The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-10-31
INDIANS HAVE
STRONGEST TEAM
No Eleven In East Capable
of Beating Carlisle
Football Fans Looking Forward To
Redskins Games With Mime
sofa at Chicago.
SLUMP OF THE BIG TEAMS.

New York. Oct. 31.-To all ap-
pearances Carlisle win be proclaimed
champion of the football season of
1907. At any rate there is no team
in the east today capable of beating
Glen Warmers Indian braves, and
as for the west, they are so fast that
cumbersome, beefy Minnesota, or
even the Wizard Stages pupils of the
Midway, will be unable to cope with
the redskins.
Carlisle has a wonderful team.
The Indians present the new game
in all its magnificence, and yet the
new game presents to the spectator
the possibility of Witnessing football
as much as it does to the officials.
The game between Carlisle and
Pennsy Saturday demonstrated two
facts-the one that the Indians are
wonderfully fast, and the other that
they are very. very much addicted
to playing foul football-holding and
and smuggling. If they carry the lat
ter tactics as far as Minneapolis, VIII
liams' Gophers' will teach the red
skins a few points at this game.
From a football standpoint Penn
sylvania was vofully outclassed Sat
urday Carlisle played around, be-
tween and under the Red and Blue
men as if they were a lot of high
school boys. The Indians boxed the
Pennsy ends easily; worked the for
ward pass many times, on one occas-
ion for forty yards; and last, but not
least, showed to America that, be-
sides Mt. Pleasant, there are three
other men on the team who can send
the oval from placement equally as
we'll as Mt. Pleasant.
The victory Of Carlisle will most
likely be taken in this light. namely:
That the Red and Blue team has gone
to pieces, and that the chances of
Michigan are increased an hundred
fold. But this is wrong. Once every
season the Philadelphia team makes
a slump. and it comes generally
about the middle OF the season. Re-
covery then takes place, and the
team closes the season like q whirl-
wind. Whether or not this will hold
true once more remains to be seen.
Pennsy's ambition lays upon the re-
suit of the fight to be waged on Ferry
Field. Ann Arbor Mich, on the after
noon of November 10. II the Quak-
ers are defeated they will sink into
the second class as a college aggre-
CATION, and there Is no doubt in the
least but that they win make a tre-
mendous endeavor to recover that
form displayed in the Pennsy-Miehi-
gan game last year.
In fact, the whole football situa-
ton is in a bad mix-up in the east
Tradition has been swept aside as
Brooklyn trolley car would a child.
Princeton has gone down to defeat;
Yale has been tied: Haryard's scalp
saved by four points; Georgetown
Overwhelmingly defeated by Fordham
and so the story goes on all
through the east. And, surmounting
all these derelicts. is the red man OF
North Amerlca--the Indians.
Saturday afternoon Carlisle and
Princeton mix on the historic polo
grounds. With the ghosts Of Muggsy
McGraw and Frank Chance fitting
around the batters' box, the Tigers of
old Nassau and the crafty red man
will undertake the task of annihilat-
ing one another. 1t won't be neces-
sary to call out the New York police
reserves to start the game. but, rath-
err, the militia to separate the eleven
pairs. Princeton has a woefully
weak team this year. Old Nassau
needs all the Poes, the Dewitts, and
men who have made her football his
tory to save her from defeat-all the
feline sagacity of the tiger. But on
paper it appears as If the Indians
will take back TO Carlisle about three
or four skins.
Considering the surprises Of the
present season, one is led to ask.
Have the big teams of the east begun
TO deteriorate in their work? Some
might answer in the affirmative. but
such is not the case. The surprises
only mean that the new rules have
given the smaller colleges, the light
er teams. an opportunity to meet
their opponents on a more equal
basis. Heavy and continual line