The Washington herald., 1922-11-15

Gives Blue Eleven Edge
Over Tigers on Speed
Declares Els Reserve Strength May Be Impor.
tant Factor in Deciding Annual Gridiron
Battle With Princeton.
By GRANTLAND RICE.

By GRANTLAND RICE.
NEW HAVEN. Conn.,, Nov. IA
Around the battle-ground of the
Bulldog. just now war preparations
for the Tiger hunt are as feverish
and as active as IL Kemal Pasha had
Just sighted a platoon Of Greek in
Rantry at the gates of Constanti-
Ynople.
For the Tiger this year. andoubt-
edly has the Bulldog puzzled. The
D tawny king of Nassau's jungle
doesn't se>Sn to be SO deadly on copy
paper. but so far no one has been
able to lick him on the field and II
Is on the field alone that final scores
are allowed to stand.
Knowing Princeton's brilliant
record of actual achievement. the
Blue IL taking nothing for granted
In It's contest with the team destiny
that goes to battle under the ban
ner of Orange and Black.
Has Reserve Strength.
II football machines were made
up Of thirty men in place of eleven.
Yale today would be two or three
touchdowns stronger than any uni
yersity in the world.
We have never seen as much re-
serve strength upon any football
field. reserve strength all along the
line so close to first string quality
that In many cases only the toss OF
a coin could name the stronger man
for each job in sight Yale today
has two centers. four guards, four
tackles. six ends ard eight backs
of more than average strength and
speed, but unfortunately for Tad
\bnes and Ellis cause the rules per-
hit only eleven of these at one
time to walk upon the chosen turf.
Il reminds US of The day when Yost and
his little band of Wolverines sat
In the Harvard stadium waiting for
Harvard to take the field- Suddenly
q Crimson platoon started through
the gate, an unending line of big
shanked. brawny talent. 1t seemed
for a while as IL the Crimson
phalanx would never reach end as
forty, fifty. sixty and more raced
upon the field rs this an army
or a football team we've got to
play?' remarked a startled Michi-
gan player.
Never mind about that stun"
remarked .Yost with his accustomed
philosophy. If you've read the
rules lately you'll ind they can
only play eleven OF these birds at
one time"
Reserves VIII Help.
Yates wonderful surplus power Is
bound to help before the end Of the
Harvard game, but there will be
many a Yale star and player of
high merit who will hardly get to
handle the ball. Yale's strongest
ne. the one picked to face Prince
on. will find Lovejoy at center.
Gross and Cruikshank at guard,
Miller and Diller at tackle. with
Eddy and Deaver at the ends. This
leaves in reserve Landis at center.
last years regular. Herr and Pills
bury at guard. Joss and Greene at
tackles and Luman and HUMAN at
ends, with Blair and Cutler in sec
Ond reserve. And II these reserves
were sent against the regulars the
war would be so evenly waged that
few could tell where the greater
power rested.
Yale proved her line strength
against the Army's formidable.
h=rd-charginE 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
tackle. where Baker and Treat can
match an ypair in the land.
Has strong Backneld.
Ii is in backheld strength that
Yale steps forward beyond any
thing either Princeton or Harvard
has shown. Star backs here are
as thickly clustered as quails in
a covey and almost as numerous.
against the Tigers Saturday Tad
Zones is planning to start Neid-
Yiinger at quarter with Scott and
Wight at halves and Jordan at
full. Mallory and OHearn. two
of the main stars of the team. who
have been buffeted a bit, can be
used whenever needed. but neither
is likly to start down under the
first kickoff.
Outside Of these two held in re-
serve Jones still has Neale. a
great running back: Beckett. a
first class quarterback, and Bench.
of more than passing merit. all
tugEing at the justly celebrated
leash, So here are nine backfield
men who can be rated almost a
par with only two of the lot still
a bit below top form through in
juries or jolts. brave man will
be needed to tell Bill 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
81 .000. 900 in the street
Scott. his substitute. who will
probably start. is fine defensive
back. strong. fast and willing, but
he isn't a Mallory. and you can
gamble that II Princeton's running
game gets to making any surplus
-headway you will hnd Mallory in
khere. He had a shoal of carbunclas
when he faced the Army, bu: that
didn't stop him from breaking up
and dispensing almost every type OF
Army attack.
Newell Neidlinger. at quarter. a
great running back. has been I'M
proving through every start at his
new position. so O'Hearn, IL he
doesn't get in. won't be so badly
missed. He has acquired the knack
Of his new role with astonishing
Quickness and may easily be one "f
the days sensations before lt.e No
vember dusk slides down upon Mas
sau Jersey turf.
Wight VIII Do Punting.
1t is almost a certainty that Wild
die NeaIe. the elusive running back,
will be in the thick of the pastime