New-York tribune., 1922-11-15

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the field, and it is one the field alone
Knowing Princeton's brilliant recordc
of actual achievement, the Blue is tax
ing nothing for granted in its contest
with the team of destinty that goes to
battle under the banner of Orange and
Black. If football machines were made
up of thirty men in place of eleven
Vale to-day would be two or three
touehdowns stronger than any univer-
sity In the world.
We have never seen as much reserve
strength upon any football feld--re-
serve strength all along the line so
close to first string quality that in
many cases only the toss of coin
could name the stronger man for each
job in sight. Yale to-day has two CEN
rers, four guards, four tackles, six
ends and eight backs Of more than
average strength and speed, but, un-
fortunately for Tad Jones and the Eli
cause, rules permit, only eleven Of these
at one time to walk upon the chosen
turf.
Is reminds us the day that Yost and
his little band of Wolverines sat in
the Harvard stadium waiting for Har-
ward TO take the field. Suddenly q Grim
son platoon started through the gate,
auo uheHuihR IIHe OF Dig snankea,
brawny talent. II seemed for a while
as IL the Crimson platoon would never
reach an end, as forty, fifty, sixty and
more raced upon the field.
Tremendous Surplus Power
is this an army or a football team
we've got to play 2" remarked startled
Michigan player.
Never mind about that stuff an
swered Yost with his accustomed phi
losophy. "If you've read the rules late
3 ly you'll fnd they can only play eleven
of these birda at one time"
Yale's wonderful surplus power is
bound to help before the end of the
Harvard game, but there will be many
Yale star and player Of high merit
who will hardly get to handle the ball.
Yals's strongest line, the one picked
to face Princeton, will find Lovejoy at
center, Cross and Cruikshank at guard,
Miller and Diller at tackle with Eddy
and Deaver at end. This leaves in re-
serve lands at center, last years reg
uler, Herr and Pillsbury at guard, Joss
and Greene at tackles and Luman and
Huffman at ends, with Blair and Cutler
in second reserve. And IL these re-
serves were sent against the regulars
the war would be SO evenly waged that
few could tell where the greater power
4 rested.
Yale proved her line strength against
the Army's formidable, hard charging
! forwards, and against the strong Tiger
wall we look to see an even battle
with Yale stronger around the center
of the line and Princeton stouter at
the tackles, where Baker and Treat
can match any pair in the land.
1t is in backfield strength that Yale
& sscps forward beyond anything either
Princeton OK Harvard has shown. Star
backs here as are thickly clustered as
quails iZ covey and almost as nu-
merous. Against the Tigers Saturday
Tad Jones is planning to start Neid-
linger at quarter, with Scott and Wight
at halves and Jordan at full. Mallory
and O'Hearn, two of the main stars
Z of the team. who have been bufYeted a
bit. can be used whenever needed, but
neither Is likely to start down under
the first kickoff.
Baekfeld Particularly Strong
Outside of these two held In rs
serve, Jones still has Neale, a great
running back; Beckett, first class
quarterback, and Bench, of more than
passing merit, all tugging at the Justly
celebrated leash. So here are nine
baekfeld men who can be rated almost
at par with only two of the lot still
or jolts.
A brave man will be needed to tell
Bili Mallory, the brilliant defensive
back, that he can't start, for Mallory
happens to belong to the school that
would rather play football than pick
up a million dollars in the street.
Scott, his substitute, who will probably
start, is fine defensive back, strong.
Yast and wiiling-but he isn't NAL
"a yAt. n
frinccton's running game gets to max
ing any surplus Roadway you will find
Mallory in there. He had a shoal of
carbuncles when he faced the Army.
but that didn't stop him from breaking
up and dispensing almost every type
of Army attack.
Newell Neidiinger at quarter, a great
running back, has been improving
through every start at his new posi-
ton, so oHearn. IL he doesn't get in,
won't be SO badly missed. He has ac-
quired the knack of his new role with
astonishing quickness and may easily
I be one of the days sensations before
late November dusk slides down upon
+ Nassau's Jersey turf. 1t is almost 4
certainty that Widdie Neale, the elu-
: sive running back, will be in the thick
Of the pastime shortly after it opens
and when he arrives the combination
VI @NeabS anu NeiG1lnEer Will De hard
TO stop, since both are as quick and as
ahifty upon their feet as two leopards
n jungle action.
Wight and o'Hearn to-day nut in a
long spell at punting and both were
humping the ball down the field from
fifty to sixty yards at clip. Wight
Will do most of the punting on Satur-
day and he should hold his own with
out being forced to kick a shoe off.
Yale Backs Faster Than Tigers
The material is undoubtedly there
and. what is more to the point, it is
being hard driven in the open game.
To-day's battle with the scrubs was
largely along these lines, where the
passing was keen and accurate and
quite complicated enough to keen any
defense on the alert If Yale can have
any luck with her passing game ON
Saturday, and passing game frequent
~ needs its share of luck, the power
and speed of her runing attacks should
leave her an offense Of high quality.
well beyond anything that either old
rival has shown ali year Yale backs
have no greater power than Princeton
backs, but they are faster afoot and
rnere elusive in the open, quicker AS
rule to start.
And no one has to speak to YaIa
about this matter of holding on TO the
ball fn facing Princeton. Yale has had
her full share of lessons in this re-
spsct and Yale saw what happened to