New-York tribune., 1922-10-14


SHOWN strength amounts to anythin
1t Is apparent now that Yale will not
pc able to put it's best individual team
IN the field against Brother Howard
Jones's Iowans, and the relative
strength Of these two is mostly guess
work and impressions. When two
teams, each with good deal OF poten-
tial ability, but long ways from full
development, come together at this
time OF the year one never knows what
to think, save that the game viii be
close.
', Howard Jones, at the head OF the
hawkeyes, is one of the best of coaches
at bringing up well-rounded team, we'll
developed in every way, in which it Is cap
spie OF being developed, and resource
fui. His coaching showed that when
ne WAS in charge at Yale, although he
mad great material to work with that
year--1906, think it was---better mate
rial probably than Brother Tad has at
Yale this year, at least material more
mature and experienced.
Howard Jones lost several Of his best
men m, from last year, notably A. Devine,
Slater and Belding-and winning
team can be built around three such
men at that-but he started this year
with good nucleus and good deal
Of prestige. He is level-headed coach
with sound football sense. and comes
as near developing finished football
teams, given the Lasne, as any other
football man in the country. In all
probability he would have done we'll at
Yale had he stayed there, unless handi-
capped by local conditions and transi-
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the rest of Yale football appear now to
be emerging.
The Yale material this year gives the
impression of having the ability to
play better football than it has yet
played, by which isn't meant alone bet
ter football to come, but better than it
has played. 1t looks like material
which ought to have played better
against both Carnegie Tech and North
Carolina than it did Maybe the
coaches are biding their time and are
headed solely for Princeton and Har-
the Army from choice. Though the
Yale coaches may know exactly what
they are doing and may be acting for
the best, an outsider gets the impress
sion, from seeing the Blue in fairly
hard game, that the Ellis ought to have
played better football in that one. And
there was no impressive Improvement
between the Carnegie Tech clash and
the advent of Carolina. In short, much
big promising material physically ap-
peared to be milling about, wasting
energy, when it wasn't slow. and not
realizing on it natural ability. The
material has been described as "won-
derfuI" The adjective is over strong.
It's likely material, however, and none
of the Yale coaches has complained
about it.
With Jordan, Beckett, O'Hearn and
Miller not playing to-day, and If Iowa
is up to the best Western standard,
Yale will have to be much better than
so far this season II she is to keep step
with the coterie from the corn belt.
The Ellis have the advantage Of know
ing the bowl, and strangeness to sur
roundings isn't always trifiing factor.
The reports from Colgate this week
regarding the teams chances against
Princeton to-day have been conserva-
tive. They haven't been bulging with
confidence and from Princeton have
come reports, matter Of fact and bust
no excess of confidence. With an occa-
sional florid exception football public
ity at Princeton is attended to exceed
ingly we'll The tone of it is sensible
and the Tiger people are going along
this fall, in the face of not highly
rated outlook, quietly and earnestly,
as if to let results speak for them
selves.
The progress at Princeton though
hasn't been altogether satisfactory
The narrow escape and lack Of offence
shown against Virginia didn't drive
any Nassau camp followers into
ecstacy and the work there, In order
to fit the team for such stiff game
as Colgate, has been hard and persis-
tent. It has been largely in funda-
mentals, and few improvements in
elementals can work wonders.
The name Colgate" isn't one to be
held lightly by any opposition, for the
college has established it's position on
the white ribbed field and has been
consistently strong since Larry Bank
art piloted 1t to its place in the sun.
This year Dick Harlow, who was turn
before Hugo Bezdek ever went there.
is head coach at Colgate. It is doubt
full whether he has IS good material
as Roper has at Nassau, but that is q
mere surmise. The fact that he is now
at Colgate. that the latter has new
man at the helm, adds flavor to this,
one of the hard" contests of the day.
With Bowdoin in the stadium, Har-
wards game is minor" compared to
numerous others on the list, such, for
instance, as those named and Colum
hia- Wesleyan, Brown-Syracuse, W. and
J.-Carnegie, Army-Alabama Poly and
Pitt-West Virginia. These are all big
games, with the winner in no instance
foregone conclusion. However, CO.
lumbia, W. and j., the Army and Pitt
are favorites. The Syracuse-Brown af-
fair is "open," one Of those even thing
games, so far as we know in advance.
Lafayette hopes for record of un-
beaten games this year, but in Mullen
berg is taking nothing for granted, and
has been through a week Of careful
preparation. Locally, we have in addi-
tion to Columbia Wesleyan grapple
at Ohio Field between N. Y. U. and
Hobart. Bucknell, which did vast
heap of scoring against Susquehanna
last week, Is expected to give the mid
shipmen an interesting afternoon. We
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