Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-03
|CORNELL'S DEFEAT
FORESEEN BY NONE
Roper Calls Ursinus' Win
From Gettysburg Years
Sharpest Upset.
BY w. w. (BILL) ROPER,
Foot Ball Coach, Princeton University.

DRINCETON, November s.
- The uncertainties of mod.
ern foot ball never were
better illustrated than in
the Columbia Cornell game In
New York.
Cornell, Up to this game, was
undefeated. Columbia two weeks
before had been overwhelmed by
Dartmouth End yet Columbia won
the game, 10-7.
OF course every one expected Cornell
to win. On past performances it was
entitled to enter the game a top-heavy
favorite. And this very situation brought
about Cornells defeat. Give me the
underdog every time provided the team
in that position has couple of fighters
on its roll.
Hewitt was the spark plug for Column
bia. His dashing play inspired his team.
mates and as a result the Columbia
players outdid themselves and won o
stirring victory against a strong Cor
nell team.
lie was Mer1ted.
Princeton and Chicago battled to q
scoreless tie which about represents the
relative merits of the two teams. Both
had fairly good passing attack but
no close rushing game to supplement
the passing game. Modern foot ball
demands two parts to any successful
attack-flrst, a running game strong
enough to put so much pressure on the
line as to require line defense of high
order: then a forward pass properly
marked and cleverly executed is likely
to cause trouble.
Chicago had good passing attack
using back out wide as a decoy and
another back in motion in the same or
opposite direction. The Princeton de-
tense diagnosed the Chicago passes
fairly wall Capt. Mestres played out of
the line from center and was of material
assistance in stopping Chicago's passing
game.
While Princeton elected to play o
loose center on defense, Chicago played
a sevsn-man line with the wing backs
fairly close. The Chicago line defense,
supported by the wing backs, stopped
Princeton's running attack. 1t seemed
to me our forward passing game should
have been more Succ -Ssful than 1t was,
because of the fact that Chicago was
concentrating on the line plays.
Wing Backs Effective.
Chicago wing backs really played o
beautiful game. They supported their
line in fine style and yet were able to
stop Princetons passing game enough
to prevent score.
On the Princeton side there was tina
very opposite situation. Princeton's six
man line was strong enough to stop
Chicago's running plays without the
Ia~I 80 h. Tawl
passing game been q little sharper 1t
might have scored, while had Chicago's
running game proved more effective
Princeton's center might have been
forced up on the line.
In the Pennsylvania kansas game
Penn put enough pressure on the Jay
hawkers' line to win out with passes.
Kansas had a powerful line and q
strong. rugged backf1eld, but Penn had
more defense.
Dartmouth came mighty near win
ming from Yale in the closing period
OF the game. 1t was a great game be-
tween two high-grade teams.
Ursinus Surprises.
was surprised at N. Y. us 20-7
victory over Carnegie Tech. The N. Y,
U. attack functioned in great shape.
Duke was too strong for Villanova. La
fayette ran wild against Upsala.
One of the big upsets of the day
was Muhlenberg's 24-0 defeat of L.
high: But the most surprising up :
OF the season was Ursinus' defeat Il
Gettysburg, rated as one Of the strongest
small teams in the East.
Both the Army and Navy had corr
paratively easy days. Harvard cana
back in the last quarter and STAYED off
defeat at the hands of william & Mary.
The Crimson was evidently looking
ahead to the Michigan game.
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