Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-14
Weeks HARD GAMES
FOR BIC COLLEGES
Yale Apprehensive of West
Point and Harvard Ready
for the Navy.

for the Navy.
The formative period for nearly all the
big foot ball elevens is about over Penn
sylvania had a pretty hard griling on
Saturday with Swarthmore. when she
met probably as formidable line and
one as well coached as any she will meet
this year. Had the Swarthmore back
might have been different story told of
Franklin Field
No other Of the big teams has had as
yet a real chance to test its mettle. but
will get 1t from now on. Yale takes her
first real plunge Saturday at West Point.
while Harvard also has her initial trial
that day in her game with Annapolis 1t
may be the Princeton game against Wash
ington and Jefferson will develop some
real foot ball. but there is no certainty
that the western team will be equal to the
task.
Yale Expects Trouble.
Yale expects West Point will give her
all she can attend to comfortably. She
was disappointed, therefore. that Satur-
days game with Holy Cross afforded
such poor practice. Big scores are the
worst enemy Of big teams in preparation
for hard games.
The injury to Paige's ankle Saturday
was 50 slight that he will be able to play
against the Army, while Wheaton's In
jured thigh is we'll again and he Will re.
play. as Coy has rather supplanted him
as q first string back The Blue team will
likely line up with Wylie and Bomar at
halves to start and Jones and Alcott at
end. with the usual five men In the line
and Tad Jones at quarter. This comes
pretty near to being the Anal makeup
Of the eleven from present appearances.
West Point gives no indication OF her
mental attitude regarding the game. but
has been doing a lot of work In prepare
ton for 1t. With Weeks and Pullep back.
the team ought to present a very strong
front.
Navy to Test Harvard.
Harvard is looking toward the navy
game as a test, as she formerly did
toward the West Point match. While not
so husky as the army eleven, the reports
from Annapolis Indicate that the eleven
there Is fairly fast and well balanced II
a bit rough still The Crimson will have
chance to get line on her reconstruct
ed forwards. and her principal interest
will center in their work. If the line does
well. the backs ought to take care OF the
rest satisfactorily
If Princeton falls to get a hard game
with Washington and Jefferson, she will
be in bad way to go up against Cornell
the following week: The 1thacans have
pretty smart lot Of veteran players who
should certainly present strong defense.
II the quarterback problem Is satisfacto-
rily solved, the Cornell attack may worry
the untried Tiger line severely.
Foot Ball Notes.
Newman. star tackle at the Washing
ton and Jefferson team. has Joined the foot
ball squad at Lafayette.
Coach Yost Of Michigan is pushing his
men with the one end in view to beat
Pennsylvania. All the training Of the
Wolverines is pointed toward the big
game with the Red and Blue.
Cornell Is the possessor Of a line which
they claim the superior of anything in the
country, and victory over Pennsylvania
and Princeton Is the expectation Of the
Ithaca undergraduates.
The small colleges have already started
the trouble for the big teams. According
to the outlook several Of the latter win
have cause to worry before the season is
over.
The state of Pennsylvania can boast of
more good college foot ball teams than
any like boundary in the Union Penn,
Carlisle. State, Lafayette, swarthmore
Bucknell. Dickinson, Lehigh. Haverford
Villa Nova, Gettysburg and Washington
and Jefferson are among the prominent
foot ball institutions.
The Indians are practicing the long
pass. In last Saturdays game they de-
feated the Syracuse team with this play
scoring a touchdown for each time.
Pennsylvania wiped out last years de-
feat by Swarthmore, but at the cost of
8 points, the result Of two held goals by
the only score in the game.
Harvard did fairly we'll against Will
liams. Three touchdowns were allowed,
but the fourth was barred on account
of holding. The Crimson team Is playing
fast open foot ball this season.
Vanderbilt gave the naval cadets a stiff
argument. The score was a tie. but the
southern eleven carried off the honors of
the day.
Yales weakness in punting was ap-
parent in the game with Holy Cross. Bo-
mar was particularly deficient In this re-
spect.
Annapolis was the only big team to Jose
the clean score. Pennsylvania has already
point behind Cornell in this respect. Cor
nell and Ha ward have also been scored
against
Weeks. the Army veteran player. is still
on the hospital list, suffering from frac
tured ribs. 1t is doubtful whether he will
get back into the game again this year.
The Naval Academy authorities have
excused the members of the foot ball
squad from drills Thursdays.
Probably the greatest interest In this
weeks foot ball cente-s in the annual
battle at West Point Saturday be-
tween the cadets and Yale In addition
to the regular special trains that carry
New Workers to that game every year,
the steamer Monmouth OF the Sandy
Hook line has been chartered to make the
trip. Members of the Yale Club have al
ready bought up block of thousand
tickets aboard the Monmouth, and the
Army and Navy Club has purchased an
other two hundred. The Yale foot ball
team has been invited to make the trip
to West Point aboard the Monmouth The
steamer will leave the foot Of Cedar
street at 1890 and West 44th street at
12:45 p.m.-New York Times.
MANY IMPROVEMENTS
AT OLD PIMLGO