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Show ADD TO SCORING ON THE GRIDIRON The new football rules have already justified one prediction made for them namely, that they would result In bigger big-ger scores and fewer 0-0 games. To dato the total number of points scored scor-ed by the big and llttlo teams l. with few exceptions, much In excess of the totals made for tho corresponding correspond-ing number of games played last season. sea-son. With the exception of Yale and Cornell, all leading universities of the cast have shown well The difficulty with the Cornell team seems to be tho sluggishness of the lino, and at present tho coaches are devoting 'ill their time to It. Those who have visited vis-ited the Cornell camp are convinced that Dr. Sharpe is proceeding along the correct lines, and that the Ithn-cans Ithn-cans are not out of tho running yet by any moans. There Is a reeling not only at Princeton, but clpewhore. that the Tigers Ti-gers are In danger of over-confldenco because of the big acoron thoy have been making this' year. The Tigers have not had a hard game this sen-son, sen-son, and they will not meet a really tough opponent until they line up against Dartmouth Saturday In the first of their championship games. Tho ease with which tho Tigers have been rollnlg up the nolnts suggests one of two things olther Princeton Is wonderfully won-derfully strong or has been unfortunate unfortu-nate In scheduling easy opponents. It may be that thcro is some truth in each of these Biippositions. Dartmouth, though, will make Princeton work for a victory. The Hanovor collegian have been rolling up the polntfl quite as rapidly as Princeton, and are likely to bo handicapped handi-capped In the same munncr as Princeton. Prince-ton. Dartmouth Is particularly anxiouB to beat Princeton this year. Tho Hanover men think they should liavv; had a victory last year in3tead of a defeat when Princeton won U to 0 by a fluke drop kick in which tho ball bounded down the field and oer the cross bar. Ther.e two teams have played play-ed eight games of which Princeton has won five nnd Dartmouth two. Ono was a tie game. Dartmouth is a worthy wor-thy opponent for Princeton and tho New Englanders are confident of winning. win-ning. This is the first time in a good many years that Princeton has taken Dartmouth on for an October date, but In order to play Dartmouth, Harvard and Yale and still to finish the schedule sched-ule "with the Yale game, on November 1G, the ' early date was necessary. pjprrr-cnrf- ' ' . y " "r'T'"'"" -q'i1; T""' -''-'-' -"- "' - Dartmouth plnys a running game, much like that which characterizes the Tigers' play, and in addition Is fortified with an exceptionally good drop and place lcicker. |
