The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-28
80 FAVOR HARVARD FOR THE !
P'' CHAMPIONSHIP.
nj UMBIA-PENN. GAME
A SERIES OF FUMBLES.
I'm TEAM ONLY ONE WHOSE
~ou. HAS NOT BEEN CROSSED.

.uo the Defeat of Pennsylvania's
law Team Was Most Decisive It
an DO the Big Fellows Good,
I'D Make Them Battle All the
risrcer-Harvard Has shown SUI
..rior Defensive Work While
T,oers Are Most Successful in Of
tensiye Play.
Now that the smoke Of Saturdays
Is lilies on the gridiron has cleared
ov and the football pulse is again
K ..-raI. a dispassionate comparison of
4. teams as they have shown up so
sr proves interesting, especially when
,r,n,ed To show that the big Four"
in danger of losing the champion
Mn m the blue and white of Columbia.
N rv-Captain Chadwick. of Yale, places
8 .he nositions of the teams, as relative
II Il strength in the following order:
howard. Princeton, Yale, Columbia
~ PENNSYLVANIA, and there are many
rho do not agree with him. The
Princeton team is the only one whose
roal has not been crossed this season,
End the Tigers have shown wonderful
.strength against such heavy teams as
Dartmouth has.
Columbia, too, has doomed up a dan
ferrous factor and has not been defeated
Itbis wear. and beyond the peradventure
hi doubt the team now classes with
|snv on the gridiron. Her victory over
pennsylvania was the first important
match of the season. That contest
|soeneF to Indicate that the chances for
! he Ouakers to defeat Harvard were
kim. Still Pennsylvania has a strong
beam. and if the backs can learn to
Mold the ball, defeat at the hands of
Harvard is by no means a foregone
conclusion.
Harvard in contrast to Yale and
Princeton played the best game she
has played this season. At the COM
hnencement of the season it was recog-
hized that Harvard had some of the
best material that she has ever had,
Ind though the game with West Point
kas played in listless fashion, it was
won easily, and there was only lack
|bf team work among the men. They
Evidently had a shaking up during the
week previous to their game with
Brown. In that game the team played
ball as they did in the mid-season of
Bubbles 1898 team and of CampbelPs
/. 1901 team. The score was the same as
Princeton ran up and one point less
than Pennsylvania scored against the
|Eame team.
Princetons team showed some i'm
brovement in defeating an eleven like
sDartmouth's, which outweighed the
orange and black and was quite as ag-
|gressive. But Princeton had to put up
II fight which while not as stiff as the
light Yale had to make to win from
West Point, was nevertheless totally
unlike Harvard's easy time with
Brown.
But the hardest fight of all was the
bne in which Yale defeated West Point.
i to 5. Kinney and Boomer were out
bf the Yale line, and the Cadets tore
N apart in a way they found impossi-
pie when they faced the Crimson line
q week ago.
1 The record of Yale West Point games
FOR the past ten years is a record OF
fierce playing. Three have been tie
Games and those that Yale has won
pave been won after the Yale team was
kll in.
Last Saturdays conflict was no ex-
feption. A series of careless plays
gave the soldiers a chance for a field
goal, and the score was 5 to 0 in favor
|Pf West Point.
Concerning the defeat of Pennsylva-
Ma by Columbia. there is less to say
nan there ever has been about any
previous football surprise of the same
2nagnitude. Pennsylvania backs
Yumoled punts like schoolboys and
|fnade a present of the game to Column
pa, Columbia fumbled also.
me game was, in fact, a disastrous
|fnd unsatisfactory one all around, with
|pne exception, and that. aside from
some pretty individual work, was the
general Improvement in team play
SnoWn by Columbia. The Blue and
HWhlte backfield players hit the line
Enost OF the time as if they were afraid
getting hurt, and the defensive
Iwork Of the line showed loopholes
|Whlch could have been taken advan-
EHge OF If Pennsylvania field general
|i%G Kept his eyes open.
WIN the material she has Columbia
'Hught to tear up the center of Yale's
me next Saturday, and the Blue will
lucky II Metzenthin does not score
runs. N - '''' '-e''0--'-'