Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-26
NEWS AND GOSSIP
OF FOOT BALL WORLD
Comparative Scores Make
Army Much Stronger
Than the Navy.

II IchiSh can beat Virginia by Il score
of II to g. and if the Army can put Lee
high away by score of 1S to o. and it
the Virginia Navy score is TO . In favor
of the former-or even had 1t been to D,
as IL would have been but for mistake
by the referee-then hope Will have to be
stronger than dope to point to an An
napolis victory when the Midshlpmen
meet the Army. Hope needn't be extinct
at the Naval Academy, for comparative
scores often have gone wrong as fore
casts. Just now. however. there isn't
much doubt that the Army is the stronger
team, though that conclusion is not based
on anything SO unsubstantial as COM
parative scores. The actual playing OF
the two teams points to.Army superiority.
Cornell has a stronger team than Dart
mouth, if comparative scores count. Dart
mouth played a tie with Vermont, which
team was beaten Is TO o by Cornell, and
there you are.
Two elevens. Yale and Lafayette, have
Joined Carlisle and Colgate with total
points Of over hundred 1t was at the
expense Of no less an adversary than
Princeton that Lafayette passed the
hundred mark. Lafayette's total on Of
that the former has played two less
games, and for the same reason Yale s
is better on defense, Yale having gone
through six battles without a score for
opponents to Lafayette's four. These are
the only two teams in the country which
have over a hundred points and have
not been scored on New York Univer-
sity has clean slate for three games
and total of "a points. Minnesota in
the west hasn't been scored on.
Big Score for Colgate.
Colgate, with 100 points, has had widely
different experiences. That team swamped
an opponent IS to o one Saturday, and in
its very next engagement was buried I'M
der rs points. That's going to extremes
with vengeance. Brown does not show
up well as Dartmouth in the scores,
but appearances are deceptive. Brown
has just come through games with Penn
Sylvania and Harvard, while Dartmouth
has not met anybody Of that class.
Lafayette has averaged slightly under
touuhdowns a game Yale 3k, the In
dians 3 2-3 and Colgate just 4. OF the
stronger divisions, however, Yale and
Pfttsburg alone actually have made two
or more touchdowns In every game. The
averages of the others are increased by
big scores in some one game. Harvard,
Princeton. Pennsylvania. Cornell, Ford
ham, West Point, the Navy, Dartmouth,
Brown, Lafayette, Carlisle, Syracuse
Williams, Penn State and Amherst have
all been in games in which they scored
been I'm two games in which she did not
make touchdown. Pennsylvania one,
West Point one, the Navy one, Dartmouth
one, Brown one. Carlisle one and Ford
ham, Syracuse and Penn State one each.
Total scores to date are as follows:
Total Scores.
Harvard. s4-s five games; Yale, 1910 tsi1
sanes,; Princeton, ao-24 (six games); Pennsyl-
vania. SIS tsix games; Cornell. 54-21 -four
sames); West Point. 57-2s flour games); An
napolis, ;A-25 -four gamesl: Dartmouth Go
tive games); Brown, 4o24 (fve games,; Lafay-
tttc 1910 flour sames): Carlisle. 1880 (seyen
games; Fordham, 42-l2 -four games,: y. Y. u,
same. WIN Williams. fo"r games; Amherst. so
17-31 -four games); WESLEYAN, s2-22 flour
Sirsini. s|ii (tour ssmesS: fittsburs, eos rour
games,; Bucknell. 31-z Qour games): Lehigh.
ssms. sSr s:%e Soss sss. f 1as ns Ssr
dc.' ss se ssmss HOLY Gross
Pc (hye games,; Washington and Jefferson, eos
nhree samesl: Franklin and Marshall. AZ 5
ssn,rs,: Tufts, 12-3s -four games; Minnesota,
80 -four games: Chicago. 75-s three games) -;
AndoSer, :'s--29 (seven games; Exeter, o4-9
or the I91s teams at the big colleges the
best record is held by the Harvard fresh
men, They have played two games, beat
ing Groton. + to o. and Andover, ) to o.
The Yale freshmen have lost two OF their
three games They wailoped Andover,
13 to o. six more points than the Harvard
youngsters made. by the way. then lost
to Hotchkiss, II to 0. and to Exeter, & to
o. The Hotchkiss School eleven has an
other freshmen scalp at it's belt, downing
the Pennsylvania cubs. IS to s. The
Quaker infants were stung by Andover
5 to o, and won from Conway Hall, II to
8. The Princeton freshmen won from
Wyoming. y to >. and then tied MERGERS
burg, TO 8. Exeter won from the Dart
mouth freshmen. IL to o. while in their
game with Worcester Academy the
Brown freshmen hit the mat by score
of 81 to D. 1t looks as II there'd be some
warm scrapping among the Harvard, Yale
and Princeton freshmen.
Signal Drill for Yale.
NEW HAVEN. Conn. October 90
There was more signal work on Yale'l
gridiron yesterday afternoon than a ship
wrecked crew or corps of wig-waggers
would have sent up. There was nothing
in the varsity drill but signaling, and II
brought together for the first time this
season the Eli rush line exactly as the
board of foot ball strategy at presen,
contempates hurting it against Harvard
and Princeton. Johnny Fitzpatrick re-
turned from Harvard with the news thai
Harvard has a fine team. Andrus haG
recovered from his injured back sufficient.
bled in the following order: Left end
Fitzpatrick: left tackle, Hobbs left guard
Andrus; center, Cooney: rightguard, Goe
bel: right tackle. Lilley; right end
Logan.
What is regarded as significant action
was taken by the coaches on the return
OF Hyde to practice. Hyde had a rib
injured two weeks ago and had not since
reported until yesterday. There had been
conjecture as to whether he would be
given his old place at center, but doubt
was settled by playing Cooney in the
position.
Capt. Coy and Philbin were not in the
signal drive. They practiced half ar
hour at drop-kicking, neatly lifting a
number of field goals from the 35-yard
line. The back field lineup was as fol-
lows: Howe, quarterback; Field, left
halfback; DAILY, right halfback; Murphy
fullback.
Harvard Has Many Cripples.
CAMBRIDGE. Mass. October 2s.-The
Harvard University was dismissed early