The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-11-01


approximately was the local idea
today as i group 81 young men,
humorous1y known as the student
body, began to see study III the light
of i virtue for the first time while
they tlumbed back SIX years through
the leaves Of their football diary to
prove that Princeton viii ana must
beat Ohio state at Columbus. On
Saturday
Six years ago, Princeton had
football team that apparently
couldn't 20 wrong, II IL would.
The fact Of the matter was that
II wouldn't.
They say here that the 1923 outfit
1s much the same. only more 80, and
after 1t beats Ohio State--thefr story,
not mine--it will have placed Eastern
football In the position II long de-
served still their story and long
has escaped In 4 highly sensational
manner, the afterthougf1t being mine.
The east has become biz over.
stuffed on the patrOnizina air with
which It Ii viewed BY the rest of
the country
This year III has b great chance
to produce an uncha1lenged cham
pion of the nation and Princeton
figures II can do its part BY beating
the team that possibly II headed to-
ward the Big Ten title.
If that is achieved. the Army. hav-
ing beaten Southern Methodist from
the Southwest and Yale and Har-
ward, winners over two Southern con-
ference teams. then can draw 4 line
through Yale and Princeton to levy
authority on the BIG Ten.
All ii would need after that
- victories over Nebraska.
probable biz six champion. and
Stanford, impending winner on
the coast To take title 10 the
national championship And all
John Bananas needs toward his
first million Is $500, 909. 100. L
know this because personally
saw him spend the other cent
this morning.
Anyhow, it Is q pretty picture and
1T hasn't much wrong with 1t ex.
cept that the best or the south,
Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt, Tennessee.
Florida. etc. don't figure in the
analogy while one Of its worst, Wiz.
glnia. got q seOrelesa tie with
Princeton.
1t Is this Incident around which
resident optimists are weaving
their notion Of destiny Princeton
might have been scored upon iii this
game. 1T wasn't. 1t should have
lost to Cornell on Saturday. III
didn't. That they, say, was the
team OF destiny all over again. AZ
team that apparently didn't have
anything, yet always had enough.
1T was the team that went West to
Chicago to do the best il could
Its best, with Chicago leading BY
10 to z, was just too good The
middle West hasn't seen Princeton
since and somehow has contrived to-
bear up vary bravely without it.
The present Princeton team
only is like its predecessor in the
fact that il has appeared In an
possessing light 1t diff
fers i'm the fact that, ON paper,
it has the seInbiance OF strength.
1t has Miles and Wittmer, the two
backs who beat the Buckeyes last
year. 1t should have better than
fair forwards, with Howe, Bartell
and LAWYER, 1927 veterans. and Stin-
son and Barfield, 1927 substitutes,
with which to do business.
The intangible something that
links cohesion with strength, how
ever, hasn't clicked as yet. This
should be very disturbing, from the
standpoint of Ohio State.
The woman scorned is an insipid
matter compared to a Princeton foot
ball team that has been denied It's
click and suddenly finds out about it.