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Show SPOBTLIGHT V6y Gran fland Rice (Copyright. 1922. New York Tribune Inc. Trade Mark Registered, L. S Patent Office ) ;kidiko ETCHINGS No 3 Yale. in the last thirteen years dating back to 190i. Yale has beaten Har-ard Har-ard at football Just one time. That lone victorious turn between 1909 and 1922 took place in 1916, when "Tad" Jones guided 'Cupid " Black's team to the top of the hill for just one look at the promised land No further statistics are needed tr show the mighty effort that Yale will! make this next November to break j down the Crimson wall which has sur- j rounded the Bulldog for so long. What Is Yale's chance this ear? The Blue has fine back field ma-terlali ma-terlali three or four good ends and at least its share of big. strong, ox-1 perlenced material for the lin Yale's muterial in general is far ahead of Princeton's and somewhat better than Harvard's. Her line will charge as hrd, hjr backs will run with as much power and speed and her men will be as well coached In fundamentals. So It nil gets down to one proposition proposi-tion a sysli-m of plays and quarter generalship that will match Harvard's System as directed by Charley Buell. ! THE VITAL I ACTOR. The vital factor at Yale this fall I will be the development of an attack! that combines both power and deccp- tlon plus a quarterback who can I pick the right play for each situa- ! tlon and the right man to carry this play through. This may sound simple enough, but ( it happens to the hardest ting in foot bah to work out. No quarterback who runs a lot with the ball and takes his share "f the heavy pounding will be able to match his football brain with Charley Knell's. The baseball pitcher who socks one to the outlying precinct and Is then thrown out at the plate usually Is dl.zy and unsteady when he starts back for the box The quarterback who is stood upon up-on the crest of his forehead a few, times Is rarely fit to direct the com- 1 plicated muchlhery of the modern game. BliCfi POSMB1MTII S Yale has In Captain Jordan O'Hearn, Mallory. Neldllnger and Beckett, anions others. the blgh-ranklmr blgh-ranklmr backs who have their complete com-plete share of football stuff. There Is enough line material from flank to flank to meet any situation. Eddy, Cutler, Lincoln, Deaver, Cross. Crutkshank. Sillier, Qualle. etc. are almost up to the back-field cast. It now remains to be seen how well "Tad" Jones, one of tho finest Influences Influ-ences In sport, can work out his destiny des-tiny In the third year of his campaign. cam-paign. His main task will be to provide an attack that will have more deception' anil will be carried out with bett.-r p wnani i iib miiMii ii nidcment than Yale has known for some years. This doesn't mean proficiencv in the passing game alone Or the running; game. Or the kicking rrame All thrno ar- needed. It means a combination of the three, 'well selected by a heady field gen-I gen-I eral that can keep a hostile dfi nse ! Uncertain and guessing at least a big I part of the time. Under old football ab- I'd tin- way for tin1 better part of twenty-five years. It hasn't ! -n any too cas to switch from one order or-der to another. But a sufficient num-I num-I hor of years has now slipped by to I round out tin- change Most of this comparative football 'courage you hear aboul is all bunk. Practically ull of those who wear the harnevs of the cunio have courage, enough. There la a far greater dlf-fcrence dlf-fcrence or a much wider gap In football foot-ball Int. Illi,'i nee than tin re is In fm;t- ball courage. Harvard has had t keen, progressive football system at work for a dozen years Yale most ; of this time has been experimenting. But by new 'Tad'' .lones and his staff, who know football, should bo wll out of the wire f-ntanglements. Fale last year showed a big improvement improve-ment over the year hefore. despite tin- lone setback from Harvard rnnlan Is a great line breaker I I 11' urn can kick, pass and run If h remains uninjured he will be one of tlnj .season's leading stars. Mallory Mal-lory is a great defensive back and Neldllnger will be a vast help It I takes no Vivid Imagination to sec what a cool, qulck-thlnklng quarter-I quarter-I back could do with all this offensiv e power and skill in the way of ram-mlng ram-mlng it down the field. From the present outlook Yale has : the best chance this season she has had In many yearSi Her first hard test will be agains Iowa around the middle of October. when Howard Jones will bring a strong machine 'east to test the Blue In thorough i fashion Princeton at this writing ; hasn't the material Rpper had a year j ago and. while the Yale-Princeton I game will be a battle, it should not (take as much from the Blue as It took lust fall. This should leave Yale In a much belter wav to meei Harvard Har-vard and discover whether or noi j the Crimson well ran be broken ' down by a better directed Blue at-' at-' tack The Yale situation for 1922 is one 'of' the most Interesting now extant In 1 the football world Barring such a run oi accidents as Princeton knew last fall. "Tad" Jones at last is In a position to give Yale one of the best 1 seasons In her football history 1 mi in i ii i an n i hi' i i ii m ii in i ' 'i i |