Evening star., 1933-10-23
THE SPORTLICHT
A Warning Note.
BY GRANTLAND RICE

Warning Note.
Then bark to a tale from Tigertown.
They now are up, who lately were down.
With Spofford and Lane and Garry le
Van,
And Kadlic, Constable, Ceppi and Lea,
And others too many to name man
for man,
The Tiger once more is out on a
spree.
No more Is he making excuses galore,
Explaining away the short end of a
We serve fair warning while yet we may,
To Bulldog, Navy, to Dartmouth and
Brown,
A rampaging Tiger is seeking his prey:
Beware the beast Of T1gertownI
r N Palmer Stadium at Princeton Sat-
urday afternoon squad of agile,
alert young men confirmed, as an
established truth, what for the past
few weeks. since the collegiate foot ball
season opened, had been a very strong
suspicion on the part of followers of
the gridiron game-that the Princeton
Tiger is once more back in the thick of
the fight for top-rank foot ball honors
among the great teams of the country
The Tiger licked smart, well
coached and well drilled Columbia team
composed in large measure Of seasoned,
experienced players, and licked it de-
cislvely. The margin of 20 points BY
which Princeton won fairly reflects the
team superiority, no more Defensively,
except for few sporadic gains here
and there. Princeton had the speedy.
shifty Columbia backs bottled up tightly
throughout the contest.
On the other hand, behind a line
that opened up big holes in the Colum-
bia forward defense, Princeton backs
plunged and lodged their way for fine
gains time after time. In the matter
of aerial operations, both extensively
and deiensively, the Tiger showed to
2o-odd yards which Kadlic hurled to
Lea in the first quarter, after Prince.
ton had drawn an early break in re-
covering Columbia tumble, shortly
for the first Princeton score Lea
went high in the air to take the ball,
in spite of Capt. Cliff Montgomery's
frantic effort to break it up.
On pass defense, Princeton backs
were so closely on the Job that the only
material gains enjoyed by Columbia
from its passing attack came as a re-
suit Of rulings of interference with the
receiver, when the Tiger defense men
were bit too eager.
The Tiger Backfield.
DUT the feature of the game which
Is did most to warm the enthusiasm
of Princeton supporters was the
magnificent showing Of several of the
Tigers fine sophomore backs. In Pep
per Constable and Homer Spofford,
Coach Crisler uncovered two wonder
fully fine driving, slashing ball carriers
who also can do their share Of block
ing and tackling. Garry LIE Van, Paul
Pauk, Chick kaufman and others
showed some of the cleverest dodging
and sidestepping you will encounter in
long time.
LIE Van in particular is a very shifty
young man who is sure to cause no
end Of trouble for Tiger opposition for
some time to come His return of a
punt SIS yards for a touchdown was a
thrilling piece of work. He climaxed
this performance by completely side
stepping Cliff Montgomery when the
latter appeared to have him pinned in
against the sideline near the 10-yard
mark. The Columbia captain barely
laid q hand on him.
Columbia foght q valiant though
losing battle, and the fact that the
Lion contingent never slowed down from
first to last is q further tribute to the
caliber Of play Princeton. showed.