The Washington herald., 1907-11-24
PUNTS AND PASSES.

Harvard put Up pretty good fight.
after all
Ed Alexander. % this city, is assisting
in the coaching at Cornell
Special trains viii be run from Wash
iugton for the ATmy-Navy game at Phila-
delphla next Saturday.
Yale's backfeld Is the heaviest in her
history. Tad Jones weighs 10, Brides
lS7, Bomar l5S. and Coy ls2.
Dartmouth is disposed to smoke the
pipe of peace and renew athletic rela-
tions In football and other sports with
Williams and Brown.
There are the usual number OF uncOn-
firmed rumors being circulated about the
changes in the big college schedules. the
same old reports that are cast loose every
fall
Cornell held the Tigers lot better
than Yale, and II the Ithacans beat Penn
sylvania many viii concede them the
championship. as they proved better than
the Blue against West Point.
Princeton has long been looking for a
game with Harvard, and IL is said would
have succeeded this year If ii had nOt
been for the strenuous objections Of Capt.
Parker of the Cambridge forces.
With Michigan. Minnesota. and Chi
cago beaten by Eastern teams. Western
critics Will probably cOncede that ali OF
the football knowledge in the world is
not restricted by the Middle Western
universities.
A neat souvenir programme is being
prepared for the GeOrgetOwn-George
Washington game. The book contains
pictures of all the leading teams IN the
| District. as we'll as a number Of inter
| esting articles on local football.
George Washington is making every
effort to get Crafts, the crack half back
into shape for the Georgetown game
Crafts received a severe injury in the
game with Gallaudet but he is improv-
ing. and may be able to play for a while
Thursday.
Starting out with two games in which
they failed 10 score. the Trinity College
players rushed into the business of accU-
mulating points with a vengeance, and
in the next four games rolled up Il;
/ points They have lost only two games
and were beaten by small scores in both
OF those. They lost 10 West Point, 0 tc
/ u. and to Amherst, 0 to II, then downed
Wesleyan. to @: c. c. y. Y. 81 TO O.
Stevens, % TO 6. and Union. 45 TO 5. This
gives them a total of 173 points for six
games TO 81 for opponents. The tota
| against c. c. y. Y is the top score OF
/ the year
/ The Virginia Polytechnic Institute team
/ returned from Annapolis late yesterday
/ afternoon and left here last night fOl
/ Blacksburg. Va. The Virginians wer'
! somewhat disappointed at not being abl'
/ 10 hold Navy TO one touchdown. but th'
/ team is confident that it will wind up Z
/ successful season with a victory Ove
| North Carolina next Thursday In speak
! ing OF the coming &C. getewn-Georg
! Washington game, Coach Williams, tn
| former University OF Virginia end. saic
that he expects a hard-fought battle, a.
he does not believe that either team ha
a decided advantage.
Spirit is neither territorial nor con
/ fined TO any one or two or three colleges
II is bred IN the bone and will come out
When 1 saw Jim Mccormick come off tn
field Saturday. wrapped in his blanket
with the stern and disappointed mien 0
a man who had fought a wonderful.
game though losing fight, ] could no
help contrasting his mental attitude witt
that Of another Princeton man, who cam
off the field smiling / could appreciat
McCOrmick's feelings. but the other Eel
lows were beyond my understanding. I
might have been a form OF hysteria an
that may be a charitable way of LOOKING
at it.-Boston Herald.