The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-12-01
INDIAN ELEVEN BEST
Carlisle Has Good Claim to
Football Title.
REDSKINS HARD SCHEDULE
Team Has Played Five Big Games
This Fall, Meeting the Foremost
Teams in the East and West,
While Dartmouth and Yale. Also
Played Two Important Games.

The Carlisle Indians have come out
OF the football season Of 1907 as the team
with the greatest record.
The fictitious attempt 70 bolster the
annual Yale romp over Harvard into a
championship struggle. the social inter
est attaching 10 the Ananpolis-W West
Folnt contest. the intersectional excite
ment Of the battle between Penn and
Allchigan, all lose their glamour when
compared 20 the wonderful work on which
the Carlisle record is based.
Yale played two big games. Princeton
tAree' Harvard two, three including the
Dartmouth contest Pennsylvania two.
and Cornell two.
ale, Harvard. and PENNSYLVANIA an se-
Iect a team from the student body IN ex-
cess OF $500. while Cornell and Princeton
each can pick team from half a dozen
'iilles as many candidates as the redskins
moreover at each OF the I'VE colleges
IheFe Is an expensive coaching system
'hVolVing the outlay of thousands OF
dollars every year 10 put the team on
the Held. The training table. the pres
ehce or expert handlers and actual sal
airy and expenses paid TO former stars
VINO help train the teams go TO make up
the total
CarlisIe'S Lax Code.
lhese extraordinary advantages GER
tainly ought 20 make up for the some
what lax eligibility code which prevails
IL carlisle. Even if a man can nIav
more than four years for the Indian
eleven, and even If there are hints of
professionals, surely the big colleges. with
lhelr huge student bodies and limitIess
cash are doing the baby act when they
make excuses because they cannot clean
up the redskins
VINE three big games was the limit
oI Ihe most enterDrising OF the so-caIIad
Die H'e' the Indians played no fewer than
HFe Dig games. meeting the best of tba
last and the best Of the West and ON
.He comparative showing the Indians
O--.u I'rst-cLass football in the West at
ledS' as good as that Of the East
Iehhsylvania and Harvard combined
uId not make as good a showing ,,,tr,t
OarhSle as Minnesota and Chicago Tho
TWO Eastern teams scored p noipts
against Warmers men. and had a. noirts
S0oIeu against them. Minnesota and Chi
C1s' scored il points against them and
permitted the Indians to make only 2o
which fact ought to show thar The two
western games We're big ones in TIE fuII-
est sense OF the word
me redskins played only two teams
oidsSeo as easy in their whole schedule
i1cpiHoh' opening game Of the season
anu Susquehanna. They downed such eX-
ceIent elevens as VfIlanova Ruol-r,II
ana state. all placed on schedules 81
hrst-class clevens, and the last named ~
"hlcn beat Cornell, Princeton's conquer
Or Ihen they tackled Syracuse rated
as redoubtable opponent.
Lose Only One Game.
In three weeks running they met Penn
Irlhceion- and Harvard. and, going West
hnished a remarkable five weeks Of work
the hardest undertaken by any eleven f.,
the history Of the game, by playing Min
neSota and Chicago.
In all these contests they sustained
only one defeat, that at New yo-k
against Princeton, under conditions
which admittedly severely handicannad
the redskins. and made their lightning
style OF play impossible.
Against the opponents they rolled I'm
-oI points and permitted only a.
Ihree teams haze a look in for ton
honors Dartmouth. which won every
game on the schedule. and walked over
Harvard. 90. a IO-point better victory
than Yaye's 12-O; Yale which won evor,
game save the one with West Point. and
tied that; the Indians. who PLAYED The
hardest schedule IN the country. and sus-
famed only one defeat The redskins on
this showing viii be favored by many as
the best team in the country.
Certainly they have the call for sports-
manship They would play ten big games
instead OF five. il they could book Thorn
and there is not = team in the country
they sidestep.
Taken all in all, the Indians are the
biggest drawing card in the country
Inc individual reputation Of men like
Mount Pleasant. House~. Lube. Exe,-
dine. aGd Gardner is not exceIled bv tho
fame of any men now playing. In their
five big games the crowds thew drew
were limited only by the size Of the
stands.