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Show SvSportlight I Vjgp? GranflandRice 'Copyright, 122, New York Tribune. . ., ! Inc-: Trade Mark Registered, U S. . Patent Office l THE UPS! l ; Penn soaked th- Navy on the jaw. And Alabama toppled P. nn. Far more than one team's found a IjM : flaw In dope that crumbles now and then . ' J Caesar dropped a game one day. i "Kid" CasMus wiped liini off the map, And Bonaparte looked like a jay At Waterloo's world series scrap. You'll find the last game Pompey twirled They trimmed him at the gates of Rome ; Old Alexander licked the world, And then got double-crossed at home. The fickle dope still fools the wise Within this world of hit and miss; n certain days all us big guys Fall down and turn out stuff like this. THE VOICE M THE DRIVE. I ' j "Did it ever occur to you," re-1 marked "Tack" Hardwiek a while; back, "what a big part the quarter-j , ' back's voice might play? Take the case of Mai Logan When Logan start-1 '.I our drive from Harvard territory i his voice as he called signals had al- j.'iVl' most a purring quality. As we i I reached midfleid his voice went Into! 1 ;i a steady, even beat. As we drew near-1 j er to the goal line the signals came y ' out with a crack and snap, an entire i change from the voice fiftv yards 'H hack. And then. 09 we drove on ij,; within scoring distance, it had a lift ,j and a whiplike quality that would make jour hair rise up along the back t j , of your neck. That voice alone was j j almost enough to carry a team over 1 know It meant more to the Ilar- j ' card attack In those days than any I i one ever thought it did. I've felt my scalp tingle more than once as Boll Bo-ll J Kn cracked out the signals for the I , scoring play. The change in beat from If (j our own territory to the opponent's It ten-yard line was something to reft re-ft . ; member." TltL BLUE DEFENSE. On the next two Saturdays Yale's defense will be called upon to meet 1 two versatile and bewildering at- I We doubt very much that either 1 Princeton or Harvard Is going to get E very far through the Yale lino by mere speed and power. They will both m ' hammer Just often enough to Keep the ; : ' defense closed in as much as posslblej V but their scoring possibilities must! U rest upon deception and the air route. I After this comes the matter of Yale's I ( attack. The Blue hos more sheer I .1 ' attacking and defensive power thani I I either Princeton or Harvard. But fori K J' ill that, the final answer must come I 1 1 from the open game and this part of B tht problem will hardly be unraveled B4 before Saturday's returns. If Yale - . itasDiiic Kame. attacK and E iKL defense, upon, even terms tier destiny I i for 1922 seems to be fairly well as- w ! sured. I ij! "What a pair of backs." writes a I j ii fh. "Gazelle, of Lafayette, and Stur- I jj buck, of Cornell, would liave mad- " P i Oui, MacPherson. THE MAIN QUERY. I f l ; 1 he female of the species may be! I L . rougher than the male. I (I I IS the Tiger of the Jungle any I ! j ( deadlier than the Y'ale '.' I !h ' What state can match Pennsylvania I r' ; for football machines? Washington I iJ j md Jefferson, Lafayette. Pennsyl- I j vania, Penn State. Pittsburg, (irneglo ; n j Tech, Dickenson and Swarthmore are I I notable examples. V7s can think of no other state with power to match I ' the first six teams named above! New L" York can offer Cornell, Army S ra 1 ;f 1 f use and Colgate among others, but U this doesn't quite match the Pennsyl- l j vania brand along the longer route. I. imiiaiiiiiiinjULi j hi mm In naming a si lect pugilistic program. pro-gram. What's the matter with Tunney vs. Gibbons, and the winner vs. Greb? TIm re s a double eyeful worth thinking think-ing over. "For that matter." writes B. H. G.. there is nolliin particularly soft 'about Pennsylvania's s. hedule, with the Navy, Pittsburg, Penn Slate and 4 omell pretty uell bunched, and Alabama Ala-bama jammed in to round off the party At least I have heard of easier inarches." As for 1923. Y'ale. among others, will return Mallory, O'Hearn, N'eld-llnK.T. N'eld-llnK.T. Be. k. it, ,.a,. and i-ht Not a bad nucleus for a backfu'iil shut when you think It over. "Has the west anv group of coaches," asks F. B. K., "to beat this eastern group Fisher, Doble. Roper. Warner. Folwell. Bezdek. Neale. Daley, lones. Sanford. Helsman and Sutherland Suther-land ?" The order of coaching is extremely ex-tremely high in both sections Efficiency Effi-ciency in this department east, west and south Is Unsurpassed in any line1 we know of The standard of coach-! Ing averages higher all along the hne1 than any profession we know about "Why do you football writers men-' tion Centre and Georgia Tech. and' pass up the best team in the south Virginia P.,y"" writes in a subscriber. subscrib-er. Didn't Centre beat Virginia Polj ? And w hat about V.. M, I,? |