The New York herald., 1922-10-23


nnd Princeton combinations we believe
in the East which could take the me
Harvard beat Centre last Saturday W
The Crimson very likely was the most
country. We came away with a wor
of the Harvard men, the football the
they evidenced.
We believe that Harvard would
have beaten Centre even il the Pray
ing Colonels lad pressed the Crimson
y great deal harder. Centre came into
the stadium primed to the minute,
ready to play its big game of the sea-
son. Harvard. with Dartmouth COM
ing next Saturday and Brown, Prince
ton and Yale in the offing. had to keep
IT'S physical and strategic forces in
check.
For a SPELL while on its way to ITS
second touchdown in the opening period.
Harvard showed some of that reserve
staff. 1t fooled Centre completely, and
then the Crimson pulled the strings on
it's bag OF tricks and was content to use
nothing out of the ordinary for the rest
OF the way.
Dartmouth Outstanding Victim.
Harvard's success against the fighting
eleven from Kentucky was the outstand-
ing feature of day full OF surprises and
upsets BY all odds the biggest form
reversal of the day. II we may call IT
that, was the defeat of Dartmouth by
Vermont, with the Hanoverians unable
TO cross the Vermont goal line and the
final score to 3. Second to that upset
was the beating handed to Columbia by
New York University. Z to s.
Fordham's fine showing against
Georgetown was another brilliant de-
yelopment as were Washington and
LEXIS holding West Virginia to a tie, II
TO f2, Wesleyan's Il to success over
Hobart West Virginia Wesleyans keep
ing Washington and Jefferson within the
limits of IA to 0, Boston University's
7-~all tie with Holy Cross and the
Navy's cleancut triumph over Georgia
TECH. as we'll as Lafayette's big score
2Ss TO against Bucknell.
yale's So to 0 against Williams. which
hsf been beaten by Tufts. was in accord
anee with expectations, but Princeton's
2ssto victory over Maryland exceeded
the hopes of those who almost had de-
spaired of the Tigers. Pennsylvania got
a COLT from Swarthmore. The Garnet
which had fallen before Dickinson only
,he week previous. 27 TO 7. and looked
hdpelessly outclassed. showed the old
Swarthmore spirit on Franklin Field and
hAd the Ouakers to Il to g. Penn getting
alt its points in the last quarter. The
evidence is piling up that Pennsylvania
is mot so powerful--and the impression
istthat Penn is due for a tanning from
the Navy on Saturday.
That "sing Sing'' Shift.
Wherever football men gathered here
Yesterday the big topic of discussion was
the Sing Sing" shift. sprung by Centre
against Harvard. Charley Moran. the
Centre coach, said after the game that
he~had used the lockstep shift back in
1903 in the South We never had seen
anything just like that walking shift. but
we saw something along the same lines
used by the Carlisle Indians fifteen years
ago and later by villanova, under the
coaching of Fred Crolius.
AS the Indians used that shift, which
left the end or the center isolated at
an extremity of the line to pass the
ball il was done with some snap. But
Centre never aroused itself beyond a
slow, leisurely, tantalizing walk, which
wasted a lot of time. Eleven or those
locksteps in succession earned forty
seven yards for the Colonels. but when
the big punch was demanded the shift
could not produce II. Centre had to
resort to drop kick to get something
for its hard earned yards. -
AS we saw the play II was a foolish
maneuver of only small merit It's value
was entirely psychological and in Cen
tres case took up a lot of time and effort
which might have produced better re-
suits had the Colonels used the straight
inside drive which won them their touch
down right after the start OF the fourth
period.
Play Not Generally Approved.
Most of the football critics on the
scene disapproved OF the shift. Stan
Keck. who was scouting for Princeton,
held that the play had some value in
so much as 1t kept Harvard guessing
and in state of apprehension, RED"
Roberts declared that the full value OF
the shift had not been realized because
II had been developed chiefly as a gem
Grating move for forward pass--and
the passer who had been working with
the shift was not in the game. Bartlett
the veteran back of the Kentucky eleven.
who is said 10 be the best thrower of a
football in the South. was taken to a
Boston hospital on Saturday morning,
threatened with pneumonia.
Harvard showed no more than II had
20 In order TO win. Centre showed
everything II had. IT was as tough a
football scrap as we have seen in many
day and the Harvard players. in spite
Of the constant substitution. showed the
effects Of the pace more than did the
Centre men. The Blue Grass outfit used
only fourteen players in all.
The Crimson backfleld. particularly
ta1 rTa
and deftness. Buell. was the same heady
Young man he was last season. Har-
wards line was not quite as we'll ball
anced as Il could have been. The left
side was the weaker. Eastman played
a hard game, but he was fooled too
easily. The Harvard ends will have 10
perk up too. However. the team is
coming along.
Now for Little JctJown.
Dartmouths lack OF striking ability
against Vermont will lift a great weight
from Fishers mind. Just before the
Centre game the coach declared that
his biggest problem was 10 keep the
team at its speedy gait until after the
Dartmouth battle. Ho hoped % give
50 a letdown after that encounter and
then bring II up again for the major
contests. Now he will be able to afford
The iuyury OF little letdown this week,
for the Green does not look at all for
Inidabe
Yale played good football and did a
lot Of scoring against Williams. but It
faces a week full Of hard work for the