The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-03
OUAKERS SEEM TO
HAVE BEST TEAM
LIKELY TO BE CHAMPIONS.
MANY ARE DOPING PENNsYLvA-
MANS OUT TO WIN.

YaIe's Great Victory over Columbia
Puts the Blue Back in Favor
Illinois Team Is One of the Sur
prises of the SeasOn-YaIe and
Princeton Sc EN- to Have Fears of
the Big Team Turned Out at Penn
syIvania This Year.
The principal feature Of the foot
ball season of 1904 is the surprises that
have been produced. and not that
championships have been won and lost
But no surprise ever struck Eastern
enthusiasts so hard as the defeat of
Harvard at the hands of Pennsylvania
last Saturday, and it is indeed calling
to Harvard to be trailed in the dust by
team she had dropped from her list
of future competitors, stating that
Pennsylvania is not in her class. True
it is that poor old Pennsy has struck
a decline in sports, or had, that both
Harvard and Yale had experienced,
and which Harvard will experience the
rest of the season.
But there is more to the victory of
Pennsylvania than either Harvard,
Yale or Princeton care to admit, and
that is that Pennsylvania is champion
of the East for the season of 1904.
Cornell, Carlisle nor Lafayette can de-
feat Pennsylvania formidable team.
for Lafayette will play harder game
against the red and blue than will
either the Indians or Cornell. Prince
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Swarthmore defeated Annapolis Satur-
day, and proud, old Pennsy defeated
Swarthmore. West Point defeated
Yale, Harvard defeated West Point,
and old Pennsy defeated Harvard, not
by one touchdown, not by fuke, but
by good, hard, honest football. Look
at the championship standing any way
imaginable. measure it from three
ways, Princeton, Harvard and Yale,
or by the crossing of the goal line,
and still Pennsylvania shows superiori-
ty over her rivals.
Red and Blue Deserves victory.
The red and blue deserves victory.
Last year Harvard protested Smith:
this year Harvard adopts the most lu-
dicrous eligibility rules ever heard Of
and il a man plays professional base
ball uD to the time he is 20 years old
providing he resides two years at Har-
ward, he can play on any of the
teams.
Princeton had a difficult time dispos-
ing of Cornell. and the men at Ithaca
were not defeated until the whistle
blew for the end of the game. Anoth-
er hero has bobbed up at old Nassau
in the appearance of the crack little
quarterback, Ritter. Princeton has
had its Poes and Hildebrand and De-
wifi hui Of -
place in the hearts of the Tigers than
Ritter, who won the game from Cornell
Saturday by his. generalship and great
playing. Princetons line is weak, and
Yale will play havoc with it unless it
is strengthened.
Yale scored a notable victory over
Columbia Saturday. one that was not
only impressive, but which will compel
Hildebrand and the other Tiger coach
es to sit down and lay out a plan of
campaign for the game next Saturday.
There were number of surprises in
the lineup Saturday, for Shevlin, in
stead of going in at fullback, was
PLAYED on end, and Jack Gates went
to the side lines. Mccoy was played at
full and. as predicted, played an
excellent game. Neal was successful
ly used at right end. and has proba-
bly, won the position.
Georgetown took the measure of
Holy Cross, as anticipated, but the
blue and the gray had an awful time
In scoring the II points, and yet Holy
Cross could not be kept from scoring,
for goal from the field spoiled George
towns slate.
Had the heavens fallen up Alonzo A.
Stage, the coach of Chicago. popularity
known as the "Old Man. to the stu
dents, and the Wizard of the Mid
way to followers of the Maroons, he
could not have been more surprised
than the game put up by Illinois. which
he held his men to an even break.
Illinois Splendid Team.
As predicted after Illinois game
with Washington, at the Stadium at
st. Louis. Lowenthal turned out the
best team that has ever represented
the Illini. The real strength of Illi-
nois has been smothered all during
the season, and Stage was simply
caught as neatly in Saturdays game
as he was last year when Northwest
ern played Chicago to a tie game. In
the first half, instead of sending in
his best men. Stagg used a sub back
field. and the way the Illinois line
handled those backs, together with
the Chicago line, made Stage chew his
finger nails more earnestly than he
er was used at fullback in the early
part of the game, but Stage quickly
withdrew him in favor of the batter
ingram, Bezdek, while Boone replaced
Tobin in the line, and Bubbles Hill
went in at center in place of Gale.
Next Saturday Illinois will play
Ohio. but on Nov. ~ Northwestern and
Illinois will have their annual battle
at Evanston. Last year Northwestern
won by one point. but this year IL
now appears as IL 1t will be a ques-
ton of SURPRISING Chicagos big score
against Northwestern.
Despite the fact that Michigan de-
feated Wisconsin by an overwhelming
majority of points, there is one other
game that created more interest than
did that contest, and that game is the
one that was played between Ne
braska and the Minnesota giants. For
years Nebraska has been seeking adj
mittance into the conference fold. but
has always been told to go and make
a record. Saturday Nebraska was de-
feated by Minnesota by four points.
II was a close shave for Minnesota,
and the Cornhuslxers have indeed dem
onstrated that they are OF champion
ship caliber. Thanksgiving Day Ne
braska win play Illinois at Lincoln,
and IL will be no surprise II the game
ends in a tie or Nebraska wins by one
touchdown.
Michigan has the same human loco
motive with which to buck her rivals
and Saturday simply swamped Wis
consin, the latter never having look
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GEORGIA AND TECH