New-York tribune., 1922-11-27

II NaIAdTQ eAd 4 AuISlttIs
IN As usually happens when q footoaaiA !
~ SIN falls before its main rivals, snS
g& ching systeIn comes in for y snare
% 50 bamc, and the Tad. Jones regime
n Haven Is, and will be, no ex-
I'M Mursnuriugs of Gissatisfaction
III sard anaonK Yale men after the
sA by Princeton, and the setback
aM Z hands OF the Harvard team on
s# Arday served to renew the complain
& A year ago the Yale defeat by Har-
&ard was somewhat tempered by the
'etory which tbs Bsne had previously
corea ever i'rlnceton. This year there
no such solace for. the coach who
aw his charges show enough skill TO
e rated as stronger than either Har-
arc or princeton but fail TO prove the
81 aperior1ty on the score board. It is
sssi ole tnat Jones will be added to the
Oag tiss OF grldiron mentors who have
ssen toasted to the skies as the great
81 hst ever when their teams came through
saeeessfully, and then made TO pay the
penaity of failure when another team
a&salied. IN the realm OF football teach
HIS the ora saying Nothing succeeds
Ske success" runs doubly true.
Jones knew enough football to tri-
amph over both Harvard and Princeton
I
81 IS the one to whom credit or blame is
8 Que. That his team failed this year
# nay be the result of the team itself be-
n ing below the notch st which IL has
81 been generally rated. Jones mnques-
81 uonabiy knows as much football as in
81 1915, PROBABLY more. There have been
81 no radical changes in general play
81 since then. The forward pass has been
. Developed, it is true, but Yale showed
~ ssS much in this regard as either Har-
fard or Princeton did in the games
81 against the Ellis. But it all gets back
81 70 the important point that Yale did
81 rot win either game.
II Overemphasizing Weak Points
u The charge ig frequently heard--has
been heard after the games of the last
@two years as well as for the season just
n ended-that Yale's deficiency is the
& lack of scoring play when close to the
Il goal line. There is no denying that
Yale has threatened far more often
h than she has scored. But the indict-
raent might be applied to almost every
football team in the country. The diff
ference is that the strong or weak
points of football among the Yale
Harvard Princeton group are over
4 emphasized. There Is no denying that
4 the games carry a tradition all their
Own and that there is wide interest in
me result even among persons in no
5way identified with any of the institu-
nons. And yet, after all, there is an
Importance applied to these games that
1 is out of all proportion to the affair
itself. Success Is unduly magnified, SO
&is failure.
AS the Yale man sees it Yale has
Failed twice on the threshold of vic-
3Dry-first on Princeton's one-yard line
eard then at Harvard's ten-yard line.
As Harvard and Princeton view it, their
teams arose to the emergency with a
defense that would not be denied.
There is as much reason to hold UP
the Princeton OF the Harvard defense
as there is to condemn a supposed
Yale weakness. Come TO think it over.
few teams over stretch of years have
rolled Harvard team back from it's
ten-yard line to It's goal line. For some
seasons Harvard has ranked as the best
defensive team in the intercollegiate
group, or close to the top.
The Haryard-YRie game of Saturday
fyas settled in the short space of lees
than ten seconds, the time required
Tor George Owen to dash something
like sixty yards as the crow would fly,
but bit more as Owen zigzagged and
lodged. A shorter run by Beattie, Of
Princeton, had all but settled the Yale
Tiger game of week before. Both
are part of football and net to be dis
counted, yet the fact stands out that
! each run was about the only thing in
the shape of real advance displayed
Z Z either of Yale's rivals.
Yale More Impressive
Yale impressed the onlooker as a
more powerful team than Harvard on
attack and defense, smoother with the
forward pass and team that on a
seasons play would do conside Tably
more in ecoring way against the
same opposition. If football were
scored on cash register basis, with
the total in yardage checked up when
ever gained, the season would show
Yale far above her two rivals. But
unfortunately for the Ellis the midfield
performances are rated only as
means to an end. The big results are
measured on a goal line and cross
BAR
Either Yale has a remarkable defense
or Harvard has no attack worthy 9f
the name. One has to back far down
me pages of Yale-H Harvard football
history TO find Harvard team able
70 make only three first downs against
~, ou( SUCH an aggregation gave
-'s 1oiiowers the opportunity to do
merry merry snake dance on the gridiron
wlthin the bowl last Saturday. 1t was
me weakest Harvard team, in a ground
gaming way. that has come out of
cambridge in many, many years. But
went home with banners flying, while
better Harvard teams have had to ac-
cept defeat.
yale in her two big games Of the
year was somewhat like baseball
nana ,sam that hits frequently, steals base
.ao,, sow and the :, performs we'll in the
twosa,. TWO ana lose to team which makes
W. or three hits.
yaiea Iiecaaifng the Yale Princeton and
rnaIe aIttSSrVard tSr games, it is difficult to
geh'ags getfina on the field, and vet there is no
that d1lu 1oma. rs 1t is on the final fi9ures
as S@, ro,st sssms ar rated as successes sc @ or
perrosna1 -r1~ra as IT has eliminated the over
'@"eie or otherwise.
pner et,,, On Roxing COMMITTEES
Ronall nallLaaDELPHIA, Nov. as.-william
apS y, Z r,flnceton's head footbali coarb /.