Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-11-05
Big Foot Ball Teams Have
Hard Games Today.
TIGERS MEET SOLDIERS
WEST POINT GAME WILL FUR
NISH LINE ON PENDING CONTEST
Aqueduct Races - A killing" Made
With Telescope-Basket Ball.
Bowling Battles.

Plenty of interesting and possibly sur
prising foot ball is on the gridron carpet
for today. Princeton will meet West Point
on the Plains Harvard will tackle the
strong Dartmouth team in the stadium and
Pennsylvania will face Lafayette on Frank
lin field. Columbia takes rest Yale plays
Brown, and Cornell will line up against the
rather weak Lehigh eleven. In this season
of unconscionable surprises it would be
dangerous indeed to predict victories for
Pennsylvania, Princeton and Harvard to-
day. A glance at the apparent strength of
these three compared with that of their
opponents, however, is interesting.
The game at West Point should prove the
star attraction of the day. The contest
means great deal to both teams, as it will
provide some basis for comparison of the
Yale and Princeton and the West Point and
Annapolis elevenS. The soldiers are strong,
consistent and extremely dangerous against
any aggregation that makes mistakes.
Their tackling is very clean and hard and
their defense, a whole, excellent. Ball
in hand, the cadets are not as strong as
last year, and the offense lacks variety,
which is a serious fault. AT end running
the cadets have not so far show them
selves as versatile or as fast as Cornell.
And the Ithacans scored only once against
the Tigers The defense would seem to be
much better and the attack not so Devil
dering as Cornells.
1t must be remembered that Princeton
defeated strong eleven last week. playing
a brilliant, dashing and determined uphill
game. Good judges believe, all things con-
sidered. that If the Tigers play as well as
last Saturday they can defeat West Point,
possibly by two touchdowns. Unfortu-
nately, the eleven is an unusuaily uncer-
tain one for Princeton. The Tiger man
agement is taking good care that the men
will not have to borrow suits from their
opponents, which was the case at Anhiipo-
A large delegation of Princeton men Will
attend the game, and from spectacular
standpoint it should prove more than worth
the trip. :: roh
Iamatical The Hanoverians have met no
worthy foe so far. and the real strens.i
of the team has yet to be tested oeVelai
of last years men are playing TINS SEASON.
and the progress of the eleven has been con-
sistent. Were it not for the flash OF speed
and power shown by the crimson in the
second half of the Pennsylvania game, Wnen
Starr was handling the team, the close 1ol-
lowers of foot ball would be inclined TO IA
vor the dark green. The outcome of the
game apparently lies s not "a SO much Win
Pennsylvania, apparently sun In the COCO
form displayed at Cambridge, VIII NEE.
Lafayette in what should prove hard
game The cardinal has strong team, put
on paper apparently not quite strong enough
to win Pennsylvania in practice with
Swarthmore before the Columbia game was
good
strong aggregation. Lafayette somewhat
later had to play her utmost TO defeae
SWarthmore Since then the Quakers have
improved nightly, while Lafayette has not
had so much room for advancement. Ihus
on the only possible basis OF comparison
Pennsylvania must be slight favorite
AS nearly as can be fgured-taking no &C
count of fukes and fumbles-Princeton ana
PENNSYLVANIA are slight favorites today,
with Harvard about an even chance
Today's Schedule.
GEORGETOWN VS. North Carolina, at Nor
folk.
George Washington VS.. Johns Hopkins,
at Baltimore.
Gallaudet VS.. st. Johns, at Annapolis.
Yale VS.. Brown, at New Haven.
Harvard vs. Dartmouth, at Cambridge.
Princeton VS.. West Point at West Point.
Pennsylvania VS. Lafayette at Philadel-
phia.
Cornell VS.. Lehigh, at ithaca.
Annapolis VS.. Pennsylvania State, at
Annapolis.
Carlisle Indians VS.. Ursinus, at Carlisle.
Dickinson VS.. Lebanon, at Carlisle.
Wesleyan VS. Vermont, at Middletown.
Chicago vs. Texas, at Chicago
New York University vs. Haverford, at
New York.
williams vs. Colgate at Williamstown.
Rutgers Delaware, at New Bruins
wick.
Swarthmore VS.. F. and NJ, at Swarth-
more.
Trinity VS.. Union, at Schenectady.
NY y. vs.. Haverford, al Ohio Field
Tufts VS.. Springfield NJ. T. S., at Tufts.
Michigan VS.. Drake, at Ann Arbor.
Illinois VS.. Ohio, at Columbus.
Iowa VS.. Nebraska, at Lincoln.
Amherst VS.. Holy Cross. at Amherst.