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Show PRINCETON TEAM STAR OF GRIDIRON (By Monty. i New York. Oct. 2G. Keep our eei on Princeton' If the Tigers the ' lightest team that has represented i one of the Big Three in many years do not give Yale and Harvard, a rogged mn of It this year, there will be just cause to express surprise. At ! least that is the opinion of close students of the game who have aeon i Captain Pendleton's eleven in action. ' Hiving witnessed the submerging of Lehigh, as well as two of the practice seeslons, nn idea received birth, to tho effect that the Princeton speed fiends might be tho equal or theiea-bouts theiea-bouts of any aggregation of Its' pounds in modern football. This ldea( has been confirmed by the sight of the swift-going Jerseyites tearing down tho Held and amassing their total of 62 points against Syracuse. That was a week ago today This afternoon the Tigers are in their first so-called hard gamo of the year, with Dartmouth as the opponents. Such may jrovo an oroneous forecast, fore-cast, but "in our humble mind, wo can see the jungle beasts tearing the green to as many bits as the predecessors. prede-cessors. Leads in Points. Thus far Princeton has scored more points than Yale and Harvard combined A total of 23 points has been built in five gamps, against only G for opponents, and that on a fluke. Harvaid has amassed 105 to rivals 3 and Yale has a record of GO to 3, both i the Crimson and the Bluo have par-! tlclpatetl in the same number of conflicts con-flicts as the Tigerb Dartmouth, against the same numbei of teams, most of them a trifle weaker, possesses pos-sesses a total record of 190 to 9 in! five contests. The figures on other prominent eastern teams are: Cornell. Cor-nell. 30 to Gl. five games, Pennsylvania, Pennsyl-vania, 142 to 3G. six games, Brown, 53 to 1-1 , four games, Army, 4G to G, three games; Navy. 13 to 38. three; games; Carlisle, 272 to 15, seven games. The big Southern team. Van-derbilt, Van-derbilt, leads the country with 305 to 0 in four games. Comparative scores do not count j for much, even when recorded i against the same teams, so when taken in totals against different teams as above thev can count for nett to nothing. However, though meaning little, thoy provide Interesting Inter-esting comparisons. Individual Games. Taken through individual games, the Tigers' scores in their two biggest big-gest games to date loom very com. plimeutary to tho team's piowesB Lenign two weeks ago proved a choice morsel for the lightning eleven elev-en after having obtained a victory ocer the Navy. And now last Satur-dav. Satur-dav. Syiacuse, which lost to Yale only after giving the Elis a stubborn battle, proved playthings in the hands of the Tigers These two games caused a wail to well up from the Princeton camp that the team has been unfortunate in not finding the realy stiff opposition oppo-sition needed to whip it into shape for the heavier games to come The big totalr, lolled up have been attributed attri-buted not to the home team's prowess but to opponents' lack of 1t That sounds alright on paper, but tho trained eye that has watched the Tigers in action and that also has. seen Harvard and Yale of this season sea-son holds a different view The Tiger line is light, very light? Only two of its members weigh over ISO pounds and both of theso less than 190 The groat Plucthcuthal, who made All-Amerlc.iu center last .vcar, is just as good as eer But "in the games we have neon, he has not sliono a bit above the other Hnc-mnn Hnc-mnn in splto of their lack of avoirdupois. avoirdu-pois. That is our way of figuring the Princeton line one of the gieatest of its poundage that ever trod a grid, iron, Pendelton Is Marvel. The same line of reasoning may be applied to the backflcld Two vears ago Tol Pendelton was the sensation sen-sation of the season. Last vear he was at nuarteiback and did not have his usual opportunitv for spectacular inns. This year, again at halfback, he Is the Bame smashing, sloshing runner as before and equally wonderful won-derful at picking openings and dodging dodg-ing tacklcrs Jn an open field But Pendelton with all his marvel-oub marvel-oub ground gaining ability, does not stand out supreme In the Tiger back-fjold. back-fjold. No, he Is the same remark-' able rushor, but his co-partners at ( least un to the prrsent time, have accomplished just as much as he. De Witt. Walker. Hobey Baker and Eddie Ed-die Trenkman have "been just as formidable for-midable , Not one of the bunch Is a heavy man. vet thev fly along, skid over tho ground with reeling speed batter the ilval lino, split it asunder and swing around Its ends with monotonous mo-notonous jet sensational regulaiitv. We have heard a lot about the gieat work of Lefty Flynn of Yale, and of Wendell. Hardwlck and Brlckley of Harvard. Having had a. squint at all of them, our rebuttal Is: Keep your eye on Princeton' |