Waterbury Democrat., 1901-11-02

Gridiron contests to-day will be watched with keen interest by football enthusiasts everywhere, and the re- suits of the games will serve further to give line on the playing strength of the teams which are to meet ill the big games later on.
 New Workers, of course, will be in- terested most i'll the battle which will be fought out on the gridiron at the Polo grounds between Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania. The last meeting between these teams re- suited in an overwhelming victory for the U. of P, the score being 30 to o. To-day the Columbia hoys hope to turn the tables on Pennsylyania's doughty warriors, and it goes without saying that the struggle will be hotly contested Columbia outclasses the Quakers ill wefght-the latter team av eraging only 16S pounds-the lightest eleven they have had in several years. Besides this. if the reports sent out from Philadelphia are to be depended upon, the team is not in the best of condition for a hard battle On the other hand. Coach Sanford expects to confront the Quakers with a team which. while not in perfect condition, will be able to make a desperate fight for supremacy.
 Next to the Columbia University of Pennsylvania game the contest which New York enthusiasts will watch with the greatest interest will be that of Princeton and Cornell. Neither team has been scored against this season. and when they line up against each other it will be q case of Greek meet ing Greek. The Ithacans have won the last two games from the Tigers, and they are hopeful of making it three straight Extremely discourag- ing have been the reports sent out about both teams. According to them Princeton's greatest weakness is fum- bling. while Cornell's backs start slow ly, and the formation of her interfer- ence is delayed too long. It also is said about the Ithacans that they play too high and hence fail to get the best results. All these reports. however, must be taken with a grain of salt. The fact that neither team has been scored against so far-and each has met, some good would indi- cate that they are playing a fast game.
 Yale in all probability will find worthy foe in Captain Daly's West Point. cadets. Only couple of weeks ago Harvard defeated the soldiers by a score of 6 to 0 by the merest scratch, and if victory perches on the banner of the blue it only will be after a hard conflict
 Yale's coaches, realizing that stiff proposition confronts the team, have endeavored to get the men in the best possible condition for the fray. Last year Yale defeated West Point by a. score of IS to o. but the cadets are san guine of scoring to-day, not having made a point against the Elis in three years.
 Harvard has little to fear from Brown to-day. she having the easiest game of any of the Big Four'' Brown however. always makes the crimson play hard for victory. but the result | is never in doubt. Last year the score was Il to 6.
 It will be interesting to watch the outcome of the game of the Carlisle Indians against the University of Mich i igan today. The latter team showed Buffalo under last Saturday by the tremendous score of 12S to O. Will they be able to do the same to the redskins?
 The Naugatuck High school football team went through here in q bus this morning to Woodbury where they are playing this afternoon.
 The St Mary's beat the Center I Streets in a game of football this morning by a score of g to 5. It was q good game, the right tackle says, | and fhn1.n NrnS m clnnfinor