The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-08
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FIVE cOMB|NAl|
SO-Called Weaker a
ElevenS Are Smaship,
Football Trust. :
LESSER LIGHTS KEEP Va,
AND HARVARD GlpS'
Teams All Over the Couut,,
Showing Marked lmpre,
ment in Game.

Tribune Special Sporting ssyv,..
NEW YORK, Nov. we,
successive day of Scheduled 49,,
becomes more and moro ann,,s..
the so-called "big fven il bs.so
mythical organization. and .s-
weaker college eleveus a,a
smashing the famous foo,bsu'
Every member of the big ou;r,1..
had more or less trouble in H.
OF Its opponents in the laros
of the preliminary games. Ana /.
eral cases tie contests have m,,,.
records of the big teams M Aim,
start of the season. Yale bas
enced less trouble in her e,rl;s, :.
than any Of her coptemnorar;.' v.
four hundred Of the football uS,'|
nevertheless ON two occasions 81 I.
has received battles that ws,s
breaking for the anxious coasss.
the side lines. Syracuse and sS,
both held the bulldog 10 : Iors
down and several times cana ns,,
near scoring on the New raw,
leglans. Princeton has been ~
doormat for some Of the n;ro,
combinations, both Lafayetts g.
racuse holding the Tigers to se1
battles. Other teams that have <
unbounded trouble at old Nas.,'
Vlllanova and Virginia Polvt1
The former eleven held Coach r.
men TO 60 score, while the soo|
ers only went down to defeat &
stubborn battle, the final tally
10-4.
Held in Check,
Harvard has been kept well h
by three of the elevens thai s1
met this fall. Bowdoin. WilIiar|
the Navy being teams which hayS
ed TO cause Coach Haughton \
sleep. Bowdoin won a practical 4
from the crimson when she beI
Johnnies to q so score; Williau|
tied strongly and kept the tally
Cambridge collegians to ten
while the middies went all predec
one better and played Harvard
standstill, the score, &c. indicatia|
the crimson was oiltplayed. n
vania has been especially acttsn
number of games played, but 4
eight contests completed by The =
blue. on only three OCCASION
Pennsylvania IS sons been succe@
sending their score over The 4
mark, West Virginia, Pennsy
State and the Indians have fur
the hardest battles for Coach No
men. Virginia and PennsylvanlA
both held the Quakers to go
while the crafty Carlisle comb
played William Penn 8 protegcss
contest, the score being &C.. @
the last member Of the famed qni1
has experienced a very rocky o.
and the coaches of the big nd
have learned to view every gam
dread. On oily one occasion hay
Ithacens been able to send thar
soaring anything like the days
and that was against Obeflin
Westerners, however, accom-
something in the scoring limo ..
own hook, the tally sheet at
of a very arduous battls readm
nell %, Oberlin 10.
Other Spheres
The East has not been the Only
Of great strength on the par
"inferiorn elevens, for all n
teams Of the Occident haye,
nerve-racking battles from re
college eleyers that they hoIois
a place on their schedules. IAN
ago Michigan had a reputalio1
ing at the rate of a point
This wear the Wolverine compm1
as good as ever, but "Micmgsn
Ohio State on n goal from Ias
or "Notre Dame gives fo@
scare, tells the story OF the W.
increase in the playing strengl
smaller institutions. Other pl
teams of the West have aiso y
hard tussles besides Michigan
and Minnesota nass la;..
oericnced hard so-called pracIlG
and it is evident that the smn
of the West are on a par ~
their Eastern brethren;
1t is curious fact tnM
which in the old days OF fys,ys Isy.
ball would invariably 20 aos
inplorious doublefgure deleA
lbled at the present Iims
'eadine combinations Of tne II (
one touchdown victories OF
.he contests. This fact can a. % 4
10 a certain extent to the ne"
he wonderful games thas
1layed every SATURDAY oy
sormerly classed as weak
,nly be accounted for oy I ~ 4
and coaching me!aou,
1t most of the enterprisins
epes OF this country.