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Caldwell's Mistake. But what the scouts were not prepared for was a new Princeton play, built around Kazmaier, and designed especially for the Cornell game. In Caldwell's balanced-line, single-wing formation, Dick is always given an option on his running-pass play. If the receivers are blanketed by the defense, Kazmaier, already on the dead run, can keep right on going. The ability to pass on the run-and few passers have i-makes Kazmaier even tougher to stop than the ordinary player. For Cornell, Caldwell designed something tougher still.
Instead of having Kazmaier's run-pass play develop from a balanced line, Caldwell overshifted (i.e., unbalanced) his line and put one backfield man as a flanker on the weak side. This shift put "an almost intolerable burden on the secondary defense unless Cornell changed to a five-man line," Caldwell explains. But when Cornell did switch to a five-man line, Kazmaier, instead of passing, ran right through it.
Canny Coach Caldwell made only one mistake last week. Before the game he was rash enough to say: "If we win this one, I'll let the players throw me in the lake." An hour after the game was over, with Kazmaier firmly grasping one of Caldwell's legs. Princeton's exultant footballers hurled their happy coach into Lake Carnegie.