Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-22
YALE Wins FOOT BALL
TITLE OF COUNTRY
Ellis Record Easily the Best,
With Harvard a Good
Second.

Harvard and Salc'S great struggle III
The Cambridge stadium on Saturday last
practically brought the gridiron season TO
an end, and the experts are already S1z-
ing up the work of the various teams for
he season. No one can dispute the asser-
ion that Yale turned out the best team of
the year. both east and west, and fairly
won the American foot bali championship
Cornell and Pennsylvania will play a
game Thanksgiving day, but the re-
suit of the contest will have little effect
oil the general standing of either team
Yale is r only one of the big teams OF
The cast that went through the season
without a point being made against her
Yale scored 100 points to none for her
rivals.
The Eli eleven proved a magnificent ma
rhine, but their main superiority lay III
he ends at the guard positions and III
The kicking Yale also produced the Two
greatest stars of the year. In John fii-
patrick, an end Yale had the most SEN
sational PLAYER for the position seen on
he checkerboard field in many day.
Some think he is the greatest end the
game has ever produced Then IN capt.
t'oy the Blues has a punter ana piunser
who was a tower OF strength in himself
No team has ever boosted of a header
and pluckier player Although not In the
very best OF condition for the Harvard
battle Coy turned out the hero or the
occasion, kicking two splendid goals from
he field. Yale had another great back
in Philbin His running back of KICKS
was one of the prettiest features in the
stadium contest.
Harvard Is Second Best.
Harvard is undoubtedly entitled to sec
pnd place for the season. In the matter
Of machine-like play the Crimson team
was perhaps superior to Yale. The line
was superb. and even the great Yale
backs could do nothing in the scoring
line against it. Harvard had a great
rullback in "Dodo'' MinOt. and some OF
his plunges last Saturday were sensa-
tonal In the matter of defensive play
ne fairly equaled Princetons great star
Hart. In the deciding contest or the
year Minot in many respects outplayed
Coy.
The Crimson also had fine end in L.
Smith. and Capt. Fish proved one or the
most brilliant tackles of the season. Har-
gard was beaten by individual play rather
than team work. Harvard did not get
through the season quite as well as the
Ellis. She scored 100 points to II for her
opponents. Harvard had a hard time
beating little Williams. s to 6, and Dart
mouth gave her lively tussle to win by
II to $. Harvard whipped Cornell, Is to
D.; and Brown. II to o.
1t is practically impossible to pick the
Dartmouth have strong claims for the
honor of being third. Perhaps Lafayette
has the best claim. for she beat the
Princeton Tigers to o. and played tie
game with Pennsylvania, to 8. Prince
ton lost to Yale. II to g. and played a
tie game with Dartmouth. to &: only
tied with the Middies, to ). and dropped
the game to Lafayette. The Tigers had
all they could do to beat Fordham by
scoring drop kick, the tally being 3 to O.
Under the circumstances the Tigers are
hardly entitled to third place.
Dartmouth Has Strong Claim.
Dartmouth's claim is also strong. Be-
sides a tie with Princeton, she defeated
Amherst, Il to o; Holy Cross, Il to O.;
lost to Harvard, II to 3. and beat Will
liams, Is to o. Dartmouth's score was 80
points to IS for her opponents. Penn has
had an erratc season. She lost TO Car
Isle, which had a rather poor team this
season, - to 8. Brown beat the Quakers
l.; to ). Penn State held the Quakers to
3-to-3 tie. Lafayette tied them, and
Michigan beat them, u to g. Cornell had
miserable season. Her only good game
was to hold Chicago University to a 6-to-6
tie. Harvard beat the 1thacans Is to O..
Fordham took their measure by II to g.
Fordham made a splendid record for
the season. and fairly won the Catholic
championship of the east. The cham
pionship was won Saturday, when the
Bronx eleven beat Holy Cross to >.
Fordham triumphed over Cornell and
gave Princeton fearful struggle, but
was unable to beat the Georgetown team,
neither side scoring.
Neither West Point nor Annapolis
played up to the standard of former
Years The death of Cadet Byrne of the
Military Academy and the almost fatal
injury to Midshipman Wilson at Annapo-
lis case a damper on the sport at the
two government institutions.
In the west Minnesota looked proba-
bile champion. But Minnesota went down
ut the hands of Michigan. and the vic
tory of the latter team over Pennsylva-
mia would seem to make Michigan the
best of the teams in the wOolly section of
the country. But Notre Dame took the
measure of Yost's men, there may be
some who claim that NOtre Dame carried
off the honors in the west.