Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-11-09
THE SPORTING NEWS.
THE GRIDIRON
YALE IS
 THE LEADER
Her Showing Thus Far Has Been the Best of All the College Elevens = Other Football News.

Football News.
 Of the leading football teams in the
 east Yale not only is the only one that
 has not been scored on. but the only
 one that has made two or more touch
 downs in every game. Yet in total
 points number of teams have sur
 passed the Yalensians, making big
 scores in one game and small score
 in the next. The inference is that
 Yale has played more even and con-
 sistent game. Certainly that is true
 regarding her defense, Yale having
 shut out every opponent. Harvard has
 shut out opponents in six games out of
 eight and had three touchdowns regis
 tered against her. one of which was
 the result of being pushed steadily
 back to her goal line. Two teams have
 been able to force the Harvard line
 for consistent gains, West Point and
 the Indians, while two have done the
 same to Yale, West Point and Penn
 sylvania State. Princeton has kept
 her goal line safe in five games out Of
 eight, Lehigh and Dartmouth having
 crossed it, while Lafayette scored on
 Princeton by drop kick. The fact
 that team has not been scored on
 does, not of itself signify superior de-
 fense to a team that has been scored
 on, if the latter be by a field goal
 West Point might easily have kicked
 a goal on Yale, being within easy dis
 tanee for such a feat, but as a touch
 down seemed likely rushing tactics
 were continued. Thus the very fact that West Point was able to get neaY
 Yale's goal line is one of the things that have kept the goal line uncrossed, not overlooking the important fact that
 Yale was able to repel West Point when scoring was imminent
 Pennsylvania has played nine games, the number of shut out victories ex- ceeding the number of games in which opponents scored by the seant gajori- ty of one. Columbia has shut op- ponents out in only three of her seven games and has been shut out three times. one of the shut outs being the tie game with Wesleyan. Of group of twenty teams in the east, Columbia and West Point are the only ones that have scored fewer total points than their opponents. It was only against the much weaker Union and Seton Hall teams that Columbia has shown any real offensive strength. Cornelrs rec ord to date shows steadily increas- ing scoring scale. with one exception, up to the time she met Swarthmore The Ithaeans' total of points in each of their first six games was as follows: 5o 12.. s2s. 24, 30. 57. Then -came Swarthmore, when the scoring dropped with dull thud. Fifty-seyen points in one game and none in the next was indeed a far cry. Princeton reached her zero game with Dartmouth by easier stages The total against Buck nell was 4S, then came 22 against La fayette. F against Columbia and none 1 against Dartmouth.
 The Brown team. which is quietly | t0 make old Eli hump him. l self next Saturday, has scored in every game 1t has played this season except one. Five out of eight opponents have | been whltewashed. Brown follows | Columbia as Yale's opponent Prince | ton was little good against the op. ponent she tackled after meeting Co | umbia. and next Saturday will show history has any repeating | feats in store for Yale following the | atter's battle with Columbia. The West Point team has blanked Oppon- ants only once this season. and lost | three games in succession. Annapolis. | against q much easier group of teams, las kept her goal line inviolate in six | put of eight games and scored in every )ne of them. Dartmouth has scored 4 n every game and been scored on only | ly Colgate, her one eonqueror. Mlchi- san has neither been scored on nor | leld down to less than three touch | Towns by any opponent. Total scores 'Ollow:
 Harvard. 135; opponents. IF eight ,amesl. Yale. 1ST; opponents. tseyen ,amesl. Princeton, 2Q9; opponents. 1G eight gamesi. Pennsylvania. 1T6; op- 22 eight games). Columbia. i5: opponents. 30 tseyen gamesl. Cor leil. 156: opponents. 25 tseyen games. indians. 22S. opponents. 29 teigsi ,anesi. Dartmouth. no: opponents. 2 tseven gamesl. Brown. 2l9: op- 23 eight gamesi. Williams, IS: opponents. B mine gamesD Wes cyan. III: opponents. a seven -amesl. Lafayette. 20S; opponents. 2i seven gamesl. Lehigh. l54; opponents. Q mine gamesl. Colgate. POO: oI'- 'onents. 6S eight gamesi. Hamiltol.. s: opponents. @ tseven gamesl. An Iapoiis. 1al: opponents. II mine 'amesl. West Point. 42: opponents. 4 live gamesl. Syracuse. 141: opponents. S teight gamesi. Amherst. 49: op- lonents. 25 -four gamesl. Swarthm0re. n: opponents. 16 tseven gameSl. State. g. opponents. 34 i've gamesi. Exeter. %. opponents. I tsix gamesl Andover. I5i: oppo- ents. Q tsix gamesl. Chicago. 205: op- | Onents. : ieight gamesl. Michigan. 9S. opponents. 0 eight Eamesl. Wis ousfn. lS2. opponents. 1g eight amesl- Minnesota. Z75: opponents. l6 seven gamesl.
 HOLY CROSS HOLIDAY.
 Wor-ester. Nov a.-ReF Ioseph Hau- elmsn. s !. president 0f Holy Cross