Imperial Valley press., 1922-12-01
TANNING WITH FARRELL
THE TIGERS CHAMPIONSHIP CLAIM
BY HENRY L. FARRELL

fBy United Press Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Dec. l.-Princeton,
with an established championship of
the Big Three, has Is good a claim
rs any other eleven for the football
championship of the east.
Looking over the schedule which the
Tigers went through without being de-
feated, perhaps they have the best
claim on the title.
Cornell, beyond doubt, has wonder
ful team, but the Ithaeans had no op-
ponent on their schedule to class with
Chicago, Yale and Harvard
LAFAYETTE and Washington and JEFF
ferson also had fine football machines,
but until both institutions established
the three-vear rule of eligibility there
will always be some sentiment against
chasing them with other teams who
work under the handicap of freshman
rule.
In many WAYS, Princeton had most
remarkable team in 1922. 1t looked
like the blossom of a bust in late Sep
tenaber, but it hloomed into one of the
greatest of the many great elevens that
have carried the Orange and Black
colors.
Before each of the big games, the
critics predicted that Princeton should
not win, but they probably would.
The spirit of the Princeton team,
that never admitted defeat, even when
the evidence was powerful at hand, is
worded on sign posted in the Tiger
club house:
"A team that won t be beaten, can t
be beaten.
The Tigers have been called arch
opportunists, eternal vigilants and
champion fuckers. Everything fits
them but the luck accusation.
The breaks did ONE for Princeton in
Chicago and Harvard games and they
didn I waste one chance to score.
When the opportunity came they made
the best of it. The luck all went
against them in the Yale game, but
they won because they got only one
one chance.
Princeton had no outstanding stars
at the start of the season and perhaps
the Tigers viii not have representation
on the AlI-American elevens, but after
watching that team play no one will
deny that 1T WAS \ TEAM.
After what he did this season, Bill
Roper win have to be recognized rs
great coach. In the last four years,
Harvard hasn t been able to beat the
Tigers and Havard is generally reeog-
nized as having the greatest football
system in the country. The Houghton
style of play is obviously superior to
Yale IS but it does not seem to work
against a team that ''won t be beat
en-.
Harvard accused the Tigers of play
ing dirty football in 1927 and 1922. il
there is any strain like that in the
Princeton players, it must get itself
out against Harvard, because none OF
ii has been apparent in other games.
Princeton admittedly PLAYS hard foot
ball. If runs hard and it tackles hard,
but that is part of the game.
In the game against Yale, ''Pink ;
Baker. the great Princeton tackle, had
a chance to threw Charley 'Hearn for
a dirty fall. o 'Hearn is so fragile
that he might have been knocked out
for the rest of the season with heavy
fall. Baker, however, didn't throw
him. He just grabbed and held him.
Some stories are being told about the
horrible language that Princeton used
against the Chicago players last year
and how rought work Knocked out so
many of the Chicago eleven.
1t will be recalled, however, that
several of the Princeton men were prac-
tieallv lost for the season in that game,
so if Chicago was being rOughed they
weren I taking il ike little lambs.