Evening star., 1924-11-03
NO. 8 (Second ParD.
AS TOLD BY T. A. d. (TAD) JONES
Head Coach, Yale University.

|THE play was a complete sur
prise to us. AS it appar-
emily was y AIMED. it gave
every promise of carrying Dillon and
the ball far into our territory.
Even a touchdown was possible.
That would have been disastrous.
But something entirely different
took place.
AS the PLAY w3r on Princeton's
right side, anu o. Oh" IeIt, practically
the whole Tiger team darted down to
box off our left guard. tackle and
end. But the greatest point of dam
ger so far as Orange and Black s
hopes were concerned. was on our
extreme left side, where my brother,
Howard Jones. left end, was tearing
forward to tackle Dillon. If the lat
ter got past Howard he would attain
a tremendous gain, and our goal line
would be in deadly menace.
Plans for the Advance.
The logic of the advance was for
Dillon to continue straight along the
SideIine. There were two reasons for
this: First, he was less likely to en-
counter more than one Bulldog de-
fcnsive man: secondly, if he were
forced out of bounds the ball still
would be in Princeton's possession
and could be brought 15 yards inside
the field for play from u good posi-
ton.
The Princeton quarterback received
the ball on Yale's 45-yard line. Be
tween there and our 40-yard line
something happened. Instead of
l. iSrh q
turned in. Bigelow. our right tackle.
and Bowman, our right half, threw
him on the 55-yard line.
What was il that caused Dillon to
change his mind? | don't know. Per
haps he decided that his chances
were bettered by taking the new di-
rection. Perhaps Right End Brown,
who rushed down the field near him,
had not given adequate interference.
From my position it looked as though
he might have slipped and been com
PEELED 10 seek a new opening. If
this were the case he lost time. and
of course, distance. The ball was adj
vanced only 20 yards instead of so,
or 40, or even more, as had appeared
possible for a time.
Far From Being Failure.
Nevertheless this splendid strategy
could scarcely be considered a failure
1t was only relatively so. The point
was that the Orange and Black had
retained possession of the pigskin
on the kick off, and this 20 yards in
side our territory.
on the other hand the psychoio-
gical effect upon us was far differ
ent from that which would have been
the case had Dillon added another
Is or 30 yards to his dash. In our
minds the thought leaped up that
Princeton had tried its greatest often
Sive feature of the day without
getting nearer than 80 yards of our
line. Furthermore the next play
must be from poor position at the
side of the field.
The Tigers were unable to advance
another ward on successive plays
Finally they worked the ball into
position for drop kick, but Harlans
attempt was a failure. Thus passed
the high tide Of Princeton'S eXpecta-
tions. Our hopes increased.
Putting the ball into play on our
2O-yard line. we began an Irresistible
march down the field. Not once did
we lose the ball In three plays out
of five Coy rushed the Tiger line
Finally, from Che 4-yard line. he
went over for a touchdown, carrying
two Princeton tacklers with him.
Goal from touchdown gave us points
to our opponents 10. Things were
looking up!
Begins Winning Drive.
Princeton received the next kick
off. A series of punts among the
plays that followed resulted ultimate
ly in Tiger kick being run back
some 40 Or IS yards to the Princeton
30yard line. here We began our final
attempt to avert defeat.
on the very first play we used q
new place-kicll formation devised by
Walter Camp. It was a great success.
I got down 10 yards behind the line
as though to receive the ball as
passed back from center and hold it
for Coy 10 kick. Instead it, was
snapped directly to Coy, standing 3
yards in my rear He Immediately
set sail for right end-my duty being
to form nterference-and gained 10
yards.
The game now was nearing its finish
and, with the ball ours on Prince
tons 20-yard line. the stands were il
delirium. We were directly in front
the goal posts and called the same
formation as before. 1t looked very
much as though we were going to
try for 4 field goal. which would tie
the score, but this was not at all as
sured and Princeton was left in a
state of uncertainty.
AS for us. it was not our intention
to play for Il tie game. We were out
to win. And when we repeated the
new Camp formation on which Coy
had made his 10-yard gain it was
with variations, which the Tigers did
not suspect.
Penalty Brings Gloom.
First. center snapped the ball to
me and / placed it on the ground, 10
yards behind the line. Next Coy set
the opposition to further guessing by
swinging forward for kick. He did
kick, but it was a fake, for he swung