The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-16
YALE Is STILL FAVORlTE
DESPITE HER DEFEAT BLUE is
PICKED TO BEAT HARVARD.
Chicago Seems to Have Better Chance
Against Michigan-Only One
Surprise in the West.
The playing of the Yale-Princeton game

The playing Of the Princeton game
last Saturday leaves only two games on the
football schedule, so far as the East is con-
cerned. which excite general interest. These
are the games between Yale and Harvard
and Annapolis and West Point. Interest In
both these games would be greater if there
was not very general impression that the
results can be told now as well after the
games are played. 1t will take the actual
score to convince the great majority that
Harvard has any chance against Yale or
that the navy men will not be beaten by the
West Pointers. On public form this view OF
the public would seem to be justified, but 1t
would be we'll to bear in mind that football
Is almost as uncertain as politics, and that
a football game between two teams OF any
where near the same weight and skill Is
never won until time has been called at the
end of the last half.
Looking over the games played 1t will be
FOUND that Columbia beat Pennsylvania
easily, that Yale administered the same
kind of a drubbing to Columbia and that
Harvard had hard work to defeat the Z. of
4. This would seem TO indicate cinch for
the blue. and it would be reckless prophet
who would predict anything but victory for
the sons OF Eli even after Yale lost to
Princeton. Still Harvard has strong lot
of players, who are training with an eye
single to the game with Yale, and If they
can be developed so that they can play as
"
the game may not be so one-sided after all.
Harvard'S defeat by Dartmouth Saturday,
of course, weakens the crimson as a betting
proposition, but that game might have been
like some of the Western contests this fall
where the best team was taken by surprise
and the best team did not win" However,
there is little excuse TO offer for team
when 1t has met defeat.
Only three teams have crossed West
Points goal this season, while second and
third-rate teams have beaten the Middies.
A
hard work and hope TO make their rivals
in the service realize they have been play
ing football before the game is over. The
West Point-Annapolis game will be played
| at Philadelphia the Saturday following
| Thanksgiving.
Only one Western game last Saturday
| furnished a real surprise, and that was
| the defeat of Wabash by Earlham. The
| public would not have thought so much of
| this game had it not been for the ridicu-
| lous claims of the Wabash team to the
| state championship because it won against
| Indiana on a fiuke early in the season.
| Because Earlham defeated Wabash the
Quakers could also make a nonSenSical
| claim, but ii will be remembered that they
| were beaten by Indiana and Notre Dame
could wipe them OH the gridlron. IL was
| hardly expected that De Pauw would be
| so overwhelmingly defeated by Indiana.
Still Indiana piled up score OF 20 to 0,
| which again proves that had Indiana and
| Purdue met there would have been battle
royal.
The defeat of Chicago by West Point was
| large due to the cadets luck in securing
| the ball in the growing darkness on a fiuke
and making field goal. Special dispatches
| say the Chicago team outplayed the sol
diers. but luck was with the latter. Chi
cagos game against West Point will cause
| the Maroons' stock to go up few points
| in the coming game with Michigan, to be
played in Chicago on Thanksgiving day.
The big surprise in the East was the de-
| feat of Harvard by Dartmouth, while the
| victory of Carlisle over Pennsylvania was
more or less of a surprise. The showing
ell fsNSt IInV 0rH ArrvCxv
| should have been reckoned by the Penn
! sylvania critics and the Indians should
| not have been moderated.
The betting on the Yale-Princeton game
| last week showed Yale had the advantage,
but odds count for little. Princeton showed
| its superiority over Yale, and the fact that
| the Tigers won will make the coming sea-
| son more interesting. The Tigers are the
| Eastern champions.