is the
Snively Of the Ellis and around him a
new form of offensive has been built.
Yale and the Forward Pass.
The Yale forward pass In unlike the
air play used most often by Princeton,
and II differs too from the Harvard pass.
It seems to have been developed along
the lines worked out by Washington and
Jefferson some years ago. 1t does not
call for a long throw. II depends on a
comparatively short toss over the line.
which offers high form OF protection
since its interception leaves numerous
obstacles in the path of the opponent
who gets the ball. This was demon
strated when one OF Yales passes was
caught by Brown man. who made
about two yards. Five Ellis were on
his neck pronto.