New-York tribune., 1922-11-20

organized effort at that, seems strange
4 ly out of balance when one team Car
gain 236 yards to 76 at the running
game, make sixteen first downs to six
punt better and make one tumble te
two and yet lose, but that's what hap.
Epened to Yale.
BY virtue of doing the right thing
at the right time and the cool, depend
able and wideawake football that
went with it, Princeton deserved it's
success; but, nevertheless, team
which played as well as Yale did not
deserve defeat. So often have the Tig-
ers won games in this way that the
! natural question is, why?
There was no fluke about the victorS
over Yale, no sudden favorable hap
pening which was just happening, al
though poor kick off did lead up to
the Tigers one scoring output. How
| one team can be coached to be quick
thinkers and then be quick thinkers
In the stress Of battle is beyond a
good many Of US, and good many Of
us fail to see why football sense
shouldn't average up about equal in the
big squads.
I'm not very strong for this quick
ship stuff at one institution as against
another; but the Tigers have been ex-
ceiling in making the most Of openings
and did S6 Saturday-and there you ere,
Tigers Strong on Defense
1t will be noticed, too. that Princeton
has held many time inside It's 5-yard
line, and there is tangible explana-
tion of why they are so hard to beat.
There Is concrete evidence of brave
hearts and sterling ability. Defensive
ability, it is true, but still exceedingly
useful.
No coach would put in most of his
time coaching his men to be on the
watch for opponents slips. All coaches
put in good deal of time giving, or
trying to give, their men something
positive, something to score with. This
is true at Princeton as we'll as else
where.
What teams are striving for Is to
score with what has been given them,
and If the team that comes on the field
better equipped for ground gaining
and doing better at ground gaining,
and that includes kicking and air pass
ing, loses as often as, may be the case
in football, one rises to ask whether
this game is lacking in adequate meas
ure of values for tactics taught and eff
fort expended.
The Blue came on the field well
looked as if Tad Jones and the other
coaches had done a good job--as if
they had done their work right well.
The Blue had more "stuff" than for
several years, although l do not for a
minute think and haven't thought the
material as good as last years.
Jones and his aids couldn't play the
game for Eli after the men went on
the field. Mistakes? Sure, the Ellis
made them. So did Princeton, but the
Nassau men by force OF circum stances
nifty was ripe, whereas Yale could have
kicked one just as easily, but at time
when it would have been both dumb"
and spineless football to have done so,
and that was when on Prince1on's
1-yard line, with the game just be-
ginning.
Defeat Not Deserved
So to Princeton goes the praise due
victor, and with Princeton entitled
TO all of it; but to Yale goes the dis
paragement so often the losers lot, |
but with Yale not deserving of all OF It'll
by good deal.
With Yale her big games so far have
been cases of going so far and no |
further. The offense hasn't been able
TO complete the Job and the Blue has ]
total OF seven points against Iowa, the |
Army and Princeton, and two defeats
and one tie In that lot.
Against the Hawkeyes and the |
soldiers the attack hadn't been de-
veioped to the point reached for |!
Princeton, and gainst Princeton there |
were mistakes of iudg-I
ment, but more than one bov-Sthev
run from nineteen to twenty-three I
years old-might slip Judgment coz
now and then with $4,000 persons look- /
ing on, with all the hurrah and hub
pup and general overstressing given I
!, Football. 1t is fairly human thing to
90, and is far from an irreparable mis-
cue IN a young mans career.
aale ola handle the situation in the
nGurth quarter poorly, the situation
when within striking distance Of .
goal . from the field; but there were
eleven heads out there, and there's MOI
saseo = OF singing out one or two as
oiameworthy. Princeton made sovas
mistakes, ST; toe, for that matter.
MhaS was wrong with Yale's general
snlg ,en When the Blue was on the one
saro iine and sent the fourth down NAV
nsa a.hss tne middle OF the line? Sun
Puss ers you M, nad had three men of the
r "a ASIulhSH9Nk. cross and
Lovejoy behind whom TO send : nia,, J..n
wnere would you have sent Il. there ~
somewhere else2 AS It wss. the n,s,,
wens " where Princeton expected Il and
y. .he center men dove under and stopned
Iti out, nevertheless, where would yon
nave sent itf We can all cali tha 4wrn
On the second guess. 's s'A
Neaie Star Running back
a few stray features; Neale ws. .ha
oest running back on the feIS sss
lass man on offense this chan. ana ss
.urnlng TO take his opening one If tas
'esc peg IN the East. Cleaves. mo aashv
layer, but consistent, persistent and
sL,Ways si,s; trying his best, the Nina ~ hana
sas a.sn you and one. of the best Of the
ear at intercepting forward masses
'oaaan, better plunging back than
sshefaliy supposed. Not only that but
% a tWister and dodger and at hraaIs
,ame. s4assa esuter
! lreat, .n q finished football PLAYER. one
= .ne best tackles of the year. NearIy
slWays where he ought TO he 8 ,aila.
'aloosa at nipping loose bail Made /
,ne mistake when he butted into n
ealnmate . inmate and spoiled the latter,s
;n'a ;aSenihg OF forward PASS. AT that
ame ne was twenty feet from wheS,s
le should nave been ona whss'*,
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