Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-22
Saturdays Gridiron Battles
Brought Out Many Fine Plays.
MUD WAS NO HANDICAP
Haryard's Advance and Yale's Slump
Big Surprise.
ENTHUSIASM OVER CANTHL0N
New Manager for Nationals Well
Liked-Races Shift to Jamaica
Hunts Meet at Benning.
MUD WAS NO HANDICAP
ENTHUSIASM OVER CANTlL0N

Saturdays games furnished much Inter-
esting foot ball. There was a lot doing In
spite of the rain and mud. which was uni
yersal on eastern fields. and which would
have caused under the old rules fairly
monotonous series of push-play contests.
There were many very brilliant individual
plays. particularly in the kicking line This
f. the most remarkable feature OF the day,
when the weather is considered.
And there were the usual number OF sur
prises handed out, too The chief one was
Harvard's forty-four points against the
DEAN which had held Yale down to two
touchdowns Harvard exhibited a very fast
articleof new foot ball, and her steady and
consistently successful of the forward
pass puts her at the top of the heap today
on playing form.
But her lead over Yale and Princeton Is
by means a serious one. The condition
of the ground had great deal to do with
the overwhelming victory over the light but
fast eleven of the Springfield Training
School, which played to so much better ad-
vantage against Yale on a dry day.
Wet Field Favors Heavy Team.
1t would seem that a wet day favors the
heavy team the same it used to under
the old rules. 1t was the same way at
Philadelphia. where Dennie and Mayhem.
Browns 1OO-yard flyers, could make no
Roadway against PENIS team.
But Harvard's captain (Foster) and
Newhal Orr and Lincoln, her brilliant
coterie of backs. together with Left Tackle
Osborne. proved a bunch of mud horses
whose performances have raised Harvard 8
hopes up to the limit. Princeton took
Bucknelrs scalp about easily Har-
ward took Sprinfields. Thirty-two points
were run off in quick time. But Princeton
was scored against by one of the most
creditable individual plays of the day. and
there were many.
Princeton quarterback kick was snap
ped up by Bucknell on the thirty fveyar,l
line. Clark, Bucknell's right half back. sent
drop kick clean over the bar from the
forty-yard line The performance was es-
pecially meritorious, not only because of
the weather and the distance. but because
1t was made against much superior team.
Drop kicks from the forty-yard line are
rare occurrences even when the kicker is
protected by first-class line
In fact the number of successful field
goals in Saturdays contests is amazing.
In addition to Clarks kick, Harlan of
Princeton toed one over the bar toward the
end of this same contest. At New Haven
Knox sent the leather between the posts
from placement on the 3O-yard line.
Greene's Remarkable Kick.
Capt. Greene of Pennsylvania accomplish
ed a rather remarkable performance at
Philadelphia, a place kick from scrimmage
on the 36-yard line. The difficult part of
this feat lies in the fact that there is no
time to sight the ball. 1t is caught. placed
and kicked with almost the rapidity of a
drop kick.
At Ithaca, McCutcheon sent place kick
from the 15-yard line. and Sailor dropped a
goal from the 40-yard line. These two were
done in one-sided contest between Cornell
and Bowdoin. in which Cornell was piling
UP the score of ~ to o.
To return to the Princeton team The
lat nr'c -bn r{ap hnc eri, he
hopes of defeating Cornell next Saturday
In New York city. although Cornelrs team
Is also on its toes, having scored many more
points against Bowdoin than Harvard did.
The greatest feature of the rapid-fire game
the Tigers are putting up today is the line
smashing of Mccormick. 1t was this mans
work alone that pulled a game out of the
he was not needed last Saturday. he was
he was not needed last aSturday he was
put in the game for awhile and not only
sifted through broken fields like the regu-
lar star open-field runner, but carried al
most the entire Bucknell team on his back
on old-fashioned line plunges. Mccormick
is the only line smasher on the gridiron to-
day who isn't bothered by the ten-yard
rule.
Yale in Slump.
Yale eleven has taken a sudden slump,
and was backed up TO its goal line by the
Penn State team, which for week past has
been sending forth walls of distress over
crippled players, and put on its mettle to
stave off defeat by that same moderated
Penn State aggregation. Yale's one touch
down was a fiuke. the other score was a
field goal by Knox, already alluded to,
made after the Blue found she could not
rush the ball over. AS said before, the re-
versal in form of Harvard and Yale is the
biggest surprise of the day.
A curious instance of providential luck
marked the game AS though three drop
kicks, two blocked and the third hitting the
post, were not enough of an intervention,
the browning gift of the gods came when
Cythers. PENIS right guard. recovered an
outside kick with a clear field to the Yale
goal, and then for few seconds lost his
bearings and started to run the wrong wayi
Yale luck was not for the time being syn
onymous with Yale pluck. 1t was just luck
Yale.s slump comes uneXpectedlY early In