The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-11-22
Yale the Undisputable Head
Of the fooo.ball Teams
Now Playing.
WORK OF THE TEAMS
PENNSYLVANIA TIE STRONGEST
RIVAL THAT HAS AS YET AP-
PEARED TO THE NEW HAVEN
MEN.

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among other things that the slow derel-9
/ opment of a college football eleven brings
about better results. Princeton develop
| ed fast early IN the season, only to take
big slump, and when the Tigers faced
the blue they We're not at their very best.
though Princeton put up one Of the
/ pIuckiest fights ever witnessed on the
gridiron. Yale's victory also demon
strates that her methods are generally
the best, and that the blue is almost un-
questionably the Intercollegiate champion
of the east. Yale meets Harvard the
coming Saturday and unless the blue
takes a slump or the crimson shows un-
expected strength Eli will be returned
the victor
Harvard on Saturday was only able to
hold Dartmouth to a 6-6 tie and was out
played throughout the contest. A year
ago the same teams tied. neither side
scoring, and in 1903 Dartmouth beat
Harvard. II to O. As Dartmouth has
beaten Princeton, to 0, the New Hamp-
shire collegians now rank next to Penn
| sylvania, which has beaten Harvard,
and, in turn, has not met with defeat,
| though tied by Lafayette
Pennsylvania, on Saturday, rolled up
the big score of AZ to 0 against Villa
Nova, though the latter created a sta-e
in the Quaker camp by rushing the ball
25 yards before the. Pennsylyanians
braced and held their opponents. The
| Quakers used many substitutes and Viii
! la Nova's unlooked-for advance was,
therefore, not made against the regular
varsity.
Cornell and Columbia faced each other
in their annual game on Saturday. Cor
nell scored touehdSwn in the first half.
! but the Ithacans' defense wavered in the
second half and Columbia eked out a
victory by score of II TO 6. This vic
tory will give Columbia bit of courage
for her coming clash on Saturday with
Pennsylvania, but the New Workers are
hardly likely to beat the Quakers. On
| the Thursday following Thanksgiving
Day-Pennsylvania will stack up
against Cornell, and if the Columbia
game does not turn out harmful for tire
/ Quakers in the matter of injuries to
players the red and blue should have no
! difficulty in beating the Ithacanss
! Therefore, if Yale beats Harvard, as
] is generally thought will be the case,
and Pennsylvania is victorious over both
Columbia and Cornell, the Blue and the
Red and Blue win respectively be first
football ranking with Dartmouth third,
Harvard fourth, Princeton fifth, Column
! bia sixth, Swarthmore seventh and Cor
nell eighth Swarthmore has come to
the fore this fall, having beaten Annap-
! oils, Cornell and Lafayette. though de-
feated by the small score of II to 4 by
Pennsylvania early III the season.
The championship Of the western in
| tcrcelegiate conference wal not be de-
cided until Thanksgiving Day, when Mi
chigan plays Chicago Neither team has
been beaten this fall, but while Mi
chgan has not been scored ON, indiana
| has crossed Chicagos goal line Michi-
gan had TO put up its strongest game 10
beat Wisconsin on Saturday. Il to 0,
! while with the greatest quarterback Of
the day in her lne up Chicago stowe'i
| away Illinois By 8 score of A to 0. Ten
minutes after the beginning of the sex
ond half Of the Michigan Wisconsin CON
| test at Ann Arbor one Of the stands col
lapsed and play was temporarily sus-
pended, while the PLAYERS went to the
assistance Of the injured
In the Chfcago-lllinois game 0usrter-
back Eckersall. of the former team. dis
tinguished himself by making the splen-
did record of kicking five goals from the
field. besides making touchdown and
making innumerahle Mlg rms
West Point ana AnAap0is both rolled
up good-sixed totals against opposing
teams on Saturday, hut the army eleven
| Is figured on as the probable winner Of
the annual meeting with the navy at
Princeton on Saturday. December ,.
West Point beat Trinity 81 to O. while
Annapolis downed Virginia - to O.
Pennsylvania State disposed of piel.in-
son 6 TO O. Bucknell beat Georgetown
/ is to O. Amherst downed Williams II
| to 0. Wesleyan was victorious over Sus-
quehanna 20 TO Q. the Carlisle indians
defeated Cincinnati 81 to ), Isehigh again
made Iamentably poor showing BY los
ing to Ur<inus II to Q. Bsown over
whe.med Vermont sc 70 Q. Holy Cross
beat Tufts II 10 Q. and Hayerford won
from Rutgers at New Rrnaswiak by q
score Of Is to 9.