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Show 1 CAMP REVIEWS l WORK OF TEAMS I Eastern Expert Talks I Football. I Annapolis and West Point H Are the Surprises of the Season. B Coaoh Warner, Formerly of Carlisle, IB Is Making Great Progress With sR the Cornell Eleven. B By Walter Camp. Wm The mid-week in October demon- wm atrated all too forcibly the correctness M of the prediction made that the big H teams were full of weaknesses which B meeting- with more powerful aggrega- H tlons would disclose with all' their glar- HB Ins: inefficiencies. ' EH Princeton defeated by Annapolis. KH! Harvard lield to u score of a single UBj lucky field kick goal by West Point, Blfi Columbia decisively beaten by Amherst, HHH Yale not only scored on, but played to By a .standstill In the second half by Syra- MHfl cuse, Cornell Hcored on twice by Buck- Mfltff nell, and Pennsylvania able to get HHI across Brown's line but once in a game RH of two twenty-flve-mlnutc halves, was HBft . a sufllclently startling confirmation. 9H Annapolis has jumped to the front by Ball her defeat of Princeton, and the country HjfjjjH at larce, which ha3 felt that the Mld- HHj dies were getting to be the under dog lU m tne annua" content with West Point, fHfj Is now looklmr forward ot the contest HI which winds up the season on the Sat- Ell urday after Thanksgiving day in Phil- H adelphla, which promises to be one ot HI the most interesting of the year. vHI Annapolis has at last awakened to Mil the conditions required by the present Ml football rules, and men who were big IJk enough for guards formerly on the Navy Ml team are regarded only as possible MB tackles, and men who were big enough BI for tackles are being considered In the MIL light of material for end rushers. This B awakening means a good deal for An- Bff napolls and, if consistently followed up Bk and the material lasts, will begin to fflff give West Point real contests again, jflfi Annapolis has always been brilliant and mm capable of remarkably dashing play, Bn but mere spurts of brilliancy have not I availed against the heavy hammering Bl of the Army, and the results for some BI ft sensnns lnw hrn thp hnttrlnc- Into I. helplessness of the plucky Middies. Harvard Good Ground Gainers. Harvard, with her wealth of material, has made no mistake by combining sufficient weight In the line to make an. effective bulwark behind which her backs can work and against which attacks at-tacks In the center are likely to find no yielding point. The situation regarding the ends has bettered somewhat, although al-though not to the entire satisfaction of the coaches as yet. Fllley promises well and hfelps out the situation quite mate rlally. The back field In the last two games has shown considerable power, especially when Captain Hurley himself had the ball. There has been too much fumbling, but owing to the closeness of the formations this fumbling has not been as serious as It would be In more open plays, and when that fault Is eradicated erad-icated the Harvard team promises to be as good a ground-gainer as It was toward to-ward the e"hd of last year, and that Is saying a good deal, for in the Yale game their attack was consistently powerful. West Point's holding of Harvard and the most magnificent way in which her team arose to the occasion In the last part of the game, when they forced the play and had the visitors In distress, shows that the Army team Is as con-H con-H slstently powerful as ever, and quite an equal match for the big college teams. They have a hard schedule, and If they come out of It with the men in condition or can get them Into condition by the .time o( the Navy game their experience will be greater than that of the Navy and the meeting In Philadelphia should be a royal one. The defeat of Princeton by Annapolis came In the very nick of time for the New Jersey eleven, showing as It did that the success of their defensive work thus far had been due more to weakness weak-ness of the attack of their antagonists than to their own good work. The dose of defeat has awakened them to that kind of do or die determination which Is characteristic of all Princeton teams, and the organizations that meet Princeton Prince-ton In the next week or two will pay the penalty, for the Navy's success. Situation at Yale. At New Haven the situation has, as at some of the other universities, be- Ib HERE ARE THREE OF THE ST ARS OF THE WEST POINT FOOTBALL TEAM WHICH CAME NEAR BEATING HARVARD RECENTLY. AT THE LEFT IS GRAVES, TACKLE, IN THE CENTER TORNEY, HALF- BACK, AND ON THE RIGHT TIPTO N, CEANTER. THEY ARE A GREAT TRIO OF FOOTBALL WARRIORS. come so serious In the matter of end rushers that Shevhn has beon taken from the back field and put on his old position at end. Rockwell has tak?n up the quarterback play again and. although al-though not yet very rugged and fit, is as aggressive as ever. The placing of Shevlln at end gives an opening for McCoy at fullback and, as he has grown considerably heavier In the last season, he promises to stand the work better. Stewart has come along Into a strong possibility for one of the ends, having the weight which the modern play requires re-quires and a fair amount of speed. The center position Is still a matter of doubt, the handling of the ball not being satisfactory' sat-isfactory' and the defensive work In the middle very weak. At tackles and guards conditions are far better, Tripp proving powerful and active. Kinney Is making steady progress in the knowledge knowl-edge of guard play. Bloomer, If he keeps well, will surely return to his old form of three years ago, and Captain Hogan, In spite of the worries of the captaincy. Is sure to play a steady and consistent game. Outsiders are beginning to comment upon Pennsylvania that In spite of having hav-ing been reckoned as weak the Red and Blue eleven have managed to scrape along fairly well thus far and, to tell the truth, when tHclr attack comes off It Is less crude than Harvard's at this writing. On the other hand, It Is not as consistently certain for short. Bteady gains. Much will depend upon the condition con-dition of the team and how far they have succeeded in coming through the Columbia game without really Incapacitating Incapaci-tating injuries. The good men have certainly cer-tainly had more united practice this season than last, and if they can get Into the contest with some reserve energy, en-ergy, such as, for Instance, they displayed dis-played some two seasons ago at Cambridge, Cam-bridge, their better form and the better quality of their material this year than on that occasion should give them a good fighting chance. Under Coach Warner Cornell has already al-ready made most marked developments in offensive plays. The attack of the Ithacans is sharper and better perfected perfect-ed than for some seasons. The perfection perfec-tion of drill by which Warner has always al-ways been able to produce results has already made Itself felt, and the attack Is less haphazard and more finished tjian It was In the team three weeks later last season. If progress continues the Cornell eleven Is going to be a scoring scor-ing one. The problem of defense looms up strongly, but Warner Is at work on It, and unless the carrying of both the attack and the defense to their perfection perfec-tion proves too much for any man to do In one season, Warner will accomplish v STALE'S GIANT FOOTBALL TEAM SCOBING iTBST TOUCHDOWN- AGAINST SYRACUSE. PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE YALE FIELD. ' |