New-York tribune., 1922-11-16

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question mark refers to the Yale gar
The Yale score is left to the futures
TO reveal. but the Tigers are going
after that game with the same quiet
earnestness, the same resolution and
unaffected determination they did for
the Chicago and Harvard games.
Analysis and prophecies mean moth
ing TO this Tiger squad. They have
tended to bring the Tiger team in a
loser in oil its important engagements,
and though they may be justified the
Tiger this Fall has had trick of win
ming, and that is an invaluable asset.
Whatever may be the reasons why the
other team ought to win the Tiger
somehow or other does win, and that
is an argument against which there Is
no rebuttal. As another Princeton
placard reads, "a team that won't be
beaten can't be beaten"
To-day $4,000 of Yale money was
telegraphed here to be bet on Yale for
next Saturdays game at the prepos-
ferrous odds of 10 to 6. Bill Edwards
was in town to see the practice and
he took $500 OF it, that is he bet S 90
against $1,000. No matter what tho
odds are they, like other teams impos-
ing records and systems, mean nothing
to the Princeton Tiger, 1922 model.
Big Day for Players and Coaches
Hard work and thoroughness are re-
lied on here to make the team fit for
the Yale game, and they went on to-
day unabated. although the afternoon
was dark and wet and sodden. Nature
was stepped in gray dampness, but with
all the football men everything was
clipper and spirited. 1t was consider
able Of day for the football players
and coaches. Bill Roper, head coach,
put in all morning giving individual
talks to this player and that one on
what has gone before and how It must
be applied to what is to come, and Bill
was a tired man at lunch time.
He was all vigor and pep, however,
when time came for the afternoon
coaching.
"We beat Harvard" he said, "be-
cause we had their game sized up. We
knew what they were going to do, and
though it may sound like stretching
the truth, nevertheless that game was
ours after the first few plays. By that
/ mean we knew we had them, so far
as concerned any ability to score they
might have. Then again, this Prince
ton team has a lot of real football
players on it, better than good many
people might think"
Nothing about the Yale game from
Roper, the idea is to let the game
speak for itself in showing what the
Nassau eleven can Go. There are Drawn
and activity and football intelligence
on the Princeton side to compare
fayorably with anybody else's eleven,
and there's considerable hope in
Princeton and purlieus that the eleven
this fall will do what isn't done often
on the gridiron these days, go through
with clean string of victories.
Most of the practice to-day was in
the cage. Bill Edwards, Jack Strub-
ing and Red Gennert, former lumi-
naries, ran down for the day, also Phil
Brasher, who did such good job of
scouting for the Harvard team
Roper took to the baseball cage be-
cause it was dry there and there was
room enough to run through the sig
mails. The work went with marked
snap and style. A good deal of atten-
tion was paid to the offense and then
came instruction and drill in the not
unimportant detail of reducing Yale
players to innocuousness Sharply and
clearly, Roper snapped his orders and
criticism and praises, commencing as
much as he criticized, never harsh or
rough, but ali business. Evidently
this thing Of breaking up Yale plays
was rated no trifiing job, but, also
evidently, 1t is not catalogued in this
Jersey township as insurmountable.
Here's quip from to-day princeton
Tiger: Professor in geography to
freshman: Name the three great
seas" Freshmans "cleaves, Crum
The three big Cs were In the back
field thia afternoon, and also Johnny
German at quarterback, rapping OUT
eignals like q machine gun, and the
backiield will start that way against
Yale. In the line were Gray and Stout,
endsi Baker and Treat, tackles; Dick
enson and Howard. guards, and Afford,
center. The line will start in that
order. By the way, it was Treat who
fell on that early Harvard tumble, not
Baker.
Tillson and Smith went to the wings
later, and Dinsmore, peattie, Vanger-
big and Bergen to the backfeld.
Everybody outdoors nowi" shouted
Roper after an hour and half in the
cage. "We want some practice with
wet bali. Everybody put on those
new shirts. don't want anybody to
catch cold"
About these shirts. They're made of
heavy, coarse gray wool. blouse-like
garments with hood attached. Some.
body hailed Roper, when he pulled his
hood up, as Nanook of the North; the
players looked like q lot of cowled
monks, and they dubbed the things
coops They got the idea Of the shirts
in Chicago.
Roper sent his regulars post haste
TO the tackle dummy as soon as they
piled out on the field, and In the mist
and drip from on, high they hit that
dummy hard. There'll hardly be such
loose tackling as marked Princeton's
early play against Harvard.
The first team was coached in block
ing to protect the kicker, and the big
linesmen used the dummy to practice
taking out opposing forwards. At the
end of that work the dummy looked
like the breaking up of hard winter.
Cleaves and Vangerbig were both kick
ing we'll There was nice high lift
to their punts.
Then TO the gridlron, where scrim-
raging, with taeklng eliminated, took
place in the semi-dark. Everything
that could be thought OF as advisable
on wet day and slippery field was
done, and through it all players smiled
and grinned and said little, and that's
the way the said Princeton players 70
to battle.
There's a Princeton placard which