Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-15
Bic FELLOWS DREAD
SMALLER COLLEGES
Have All Been Played to a
StandStilI on the Foot
Ball Field.

With every successive day of scheduled
foot ball it becomes more and more ap-
parent that the so-called Big Five is
becoming a mythical organization and
that the weaker college elevens are
rapidly smashing the famous foot ball
trust. Every member of the big quintet
has had more or less trouble in disposing
of its opponents in the large majority o,
the preliminary games. and in several
cases tie contests have marred the rec
ords of the big teams at almost the start
OF the season. Yale has experienced less
trouble In her earlier matches than any
of her contemporaries in the four hun
dred OF the foot ball world. but neverthe-
less on two occasions the Blue has
ceived battles that were heart breaking
for the anxious coaches along the side
lines. Syracuse and the Army both he'll
the Bulldog TO lone touchdown and
several times came perilously near scor-
ing on the New Haven collegians.
Princeton has been a veritable doormat
for some of the minor college combina-
tons. both Lafayette and Syracuse no.
ing the Tigers to scoreless battles Other
teams that have caused unbounded trou-
BILE at Old Nassau are Villanova and Vlr-
ginia Polytechnic. The former held Coach
RoperS men TO 90 score while the
southerners only went down to defeat
after stubborn battle, the final tally be-
ing 49,.
harvard checked.
Harvard has been kept we'll in check
by three of the elevens that she has met
this fall, Bowdoin, Williams and the
Navy being the teams which have tended
TO cause Coach Haughton loss of sleep
Bowdoin won practical victory from the
Crimson when she held the Johnnies to a
90 score; Williams battled strongly and
kept the tally of the Cambridge col
legians down to 10 points. while the Mid
dies went all predecessors one better>and
played Harvard to a stanGstill the score
90 not indicating how the Crimson was
outplayed.
Pennsylvania has been especially active
in the number of games played, but in
the eight contests completed by the Red
and Blue only three occasions have
Pennsylvania S sons been successful in
sending their score over the twelve mark.
West Virginia, Penn State and the In
dams have furnished the hardest battles
for Coach Metzgars men. Virginia and
State both held the Quakers to TO
scores, while the crafty Carlisle comblna-
ton played William PENIS proteges a
draw contest. the score being Sc.
y Cornell. the last member of the famed
quintet, has experienced a very rocky pas
sage and the coaches of the big Red team
have learned to view every game with
dread. On only one occasion have the
IthacanS been able to send their figures
soaring anything like the days of old. and
tlldt WAS against oDerllD. Inc western
ers however. accomplished something i'm
the scoring line on their own hook. the
tally sheet at the end of very arduous
battle reading: Cornell %: OberIin. 10.
West as Bad as East.
The east has not baen the only sphere
of great strength on tho part of the in
ferior' elevenS. for all the big teams OF
the occident have received nerve-racking
battles from the small college elevens
that they honored with place on their
schedules. Three years ago Michigan had
reputation of scoring at the rate of Il
point a minute. This year the Wolverine
combination is as good as usual but
Michigan defeats Ohio State on a goal
from the field or "Notre Dame gives
Yost big scare tells the story Of the
wonderful increase in the playing strength
of tie smaller institutions. Other promi-
nent teams of the west have also received
hard battles besides Michigan Chicago,
Wisconsin and Minnesota have all expe-
rienced hard so-called practice games and
II Is evident that the small colleges of the
west are on par with their eastern
brethren.
1t is a curious fact that eIevens which
in the old days of tive-yard foot ball
would invariably go down to an inglorfous
present time to hold the leading combina-
tons of the country to one-touc hdown
victories or else to draw contests. This
fact can be charged to d certain extent to
the new rules, but the wonderful games
that are being played every Saturday by
teams can only be accounted for by the
superior material and coaching methods
I'm vogue at most of the enterpriSing small
colleges of this country.